Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation
ONE Sunday: Is your congregation participating? Let us know.
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ONE Sunday is a day each year on which congregations pray for and commit to common action toward an end to global poverty. With text from the Episcopal Church's Office of Government Relations, Episcopal Life Weekly bulletin inserts for Nov. ...
Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation
New UN projects seek to speed up progress on global anti-poverty goals: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?Ne
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“This is an incredible opportunity to think more strategically about how, working together, we can accelerate progress on the MDGs and the other goals which loom large in nations’ development strategies,” ...
Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation God’s call to us has not changed: we are to be the Body of Christ in bold and powerful ways in worship, praise, and service – particularly among those who have the least.
Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation
All across the church, Diocesan Conventions are happening. Is your Diocese a part of giving 0.7%? http://www.e4gr.org/egr07.html
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EGR has launched its “Recommit 0.7%” campaign – an effort to mobilize the EGR community to act and raise its voice in these budget processes, encouraging a recommitment to 0.7% giving ...
Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation (part 3) ...And may God bless you with enough foolishness to believe that you can make a difference in this world, so that you can do what others claim cannot be done. Amen, let it be so, amen.
Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation (part 2) May God bless you with tears to shed for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, and war, so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain into joy.
Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation A benediction to help us move through our day today (part 1): May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart. May God bless you with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people, so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace. http://bit.ly/3Ajvbu
Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation Government support in the fight against poverty is crucial. Yet the year [of travel and observation] taught us never to sit back and rely on such commitments. Our politicians, in the final analysis, will follow our lead, not vice versa. - Jeffrey Sachs, from his book The End of Poverty
Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation "Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him,“Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead." —James 2:15-17 What is the Spirit saying to you today?
Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation Most loving God, your concern for the poor is unrelenting, draw our concern into yours; Your compassion for the poor is limitless, draw our compassion into yours ...
Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation Let us pray: "The world now has the means to end extreme poverty, we pray we will have the will."
Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation
From Episcopal Life - "ENGLAND: Archbishop welcomes the work of microfinance charity, Five Talents" Craig Cole, EGR Board Member, is the Executive Director of Five Talents!
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Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and a priest from Southern Sudan Oct. 29 promoted the benefits of microfinance for the poor through the work of the charity Five Talents.
Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation Most loving God, Open our eyes to structures of oppression and free us from apathy and indifference. (from the EGR Prayer)
Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation
YAY! A hearty congrats to EGR Board Vice Chair, Rev. Dr. Ian T. Douglas for being elected to serve the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut as its 15th diocesan bishop. http://www.ctdiocese.org/News/newsView.a
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The Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut, 1335 Asylum Ave, Hartford CT 06105; 860-233-4481www.ctdiocese.org (Diocesan website) and www.ctbishopelection.com (nominee website)Contact: Karin Hamilton, director for communication & media, 860-608-6969, editor@ctdiocese.org
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From the Sojourners email today:
Almighty God, you have blessed us with the joy and care of
children. Give us calm strength and patient wisdom to reach out
to those who are most in need, for those who are homeless and in
poverty, for those who for whatever reason cannot enjoy the
joyful life that children ought to experience.
- Adapted from the Book of Common
Prayer
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