June 2016

June 2016 Newsletter Solidarity and Spiders pg. 1

Solidarity and Spiders (big ones) By Adam Nestor   In June 2015, I was blessed to spend five days at COAR with three other seminarians as we experienced the work the Cleveland Mission is doing in El Salvador.   Our first night staying in the guest house we found a tiny, yet still frightening, tarantula […]

June 2016 Newsletter Romero Days pg. 2-3

2016 Romero Days, March 31-April 1, featured presentations of the legacy of Sr. Dorothy Kazel, OSU, one of the four North American Churchwomen ~ COAR is one of her lasting legacies The Romero Lecture Series is an annual event that gathers scholars, social justice workers, creative artists, and others who honor and promote the legacy of Blessed Romero in […]

June 2016 Newsletter Mother’s Day ~ Father’s Day ~ Day of the Family pg. 4-5

Mothers’ Day From left to right; Julie Haverland (Missy’s mom), Judy Doppes (RIP), Missy Terrill (RIP), and Jane Tillar Excerpt from newsletter of June 2009 (pictured, right) Gamaliel: “Do you know Ms. Doppes?” I said, “Yes I do know them. They love you very much.” He answered, “I know, look!” From Missy’s e-mails of January […]

June 2016 Newsletter Executive Director and News from El Salvador pg.6

Watercolor original by: Marie Spaeder Haas

From the Peace Mission’s Executive Director By Mary K. Stevenson Mothers and Fathers – they need you COAR raises children with love and security, school and health care, fun and responsibility. But the ultimate goal is to prepare them to be good parents. There is nothing more important, as the story, right, from The Economist, […]