“Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return”
The COVID-19 pandemic and quarantine are the backdrop for Lent, Easter, and the Resurrection. The children are healthy, thanks to you. They are praying for your health amidst this COVID-19 pandemic. Lent began at COAR on February 26th, Ash Wednesday, with the traditional Catholic ceremony of making a cross on the forehead with ashes of the […]
March 2020 – Executive Director’s Reflections & News from El Salvador
Catholics will be familiar with the term, “Ordinary Time”. It refers to times within the Church’s annual liturgical cycle when there is no focus on a particular feast (such as Christmas). Rather, it is a celebration of our life with God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and each other in the Church, in its fullness. This has not been ordinary time.
March 2020 – Memorials & Honorary
Memorial Honorary
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, […]
Santa’s Elves
Workshops Give Children Skills, Satisfaction, and Joy One of the wonderful things about COAR is that there are many options for residents. Fundación Renacer provides internship and English opportunities for high academic achieving students. COAR staff works to encourage young men and women in mechanics, sewing, baking, and other trades. And students who have learning […]
COAR’s 2019 Open House
Full of Friendship and Fun Interested in joining us this summer? Check out our 2020 Open House information and application! From July 2-8 we held COAR’s first Open House for visitors. Our guests were five supporters, four of them sponsors. So what did we do on our summer vacation?? Alane and Linda Thank You Alex […]
2019 December – Memorials & Honorary
Honorary Memorial
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. […]
2019 September – Memorials & Honorary
Honorary Memorial
September 2019 – COAR’s Foundation Day: August 15th
Celebrated at the Cathedral where St. Romero is Buried August 15th 1980 was the day that Fr. Ken Myers, working in El Salvador with the Cleveland Latin American Mission Team, brought the first child from a refugee camp to his parish in Zaragoza. (Admittedly he decided the date in hindsight since he was responding to […]