What is our response to our baptismal call

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The Millennium Development Goals

• What is our response to our baptismal call?

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Defining the problem

• 1.2 billion people live on less than 1 USD per
  day
• 50 of all people live on less than 2 USD per
  day
• One child dies of preventable hunger or curable
  disease every 3 seconds
• A woman dies during childbirth every minute
• 40 million people are living with HIV/AIDS
• 8.4 million child laborers are trapped in
  slavery, trafficking, debt bondage, prostitution,
  pornography and other abhorrent conditions
• There are many more disturbing facts and
  statistics

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What are the MDGs?

• The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are the
  world's time-bound and quantified targets for
  addressing extreme poverty in its many
  dimensions-income poverty, hunger, disease, lack
  of adequate shelter, and exclusion-while
  promoting gender equality, education, and
  environmental sustainability. They are also basic
  human rights-the rights of each person on the
  planet to health, education, shelter, and
  security.
• (The Millennium Projecthttp//www.unmillenniumpr
  oject.org/goals/index.htm)

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What really matters

• The Millennium Development Goals A pledge made
  through the United Nations to achieve eight
  goals, made by 189 nations and others in the year
  2000
• Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Achieve universal primary education
• Promote gender equality and empower women
• Reduce child Mortality
• Improve maternal health
• Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
• Ensure environmental sustainability
• Create a global partnership for development

Signatories agreed to commit 0.7 of their
national budgets to these goals
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MDG Goal 1

• Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Target 1. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the
  proportion of people whose income is less than 1
  a day
• Target 2. Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the
  proportion of people who suffer from hunger

From the Muslim tradition Have you ever seen a
human being who contradicts the essence of the
religion? That is the person who pushes the
orphan aside and does not promote feeding the
needy. (Quran 107)
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The facts about wealth

• The richest 1 of adults in the world own 40 of
  the planet's wealth
• Household wealth, including financial assets and
  debts, land, buildings and other tangible
  property total 125 trillion globally
• Europe, the US and some Asia Pacific nations
  account for most of the extremely wealthy.
• More than a third live in the U.S.
• Japan accounts for 27 of the total
• The UK accounts for 6
• France accounts for 5.

World Institute for Development Economics
Research of the United Nations
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The facts about wealth

• Assets of just 2,200 per adult place a household
  in the top half of the world's wealthiest.
• Assets of 61,000 place household in richest 10
• Assets of more than 500,000 place households in
  richest 1
• According to UN, 37 million people fall into this
  category
• Half the people in the world live on less than 2
  a day
• 3 billion people fall into this category

MSN Money, Got 2,200? In this world, you're
rich , 12/13/2006
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Gods children who live in poverty say

• Poverty is like living in jail, living under
  bondage, waiting to be free Jamaica
• Poverty is to come home and see your children go
  hungry and not have anything to give them -
  Brazil
• For a poor person everything is terrible
  illness, humiliation, shame We are like garbage
  that everyone wants to get rid of. A blind
  woman from Moldova
• A normal person has some self-esteem, to take
  a holiday, read a book. While now you work
  here or there all day in order to have something
  to eat, and at night you cant even exchange a
  couple of words like normal persons, you drop off
  asleep as if you were dead. Its as if you were
  dead while you were still alive. Middle-aged
  woman from Bulgaria

What Can One Person Do? Faith to Heal a Broken
World Sabina Alkire and Edwin Newell, Church
Publishing, 2005
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MDG Goal 2

• Achieve universal primary education
• Target 3. Ensure that, by 2015, children
  everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to
  complete a full course of primary schooling

Guinean Proverb Knowledge is like a garden If
it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested
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MDG Goal 3

• Promote gender equality and empower women
• Target 4. Eliminate gender disparity in primary
  and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and
  in all levels of education no later than 2015

From the Bahai tradition Only as women are
welcomed into full partnership in all fields of
human endeavor will the moral and psychological
climate be created in which international peace
can emerge. (Universal House of Justice, 1985)
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MDG Goal 4

• Reduce child mortality
• Target 5. Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and
  2015, the under-five mortality rate

From the Jewish tradition By the breath of
children, God sustains the world. (Talmud
Bavli, Shabbat 119b
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MDG Goal 5

• Improve maternal health
• Target 6. Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990
  and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio

From the Sikh tradition We are born of women,
we are conceived in the womb of women, we are
engaged and married to women. We make friendship
with women and the lineage continues because of
women. (Guru Nanak Dev, Var Asa)
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MDG Goal 6

• Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
• Target 7. Have halted by 2015 and begun to
  reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
• Target 8. Have halted by 2015 and begun to
  reverse the incidence of malaria and other major
  diseases

From the Buddhist tradition May all beings
everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and
mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. (The
Bodhicaryavatara of Shantideva))
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Facts about disease

• Approximately 40 million people were living with
  HIV/AIDS (range 34 46 million) by end 2006
• Of these, 26.6 million were living in Sub-Saharan
  Africa, and 3.2 million in SSA were newly
  infected in 2003. One in five people are
  infected.
• In SSA women 15-24 are 2.5 times as likely to be
  infected as are men.
• About 30 of people living with HIV/AIDS
  worldwide live in southern Africa, an area that
  is home to just 2 of the worlds population.
• On 9/11, more than twice as many people perished
  of HIV/AIDS than in the World Trade Towers.
• Ten times more people perish of poverty-related
  causes than of war or conflict (over 22 million
  in 2001 from preventable disease vs. 230,000 in
  war).

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MDG Goal 7

• Ensure environmental sustainability
• Target 9. Integrate the principles of sustainable
  development into country policies and programs
  and reverse the loss of environmental resources
• Target 10. Halve, by 2015, the proportion of
  people without sustainable access to safe
  drinking water and basic sanitation
• Target 11. Have achieved by 2020 a significant
  improvement in the lives of at least 100 million
  slum dwellers

From the Hindu tradition May there be peace on
earth, peace in the atmosphere and in the
heavens. Peaceful be the waters, the herbs and
plants. May the Divine bring us peace.
(Atharva-Veda XIX-9)
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Facts about the environment

• Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the U.N. says
  that Global Warming is a reality
• Predicts that it will be major driver of war and
  conflict in coming decades
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 90
  certain that human-generated greenhouse gases
  account for most of the global rise in
  temperatures over the past half-century
• U.S. is world's leading emitter of greenhouse
  gases
• Ban will press the G8 (U.S., Russia, Britain,
  France, Germany, Japan, Canada and Italy) to
  address this during their June 2007 summit in
  Germany
• "We are all complicit in the process of global
  warming," Ban said. "Unfortunately, my generation
  has been somewhat careless in looking after our
  only planet."

Washington Post, U.N. Secretary General Calls
Global Warming a Priori , 3/7/2007
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Facts about the environment

• The poor are so desperate for food that they
  overuse their land even though they know the
  result will be lessened fertility next year
• Lakes are over-fished, forests are not managed
  sustainably, land is overgrazed
• Glaciers are melting, river and coastal waters
  are rising and claiming arable land, and many of
  the poor are being deprived of their only sources
  of subsistence
• Christian Aid estimates that climate-change-associ
  ated diseases will have killed 182 million in
  sub-Saharan Africa by the end of this century

Un International Forum on the Eradication of
Poverty November 2006Coop America Quarterly
Fall 2006
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MDG Goal 8

• Develop a global partnership for sustainable
  development
• Target 12. Develop further an open, rule-based,
  predictable, nondiscriminatory trading and
  financial system (includes a commitment to good
  governance, development, and poverty reduction
  both nationally and internationally)
• Target 13. Address the special needs of the Least
  Developed Countries (includes tariff- and
  quota-free access for Least Developed Countries,
  exports, enhanced program of debt relief for
  heavily indebted poor countries HIPCs and
  cancellation of official bilateral debt, and more
  generous official development assistance for
  countries committed to poverty reduction)
• Target 14. Address the special needs of
  landlocked developing countries and small island
  developing states (through the Program of Action
  for the Sustainable Development of Small Island
  Developing States and 22nd General Assembly
  provisions)

From the Christian tradition Give to the one
who asks you, and do not turn away from the one
who wants to borrow from you... (The Bible,
Matthew 542
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MDG Goal 8, continued

• Develop a global partnership for sustainable
  development
• Target 15. Deal comprehensively with the debt
  problems of developing countries through national
  and international measures in order to make debt
  sustainable in the long term
• Target 16. In cooperation with developing
  countries, develop and implement strategies for
  decent and productive work for youth
• Target 17. In cooperation with pharmaceutical
  companies, provide access to affordable essential
  drugs in developing countries
• Target 18. In cooperation with the private
  sector, make available the benefits of new
  technologies, especially information and
  communications technologies

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Who is keeping track?

• U.N.s page on tracking the goals is at
  http//www.undp.org/mdg/tracking_home.shtml
• A 2006 progress chart is at http//mdgs.un.org/uns
  d/mdg/Resources/Static/Products/Progress2006/MDGPr
  ogressChart2006.pdf
• The World Bank is monitoring progress and
  publishing statistics
• World Bank Global Data Monitoring Information
  System - www.developmentgoals.org
• Organization for Economic Development at
  http//www.oecd.org/dac/mdg
• Various other organizations are voluntarily
  monitoring progress
• Effectiveness of charities is monitored by
  organizations like Charity Navigator,
  www.charitynavigator.org.

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What the Bible says

• I do not mean that there should be relief for
  others and pressure on you, but it is a question
  of a fair balance between your present abundance
  and their need, so that their abundance may be
  for your need, in order that there may be a fair
  balance.
• As it is written, The one who had much did not
  have too much, and the one who had little did not
  have too little.
• 2 Corinthians 813-15
• he said to them, Whoever has two coats must
  share with anyone who has none and whoever has
  food must do likewise.
• Luke 311

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What One Can Do

• Pray
• Include the MDGs in the Prayers of the People
• Idea One MDG per week
• Follow the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, which prays
  for a different part of the church each week
• Do an MDG Stations of the Cross liturgy
• Subscribe to the World in Prayer,
  www.worldinprayer.org
• Subscribe to the Micah Challenge Prayer Series -
  http//www.micahchallenge.org/english/pray/signup/
  
• Listen to the voices around you

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What One Can Do

• Study
• Do a class, book study or film series
• What Can One Person Do? Faith to Heal a Broken
  World , Sabina Alkire and Edwin Newell, Church
  Publishing, 2005, contains a book list
• Eradicating Global Poverty, Lallie Lloyd
• God's Mission in the World study guide produced
  jointly between TEC and ELCA
• Show a relevant film and have a discussion
• An Inconvenient Truth (documentary, 2006)
• The Girl in the Café (HBO Films, comedy-drama,
  2005)
• Invisible Children (documentary, 2006)
• Others

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What One Can Do

• Donate
• Give 0.7 of your personal income to MDG-related
  causes
• Diocesan Convention passed resolution urging this
• Good list of partners at www.one.org
• Give gifts from Episcopal Relief and
  Developments Gifts for Life catalog.
• Encourage your congregation to give 0.7 of the
  congregations budget
• Diocesan Convention passed resolution urging this
• Encourage your diocese to give 0.7 of the
  diocesan budget
• El Camino Real is one of a minority of dioceses
  that do not support MDGs in the diocesan budget

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How much is 0.7?
What is .7
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Charitable Giving and the Economy

• Those making 20,000 or less a year give away
  more, as a share of their income, than do higher
  income groups.
• Each dollar of giving appears to create 19 of
  extra national income
• Charitable giving strengthens the cohesion of
  society at large.
• Appears to make the givers themselves more
  successful
• Transforms people into better or happier people.

MSN Money, America the charitable A few
surprises, 11/27/2006
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What one can do

• Connect
• Organize or join a mission trip, or sponsor
  someone who wants to engage in mission
• e.g. Habitat for Humanity international build
• e.g. Midwives on Mission
• Invite someone who has made a mission trip to
  make a presentation or give a talk
• Mentor a girl or woman
• Sponsor children or families through
  organizations like Care Share International
  (http//www.careshareindia.org/)
• Adopt a school or clinic or other project with
  the intention of sustained sponsorship

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What One Can Do

• Raise Awareness
• Host or help sponsor a U2charist
• an Episcopal Eucharist service that features the
  music of the rock band U2 and a message about
  God's call to rally around the Millennium
  Development Goals. 
• Build Awareness among Youth and Children
• Engaging, meaningful activities
• e.g. Build a cross using colored popsicle sticks,
  e.g. one popsicle for child that person that dies
  of hunger during a period of time, such as e.g.
  1800 popsicle sticks for the number of children
  who die during Sunday 1000 service
• Get ideas from the Youth Action Guide at
  http//www.millenniumcampaign.org/site/pp.asp?cgr
  KVL2NLEb260482

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What One Can Do

• Act Volunteer
• Volunteer hours are worth some 150 billion
  annually (measured by using an estimated average
  value of 18.04 per hour)
• Volunteering provides spiritual richness to life
• Expand social circles and increase friendships
• Organizations that match those who want to
  volunteer with organizations that need volunteers
• www.211.org
• www.volunteermatch.org
• www.pointsoflight.org

MSN Money, America the charitable A few
surprises, 11/27/2006 The Avenue, In Search of
a Richer Life, Spring 2007
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What one can do

• Act Imagine and engage in Quick Win
  opportunities
• Quick Win campaigns are important, concrete
  actions that can be taken to support the
  Millennium Development Goals. You and your
  community group can organize your activities
  around a particular Quick Win that is meaningful
  to you follow your passion.
• Ideas
• Supplying anti-malarial bednets
• Raise money for books educational equipment

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What One Can Do

• Socially and environmentally responsible thinking
  and living
• Be willing to pay more for luxuries likecoffee
  and chocolate and other foods. Look for the
  Fair Trade symbol
• Certifies that the item is produced in an
  environmentally sustainable way, that the grower
  is receiving sustainedfair prices, and that
  slave, child and/or sweatshop laboris not used
• Purchase organic products
• Certifies that item contains 95 organic
  ingredients and produced without conventional
  fertilizers or synthetic pesticides and use
  sustainable and environmentally-friendly
  agricultural methods.

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What One Can Do

• Socially and environmentally responsible thinking
  and living
• Drive less
• Leaving the car at home once a week prevent 55
  pounds of air pollution each year from being
  emitted into our environment
• Combine errands to save on number of trips
• Cold engines pollute up to five times more than
  warm ones
• Take public transit.
• Bay Area is served by a number of transit
  agencies
• Most major events are served by public
  transportation options
• Call 511 or visit 511.org for information on how
  local transit can get you where you're going

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What one can do

• Socially and environmentally responsible thinking
  and living
• Telecommute
• Just one day a week makes a difference, saving
  over a pound of pollution
• Encourage your employer to support full-time
  telecommuting if your job only needs face-to-face
  meetings occasionally
• Telecommuting may become mandated in some states,
  including California
• Refuel in the evening and never top off
• Putting gas into your vehicle releases Volatile
  Organic Compounds (VOCs) into the air. Throughout
  the day, these VOCs mix with oxides of nitrogen
  (NOx) in the air, "cook" in the summer heat, and
  form ground-level ozone. Refueling in the evening
  decreases the opportunity for VOCs to form into
  ozone.

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What one can do

• Socially and environmentally responsible thinking
  and living
• Responsible use of chemical products
• Avoid consumer spray products which add 50 tons
  of pollution to the Bay Area environment each day
• Aerosol products include hairspray, furniture
  polish, cooking sprays, bathroom cleaners, air
  fresheners, antiperspirants, insecticides, and
  hobby craft sprays. Consider solids, sticks, and
  gels instead.
• Use water-based paints oil-based paints contain
  high percentage of VOCs that evaporate into the
  atmosphere and create smog.
• It's OK to barbecue, but DON'T USE LIGHTER
  FLUID!Lighter fluid literally goes up in smoke,
  causing a half-ton of smog each day in the Bay
  Area. Use an electric or a chimney briquette
  starter instead- you'll actually get a faster
  start.
• Do your garden chores gasoline-free. Gas lawn
  mower produces as much pollution as 40 new cars
  in one hour. On Spare the Air days, don't use
  gasoline-powered equipment like leaf blowers and
  chain saws. Put off lawn care for a day or two
  until the air is cleaner - then get a good
  workout by pushing that trusty, old hand mower!

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What One Can Do

• Socially and environmentally responsible thinking
  and living
• Recycle hazardous waste instead of flushing down
  drains or toilets
• This includes expired pills and other
  pharmaceuticals
• Harvest rainwater to use for gardening and other
  uses
• Reduce energy use and use eco-friendly sources
  for power that you do use
• Purchase Carbon Offsets to compensate for
  resources that you consume
• Talk to your broker/financial advisor about
  making socially responsible investments

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What One Can Do

• Advocate
• Write or make an appointment with your political
  representatives
• Tell them that you support the Millennium
  Development Goals and the Millennium Project's
  recommendations for achieving them.
• Write letters to local newspapers
• Send a letter to the editor to help you reach a
  larger audience of people. The web site of
  www.results.org has a number of useful tools that
  can be adapted to help you target both
  politicians and media outlets in your own
  country.
• Encourage your employer to embrace principles of
  Corporate Social Responsibility

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What One Can Do

• Advocate
• Join existing networks
• Many large organizations are already working on
  poverty issues, and supporting them is one way to
  build support for the Goals.
• Join the Episcopal Public Policy Network and the
  ONE Campaign

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What the Bible says

• Then the king will say to those at his right
  hand, Come, you that are blessed by my Father,
  inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
  foundation of the world for I was hungry and you
  gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me
  something to drink, I was a stranger and you
  welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me
  clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I
  was in prison and you visited me.
• Matthew 2534-36

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Where is home for you?

• The home we ultimately seek is found in
  relationship with creator, with redeemer, with
  spirit our natural home is in God
• That vision of homegoing and homecoming that
  underlies our deepest spiritual yearnings is also
  the job assignment each one of us gets in baptism
  - go home, and while you're at it, help to build
  a home for everyone else on earth
• You and I have been invited into that ministry
  of global peace-making that makes a place and
  affirms a welcome for all of God's creatures

From Presiding Bishop Katharines Investiture
homily 11/4/2006
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Where is home for you?

• This church has said that our larger vision will
  be framed and shaped in the coming years by the
  vision of shalom embedded in the Millennium
  Development Goals - a world where the hungry
  are fed, the ill are healed, the young
  educated, women and men treated equally, and
  where all have access to clean water and adequate
  sanitation, basic health care, and the promise
  of development that does not endanger the rest of
  creation.
• That vision of abundant life is achievable in our
  own day, but only with the passionate commitment
  of each and every one of us. It is God's vision
  of homecoming for all humanity.

From Presiding Bishop Katharines Investiture
homily 11/4/2006
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Groundwork by GC2006

• As of 11/2006, 74 of 111 (66) dioceses had
  embraced the Millennium Development Goals and
  0.7 giving. The General Convention challenged
  all dioceses to commit 0.7 giving by July 7,
  2007.
• El Camino Real is not one of them
• General Convention issued a challenge to every
  department and funded mission and ministry of the
  Episcopal Church to give 0.7 of their money
  toward the MDGs.
• A pledge by all members of Program, Budget and
  Finance to give 0.7 of their personal incomes
  toward the MDGs challenged to all bishops and
  deputies to do the same.
• A line item representing more than 0.7 of the
  budget for the Episcopal Church has been
  dedicated to supporting the MDGs, and an
  additional 1,326,000 in new and increased
  mission funds were identified that support the
  MDGs.

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The Episcopal Church and MDGs

• Three organizations engaged in cooperative,
  complementary efforts
• The ONE Episcopalian Campaignwww.episcopalchurc
  h.org/ONE
• Partnership between Episcopal Church and and the
  ONE campaign (www.one.org) to rally Episcopalians
  ONE by ONE to the cause
• The ONE campaign is a a coalition of 2 million
  people and over 70 non-profit, advocacy and
  humanitarian organizations that advocates that
  the U.S. government allocate an additional 1 of
  its budget toward the MDGs over the 0.7
  originally pledged by all UN signatories

The ONE Episcopalian campaign is sponsored by
Episcopal Public Policy Network (EPPN) the
advocacy arm of the Episcopal Churchs MDG
efforts
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The Episcopal Church and MDGs

• Three organizations engaged in cooperative,
  complementary efforts
• Episcopalians for Global Reconciliationwww.e4gr.o
  rg
• Works with every level of the church connecting,
  educating, encouraging, providing resources and
  empowering ministry for the MDGs
• EGR is not a granting agency, nor do we do any
  direct development work. Instead, we Encourage
  MDG-related ministries and promote the work of
  ERD, ONE and any effort aimed at effectively
  engaging this mission.
• A primary way EGR invites the Church to engage
  the MDGs at every level is through 0.7 giving

EGR is the education arm of the Episcopal
Churchs MDG efforts, focusing on the power of
What One Can Do
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The Episcopal Church and MDGs

• Three organizations engaged in cooperative,
  complementary efforts
• Episcopal Relief and Developmentwww.er-d.org
• Emergency assistance and long-term solutions
• All programs are designed and assessed in part by
  how well they address the MDGs.
• If you want to make a gift in support of the
  MDGs, making a donation to ERD is a good way to
  do that

ER-D is the action arm of the Episcopal
Churchs MDG efforts
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For more information

• Most links in this presentation are are gathered
  on the diocesan website at www.edecr.org/mdg.htm
• Linked from diocesan main web page (see left
  navigation menu)
• Includes link to MDG Toolkit on the E4GR site,
  http//www.e4gr.org/resources/mdgtoolkit.html

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• Appendices / Backup Slides

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Pray for an End to Poverty

• Most loving God, your concern for the poor is
  unrelenting - draw our concern into yours your
  compassion for the poor is limitless - draw our
  compassion into yours as you long for justice,
  may we also strive for it.
• Forgive our doubt, forgive our neglect. Open our
  eyes to structures of oppression and free us from
  apathy and indifference.
• Give us courage to accept our responsibility,
  wisdom to chart a sound course amid complexity,
  perseverance to finish our work, and the gift of
  your Spirit to do what alone we cannot do. So
  may we serve to the honor and glory of your Name
  and the wellbeing of your beloved people
  throughout the world. Amen.

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Prayer for those with AIDS/HIV

• In the Anglican Cycle of Prayer, we observe World
  AIDS Day on December 1
• Merciful God,we remember before you all who are
  sick this day, and especially all persons with
  AIDS or HIV infection. Give them courage to live
  with their disease.  Help them to face and
  overcome their fears.  Be with them when they
  are alone or rejected. Comfort them when they
  are discouraged.And touch them with your healing
  Spirit that they may find and possess eternal
  life, now and forever.Amen.
• Taken from The Mothers' Union, Living
  Positively, "Prayers and Reflections

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What the Bible says

• And you shall hallow the fiftieth year and you
  shall proclaim liberty throughout the land to all
  its inhabitants what was sold shall remain with
  the purchaser until the year of jubilee in the
  jubilee it shall be released, and the property
  shall be returned.
• Leviticus 2510 28
• But love your enemies, do good, and lend,
  expecting nothing in return. Your reward will be
  great, and you will be children of the Most High
  for he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.
• Luke 635

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What the Bible says

• The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has
  anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He
  has sent me to proclaim release to the captives
  and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the
  oppressed go free
• Luke 418
• Do not be conformed to this world, but be
  transformed by the renewing of your minds, so
  that you may discern what is the will of Godwhat
  is good and acceptable and perfect.
• Romans 122

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The Shakertown Pledge

• 1.) I declare myself a world citizen
• 2.) I commit myself to lead an ecologically sound
  life.
• 3.) I commit myself to lead a life of creative
  simplicity and to share my personal wealth with
  the world's poor.
• 4.)I commit myself to join with others in the
  reshaping of institutions in order to bring about
  a more just global society in which all people
  have full access to the needed resources for
  their physical, emotional, intellectual, and
  spiritual growth.
• 5.)I commit myself to occupational
  accountability, and so doing I will seek to avoid
  the creation of products which cause harm to
  others.
• 6.) I affirm the gift of my body and commit
  myself to its proper nourishment and physical
  wellbeing.
• 7.) I commit myself to examine continually my
  relations with others and to attempt to relate
  honestly, morally, and lovingly to those around
  me.
• 8.) I commit myself to personal renewal through
  prayer, meditation, and study.
• 9.) I commit myself to responsible participation
  in a community of faith.

Written in a town near Lexington, KY which was
connected to the Shaker Movement, 4/30/1973