Here is a gem of information from my counterparts in Texas. They did a great job creating a central hub for info and it is worth sharing. The MDG's are very important to this Diocese and it is nice to see work being done in other Dioceses as well.
July 8th has been designated Millennium Development Goals Sunday in the Episcopal Church celebrating the mid-point of the UN's MDG goal to reduce extreme poverty in the world by 2015.
Materials to celebrate a special Millennium Development Goals Sunday include a complete worship service with sermon and prayers of the people, bulletin inserts and background information. Curriculum for children and youth are also included with PowerPoint presentations of MDGs and another with an MDG atlas from the World Bank. God's Mission in the World, a study guide provided by the Episcopal Church Office of Government Relations was used for adult curriculum.
These materials are available for your use on July 8 or at any other time. They were prepared by the Diocese of Texas and are available at:
http://www.epicenter.org/images/edot/MGD/MDGContents.pdf
The link is dead, and the information (if it is there at all) has been buried so deeply in the arcane structure of the website that a reasonable person couldn't find it. Typical of EDoT. To see what they really think about the MDGs take a look at this article in the Texas Episcopalian: http://www.epicenter.org/edot/NewsBot.asp?MODE=VIEW&ID=272&SnID=1794287038
ReplyDeleteSad but true.
Linda McMillan
Linda,
ReplyDeleteI'm suspect the broken link is nothing more sinister than a corrected filename. I did a quick Google search, and found this:
www.epicenter.org/images/edot/MDG/MDGContents.pdf
As for the article you list -- at the risk of being an ECUSA contrarian -- I think the author raises some useful questions. I don't agree with all of his points, but it is worth asking questions about the prevailing all-MDGs-all-the-time milieu in our church. It's not the MDGs that will save the world. God is our salvation. The MDGs just remind us of one part of our baptismal life, and they provide a framework for what we should have been doing to alleviate poverty all along. We shouldn't lose sight of the rest: worship, prayer, and study are vital, as the author says.
Just my own $.02.
Pax,
Scott