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MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). 2000- The United Nations pledged to achieve the eight goals by 2015 2000- General Convention in Denver passed a resolution urging all diocese to educate, advocate and giving 0.7% toward the MDGs

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MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

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  1. MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS

  2. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) • 2000- The United Nations pledged to achieve the eight goals by 2015 • 2000- General Convention in Denver passed a resolution urging all diocese to educate, advocate and giving 0.7% toward the MDGs • 2006- The MDGs were established as a mission priority of the church • 0.7% as a budget line item with 1 Million dollars toward the MDGs

  3. Planet Earth houses 6 billion children of God. One billion of us live in extreme material poverty

  4. The Millennium Development Goals • Eradicate extreme poverty & hunger • Achieve universal primary education • Promote gender equality & empower women • Reduce Child Mortality • Improve the health of mothers • Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases • Ensure environmental stability • Develop global partnerships for development

  5. The MDGs • A Closer Look

  6. goal #1: • Eradicate extreme hunger & poverty • Currently 850 million people live on less than $1/day and over 600 million are hungry • Poverty refers to deprivation

  7. Goal #2: Achieve universal primary education • Today 115 million school-aged children are not in school

  8. Goal #3. Promote gender equality & empower women • 60% of the children out of school are girls

  9. Goal # 4: Reduce child mortality currently a child dies every 3 seconds- that is 10 million children a year!

  10. Goal # 5: Improve maternal health • approximately 500,000 mothers die in childbirth each year.

  11. Goal #6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases • Approximately 42 million people are living with HIV/AIDS • In Africa women between 15 & 24 years old are twice as likely to be infected as men • About 30% of people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide live in southern Africa, an area that is home to just 2% of the world’s population

  12. Goal # 7: Ensure environmental sustainability.Currently 1.1 billion people lack access to a reliable source of water that is reasonably safe from contamination.

  13. Goal # 8: Develop global partnerships for developmentEnable donors, governments, corporations, faith based groups, non-governmental organizations & individuals work together to achieve the MDGs fair trade coffee grown in Chiapas, Mexico

  14. Charity vs Justice

  15. Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life......(Nelson Mandela)

  16. So Now What?

  17. What can ONE person do? • Advocate • Pray • Learn • Give • Connect

  18. Advocate- Jesus said to Pilate, “You say I am King. For this I was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice”. • Be a One Episcopalian- wear the white arm band- www.one.org • Write letters to your legislators- www.bread.org • Oxfam-international lobbying efforts- www.oxfam.org/en/policy • Join the Episcopal Policy Network- www.episcopalchurch.org/eppn • One Vote 08-candidate tracker on candidate positions on poverty & health- www.onevote08org

  19. Pray-Give bread to those are hungry; and a hunger for justice for those who have bread. Amen (South American Table Grace) • The Counting Prayer- www.countingprayers.org - “the world now has the means to end extreme poverty, we pray we will have the will” • Include MDGs in the prayers to the people • Incorporate MDGs into seasonal services & liturgy • www.micahchallenge.org/english/pray/signup to receive weekly emails with prayers & meditation on global poverty

  20. Learn- “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.....and the Word became flesh and dwelt among us” (John 1:1, 14) • Meet & listen to those from other countries, put a human face on the goals • Read- have a book study of the book What Can One Person Do? or other MDG study curriculum • Preach- make sure God’s mission of reconciliation is heard from the pulpit • Travel- do a congregational mission trip. Support youth & young adults’ travel • Surf the Internet- • www.e4gr.org • egrnews@e4gr.org • www.one.org

  21. Give- “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also” (Matthew 6:21) • The Minimum Standard for giving is 0.7%. This number represents the % of the Gross National Product of the rich nations that it will take to achieve the MDGs. Its proportional so anyone can do it. Commit personally to a minimum of 0.7% annual giving for the MDGs, then get your congregation to do it (the Diocese of Arizona and National Church is already there!) What is 0.7%

  22. Connect-“For just as the body is one and has many members,and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the One Spirit we were all baptized into one body”. (1 Corinthians 12:12-13) • *Build transformational Relationships • *Working together to determine gifts and assets of those we serve, discovering together what we each bring to the table • *“Preach the Gospel at all times, if necessary use words”

  23. What can ONE person do? PLENTY!

  24. The Very Rev Nicholas Knisely The Rev John C.N. Hall Tess Cowan DW Robinson The Rev Nadine Martin The Rev Bill Martin The Rev Lucie Thomas The Rev Glen Jenks Tamie Harkins Mandy Hodges Myra Kingsley -for questions or comments please email myra@trinitycathedral.com The Diocese of Arizona MDG Committeehttp://mdg.azdiocese.org/index.html

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