Lumen Christi
Dear friends,
You will know, if you have been reading this weblog for the last several months, that my husband and Brian and I are seeking a piece of farmland of our own, where we can base our ministry. It will be a place that will welcome families for week-long farm experiences, offer classes for home-educated children and their families, provide organic farm products for the community, and a temporary home for refugees to our Diocese.
One of the most important things that we plan to do is to reach out to the poor in our area, providing quality food from our CSA and from our grocery.
But we can not live on bread alone, these families will also be learning how to budget better for necessities, how to prepare healthy meals, and how to gain skills, or use those they already have to be more self-sufficient. Hopefully, some of them will learn all they need to know so that they can work their way out of poverty and into a life of simple abundance.
Even before we have a facility of our own, our ministry has begun. I have been asked to speak to a group of local women who live on the largest public housing project in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I feel very blessed to have been asked. I have a deep conviction that the most essential gift I can bring is the Light of Christ. From there, all else will flow. Please pray for me and for our ministry.
We have a great need for contributions of any size, to help us to build a place of peace, of rest, of welcome. A place filled with His Holy Light. If you are so moved, I hope you will consider “chipping in” using the link in the sidebar. If you live in southern New England, you may consider purchasing a farmshare. Not only will you receive, but you also will give. A portion of what we produce on the farm will feed the hungry, and the more shareholders we have, the greater number of families we can help!
Bishop Reuger, from our Diocese said in his homily this weekend that we may be the only Christ some people ever meet. Oh, that I may bear Him to those whose lives I am blessed to be touched by.
Deo Gratias!
