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Service & Solidarity Home: Parishes Youth Groups Participant? Classroom Planning a trip to El Salvador
Visiting COAR Home: Medical? Security ? Legal stuff What to pack ? Where will I stay (and eat)?
 
Service

COAR as Parish Mission
 
  As parishes and communities reach out, COAR connects you to global realities through the lives and challenges of impoverished children, their familes, and their country:  
  Mission Appeals - Make a global weekend of it!  
 
We can send speakers, display materials, collection envelopes  
 
Updates on what's going on at COAR  
 
Tie it in with the world-wide Catholic Church  
 
We can make our own travel arrangements  
 
Hold a Sponsorship Drive so your parishoners can make the personal connection real at home and all year long (click for more on Sponsorship . . .)  
 
Monthly updates for parish bulletins - in addition to the newsletter, we send a 100-word story and a picture  
  Fundraising - the ultimate service  
    Tithing  
    Lenten and Advent drives  
    Youth Group events  
    Special projects that your community can point to with pride  
       


Donated Goods are Discouraged
  We discourage drives for any tangible goods that would have to be transported to El Salvador. In addition to the transport and customs expense, a mature understanding of charity requires that we respond to economic realities: it helps build El Salvador's economy if we buy "goods" there.

It gives store-owners, truckers, and many others jobs. It signals where there is real demand for products so that sustained growth in the economy can be recognized. It helps break the cycle of dependency.
 

 


Solidarity

Common Intentions
 
  Discover your faith tradition's teachings on social justice, poverty, relationship with the poor (click for Classroom . . .)  
  Common prayer hour or shared intentions  
  Praying at these times:  
   
Each day at 9:00 am and 2:00 pm, EST, that the children arrive at COAR safely  
    At the end of the school term (Oct. 25,2005) and the beginning of the school term (Jan. 18, 2006)  

Generations of Faith
 
We are developing a teaching package for the Social Justice cycle - please call our office for details.  
Sponsorship Program provides the opportunity for your families to make the personal connection real at home and all year long (click for more on Sponsorship . . .)  
     






 

 

 



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