Why do you let homeless people and refugees stay with you?

Why do the local kids hang out with wadjalas (white fellas) like you?

Why were you on the news peacefully protesting?

Why do you have time for me when no one else does?

Why do you volunteer in the community permaculture garden when the food often gets taken?

The challenge for youth pastors is the challenge of hearing Jesus say, “Follow me”; to lose our lives in living God’s love.

http://blog.sojo.net/2009/02/11/jesus-and-justice-always-kiss-a-plea-to-youth-pastors-making-out-with-empire/

CWS, the official development, justice and aid agency of New Zealand churches is holding its annual appeal. This year it focuses on CWS partners overseas that help there communities survive through conflict. Poverty causes conflicts and conflict worsens poverty. Most of the victims of conflict are civilians, many of them women and children.  They face a daily struggle to stay alive, protect their families and earn a living. The support that CWS partners provide brings them hope and enables them to work together for a better future

The CWS Christmas Appeal has been a tradition in New Zealand churches since 1945. Please donate now. See www.cws.org.nz for details or phone 0800 74 73 72

Worship resources available online. Click here

The quiz is run by St. Michael’s Global Mission Group and is raising funds for the Anglicare StopAIDS programme in Papua New Guinea for HIV/AIDS testing, education, counselling and health services.

To raise extra funds, we’re auctioning off a selection of awesome prizes half-way through the quiz. Come prepared with your general knowledge and brainpower to compete in teams of 8 people.

Tickets are $20 each, or if you want to go beyond the call, you can buy a table of 8 and sell the extra tickets to your friends. We’d love to see you there!

E-mail quiz@stmichaels.org.nz, phone (leave a message) / txt 0275 547 714 for tickets or more info.

• 7pm – 9pm, 22nd November 2008

• St Michael’s Church Hall, 83 Upland Rd, Kelburn, Wellington (just before the Kelburn shops)

Youtube video: Anglicare STOPAIDS fights HIV in Papua New Guinea

The quiz is run by St. Michael’s Global Mission Group and is raising funds for the Anglicare StopAIDS programme in Papua New Guinea for HIV/AIDS testing, education, counselling and health services.

To raise extra funds, we’re auctioning off a selection of awesome prizes half-way through the quiz. Come prepared with your general knowledge and brainpower to compete in teams of 8 people.

Tickets are $20 each, or if you want to go beyond the call, you can buy a table of 8 and sell the extra tickets to your friends. We’d love to see you there!

E-mail quiz@stmichaels.org.nz, phone (leave a message) / txt 0275 547 714 for tickets or more info.

• 7pm – 9pm, 22nd November 2008

• St Michael’s Church Hall, 83 Upland Rd, Kelburn, Wellington (just before the Kelburn shops)

Youtube video: Anglicare STOPAIDS fights HIV in Papua New Guinea

]]> http://www.justice.net.nz/news/stopaids-quiz-night-auction/feed/ 0 http://www.justice.net.nz/mission/the-millennium-development-goals-mdgs/ http://www.justice.net.nz/mission/the-millennium-development-goals-mdgs/#comments Tue, 29 May 2007 01:28:09 +0000 Ant http://justice.anglican.org.nz/mission/the-millennium-development-goals-mdgs/ During the Millennium Summit held in New York in September 2000, all 189 UN Member States adopted the Millennium Declaration, which contained a group of goals and targets that have since become known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). These goals, working together, aim to halve poverty by 2015.

The Goals include measurable, time-bound targets addressing poverty and hunger, education, maternal and child health, the prevalence of diseases including HIV/AIDs, gender equality, the environment, debt, trade justice and aid. This article is sourced from the excellent website for the Micah Challenge – a network of which we are a part through Micah NZ. There are some excellent resources available through these sites.

If you would like to read the progress report on the status of the MDGs, you can get it here http://unstats.un.org/.

The Anglican Position

The official position of the Anglican Church is determined through General Synod. For those who are interested, the Anglican Church resolved at the last meeting of its General Synod (2006) to support the MDGs. This means our official position is in active support of these goals.

The Millennium Declaration

The MDGs are derived from the broader “Millennium Declaration” that was signed in 2000 by all UN member states. Please take a moment to scan the Millennium Declaration. It reaffirms values including equality, mutual respect, and shared responsibility for the condition of all peoples. It relates the MDGs to an even a broader context, including peace and human rights. Go to the Millennium Declaration

The Goals

Goal 1: Hunger

• Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than one dollar a day
• Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer from hunger

Goal 2: Ensure access to primary schooling for all children

• Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling

Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women

• Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and to all levels of education no later than 2015

Goal 4: Reduce child mortality

• Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the number of children 5 years old or younger who die from preventable illnesses

Goal 5: Improve maternal health

• Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the number of women who die giving birth

Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases

• Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
• Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria and other major diseases

Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

• Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources
• Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
• By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers

Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development (trade/aid/debt)

• Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, non-discriminatory trading and financial system
• Address the Special Needs of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) [Includes: tariff and quota free access for LDC exports; enhanced programme of debt relief for HIPC and cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous ODA (Overseas Development Assistance) for countries committed to poverty reduction]
• Address the Special Needs of landlocked countries and small island developing States (through the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and the outcome of the 22nd special session of the General Assembly)
• Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term
• In co-operation with developing countries, develop and implement strategies for decent and productive work for youth
• In co-operation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable, essential drugs in developing countries
• In co-operation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications