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Showing posts with label New Mexico congregations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Mexico congregations. Show all posts
Monday, July 09, 2018

The Candidates Too

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Most of the 80-plus letters written at our Offering of Letters at St. John XXIII Catholic Community on the weekend of July 7-8 were direct...
Saturday, April 21, 2018

A 'Foodraiser' to Benefit a Parish Pantry and Rio Grande Food Project

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Terry and Jeannette Dunbar have known Ari Herring since she was a youth.That close relationship led to a conversation on a common ...
Friday, February 09, 2018

Congregation Albert Event to Discuss Hunger in New Mexico

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How big of a problem is hunger in New Mexico? What are the impacts on residents of our state? What is being done to fight hunger in New Me...
Monday, February 05, 2018

Workshop to Examine Importance of SNAP, WIC to New Mexicans

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The 2018 Offering of Letters, entitled For Such a Time as This , urges people of faith and conscience to raise our collective voices to ...
Monday, July 24, 2017

'We Pray that Their Hearts be Moved to Act According to Your Will'

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Judy Traeger, Jim Lozito, Father Charles, Carlos Navarro, Molly Lannon On Sunday, July 23, we blessed the more than 120 letters that par...
Monday, July 17, 2017

Dear Congress: Please Support Food for Kids (and Everyone Else)

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Several weeks before parishioners at St. John XXIII Catholic Community sat down to write more than 110 letters to Congress to protect vita...
Saturday, June 24, 2017

Three Offerings of Letters Scheduled this Summer in #ABQ

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At Sen. Tom Udall's Albuquerque office As of June 11, almost 1,100 letters had been written to Congress from nine congregations, on...
Wednesday, June 07, 2017

Children Speak Out on Hunger

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More often than not, an Offerings of Letters involves primarily members of our own congregations, whether the  messages are written on sit...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

An Offering of Letters, Step by Step

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Bread for the World provides a useful set of resources to individual members and congregations with each year's Offering of Letters.  ...
Sunday, April 09, 2017

How Does an OL Message Get to the Office of Your Congressperson?

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Once the organizers of your Offering of Letters collect all the messages to your congressional representatives, how do they get them to thei...
Saturday, April 01, 2017

Writing Letters in the Church Hall and at an Awards Ceremony

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Photo courtesy of  Ellen Buelow Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic Community in Albuquerque had its Offering of Letters on the we...
Friday, March 31, 2017

A Script to Encourage Congregants to Write Letters (2017 Version)

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All Saints Lutheran Church in Albuquerque is scheduled to hold its Offering of Letters on Sunday, May 7. The congregation is one of six ch...
Monday, January 30, 2017

'Blessed Are Those Who See God in Every Person'

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Our Gospel of love and grace is to be lived together for all people   -The Rev. Jim Gonia       Ecumenical and interfaith dialogue is not...
Monday, August 08, 2016

OL 2016: Blessing our Letters to Congress with Holy Water

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Rev. Stephen Hickman, a retired priest from the Diocese of Richmond who lives in Los Lunas, filled in for our pastor, Rev. Ark Biczak in the...
Sunday, July 31, 2016

OL 2016: A Summer Offering of Letters (in Between the Two Political Conventions)

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Summer is hardly the ideal time to hold an Offering of Letters. This is especially the case during the summer of 2016. On the weekend after ...