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This week we update on an exciting live webinar, CRL's recognition awards, a new video, and more. Visit our website for more.
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Words of Wisdom
"Your right hand saves me. The Lord will complete what he has done for me; your kindness, O Lord, endures forever; forsake not the work of your hands.
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--Psalm 138
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CRL's Recognition Awards
Nomination Deadline, May 31
The deadline is approaching for nominations for
Catholic Rural Life's two national recognition awards that will be presented this summer, 2017.
The
Isidore and Maria Exemplary Award
is
for a farm couple who has made exemplary contributions to the achievement of the Catholic vision of a generous, gracious and pious rural life. The
Archbishop O'Hara Advocacy Award for Rural Ministry
is for a priest, religious or layperson who has excelled in service and advocacy to rural communities.
Do you know a wonderful person or couple who fits these descriptions and is making an impact in the community? We welcome you to nominate them!
Read our new blog post,
10 Reasons to Nominate Someone in Your Community for a Recognition Award,
here.
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Live Webinar Today!
Are you curious about how our food supply is impacted by climate change? How Catholic Rural Life is responding to the impacts of climate change on farmers, especially small family farmers?
Join us for a webinar hosted by Catholic Climate Covenant to hear first-hand from CRL executive director, Jim Ennis, and Iowa farmer and CRL board member, Ron Rosman, about what they are experiencing on the ground due to climate change.
The webinar,
Give Us Our Daily Bread: Food, Farmers, and Climate Change, is happening today, Wednesday, May 24 from 3:00 to 4:00 pm EDT. Don't miss it! Register
here.
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New Blog and Film Series
Highlighting Young Farmers
National Young Farmers Coalition
recently released a new short film featuring a young Minnesota grain farmer, Andrew Barsness.
This recent college graduate is taking over his grandfather's farm and must find innovative ways to keep the family tradition alive.
"A small grain farm like mine without some kind of off-farm income," Barsness says, "needs to either expand and produce more or try to add value to what I can produce with what's available to me right now. I chose to focus on sustainability and diversifying rather than trying to expand." See more in the video below!
The film is part of
Heart and Grain
, a
new blog and film series. Read the latest Heart and Grain farmer
blog posts here
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CRL stays in touch with the Young Farmers Coalition and sees these stories as helping to illustrate why we support the policy issues that we do, such as advocacy for Beginning Farmer & Rancher programs.
Learn more about our efforts here.
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Prayer for Those Who Suffer
East African Drought Causing Hunger
"On climate change, there is a clear, definitive and ineluctable ethical imperative to act." Pope Francis goes on to say in his
encyclical on care for our common home, Laudato Si',
that climate change is real and mainly "a result of human activity."
Heavenly Father, whose glory shines upon the earth, spread out your hands in blessing over all creation. Especially hold in your loving embrace the 14 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia in urgent need of food assistance due to drought.
Enkindle in your believers a burning desire to assist these brothers and sisters in need by offering help in the form of financial support, shared resources, and prayer. Continue to pour down your abundant love upon them. We ask this through the intercession of our Holy Mother, Mary. Amen.
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