Millennium Development Goals

 What Can You
and
Your
Congregation
Do to Help?

1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.
2. Achieve universal primary education.
3. Promote gender equality and empower women.
4. Reduce child mortality.
5. Improve maternal health.
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.
7. Ensure environmental sustainability.
8. Develop a global partnership for development.

Pray.

Give to organizations and projects of your choice.

Create bulletin boards in your church to promote and educate the MDGs.

Build awareness about clean water and nutrition and its effects on child mortality.

Recycle, limit consumption of plastic and paper.

Volunteer at a local food bank, soup kitchen, or homeless shelter.

Offer an 8 week study on each of the MDGs.

Share your ideas and experience with others.

Central Baptist Church Story

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Virginia has joined the global campaign known as The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which are a commitment to eradicate poverty in our world.

Contributing to The Millennium Development Goals is a practical and focused way in which we as individuals, a congregation, and a fellowship can join in the great work of eradicating poverty within our lifetime.

In this campaign, we join with many other people of good will and of different faith traditions to accomplish this grand goal. As Christians, we pursue these good works not just for the sake of doing good, but in obedience to the call of our Savior. Our Lord is clear that when we, His followers, ser the needy, the poor, the broken-hearted and the oppressed, we are serving Jesus himself and through our actions proclaim him as Lord.

We call upon each congregation and each Baptist to become familiar with and to seek specific avenues of participating in the MDGs.

(Note: Please do not send contributions to CBFV. Send your contributions directly to the organizations or projects you have selected.)

Share your story of participation with us.

CBF Partnering Resources

Baptist World Aid Projects
The Baptist World Alliance is a fellowship of 211 Baptist unions and conventions comprising a membership of more than 47 million baptized believers. This represents a community of approximately 110 million Baptists ministering in more than 200 countries. The BWA unites Baptists worldwide, leads in world evangelism, responds to people in need and defends human rights. For more information, visit www.bwa.org

CBF Global Missions