Members of St. Peter Church in Vergennes and St. Ambrose Church in Bristol, Vt. made a synod’s call for parishes to be more involved in evangelization concrete through service to local migrant workers.
Outreach ministry to migrant workers reaches from Vermont to Mexico
Brooten area parishes welcome migrants, families with open arms
Parishioners of St. Donatus in Brooten and neighboring parishes welcome the migrant families and work to strengthen Hispanic/ Latino ministry in the area year-round.
Bishop meets with ‘people on the move’ working in horse racing industry
For over 10 years, Bishop Manz has made annual visits to dioceses across the United States to talk to migrant workers and to assess their pastoral and other needs. He makes recommendations to the local dioceses and the bishops’ conference on how the church can better minister to these often-invisible groups.
Visits with migrant workers helped me to see ‘we’ instead of ‘them’
“Migrant workers.” Many of us have heard that term, and many of us have a picture of who these workers are and what their lives are like. Right?