Videos: COAR History & Video Christmas Cards

Watch the 2023 COAR Children's Video Christmas Card to you!

Music: the COAR kids! at a mass in COAR’s chapel recorded for Christmas by El Salvador’s Papal Nuncio  ||  Video artist: anonymous

2023 COAR Benefit Thanks

Gracias Padre Ken, from all the COAR kids

COAR's Kids' St. Romero Video

COAR’s kids created a video for St. Romero Day (using their newly-minted film school skills for their first independent project)

2023 St. Romero Day Prayer Service

A recording of the 2023 prayer service in honor of St. Romero

Watch the 2022 COAR Children's Video Christmas Card to you!

Fall Festivals in 2022

Watch as COAR and our town and parish celebrate September 15th, El Salvador’s Independence Day, and October 12th, the Feast of Our Lady of the Pillar (Nuestra Señora del Pilar). 

The band plays “Mary the white dove”:
It is Mary the white dove,
who has come to America,
to bring peace.

2022 St. Romero Day Prayer Service

A recording of the 2022 prayer service in honor of St. Romero

Watch the 2021 COAR Children's Video Christmas Card to you!

Music: Chantell Lopez, Las Posadas || Video Artist: Anonymous

Exciting Podcast on COAR's History and Future​

Podcast on COAR's past and future
In the September episode of the Generative Spirits podcast, Rachel Drotar of the Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland speaks to Sr. Sheila Marie Tobbe, OSU, and Mary Stevenson, Executive Director of COAR, about the mission and history of COAR and how its connection to Cleveland has lasted for decades.  We invite you to listen to this inspiring conversation, which you can stream free on Spotify to your computer or phone: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1QA5l8IajdwzRANZ7zdmIS

2021 St. Romero Day Prayer Service

A recording of the 2021 Prayer Service in honor of St. Romero

Watch the 2020 COAR Children's Video Christmas Card to you!

Music: Queen, “Thank God It’s Christmas” || Video Artist: Anonymous

Watch our 2020 Mission Co-operative Plan appeal - socially distanced from your parish!

COAR Peace Mission presents its socially-distanced 2020 Mission Co-operative Plan (MCP) appeal. The MCP usually invites the foreign missions into parishes throughout North America to raise awareness and funds. 100% of the funds raised go to the COAR children. However, this year, almost all of our 50 parish assignments are presenting our appeal through this video. We usually receive $150,000/year through this program. This year??? We are all in a testing time. At the end of this video, minute six, we talk about our relationship to the Gospel. The Gospel leads us, informs us, and comforts us – now – as it has for 2,000 years. It was the foundation for St. Romero and the founders of COAR to survive a civil war. It will be our foundation as we get through this pandemic – together. Thank you.

Watch the 2019 COAR Children's Video Christmas Card to you!

Music: Trans-Siberian Orchestra, “Christmas Canon” || Video Artist: Anonymous

Watch the 2018 COAR Children's Video Christmas Card to you!

Music: Trio Nueva Generación || Video Artist: Anonymous

Watch the 2017 COAR Children's Video Christmas Card to you!

Music: Canta y RIE || Video Artist: Anonymous

Bishop Pilla's Remarks at COAR's 2017 Annual Benefit (RIP Sept. 21, 2021)

Original video by Yurich Creative (then edited by COAR, so blame us for anything clunky)

Click here to see pictures and “Jose’s remarks” which Bishop Pilla references in his talk.

Watch Raúl's Grace, 2017

Video Artist: YurichCreative.com, (216) 631-2554

Watch the 2016 COAR Children's Video Christmas Card to you!

Music: Sufjan Stevens || Video Artist: John Naujoks

Watch a Service Trip in Action: St. Edward HS, Cleveland
Teaching English, June 2016:
Changing the Lives of the COAR Children

Adam's Journey for COAR
COAR News, June 2016
Protection from Spiders and Violence (2 min)

Watch the 2015 COAR Children's video Christmas Card to you!
35 Years of Sacrifice, Love, and Hope
Remembering: Bl. Romero, 1980, Sr. Dorothy Kazel, OSU, 1980, Fr. Ken Myers, 2002, Sr. Stanislaus Mackey, CCVI, 2004, Sr. Audrey Walsh, CCVI, 2015

Music: Sufjan Stevens || Video Artist: Elly Maranos

View COAR's roots -- 50th Anniversary of the Cleveland Latin American Mission - watch the 30 minute video that recounts 50 years of the Cleveland Latin American Mission (CLAM) Team in El Salvador.

Watch the 2014 COAR Children's Video Christmas Card to you!

Music: Liza Minelli || Video Artist: Elly Maranos

Watch the 2013 COAR Children's Video Christmas Card to you!

Music: || Video Artist: John Naujoks

Watch the 2012 COAR Children's Video Christmas Card to you!

Music: Sufjan Stevens || Video Artist: John Naujoks

Watch the 2011 COAR Children's Video Christmas Card to you!

Music: Sufjan Stevens || Video Artist: John Naujoks

Watch The COAR Movie

View COAR's roots, "Gracias El Salvador," the 25th Anniversary (1989) of the Cleveland Latin American Mission (CLAM) Team in El Salvador.

Note: During digital conversion from VHS, it is incorrectly titled “2001 Earthquake” within the video – sorry!