I recently had the opportunity to share a dinner table with a lively bunch of fellow sojourners. The faces, young and old, around the table represented Asia, Europe, North, Central and South America. We were sharing life stories, and as I sat there, I couldn't help but feel like I was experiencing a [...]Read More
Neal Brubaker: Why I am doing El Camino
I am ill-informed In the vast world of immigration where there are so many issues, perspectives, and stories, I am still far behind in what I know. On an issue that affects millions of people, sometimes in a life and death manner, I remain relatively unaware. You could correctly say that my [...]Read More
Bill Francis: Why I am doing El Camino
I am a white, middle-class, 51 year-old American male. My ancestral family’s last immigration to America now happened well over 100 years ago, from Denmark. So my heritage hasn’t really informed me when it comes to the issue of immigration. I am also a second-generation, Christian minister and [...]Read More
Marco Grimaldo: Why I am doing El Camino
From Abosolo, Progresso, Ciudad Victoria, and San Luis Potosi I was six years old the first time that my parents took me on a “marcha;" a march for equal rights. I didn’t know it then, but my father had joined other leaders in a federal lawsuit to require equal education for Mexican-American [...]Read More
Marianne Castellanos: Why I’m doing El Camino?
INTERVIEW WITH MARIANNE: What made you decide to walk El Camino? I want to walk alongside those who struggle as immigrants, for whom this walk is dedicated. I want to listen and learn about people around the world who face such extreme challenges and persecution in their homeland that they would [...]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