What One Can Do The Millennium Development Goals, Discipleship and You

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What One Can DoThe Millennium Development Goals,
Discipleship and You
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The Gospel continues
in our stories
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The Gospel continues
in our stories
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The Gospel continues
in our stories
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And entering the tomb, they saw a young man
sitting on the right side, dressed in a white
robe and they were amazed. And he said to them,
Do not be amazed you seek Jesus of Nazareth,
who was crucified. He has risen, he is not here
see the place where they laid him. But go, tell
his disciples and Peter that he is going before
you to Galilee there you will see him, as he
told you. And they went out and fled from the
tomb for trembling and astonishment had come
upon them and they said nothing to anyone, for
they were afraid.
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The Gospel is never finishedThe story
continuesin our stories
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Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ
Jesus,who, though he was in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God as something
to be grasped,but emptied himself, taking the
form of a slave, being born in human
likeness.And being found in human form,he
humbled himself and became obedient to the point
of death -even death on a cross.
-Philippians. 25-8
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You spend a good piece of your life gripping a
baseball, and in the end it turns out it was the
other way around all the time.
- Jim Bouton
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Will we let go of what were grasping and grasp
the opportunity God is offering?
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A snapshot of the world in 2007
More than 800 million people go to bed hungry
every day
Every 3.6 seconds another person dies of
starvation
Every year, 6 million children die from
malnutrition before their 5th birthday
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More than a billion people lack access to clean
water and basic sanitation
5 million people, mostly children, die each year
from water-borne diseases
Every 30 seconds a child dies of malaria
HIV/AIDS kills 6,000 people a day
while infecting 8,200 more
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Civil war and political unrest displace millions
from their homes
Meanwhile
high trade barriers prevent exports from gaining
access to world markets
and weak governments drown in unsustainable debt
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In 2007
famine, drought, disease and war
combine to create unimaginable human suffering
In all, more than 1.2 billion people are living
in extreme poverty
and it doesnt have to be that way
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Will we let go of what were grasping and grasp
the opportunity God is offering?
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The Millennium Development Goals
A vision for the Gospel lived out loud.
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End extreme poverty and hunger
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Send every child to school
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Empowering women
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Reducing child mortality
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Improving maternal health
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Healing the sick
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Clean water for all
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Global Partnerships
between Governments Businesses Churches Individua
ls
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Working together on these Millennium Development
Goals
We meet Christ
We bear Christ
We become Christ
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Will we let go of what were grasping and grasp
the opportunity God is offering?
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We can pray
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We can act through building transforming
relationships
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Building Transforming Relationships The
Churchs Unique Gift
Giftedness-based development
Gospel-based development
Church-based development
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We Can Raise Our Voice!
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One Vote 08 (www.onevote08.org)
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We can educate ourselves and others
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What is .7
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Where do I begin?
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Will we let go of what were grasping and grasp
the opportunity God is offering?
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We are rich
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Want to learn more?
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Person, Congregation and Diocese Can Do, go
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