June 2016 Newsletter Honorary and Memorial pg.7
March 2016 Newsletter Your Gifts Build Strength and Gentleness- the school, pg. 1
March 2016 Newsletter Your Gifts Build Strength and Gentleness Strength – the school, pg. 1 Gentleness – the children, pgs. 4-5 Rosita Graduates from Kindergarten “There is no strength like gentleness, and no gentleness like real strength.” -St. Francis de Sales The 2015 (November) graduation class of COAR High School The students and teachers cannot […]
March 2016 Newsletter COAR Co-founder, RIP: Sister Audrey Walsh, CCVI, 1921-2015
COAR Co-founder, RIP: Sister Audrey Walsh, CCVI, 1921-2015 Those of you new to COAR might not know that our history goes back to 1980. That is the year when Bl. Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, was murdered. That summer, as the refugee camps filled, a priest, Fr. Ken Myers, a member of the Cleveland Latin American Mission (CLAM) Team, brought a few children […]
March 2016 Newsletter Your Gifts Build Strength and Gentleness- the children, pgs. 4-5
March 2016 Newsletter Your Gifts Build Strength and Gentleness Strength – the school, pg. 1Gentleness – the children, pgs. 4-5 Juan Carlos came to COAR in 2002. He graduated in November 2015 (the Salvadoran school year begins and ends with the calendar year.) He was one of the students selected for the Intercontinental Hotel internship […]
March 2016 Newsletter Executive Director
From the Peace Mission’s Executive Director by Mary K. Stevenson Many of COAR’s supporters are not Catholic. But they appreciate the spirit and integrity with which we approach our Catholic mission. Being Catholic also gives us centuries of experience and wisdom to draw upon. St. Francis de Sales was bishop of Geneva from 1602-1622, while […]
March 2016 Newsletter Honorary and Memorial
Honorary Gifts Special Memorial Gifts Memorial Gifts
Two great new workshops: Dress Making & Handicrafts
Anyone with teenagers knows that kids are not always “motivated” by the intrinsic joy of traditional academics. Now, COAR offers several wonderful semester long workshops designed to supplement the traditional academic disciplines. These workshops play a much larger role than you might, at first, suspect. Pictured above, three graduates from the dress making workshop […]
December 2015 Newsletter Eternal Triangle
The (obvious) eternal triangle Coffee The World Champion Barista of 2011 was Alejandro Mendez of San Salvador. Some our visitors were lucky enough to meet him in 2014 and get a specially brewed cup of coffee.El Salvador is a land of (wonderful!) coffee. However, the crop has been devastated by coffee-leaf rust fungus since 2000. This […]
December 2015 Newsletter Holiday Stories
Special Holiday Stories Christmas Feasting ~ food, never taken for granted The real meaning of Christmas is never forgotten. Above, the children re-enacting the Nativity. A traditional Salvadoran candle-lit procession (a “posada”), below. A typical day’s food ready for housemother pick-up at COAR’s store house. Our Director, Marta, has been very successful […]
December 2015 Newsletter Executive Director
From the Peace Mission’s Executive Director By Mary K. Stevenson So, “Send forth your bread upon the face of the waters; after a long time you may find it again.”, ECCLESIASTES 11:1 Let me share some responses to my September message, that we need to increase our income by $50,000/year to keep up with increased […]