Partner To And Among Farm Workers

National Farm Worker Ministry (NFWM)
NFWM has become a unique ecumenical organization that mobilizes and educates people of faith around issues critical to farm workers who are organizing for justice. A Farm Worker Action Network program enables supporters (congregations, groups, and individuals) to keep up with the urgent needs of the farm worker struggle for safer working and living conditions across the country. A satellite office in North Carolina has recently been established and efforts in Florida have been expanded. Recent actions have resulted in the end of the Taco Bell boycott. Click here for the press release to learn more.

NFWM sponsors the annual Farm Worker Week, usually observed in April. Available materials for this observance include bulletin inserts, posters, worship resources, press release, and a theme paper.

Materials for Farm Worker Week and the Farm Worker Action Network may be obtained through the National Farm Worker Ministry, 438 N. Skinker Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63130. Virginia Nesmith is the executive director. Click on the graphic above to visit their web site.


Beth-El Farm Worker Ministry, Inc., Wimauma, Florida
Life at Beth-El continues apace. "Old Mission Salsa," with its distinctive label design, is now on store shelves and available through the SERRV catalog. Grant Funds also were secured to provide vocational training classes. In addition to weekly worship services and Sunday school at Beth-El, other ongoing ministries include a family literacy program, citizenship and vocational English classes, sewing classes (doubling as domestice violence prevention groups), and a can-do program for at-risk children.

Support for Beth-El is provided through Tampa Bay and Peace River presbyteries (PCUSA), Grace Presbytery(CPC), and the General Assembly Board of Missions. Click on the graphic to visit their web site.

Border Ministry — Project Vida, El Paso, Texas
Project Vida isa multiple-service ministry that serves thousands of impoverished, medically under-served Hispanics and African Americans along the Texas-Mexican border. Ongoing ministries available through Project Vida include an Early Childhood Program, preventative health care and clinic services, children's reading program, food co-op, thrift shop, computer labs, and environmental projects. Project Vida's housing organization (PVCDC) has begun rehabilitation of an abandoned tenement for a transitional living center for homeless families with children. Transitional housing is one of the major needs in El Paso.

Project Vida continues to integrate public and private providers in a coordinated system of community health care for ability to link community leadership with the broader community. Support for Project Vida is provided through the presbyteries of del Cristo (CPC) and Tres Rios (PCUSA) and the national agencies of both denominations.