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Visits that walk from the past into the future

Visits that walk from the past into the future

Our visitors encapsulated COAR’s past and future in the span of three weeks.  Our Open House visitors (May 21-28) included friends of COAR’s founders from waaaay back from the 1970s.  They walked the ground made sacred by the martyrdoms of their friends (Sr. Dorothy Kazel, OSU and Ms. Jean Donovan) and the work of Fr. Ken Myers.  Our high school visitors walked with much more spritely steps along this same sacred ground, but now made sacred by the sound of safe, healthy, happy, and hopeful children.  Their journeys are just beginning – and COAR is there for all of it, past, present, and future – enjoy the journey!

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Beaumont High School's visit

Beaumont visitors walking in the footsteps of Sr. Dorothy
Teaching English in the grade school
The big party with fun and food . . .
. . . and ice-breakers lead to friendship among our girls.
Stronger together
The primary school mass . . .
. . . our teens are the big kids now
After mass - soccer!
One team
Volleyball - the international language - in Teotepeque
Leadership: President Wendy, Fr. Johnny O, and the principal of the Teotepeque Catholic school
Asuchillo, a town served by Sr. Dorothy 45 years ago, and still remembered
Fr. Paul Schindler shared the events of Dec. 2, 1980, a day he lived . . .
. . . at mass at the Chapel of the (our) Four North American Churchwomen.

Mimicking Sr. Dorothy's service 48 (gulp) years ago; from a little girl to a proud Grad

Open House visit

Sr. Dorothy's student Mary and Jean Donovan's friend, Mary Lou
Open House guests at St. Romero's home, Divina Providencia
Fr. Bob Sanson, classmate and friend of Fr. Ken, explains St. Romero's death at this altar
Fr. Bob greets his partner parish's school scholarship students as they cheer the new American Pope
Epilogos, COAR's neighboring charity, greets the Open House with history and the help of our guide, Miguel, a scholarship success story
The legacy of Fr. Mario Cruz and Mike and Susie Jenkins lives on and on
Phyllis meets her latest sponsored child
Celebrating this year's quinceañeras (15th birthdays)
"Name something you put on a hamburger" Our English lesson gets real
Ursuline Sr. Rose Elizabeth compares notes with COAR's Director, Marta - both of them serving for more than a decade
Our newest resident feels the love