La Mesa Campesina

"""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"