8:45 Gathering and Registration

9:00 Worship

• Rural Development and Farming: Challenges of Life in the Southern Part of our Diocese - A Call to Solidarity

• The Farm Bill - 3 Focus Issues: Rural Development, Protecting Nutrition, and the Impact of Subsidies - Local and Global

• Video

• Break

• Principles and Goals

• Legislative Targets - Seeds of Change

• How to Organize an Offering of Letters in your own Parish

• Small Group Discussion

12:00 Blessing and Dismissal

"A poor person's field may produce abundant food, but injustices sweep it away." Proverbs

Save the Date!!!

More information to Come

This year's Bread for the World Offering of Letters initiative is co-sponsored by Catholic Relief Services and the National Catholic Rural Life and Development Conference