Beginning this year in the month of February, Voices on the Border has sponsored a drawing and painting class for some 20 youth that are direct members of or family members of the Pastoral Team. For three months, we have passed almost every Saturday afternoon at the San Luis Templo learning both theory and practice [...]

This first week of April we began painting the San Luis Templo mural.  Its’ design is to be based on the cultural identity, the historical memory, and the struggles that Comunidad Segundo Montes has overcome and continues to experience. Four painters (Fredy, Alberto, Alejandra, and Rachel) joined us from San Salvador to work on the [...]

            For more than a year our dream has been to paint a mural on the front wall of the church in San Luis. We are inching along and are in the process of the following steps:   -We are taking a drawing and painting class facilitated by a local [...]

This past month of January we began a series of paint workshops with a local painter, Erick Vargas, who lives in Gotera, which is the departmental head of Morazán. Don Erick is providing a series of 12 painting classes that are held on consecutive Saturdays beginning at midday and ending at 5pm. There are a [...]

Community members of Northern Morazán are mourning over the death of a twenty-two year old university scholarship student as she was on her way to meet her fellow students at an end-of-the-year camping trip. On December 28th, Patricia Isabel Berrios Hernandez was waiting on the side of the road for public transportation to take her [...]

The Pastoral Committee continues in their effort to raise money to move forward with the mural project. This past week, Lucinda and Yolanda of CSM prepared and sold arroz en leche. The plan is to decorate the templo in San Luis with a floor to ceiling mural reflecting the name of the templo, ‘Martires and [...]

This past month of August, Allen, originally from Ohio and recently moved to Oregon, spent four days in Northern Morazán. His interest was to learn about the struggles of people that have disabilities as he himself was born to a wheelchair. Allen and I spent a large portion of our time with the war veterans [...]

This May 31st, Comunidad Segundo Montes commemorated the perserverance of Mothers that lost sons during the armed conflict. Organized by the Pastoral Committee, the day is meant to preserve historical memory and to recognize the struggle to survive. It included mass by Miguel Ventura  as well as a snack of chicken sandwhich for the mothers.

Kay Turner, member of the El Salvador Steering Committee at St. Peters Church in North Carolina, came to Comunidad Segundo Montes for four days at the end of May. For years, St. Peters Church has maintained a partner community-relationship with Segundo Montes. Kay met with the Pastoral Committee church group as well as the OSCA [...]

After three months of dialogue, planning, and fundraising, a significant part of the badly-damaged roof of the San Luis Templo is finally being replaced. Today will complete the third day of work to change the most damaged sections. Forty-eight sheets of ZincAlum will take the stead of the poor-quality, hole-ridden Duralita. As of now, the [...]