From another part of the Anglican Communion, Episcopal News Service reports on a decade long development project in El Salvador being celebrated and featured in bulletin inserts for Episcopal Churches:
On the second Sunday in Lent, the Anglican Church of El Salvador, in conjunction with Fundación Cristosal, unveiled a 15-foot high obelisk capped with a celtic cross and dedicated to the thousands of volunteers who have labored through the years in solidarity with the people of El Salvador and with its Anglican church.
The event took place at El Maisal, the last of the Anglican villages to be completed in a decade-long Episcopal Relief & Development project following the devastating 2001 earthquake suffered by this smallest of Central American countries.
Occupied by the military during El Salvador’s long civil war, El Maisal is now inhabited by more than 50 families living in tidy homes and served by sustainable agricultural projects, a women’s sewing cooperative, a new micro-loan bakery, a community center, school and the Church of the Divine Providence.
Bulletin inserts are available here.
The Most Rev. Barahona is Bishop of El Salvador and Primate of the Anglican Communion in Central America (IARCA). More on the work of Fundación Cristosal, visit the website here