On the two weekends before Thanksgiving, a sale of crafts made by cooperatives in developing countries around the world will be held at the Austinburg Town Hall on Route 307 East (just south of I-90 at Route 45). The hours are: Saturdays, 10-4 and Sundays, 1-5.
Highlighted will be many crafts from Chalatenango, El Salvador. The gifts are all well made, unique and reasonably priced. One-hundred percent of the profits go back to the poor who made them in their communities. They rely on the sale of their crafts for their basic human needs.
SISTER PARISHES
In the past two years, 5 parishes in Northeast Ohio have
committed to establishing "Sister Parish" relationships
with parishes in Chalatenango.
The purpose of this relationship is communication between
two communities and the promoting solidarity of Christian
love. To quote Fr. Rafael Fuentes, it "is about love,
about knowing each other, about sharing the life of each
other. We have to be brothers and sisters to one another,
loving one another, accepting one another in the way we
are."
The parishes enjoying this kind of relationship are:
Assumption Parish, Geneva with San Fernando Parish, San
Fernando.
Kent Newman Center, Kent with Immaculado Corazon de Maria,
Las Brisas
Mother of Sorrows Parish, Ashtabula with San Francisco
Parish, San Francisco
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, Ashtabula and San Antonio,
San Antonio
St. Patrick's School and Parish, Kent and Dulce Nombre de
Jesus, Nombre de Jesus