| Benefits for Seminarians: |
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Missionary outreach experience |
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Spanish language skills development |
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Increase cultural exposure to developing countries |
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Teaching / Tutoring / Youth Ministry experience |
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Observe administration of an educational facility in a developing area |
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Public speaking experience (through COAR Parish Appeals Program) |
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Learn how to coordinate future parish trips to the region |
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Increase awareness of plight of people in a developing country |
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Heighten awareness of responsibility for missionary
mission of the Church |
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Outreach to our suffering brothers and sisters in a developing country |
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Heighten sense of being sent to preach the Gospel |
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Broaden sense of Church |
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Broaden global vision |
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Being exposed to a different culture increases awareness and
appreciation for one's own culture |
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| Benefits for COAR: |
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Provides flexible volunteers |
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Provides English tutors for the children |
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Provides mentors, particularly for the orphans |
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Provides help for the full-time house mother's in the children's village |
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Develops awareness for COAR (through COAR Parish Appeals Program) |
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Develops potential new donors |
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| Benefits for St. Mary Seminary: |
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Provides a longer cultural awareness opportunity for seminarians |
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Produces students with more in-depth knowledge of a mission area |
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Creates seminarian advocates for future foreign mission participants |
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Foreign immersion experience provides background for Seminary Courses |
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(i.e., Moral Theology and Social Justice, Christian Education, and |
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Liturgical/Sacramental Courses) |
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Provides for community enrichment as seminarians share their experience |
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Improved foreign language skills improve primary language skills
(written and oral) |
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Helps the seminary provide for the future of Hispanic Ministry in the
Diocese |
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Promotes vocations (candidates discerning their vocation may take
interest in the possibility of foreign work/study opportunities) |
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Promotes vocations to minister cross-culturally or as a missionary |
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| Benefits for the Diocese of Cleveland: |
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Develops seminarian's awareness of the work of the Cleveland
Diocese's Latin American Mission Team (CLAM) |
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Creates and strengthens new advocates in Cleveland for the work of
the CLAM team |
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Exposes seminarians to longer term mission work in El Salvador which
may help them respond to a potential call to service in this area |
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Helps develop seminarians capable of meeting the growing needs of
Hispanic Ministry |
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Helps strengthen the connection between Cleveland and the people in
El Salvador |
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Continues ministry commitment of the Cleveland Diocese/Church to
the El Salvador Church |
We invite you to support seminarians in service to COAR this summer . . .