Our Mission

To promote the formation of welcoming church communities.

Advocating social justice, dignity, and respect for all

In order that we may be a missionary church.

We Focus on

  • •To accompany the farmworkers

    •To connect with the lives of farmworkers

    •To hear their voice

    •To serve both spiritual social needs

    •To create stable communities that continue

    •Migrant farmworkers are prophetic.

    •Migrant farmworkers are key players

  • •To make farmworkers visible to the church

    •To open diocesan doors for work with farmworkers

    •To support the diocesan directors ministering to farmworkers

    •To make bishops responsible

    •To help the formation of bishops’ consciousness

  • •To network

    •To work together in end farmworker exploitation

    •To produce the newsletter

  • •To develop processes of encounter, organization of communities and accompaniment

    •Develop formation

    •Promote the human development of migrant workers considering their spiritual and social needs

    •Promote farmworkers dignity, justice and the significance of their work

  • •Focus on the demographic changes of migrant workers

    •Understand how historical change causes us to change

    •Focus on new urgency given the pandemic and the anti-immigration sentiment and pending legislation

Goals

· Develop a network of communication at all levels of the Church

· Promote the human and spiritual development of migrant farmworkers

· Promote pastoral leadership from within the migrant community

· Form a mobile team for leadership formation of migrant farmworkers

Strengths

•Pastoral Visits: Support and develop Migrant Farmworker Ministry

•Networking: Constructs bridges with local, regional, and national organizations

•Leadership Formation for a Pastoral de Conjunto: For a model of Church: Community, Missionary & Evangelizing

“As your words unfold, light is shed, and the simple-hearted understand.” [Psalm 119:130]

Spirituality

•”We ourselves …are dust of the earth (Gen 2:7); our very bodies are made up of her elements, we breathe her air and we receive life and refreshment from her waters.” [Laudato Si, #3]

•Rooted in the lives of the people

•Strengthened by the accompaniment of others who come with their recognizable gifts of solidarity, compassion , service and commitment to bring good news with their visits, the outdoor masses, the sacraments, the service and solidarity.

•Dignity to the invisible farmworkers and families.

•Sense of belonging to a larger church community.

•Christ is here, as is Dios Padre y su Madre Maria, incarnate in the lives of farmworkers.

•“Walk together toward the Kingdom without Fear.” [II Consulta Nacional, 2007]

 

What Does it Take to be a Migrant Farmhand?

Migrant Farmhands Aren’t Getting Easy Access to Job Sites in the US. It's been a crusade for decades, but farmworkers in the US still struggle to get adequate healthcare or better salaries. Mike Kirsch met with legendary labor activist Dolores Huerta. They spoke about the progress that's been made in protecting almost 3 million farmers. And what still needs to be done.