September 2016 Newsletter Executive Director and News from El Salvador pg.6
From the Peace Mission’s Executive Director By Mary K. Stevenson Annual cost per child: $8,000 without apology I always wanted to apologize for the cost per child, even when the cost was $3,000/child/year (which we were able to maintain for many years.) But then a friend said, “Never apologize for helping these children, […]
September 2016 Newsletter Honorary and Memorial
Special Gifts The Historical Memory Project from our thank you note to Pastor Don Seiple & Caroline Sheaffer: When your gift came I was on my way to El Salvador with a group of high school students – seeing El Salvador, its beautiful landscape, wonderful people, and heart-breaking poverty, for the first time. […]
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
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, […]
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 […]