What would happen if a mother from Guatemala showed up at your church door with a little kid in her arms and said, “Can you help me?” – Rev. John Fife, co-founder of the 1980s sanctuary movement. Matthew 25:31-46 In response to the disciples’ questions about the coming of the Son of [...]Read More
Camino Devotional 7: August 26th, 2016
Psalm 12 (CEB) Help, Lord, because the godly are all gone; the faithful have completely disappeared from the human race! 2 Everyone tells lies to everyone else; they talk with slick speech and divided hearts. 3 Let the [...]Read More
Camino Devotional 5: August 24th, 2013
Bearing Burdens - Military Veterans “Don’t oppress the widow, the orphan, the stranger, and the poor; don’t plan evil against each other!” - Zechariah 7:10, CEB Scripture tells us, time and again, to care for the widow, the orphan and the stranger. There should be no exception when the “strangers” [...]Read More
Camino Devotional Day 6: August 25th, 2016
Work and Rest: Domestic Workers “The heavens and the earth and all who live in them were completed. On the sixth day God completed all the work that he had done, and on the seventh day God rested from all the work that he had done. God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God [...]Read More
Camino Devotional 4: August 23rd, 2016
Deuteronomy 10:17-19 "For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who is not partial and takes no bribe, who executes justice for the orphan and widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing. You shall also love the stranger, [...]Read More
Camino Devotional 3: August 22nd, 2016
Alien Jesus 1 Peter 1:1, 2:4-5, 10 (NASB) "Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who reside as aliens… Coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God, you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a [...]Read More
Camino Devotional 2: August 21st, 2016
Human Trafficking Migrant God, today we recognize that you have spoken through dreams to remind your people what your will is and to beckon us back to you. So today we boldly declare that we continue to dream.Seguimos SoñandoFor a world in which we respond to others in acknowledgement of their imago [...]Read More
Camino Devotional 1: August 20th, 2016
What Will You Carry With You? Galatians 6:2 “Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.” I had the privilege of working in a non-profit shelter that received unaccompanied children after they were detained by I.C.E. Upon their arrival, we would document the [...]Read More