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
March 2019 – Sponsorship Gems from the archives
Showing How Much Their Sponsors Mean to the Children and How it is Only Possible Because of Our Translators Sarah and Juan Carlos As I walked across the COAR campus Gamaliel came running up to me and asked, “Do you know Ms. Doppes?” and as I started to answer he asked, “And Mr. and Mrs. […]
March 2019 – Student Government – COAR Leads the Way Nationally
What do the children write about? These are children, after all, so they write about their daily lives: chores, homework, how much they like chicken and soccer. But as they grow and mature, their letters reflect new horizons. An exciting new development is captured in this letter, written by Luz, (see translation, below.) When 50 […]
March 2019 – Children and Students Are the Same Here and There
We send a three-page translation guide with all the letters to all the schools. The words are different but the ideas are universal.
March 2019 – Executive Director’s Reflections & News from El Salvador
From the Peace Mission’s Executive Director By Mary K. Stevenson Solidarity & Generosity Our translation program with high schools began in 2004, when I, in my first official act as Executive Director stood in front of a closet full of suitcases and boxes of untranslated letters from the previous few years. They had renovated our […]