Noel started off the National CCDA conference by showing us the video below:
Prior to the conference start in Los Angeles, about 150 people participated in El Camino, a 150 mile, 11 day pilgrimage from the Mexico/U.S. border into the conference in LA. (70 people went the whole way)
Noel used the metaphor of pilgrimage/El Camino to talk about our walk of faith.
Proverbs 8:20 I walk in the way of righteousness along the paths of justice.
1. The camino is hard. For the CCD practitioner, the way is difficult personally, relationally, every way.
2. The camino is not meant to be walked alone. The very character of God is that He is a communal God. We must go out and walk with people. Everyone on the camino is in pain and suffering. The camino requires grace for the journey.
3. The camino is transformative. The group of walkers thought they were walking to change immigration. You know what? God changed their hearts. Transformation does not happen through power; it happens through pain.
The road is built as we walk. That we would walk together for love, for reconciliation, for the glory of God.
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