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 […]
Possible Food Shortage: Central America Suffers Unusual Drought Due to El Nino
The climate in El Salvador is quite different from what we are used to in the northern MidWest. Our winter, roughly November thru April, is actually the Salvadoran summer. It is the dry and sunny season. There is almost no significant rainfall during this time of year. It is the beach-lovers paradise: tons of […]
December 2015 Newsletter Honorary and Memorial
September 2015 Newsletter page 1
Horrible headlines . . . . . COAR’s solutions . . . . . . The Executioners of El Salvador By Daniel Alarcón, August 4, 2015 Earlier this year, the International Business Times ran this bewildering headline: “El Salvador to Become Deadliest Peace-Time Country in the World.” It’s an odd turn of phrase; something about […]
September 2015 Newsletter page 2
Horrible headlines . . . . . COAR’s solutions . . . . . . Inside El Salvador’s ‘War Without Sense’ Ioan Grillo @ioangrillo July 24, 2015 http://time.com/3966900/el-salvador-gangs-violence/ El Salvador’s Kill Zone Ioan Grillo @ioangrillo July 23, 2015 http://time.com/3969232/el-salvadors-kill-zone/ Warring gangs have turned El Salvador into one of the world’s deadliest places When new […]