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The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) form a blueprint for response to the main development challenges of the world's poorest countries by 2015. The goals, committed to by all members of the United Nations in 2000, have inspired a unique partnership of governments and civil society and faith-based communities. Along with others in the Anglican Communion, the Episcopal Church U.S.A. has made the MDGs a key focus. In fact, the Episcopal Church has raised up the MDGs as a mission orientation.
Katharine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of ECUSA, defines the Church's first priority as "the kind of deed-based evangelism that shows the world the good news of God's love through the actions of Christians. We cannot speak much in the way of good news to people who are starving or dying of preventable disease or living in slums." She adds that the work of achieving the MDGs is "intimately wrapped up in the promises we make in the baptismal covenant to engage in God's mission."
For updates on worldwide progress toward achievement of the MDGs, click here.
