Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Thelma Herrera Flores
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Imprint: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 0.80cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.168kg
ISBN: 9798385210527
Pages: 140
Publication Date: 14 June 2024
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"""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!"" --Joel N. Martinez, retired bishop, United Methodist Church ""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."" --Minerva Carca�o, bishop, San Francisco Area, United Methodist Church ""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."" --Sharon Grant, pastor, Sherman African Methodist Episcopal Church"
Author Information
Thelma Herrera Flores is an ordained United Methodist deacon and adjunct professor of theology at Texas Lutheran University. She holds degrees from Drew University, Yale University Divinity School, and Western Theological Seminary.
