A List of Double Up Food Bucks Locations in Albuquerque and Valencia County

Thanks to an initiative approved by the State Legislature this year, New Mexicans who receive food stamps can use their EBT cards to double the amount of fruits and vegetables they purchase at growers markets. Here is a list, courtesy of the New Mexico Farmers Marketing Association, of locations in the Albuquerque area and Valencia County that offer the Double-Up Food Bucks option.

• ABQ Uptown Growers’ Market 2200 Louisiana Boulevard NE, Albuquerque (Saturdays 7AM–12PM)
• Albuquerque Downtown Growers’ Market Central and 8th, Robinson Park, Albuquerque (Saturdays 8AM–12PM)
• Albuquerque Growers’ Market at Presbyterian 1100 Central Ave. SE, Albuquerque (Tuesdays 7AM–12PM)
• Albuquerque: Rail Yards Market 777 1st St. SW, Albuquerque (Sundays 10AM–2PM)
• Belen Growers’ Market Anna Becker Park, Highway 309 & Reinken Avenue, Belen (Fridays 4:30–7PM)
• Bosque Farms Growers’ Market 1090 North Bosque Loop, Bosque Farms (Saturdays 8AM–12PM)
• Los Lunas Farmers’ Market 3447 Lambros Circle, Los Lunas (Tuesdays 4PM–7PM)
• South Valley Armijo Village Growers’ Market Isleta Blvd. and Arenal Rd. SW, Albuquerque (Saturdays 8AM–12PM)
• South Valley Gateway Growers’ Market 100 Isleta Blvd. SW, Albuquerque (Thursdays 5PM–8PM) 
• Zia Bernalillo Farmers Market 335 S. Camino del Pueblo (Fridays 4pm-7pm)

Double-Up Food Bucks benefits are also available in Alamogordo, Aztec, Cuba, Carlsbad, Clovis, Dixon, Española, Farmington, Las Cruces, Las Vegas (Tri-County Farmers Market), Lordsburg, Mescalero, Mora, Pojoaque, Portales, Ramah, Santa Fe, Silver City, Socorro, Truth or Consequences (Sierra County Farmers Market), Taos and Tucumcari. Click Here to find specific information about each of these markets. 

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Tweets from the FrancisFactor Conference in Albuquerque

Below are a handful of tweets from "The Francis Factor: How St. Francis & Pope Francis are Changing the World," featuring Richard Rohr, Shane Claiborne, and Ilia Delio

Pope Francis is s.master of symbolic action. Symbol is much more powerful than words -Richard Rohr #FrancisFactor.

— Carlos Navarro (@CNinABQ) August 31, 2015

RT @AKRicky: Richard Rohr to @ShaneClaiborne “You live a fire that I only talk about.” #francisfactor

— Richard Rohr, OFM (@RichardRohrOFM) August 31, 2015

#ShaneClaibornes ministry is very Franciscan. -Richard Rohr #FrancisFactor

— Carlos Navarro (@CNinABQ) August 31, 2015

RT @tasha7wahl: Evangelism is not forcing Gods love on the world, but fascinating the world with Gods love. @ShaneClaiborne #francisfactor

— CAC (@CACRadicalGrace) August 31, 2015

Ilia: The greatest suffering is not the suffering, its the suffering in the suffering. The isolation. The alienation. #francisfactor

— Ron Hofius (@r_hof) August 31, 2015

2. Restorative justice: the greater the wrongdoing the greater the need for love. @RichardRohrOFM #FrancisFactor

— Ed Bacon (@RevEdBacon) August 31, 2015

"Re: protests, "our goal is not to create enemies, but to courageously proclaim the vision of God. #ShaneClaiborne #FrancisFactor

— Carlos Navarro (@CNinABQ) August 31, 2015

"We must dispossess our consumptive patterns to live the virtue of enoughness." -Sr Ilia Delio #francisfactor

— Julie Ann Stevens (@tdastudio) August 31, 2015

"A life of poverty is not to live without things but to live without possessing things." Ilia Delio #francisfactor

— Brie Stoner (@briestonermusic) August 31, 2015

Perhaps vow of poverty is not the right term. We have to promote a "theology of enough." #ShaneClaiborne at #FrancisFactor conference

— Carlos Navarro (@CNinABQ) September 1, 2015

— Mike Morrell (@zoecarnate) August 31, 2015

When our need to be right eclipses our hunger to love, we must let go-"we are all just kids playing in Gods sandbox." Rohr #francisfactor

— Shelley Drake (@Shelley_Drake) August 31, 2015

Every few hundred years the Church needs a rummage sale. Lose the clutter. But you never sell everything. Keep the treasures. #francisfactor

— Ron Hofius (@r_hof) August 31, 2015

The opposite of faith is not doubt, its control -Richard Rohr. #francisfactor

— Carlos Navarro (@CNinABQ) August 30, 2015

The small people build cages for everyone. The sage keeps dropping keys for all the beautiful rowdy prisoners. #francisFactor #Hafiz

— Ed Bacon (@RevEdBacon) August 30, 2015

RT @RevEdBacon: Some of the loudest versions of Christianity havent always been the most beautiful. @ShaneClaiborne #FrancisFactor

— Richard Rohr, OFM (@RichardRohrOFM) August 31, 2015

To avoid misusing power we must embrace our own journeys of powerlessness. Thank you Richard. #francisfactor

— Julie Ann Stevens (@tdastudio) August 30, 2015

We are not punished for our sins. We are punished by our sins. -Richard Rohr. #FrancisFactor

— Carlos Navarro (@CNinABQ) August 31, 2015

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Immaculate Conception Church in Albuquerque to Offer Church of Second Chances Program this Fall

Photo: JustFaith Ministries

Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Albuquerque is one of dozens of faith communities around the country that will participate in one of three JustMatters modules that JustFaith Ministries is offering this fall. The modules encourage small groups to explore critical current issues within the context of the Gospels and the life and example of Jesus. "In a world that is too quick to encourage rhetoric that divides us from one another, these experiences cultivate genuine dialogue, contemplative prayer, and community," said JustFaith.

Immaculate Conception will offer an eight-week session around the Church of Second Chances module, which shares the stories of incarcerated people and exposes injustices in the judicial system through the lens of faith. This module hopes to inspire a prophetic revision of incarceration that invites restoration, mercy and reconciliation.

This newly revised eight-session version of JustFaiths Prison Reform module represents greater diversity in the voices of those behind bars, includes updated video resources, encourages deeper dialogue, and incorporates Pope Francis’ message of mercy.

The eight-week session will be held  each Thursday evening at Immaculate Conception, 619 Copper NW (map) in downtown Albuquerque, September 24 through November 12, 2015,  in the Guadalupe Room.  For more information or to register, please call or email Joy Dinaro in the church office.(505) 247 – 4271 ext. 3034  jdinaro@iccabq.org

In addition to the module on prison reform, JustFaith Ministries offers the Crossing Borders program (immigration) and The Sultan and the Saint (Muslim-Christian relationships) this fall (More details here), but no churches in the Albuquerque area are offering these two programs. Other programs on the environment, solidarity and peacemaking are currently available but have not been recently revised and are not supported by JustFaith staff this fall.

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