Micah Challenge
If you thought 50 cents could save a person’s life, would you spend it? If you believed that five minutes of your time could help provide a village with clean water, would you give it? Most of us would answer, “Yes!” to both questions, so now we have an opportunity to do just that with an “Offering of Letters”.
In our church and in churches around Australia, we help fight global hunger, poverty and disease by giving to our church mission program – our support of AAP for example. But as effective as our giving is; and these programs are, the challenges in the world are tremendous, so we need to get the governments of rich and poor countries to do their part also.
The challenges right now are daunting. Around the world one billion people do not have safe water to drink and every year, 11 million children die before their fifth birthday, mainly from preventable diseases. But it does not have to be this way. Poverty is not natural! There is another way!
Now is the time to move forward in our fight against poverty, to address the structures and systems that maintain & sustain poverty. Micah Challenge is a global Christian campaign that urges decision makers, the governments and the powerful, in rich and poor countries to take more responsibility, and asks them to fulfil their promises to the Millenium Development Goals. This year we are asking our government to increase aid to 0.5% by 2010 to meet our fair contribution in halving global poverty by 2015, and to focus aid on poverty reduction. Right now our government spends 0.30% of our federal budget on aid & only 15% of that 0.30% is actually spent on poverty reduction. We can and must do better. Our MPs and Senators respond to their constituents. That’s where the five minutes and 50cents come in – we need to write them letter today! As a church, together – we can take 5 minutes for 0.5%, to raise our voice, and contact our local MPs! Let’s take the Micah Challenge.
If you are in a home group – your leaders will be given a pack on Sunday 1 October with everything you need to write a letter to Tony Abbott, our Federal MP… Write your letter at group this week and bring it back to church next Sunday 8 October for collection. If you’re not in a home group – see me, Jules Shute, at 1830 on Sunday or email me julieanneshute@accsoft.com.au and I’ll send you everything you need! Or visit Micah Challenge website http://www.micahchallenge.org.au
In our church and in churches around Australia, we help fight global hunger, poverty and disease by giving to our church mission program – our support of AAP for example. But as effective as our giving is; and these programs are, the challenges in the world are tremendous, so we need to get the governments of rich and poor countries to do their part also.
The challenges right now are daunting. Around the world one billion people do not have safe water to drink and every year, 11 million children die before their fifth birthday, mainly from preventable diseases. But it does not have to be this way. Poverty is not natural! There is another way!
Now is the time to move forward in our fight against poverty, to address the structures and systems that maintain & sustain poverty. Micah Challenge is a global Christian campaign that urges decision makers, the governments and the powerful, in rich and poor countries to take more responsibility, and asks them to fulfil their promises to the Millenium Development Goals. This year we are asking our government to increase aid to 0.5% by 2010 to meet our fair contribution in halving global poverty by 2015, and to focus aid on poverty reduction. Right now our government spends 0.30% of our federal budget on aid & only 15% of that 0.30% is actually spent on poverty reduction. We can and must do better. Our MPs and Senators respond to their constituents. That’s where the five minutes and 50cents come in – we need to write them letter today! As a church, together – we can take 5 minutes for 0.5%, to raise our voice, and contact our local MPs! Let’s take the Micah Challenge.
If you are in a home group – your leaders will be given a pack on Sunday 1 October with everything you need to write a letter to Tony Abbott, our Federal MP… Write your letter at group this week and bring it back to church next Sunday 8 October for collection. If you’re not in a home group – see me, Jules Shute, at 1830 on Sunday or email me julieanneshute@accsoft.com.au and I’ll send you everything you need! Or visit Micah Challenge website http://www.micahchallenge.org.au
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