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Bringing two worlds together...

to learn, to support and to stand

in solidarity with our extended

family in El Salvador.

•Monthly salary support

at Shekina

•School scholarship for

Outreach programs of Sh•Working with new childchurch each each Sunday•Youth outreach to chil

schools “playing to tea• Weekly visits to an eand support for their b• Simple basket of food

sis

 Youth leadership develop•Training for the youthsues of Social Reality,Gender & Leadership...•Ecumenical visits to olearn about other model

and leadership to inspiShekina youth

Shekina Community Cen•One square meter of th

•One square meter of th

community center

-------------------------------$500 per month

-------------------------------$2000 per year

 

-------------------------------$100 per month

-------------------------------$100 per month

---------------------------------$25 per week

-------------------------------$25 per basket

----------------------4 per year at $100 each

------------------------------------$300 each

------------------------------------------$90

-----------------------------------------$350

Cielo Azul creates personal relationships be-tween communities of hope in the United Statesand El Salvador in order to share learningexperiences, spiritual accompaniment and ma-terial support in our faithful work to build

communities based on justice for all who seeka dignified, sustainable life.

The Cielo Azul Fund is administered by a vol-unteer advisory committee from Central Bap-tist Church, The Simple Way and the PastoralCouncil of Iglesia Shekina.

The Mission 

How your contr

In the spring of 2003 s

tral Baptist Church, Wasome folks from The Siphia to visit long tiAlex Orantes and Ruthand their son Victor Hu

visit it was clear to uto support the work of gan to look for ways tothat could undergird th

In 2009, inspir

a Salvadoran president position party (the FMin the country’s historof the fund to Cielo Ato celebrate this new

society and partly to that we saw opening up them.

History 

Pledge / Donation SpecifcsWe encourage monthly pledges because ithelps both Cielo Azul and Iglesia BautistaShekina in our planning. But we are deeply

grateful for all contributions at any time.Online donations and pledges are possibleby visiting our blog http://www.cieloazul-fund.blogspot.com/ and using the Google formthere, or by accessing our “partner page on

The Simple Way website http://www.thesimple-way.org/friends/cielo-azul/

The Simple Way is the 501 C3 fiscal spon-sor of The Cielo Azul Fund. Checks should be

made payable to “The Simple Way/Cielo Azul &mailed to:

The Cielo Azul FundPO Box 211

Wayne, PA 19087

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Victor Hugo has participated actively as amember of local FMLN youth organizations thatcombine theoretical studies in politics andeconomy with local volunteer service projects

in poor communities. In January of 2011, healso began to study in a private high schoolwith a strong pre-architectural focus. To doso he must live with relatives in San Salvadorduring the week, returning home to Santa Ana

on weekends.

During the same time, Alex’s struggle withrheumatoid arthritis has increasingly limitedhis ability physically to accompany people inhard to reach marginal communities. But theelectoral successes of the FMLN in Santa Ana

has meant that a local government with a clearvision to benefit the poor has tapped Alex asa valued resource, giving him the opportunityto use his skills as a pastor, peace maker/negotiator and community organizer within the

structures of “city hall,” where he is an ac-tive member of the local government.

Since 2003, Iglesia Bautisa Shekina, whereRuth serves as pastor, has grown in size andvision, from a small group of worshippers ina rented store front, to a vital community ofadults, youth and children who have purchased

land, built a church and then added a largeparcel to the church property with a visionfor a community center to serve all of theirneighborhood. Already, they have begun to of-fer programs on that new property. In addi-tion to her service as a pastor for Shekina,Ruth has served as a volunteer professor in theextension program of SEBLA, a local seminary.She also coordinates the logistics and programarrangements for Cielo Azul’s new El Salvador

study trips, which bring North Americans toEl Salvador to learn first hand about the po-litical, economic and theological realities oflife in the third world. (Download a prospec-tus for the Study trips at our blog

http://www.cieloazulfund.blogspot.com/).

The Present Reality 

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