Recovering and Defending the Struggling Dream of Appalachia

55th Annual Gathering
September 19-21, 2025

Pipestem Resort Park
3405 Pipestem Dr. Pipestem, WV 25979
https://wvstateparks.com/park/pipestem-resort-state-park/

Celebrating 50th Anniversary of “This Land is Home To Me”,

written by CCA and signed by all Appalachian Catholic Bishops in 1975

Featuring: Joe Holland, poetic voice behind the first 2 letters and Brian DeRouen, former CCA chairperson. Also, experience a Pilgrimage to Bethlehem Farm, an intentional Catholic community inspired by the Appalachian Pastoral Letters.
Let’s be ready!
This weekend will be a celebration of faith and social justice and a way to reconnect with our friends and community. We will discuss more deeply how each of us can positively affect the most vulnerable so that, as followers of the social gospel, we can organize to be in solidarity with our siblings in Christ, to lessen their ongoing suffering and Earth’s.

DEADLINE TO REGISTER IS SEPTEMBER 1, 2025