We are Catholic Migrant Farmworker Network
Our Purpose is to provide accompaniment, outreach, and spiritual development to Farmworkers.
As strangers in a strange land, the men & woman farmworkers separated from family and country look to the Catholic Church for a sense of belonging to a welcoming faith community.
The Sembrador Initiative is a capacity building program that started in 2022 to form parish groups and to prepare leadership for a sustainable farmworker ministry that welcomes, protects, promotes & integrates migrant farm workers into the parish. It offers an integral faith/justice formation toward mutual transformation of agricultural workers and those that accompany them.
Our Sembrador Initiative
News/Upcoming Events
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New Board Members
December 2023
Please join us in welcoming our newest members to the board. Ana Contreras, daughter of migrant farmworkers, from farm laborer to working in the Diocese in the Migrant Ministry. Father Jesus Flores, a philosopher and academic in Rome to Upstate New York to experiences, witness and accompany migrant farmworkers for the past two decades.
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Vayan Y Den Fruto
June 16 - 24, 2024
Offer a formation program for national leadership who represent U.S. regions where there are migrant & resident farmworkers, for the purpose of offering organization skills and creating a national support community (network) of persons responsible to “welcome, protect, promote and integrate” [FT 127] the men & women laborers into their parishes and local communities, and who are accompanied by CMFN in their mission.
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Webinar: Those that Leave for Work
May 1st, 2024
Removing the Curtin: Experience a unique conversation about the social and economic impacts of migrant workers to their hometown. The effects to those left behind and their community.
Past Visits
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Boise, ID
Deacon Salvador (Sal) Carranza, Diocesan Director of Youth and Young Adults prepared a warm welcome and full schedule for Fr Tom Florek’s CMFN visit. Included were pastor and pastoral team visits in Twin Falls, Rupert & Aberdeen whose interest and hospitality helped him understand the significant presence of farmworkers in the mega dairy industry.
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Yakima, WA
The hospitality and carefully planned itinerary for this CMFN visitor is consistent with the welcome, respect, and critical care involved in the Yakima diocesan migrant pastoral ministry. Based upon the agricultural workers’ presence as an historical strength while being an invisible presence, the ministerial action begins with personal contact and listening to their stories.
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Stockton, CA
Outstanding in the Stockton Diocese visit were the communal outdoor liturgies in the French and Roberts Island camps. The experience of being together with the farmworkers and their families, the accompanying parish volunteers and the diocesan representatives was truly a joyful and prayerful communion. These were the fruits of over twenty years.
