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Please consider a tax deductible donation to EGR. Your gift helps to sustain training and leadership development projects, as well as the sharing of educational and liturgical resources about the MDGs. Can YOU commit? We need your donations now! Please consider a monthly donation.

Board and Staff News

EGR is pleased to welcome Rena Turnham as our new Director of Communications and Administration. Rena comes to EGR with a marketing background, parish leadership experience, and a desire to help the church stay focused and committed to the MDGs. Contact Rena at: renaturnham@e4gr.org.

Congratulations to EGR Vice President the Rt. Rev. Dr. Ian Douglas, recently consecrated bishop of Connecticut and to EGR Board Member the Rev. Canon Timothy Boggs, new Provost of Washington National Cathedral.

MDG Resources for Children and Youth

EGR recommends: Abwenzi Means Friends: A Child's Exploration of the Millennium Development Goals . This is a six-session curriculum (with Leader’s Guide) for children ages 7-10 (though it can be modified for children younger or older). Call Church Publishing's Customer Service number at: 1-800-242-1918 or on-line at the Episcopal Bookstore

Also of interest is Cyber School Bus, which is available through http://cyberschoolbus.un.org
Here, underneath the right-side banner “Curriculum” there is a list of MDG topics which include lesson plans and educational materials. Particularly strong are the sections on “poverty” and “world hunger.”

Open During Renovations

If EGR has seemed quiet of late you should know that underneath the surface is a flurry of activity. We at EGR have been busy working to establish structures and systems to better equip us to communicate and build an even more effective MDG movement over the long haul. We now have a shiny new staff, donated office space, and an ultra-cool data base. We are building a new web site from the ground-up, redesigning our branding, look and ways of communicating -- and all this while launching MDG organizing projects around the country. We are grateful for your patience while we reorganized. Please join us as we reemerge and let us know what’s going on with MDGs in your diocese and how we can partner with you to grow and deepen your prophetic ministry.

Call for Liturgical Contributions

YOU are invited by Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation to contribute to a new open-access resource of liturgical materials focused on global mission and the eight Millennium Development Goals.

We are looking for submissions in several categories: prayers and litanies, hymns and songs, sermon resources, non-scriptural material (poetry, treasured quotations, inspiring reflections), opening and closing sentences, liturgies for special times in the church year (Holy Week, the Advent Season, MDG Sunday etc.) Editors are: Rev. Canon Timothy Boggs (Provost - Washington National Cathedral), Bishop Jeffery Rowthorn (Liturgist and hymn-writer), Rev. Canon Debbie Shew (Diocese of Atlanta). All three are members of the EGR Board.

Please send your contributions to: Devon Anderson, Executive Director, EGR,1730 Clifton Place, Suite 201,Minneapolis, Minnesota 55403 or devonanderson@e4gr.org. Please indicate the source where your contribution can be found and, if copyrighted, please indicate to whom EGR can turn for permission to use it.

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Welcome to Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation’s News and Events action bulletin.

God is doing some exciting new things through EGR this fall and winter. Here are some highlights:

We have launched our new EGR Organizing Institute through two major diocesan initiatives. Each project will mobilize new and equipped leadership around measurable, MDG-related goals and are designed as pilot projects open to people from other dioceses who would like to learn more.

This month world leaders will gather at the UN MDG Summit (September 20-22, 2010) to recommit themselves to “global, results-oriented action” in meeting the MDGs in their remaining five years. EGR will join the charge with “One Prophetic Voice” so YOU can stand-up for the MDGs and revitalize your diocesan and congregational passion for the MDGs.

A soon-to-be-launched EGR Communications Initiative, including new branding, an updated look that conveys our “organizing for action” direction, a ground-up web site, and dynamic methods for EGR to stay connected to YOU.

Please join EGR in mobilizing your diocese and faith community toward 0.7% giving, and relational, effective action through the MDGs. With over a billion people in extreme poverty disproportionately affected by the economic downturn, it’s time to accelerate our church’s participation in making these Goals a reality. The Episcopal Church is clearly called through the Gospel and our General Convention resolutions to be a prophetic, action-oriented force in the MDG movement. Join EGR in equipping the church to successfully translate its belief and Gospel-call into action.

Rev. Devon Anderson, Executive Director devonanderson@e4gr.org

Announcing EGR's Organizing Institute

EGR is proud to announce the launch of two innovative organizing initiatives which inaugurate its new Organizing Institute. And we invite you to join us and check them out.

EGR’s Organizing Institute is our innovative answer to the challenges of realizing ambitious Millennium Development Goals in the current economic climate. The Organizing Institute embraces the following ideals:

Measurable action is what the MDG movement needs at this point in its life cycle. With five years remaining until the 2015 deadline to achieve the MDGs, the Episcopal Church can be a model to the world in setting measurable goals around global mission, and training the leadership needed to achieve them.

This month the eyes of the world will turn to New York City for the UN Summit on MDGs (September 20-22, 2010). The goal of the Summit is to devise an agreed-upon “global, results-oriented action plan” for accelerating progress toward the Goals in the remaining five years of the MDG effort. Summit participants will examine successes, discuss continuing challenges, and study lessons learned as a foundation for then renewing commitments, galvanizing coordinated action among all stakeholders, and eliciting the funding needed to achieve the Goals.

Similarly, EGR is calling upon the Episcopal Church to claim this moment as an opportunity to celebrate its MDG successes up to this point, renew our collective commitment to 0.7% giving at all levels of the church, and refocus our efforts on results-oriented action in the coming five years.

EGR is offering two ways Episcopalians can renew, recommit, and refocus on action: through participation in our new EGR Organizing Institute and through our One Prophetic Voice Campaign.

Through our One Prophetic Voice Campaign, EGR invites every Episcopalian to make one public, prophetic witness that calls others to action in support of the MDGs between the start of the UN MDG Summit on September 20 and the beginning of Advent.

Here’s how it works. First, decide. Decide that you will make one prophetic statement in support of MDGs between now and Advent. Second, prepare. Click on the link below and take advantage of the tool kit full of resources designed to help you craft your statement. Third, register with EGR. Let us know the venue and when you’ll be making your statement, and – if possible – the text of what you will say or write so we can publish it. Fourth, be a prophet. Raise awareness in your area of ministry and call others to renewed commitment around the MDGs.

Click here for EGR’s “One Prophetic Voice” campaign

Click here for more information on the UN Summit on MDGs

EGR's Shared Purpose

The Gospel holds out the promise of transformed lives, a just nation, a healed world and a restored earth. In response, Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation is a Christ-centered movement within the Episcopal Church working for a fair economy and the eradication of extreme poverty through the Millennium Development Goals.