Applications for Global Mission Grants applications are due in November and the Grants are awarded in June. The application form is available here.
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The Millennium Development Goals
An invitation to live the Gospel
"For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me [...] Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me." Matthew 25:35-36, 40b
Applications for Global Mission Grants applications are due in November and the Grants are awarded in June. The application form is available here.
How the Diocese of Maryland Supports the MDGs
2011 Grants
The 2011 grants fund four different projects.
The Church of the Transfiguration in Braddock Heights requested funds to help construct a health care facility. The 2011 grant will total $7170. in 2010 the Diocese gave a grant f to educate young people in this area of southern Uganda. To learn more about this ministry in Nyakishenyi, contact Judy Wilson at Transfiguration.
The Diocese's grant of $4800 will supply the women of Opac with the following: 1) a 2-kilogram package of cash crop seeds (hybrid sunflower that grow fast so can be planted after soybeans that enrich the soil for maximum harvest and financial return; 2) 15 tree seedlings per farmer to plant in order to protect the soil against erosion and loss of moisture, and to help fight global warming in this semi-arid region; and 3) lessons in best practices for planting, growing, and harvesting for maximum yield and then for budgeting well the proceeds of their sale.
Christ Church in Columbia brought the Christian Care foundation for Children with Disablitlies in Thailand's work to the committee. We will support their education and rehabitation care with a grant of $8375 in 2011. This grant will fund one teacher and one physical therapist for a year.
Ghanian Mothers' Hope build St. Paul's primay school with a grant from UTO. The grant covered construction of the school but not toilet facilities. The 2011 grant of $3000 will enable the construction of toilet facilities for the 325 children attending the school.
We urge every person and congregation in the diocese to support these projects, both by remembering them in prayer and with financial contributions. Money can be sent to the diocese, marked Globabl Mission/MDG on the memo line, or directly to any of the sponsoring churches.
Applications for Global Mission Grants applications are due in November and the Grants are awarded in June. The application form is available here.
Information about grants made in previous years can be found here
The Diocesan Christian Formation program, during Lent, sponsors Christian education and outreach programs linking Lenten practice with education about the MDGs.
The 2010 Project was "Sunflowers for Opac." We collected
$9,225.84 "seed" money for the women of the Ochan Self-Help Alliance in Uganda.
The 2009 Lenten Project was "Nets for Life" in cooperation with Episcopal Relief and Development. Nets for Life provides insecticide dipped nets to protect sleeping families from malaria. We collected over $10,000 enough for to send nearly 1000 nets to Africa.
In 2008 we collected for Bread for Itipini, a project to supply the children of Itipini in South Africa with their afterschool snack of bread for at least a year.
In 2007, the children collected over $11,000 through Pennies for the Playground for a playground
and water pump at the Ghanaian Mothers' Hope preschool in Akramaman, Ghana.
Around the Diocese - Supporting the MDGs in parishes and by individuals
Support for the MDGs comes not only from the Diocese through its budget but many parishes also contribute as a line item in their budget or through Outreach work and funding. Many individual Maryland Episcopalians give both money and skills to support sustainable development. click here for a list of what is happening in support of the MDGs around the Diocese.
Let us know what your congregation is doing and what your parishioners are doing. Send an email to Madeleine+ with the information.
The Diocese of Maryland encourages all congregations, regional councils, organizations, and individuals to support the MDGs. People often do not realize how little money 0.7% is. 0.7% is $280 of an income of $40,000 and $1050 of an income of $150,000.
The Global Mission Committee will provide speakers from the Committee or from the grantees for adult forums or other presentations around the Diocese. To arrange for a speaker, contact Madeleine+.
Episcopalians and Episcopal Churches that join in learning about and funding the MDGs are invited to be part of the Episcopal Church's ONE Episcopalian™ campaign. Urge your congregation to become a ONE Congregation.
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