La Mesa Campesina
A Congregational Resource for Ministry with Migrant and Agricultural Farmworkers
- Church Leadership & Ministry
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Published: 2024
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Publisher's Description
What does your congregation have to do with those invisible people who pick the crops that feed your family? Rev. Dr. Thelma Herrera Flores, the daughter and granddaughter of Campesinos, believes that anyone--clergy or lay--can reach this population with the love of God. In this book, Flores uses classical and contemporary sources to develop a Campesino theology that is practical and informative. A six-week-long curriculum is included for use in churches or other faith-based organizations.
Endorsements (3)
“La Mesa Campesina has gifted us with a comprehensive, challenging, and illuminating volume about the campesino experience. I especially appreciate her passionate call to the church to embrace wholistic ministry with campesinos, including spiritual nurture and care. Thelma Herrera Flores has offered a blueprint for churches to respond faithfully. I trust we will listen and follow it!”
“Written from the spirit of one who knows the life of campesinos, Thelma Herrera Flores gifts the church with an opportunity for redemption. Grounded in bringing back to our memory those who continue to labor, unseen and unknown, that we might be fed and sustained, she reminds us of these our brothers and sisters whom God also loves, showing us how to set a table that welcomes and blesses all of us.”
“Thelma Herrera Flores’ La Mesa Campesina is a wonderful congregational resource for pastors and laity who serve and advocate for communities of migrant agricultural workers. Her ecclesiastical vision is fully inclusive: campesinos are invited to bring sitting stools, called taburetes, to God’s table and engage in true worship of the one whom they can encounter in the grueling work of sowing, cultivating, and harvesting.”
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