El Salvador News
Key to true mission partnership: be humble and really listen
In 1993, during a study abroad program to Central America, I visited El Salvador, a small Central American nation that had just recently signed peace accords after more than a decade of violent civil war. In a unique exchange with Salvadoran youth, during a Bible study on the beach, we privileged and somewhat sheltered North American college students were interrogated about our countries’ policies and forced to reflect on our own complicity.
Tree of life
Indigenous El Salvadorans in the San Isidro Izalco community call the ojushte tree “manna from heaven.”
Recently, a group of Presbyterian Mission Agency (PMA) leaders – Executive Director Linda Valentine, World Mission Director Hunter Farrell and Funds Development Senior Director Terri Bate, among others – saw first-hand why.
Voices from the Border and Beyond
Presbyterian World Mission, together with our partners on the US/Mexico border and in Central America, is offering a Travel Study Seminar for Presbyterians who want to understand the context and respond to the needs of the thousands of Central American children that are crossing the border. The trip is scheduled for January 23 - February 1, 2015 and will include visits with a Presbyterian Border Region Outreach (PBRO) ministry site as well as visits with ecumenical partners in Guatemala and El Salvador.
Transformed from the inside out
Grace and peace to you in Jesus’ name! I hope this letter finds you well and enjoying the longer and lovely days of summer.