June 2021 – Executive Director’s Reflections & News from El Salvador
I DESERVE A PATH FREE OF VIOLENCE COAR Children designed this movie poster on emigration: “YOUR LIFE IS WORTH MORE THAN AN UNCERTAIN DESTINATION / I DESERVE A PATH FREE OF VIOLENCE” The film school opportunity (featured in our news this month) started as a remote‑learning, creative outlet during the pandemic. But the first project […]
Report on 2020 and Challenges for 2021
By COAR’s Board President: Melanie Reda On January 4th, my father called me to tell me that he received his $600 stimulus check and he was so excited. So of course, I checked too. And I had indeed received a $600 stimulus check. How exciting! What a windfall! And then my thoughts turned to how […]
August 15th – Foundation Day
August 15th – Foundation Day – A Day of Joy between two sorrows – and Joy for 40 years August 15th is the Catholic feast day of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into heaven. It was also the birthday of St. Romero in 1915. As refugee children came to the CLAM Team Parish […]
December 2019 – Motherless
At the COAR office, we are motherless. Mary Alice (Mickey) Horner died on October 17th. Ellen Hayes Stevenson died on October 23rd. Mickey is John Atlee Horner’s mother, our Director of International Programs. Ellen is Mary Stevenson’s mother, our Executive Director. Our only other staff member, Jenni, our bookkeeper and database manager, lost her mother, […]
Living still: March 2016 Newsletter 35 Years – the Living Legacy of the North American Churchwomen
35 Years – the Living Legacy of the North American Churchwomen Hundreds attend a memorial celebration at the Ursuline Mother House on December 2, 2015 Elsa tells of her friendship with Sr. Dorothy as a child in Zaragoza, representing the hundreds of children helped by COAR after her death. Jean Donovan’s daily diary from 1980 Aug. […]
June 2019 – Serving the Whole Child
COAR (through your gifts) Serves the Whole Child, Into Adulthood, Through Partnerships in El Salvador that Strengthen the Entire Society Beginning last year COAR entered into partnership with a Salvadoran charity called Across Mission. It is an evangelical organization that supports three projects in El Salvador. Because of their work with COAR’s director, Marta Calderon, […]
June 2019 – A Richness of Bishops
Bishop Perez of Cleveland Visited the COAR Children in December, the most recent in a rich legacy of bishops. Above, Bishop of Cleveland Nelson Perez with a big group of the COAR children in December 2018. He listened to the children, asking them, “What do you want for your future and the future of your […]
June 2019 – Executive Director’s Reflections & News from El Salvador
From the Peace Mission’s Executive Director By Mary K. Stevenson Preventing Faces of Fear In June I begin my regular summer of travel to parishes throughout North America to raise awareness and funds for COAR through the Mission Co-operative Plan of the Catholic Church. I will visit parishes that range from inner-city Miami, to rural […]
2019 June – Memorials & Honorary
HONORARY MEMORIALS
Sam Miller farewell and thanks from COAR
Sam Miller, friend of the COAR children since 1996 2006, above, 2014-2019, below