Thing You Should Know:

• Twenty thousand migrant workers labor in our fields, dairy farms, factories, greenhouses and restaurants.
• Migrant workers have been coming into our diocese from Mexico, Central and South America.
• The majority of migrant workers are Catholic.
• The diocese initiated mission sites in Marion, Geneva, Brockport, and Leicester to support migrant workers.
• Full and Part-time ministers are serving the camps throughout our 12 counties.
• Migrant Ministry is the responsiblility of the whole Catholic Community.
• Our faith communities and diocese need to be supported in order to meet the pastoral needs of migrants.
• We need help from all who would be able to assit financially or through volunteering.