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RSSThe Episcopal Church and the MDGs
“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 the Investiture Sermon of The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop and Primate, The Episcopal Church, November 2006
The Episcopal Church has committed itself to working towards achieving the MDGs. At the 74th General Convention in 2003, the Episcopal Church formally endorsed the MDGs. In 2006, at the 75th Convention, the Church voted to make the MDGs a mission priority. The Church also established a budget line item of 0.7% to support the achievement of the MDGs, and has encouraged all dioceses to pledge a minimum of their budget to ministries focused on the MDGs.
Learn what the Episcopal Relief & Development, along with the Episcopal Church’s ONE Episcopalian campaign and Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation, have to say about the success of the MDGs.
