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 […]
September 2019 – Executive Director’s Reflections & News from El Salvador

From the Peace Mission’s Executive Director By Mary K. Stevenson The idea is NOT the Hard Part, so Here’s to You, Dear Donor Dear Donor to COAR – Let me tell you how much you mean to me – to the children too, of course – but to them, by way of me. Bill Gates […]
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
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. […]