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Via de Cristo invites you to sponsor an individual(s) for a weekend that may change that individual's entire life. It is your responsibility to pick up the individual you are sponsoring and take that Pilgrim to the weekend. The weekends start on Thursday evenings. You may want to take your Pilgrim to dinner on the way to the weekend. Be sure to arrive on time to check in at camp.

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The Pilgrim Application is saved as an Abobe Reader (PDF) file. You may then either print the form or fill it out and save it to your local drive.

If you do not have Adobe PDF Reader then click on the “Get Adobe Reader” button below to download and install on your computer.

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The Pilgrim Registration Fee may be paid online through PayPal. Please click the link below and Donate to Pilgrim Registration.

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Please send your completed VdC Pilgrim Application to:

CaliforniaVdC@gmail.com

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Our Mailing address is

9530 Hageman Road B243

Bakersfield, CA 93312-3959

Pay the $50 Pilgrim Registration Fee here:

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DEVOTIONAL

After centuries of handling and mishandling, most religious words have become so shopworn nobody's much interesting anymore. Not so with grace, for some reason. Mysteriously, even derivatives like gracious and graceful still have some of the bloom left.
Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about anymore than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks or bring about your own birth.
A good sleep is grace and so are good dreams. Most tears are grace. The smell of rain is grace. Somebody loving you is grace. Loving somebody is grace. Have you ever tried to love somebody? A crucial eccentricity of the Christian faith is the assertion that people are saved by grace. There's nothing you have to do. There's nothing you have to do. There's nothing you have to do. The grace of God means something like; Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you.
There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.

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