Farmworker Awareness Week in NC

To celebrate Farmworker Awareness Week in North Carolina, Alexandria (Alex) Jones gave the reflection during the Sunday service at Caledonia UMC in Laurinburg, made presentations to students from the Struggle & Hope Course at Salem College in Winston-Salem and from the Wesley Foundation at NC State University in Raleigh and she attended the Church Women United of NC’s State Meeting. Alex also participated in some of the numerous events organized by Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF).

You can read Alex’s reflection, Building Bridges, Not Walls, given at Caledonia UMC.

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