“Give bread to those who are hungry, and a hunger for justice for those who have bread.”
"and she wrapped him in swaddling clothes..."
©2006 Laura Fisher Smith
Give your "stimulus check" 4 Good!
The Rev. Mike Kinman
Executive Director
Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation
It's time for an intervention.
Our economy is based on unsustainable overconsumption. And now, we're being sent checks and told the answer is to spend even more.
Meanwhile, more than a billion people live on less than $1 a day.
It's insanity. And it's time to make a stand. Time to put our treasure where our heart is. Time to choose compassion over consumption.
It's time to Give It 4 Good.
Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation invites you to become part of a movement for economic sanity and moral accountability.
Join others across the nation and give 100%, 10% or even 0.7% of next month's so-called "economic stimulus" check to an organization of your choice working to acheive the Millennium Development Goals.
Just visit www.giveit4good.org to find out how.
At www.giveit4good.org, you'll also find resources for deciding where to give, advocacy actions, how to spread the word, resources for starting conversations about consumerism in your congregation and family ... and much more.
Once you've taken the pledge, spread the word. Email your friends and family and tell them you have taken this important step. Let the people at the nonprofit you have designated know so they can encourage others to Give It 4 Good. Put a button on your website and a flier in your congregation.
Go to the site. Take the pledge. Then keep checking back to see who has Given it 4 Good, how much has been given and where the money is going to Make Poverty History.
What can ONE person do?
Myra Kingsley
Diocesan MDG Committee
"Who will care for me? Who will be my family"? These were the poignant words spoken by Gabriel Kuaney a "lost boy" from the Sudan, who spoke at a Millennium Development Goals workshop in December at Trinity Cathedral, Phoenix about his experience of being torn from his family and home by war. In those basic questions, Gabriel summed up the message and the hope for the MDGs.
Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefforts Schori has said that the church's larger vision will be framed and shaped in the coming years by a vision of shalom, a Hebrew word for peace, a peace that is embedded in the MDGs - 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 a promise of development that does not endanger the rest of creation.
Continued at: http://www.azdiocese.org/dfc/newsdetail_2/291
What can ONE person do?
The Rev. Jeremy M. Warnick
St. Mark's, Mesa
The theme of the 47th Annual Convention of the Diocese of Arizona was "Into the Regions Beyond." The focus was on the United Nations Millennium Development Goals and The Episcopal Church's call to respond to these eight mission priorities. Woven throughout the Convention was the call to embrace the power of ONE.
Continued at: http://www.azdiocese.org/dfc/newsdetail_2/277
The MDGS as adopted by the United Nations and the Episcopal Church at national and diocesan levels:
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The purpose of the Diocesan Millenium Development Goals Committee is to:
- Educate the people of the diocese about the MDGs
- Advocate for the giving of time, talent and treasure on behalf of the MDGs
- Mobilize and support parishes in their continuing efforts on behalf of the MDGs
For more information please go to the The Episcopal Relief and Development Millenium Development Goals Inspiration Fund site.
- a Powerpoint presentation
- a Document listing other MDG resources
- a quick fact sheet about the MDG goals
- a quick fact sheet about the MDG goals
Or check out our:
Diocesan MDG resource repository
