This past Diocesan Convention we voted to endorse the Millennium Development Goals. Some people may however not know anything about the Millennium Development Goals. The National Church is putting out a series of bulletins set to begin this Sunday - Jan 7 - highlighting the MDGs. The following is a section from the email that ENS (Episcopal News Service) sent out this morning regarding the series. The series has installments for the Sundays from January 7 to March 11.
The inserts, available in either English
(http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_11775_ENG_HTM.htm) or Spanish
(http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_80604_ENG_HTM.htm)
First among the mission priorities that the Episcopal Church adopted
(http://gc2006.org/legislation/view_leg_detail.aspx?id=261&type=CURRENT)
at its General Convention in June 2006 is justice and peace work,
framed by the MDGs -- an eight-prong declaration that has at its core
the eradication of extreme poverty by the target date of 2015.
"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," Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said during
her November 4 investiture sermon
(http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_79214_ENG_HTM.htm). "That vision
of abundant life is achievable in our own day, but only with the
passionate commitment of each and every one of us."
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