On May 17, Saint Mary's School in Raleigh held its 167th Commencement exercises. Following time-honored ritual, graduates, faculty, family and friends looked back at accomplishments before looking ahead. One endeavor in particular stood out as an example of the past informing the present and future: the Millennium Development Goals-focused Nets for Life.
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In 2008, the Diocese of North Carolina's Millennium Development Goals Subcommittee awarded global missions grants totaling $28,000. This money was divided between eight organizations whose work addresses one or more of the
Goals. Learn all about the grantees here...
In 2006 that the Episcopal Church Women of the Diocese of NC committed to helping achieve the Millennium Development Goals, which, as the Rev. Mike Kinman, Executive Director of Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation, explains, "are a part of the larger work of Christ drawing the whole world to himself, bringing wholeness to all that has been broken and, life by life, fulfilling the dream God has for all humanity."
The MDG Subcommittee of the diocese's Chartered Committee for Global Missions announces that grant applications for projects related to the Millennium Development Goals are now being accepted.
The application deadline for the next granting cycle is April 1, 2009.
More information, including grant criteria, is here...
Learn more about how individuals and entire congregations "marched" with the bishops during the Lambeth Conference...
MDG #1 - Cut in half the proportion of people (starting at the 1990 proportion) whose income amounts to less than a dollar a day, and who suffer from hunger.
Matthew 25: "I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me."
The
Millennium Development Goals Committee encourages all congregations in the
Diocese of North Carolina to take part in the Bread for the World 2008 Offering of
Letters. Get the details here.
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The U2charist is a communion worship service in the Episcopal tradition that encourages participants to rally around the Millennium Development Goals by focusing on the music of the Irish rock band, U2. The music of U2 is full of faith-filled messages about global reconciliation, justice for the poor and oppressed, and caring for all God's children. To see how U2charists in the Diocese of North Carolina are calling people to a deeper faith and engagement with God's mission, click here.
"Together we can." Learn more here... 
