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Hope Will…
Posted in A Day in The Life, El Salvador, tagged El Salvador, greeting cards, Hope, hopewill, HopeWill Cards on October 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Improving A School and Developing Church Leadership in Comecayo
Posted in A Day in The Life, Community Organizing, El Salvador, ENLACE, Faith in Action on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Click on Image to View Photos of The Briargate Church from Colorado Springs in Comecayo, El Salvador
Local Initiatives Lead Governement to Invest 80K to Improve Infrastructure in SJEN
Posted in A Day in The Life, Community Organizing, El Salvador, ENLACE, Faith in Action on July 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Take a right off main street in the town of San Jose El Naranjo (SJEN), and a dirt road scattered with large rocks will lead you to the river. In the rainy season (six months out of the year), one must jump from rock to rock to get past the mud and soup that was [...]
Hope and Healing in Abelines
Posted in A Day in The Life, Community Organizing, El Salvador, ENLACE, Faith in Action, tagged Christianity, community oganizing, community projects, El Salvador, Faith, latin america, missions on July 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We were in Abelines last week with CHIMPS, a medical brigade from Seattle, Washington. They worked out of the local clinic and alongside Doctor Daniel, the doctor employed by ENLACE. People walked as many as four hours to be seen by these US doctors. On average we were seeing 120 people a day. Most of [...]
Las Delicias: Working for Water
Posted in A Day in The Life, Community Organizing, El Salvador, ENLACE, Faith in Action, tagged Christianity, community projects, El Salvador, missions on June 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last week we worked on the water project in Las Delicias with a team from Vanguard, a university in California. The group consisted of John Mark, professor and PhD candidate at Vanguard, his wife Christina, who is on the ENLACE board, a handful of students who they were supervising, Jeff, who attends the campus [...]
Abelines: Experiencing Transformation
Posted in A Day in The Life, Community Organizing, El Salvador, ENLACE, Faith in Action, tagged Christianity, community oganizing, El Salvador, latin america, missions on April 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
On Friday, we took a four hour car ride to Abelines to attend the quarterly pastoral leadership meeting. Abelines is the most rural of the rural communities ENLACE has been partnering with over the last seven years. It is only within the last year that this community has had access to electricity. They continue [...]
Oscar Romero and “The Violence of Love”
Posted in Book Notes, El Salvador, tagged Christianity, El Salvador, non-resistance to evil, non-resistance to violence, non-violence, oscar romero, peace, Spiritual Journey, spirituality, US-Relations, wisdom on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
THE VIOLENCE OF LOVE Oscar Romero Compiled and translated by James R. Brockman, S. J. With forward by Henri Nouwen See excerpts below, for full text visit http://www.plough.com/ebooks/pdfs/ViolenceOfLove.pdf When Archbishop Romero first spoke the words gathered in this book, he directed himself to all the people in El Salvador, people [...]
A New Era?
Posted in El Salvador on April 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Monday, April 20, 2009 — Obama shaking hands with President-Elect Mauricio Funes, as Tony Saca looks on
Intro to Oscar Romero
Posted in El Salvador, tagged El Salvador, non-resistance to evil, non-resistance to violence, oscar romero, peace, US-Relations on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Monsignor Óscar Arnulfo Romero photo and quote taken from: http://luterano.blogspot.com/search/label/Oscar%20Romero Romero was Archbishop of San Salvador from 1977 to 1980. He is referred to in El Salador as “La Voz de Los Sin Voz”, or “The Voice of the Voiceless”. He spoke out against the respression and exploitatin of the poor masses, and of the grave human rights abuses [...]
Lessons in Appreciation – Part II
Posted in A Day in The Life, Community Organizing, El Salvador, ENLACE, tagged community oganizing, El Salvador, extranjeros, immigration on April 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last week Shane and I accompanied the ENLACE Operations Team at a planning meeting with one of the rural communities. I was really impressed by how organized the community was and with what they were planning. ENLACE has been partnering with this community for years now and through various projects, and now a new initiative is underway [...]
