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TEXAS: Diocese set to celebrate MDGs midway point

[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Diocese of Texas is celebrating July 8 as the mid-point of the Millennium Development Goals' (MDGs) objective to reduce extreme poverty in the world by 2015.

The actual midpoint is July 7, 2007 (07-07-07) and the diocese has developed materials to celebrate a special Millennium Development Goals Sunday the following day.

The materials include a complete worship service with sermon and prayers of the people, bulletin inserts and background information. Curriculum for children and youth are also included with PowerPoint presentations of MDGs and another with an MDG atlas from the World Bank. "God's Mission in the World," a study guide produced jointly between the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, was used for adult curriculum.

The Texas materials are available here.

In addition to Texas' celebration, the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in 2006, via Resolution D022 "encouraged parishes, missions, congregations, and dioceses to designate the Last Sunday after Pentecost (November 25 this year), or such days as may be designated ecumenically for commendation of the MDGs, as special days of prayer, fasting and giving in The Episcopal Church toward global reconciliation and the Millennium Development Goals."

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