What One Can Do ... Prayer and Worship
Individual Prayer
Even the smallest daily devotions can transform us over time. You're also more likely to stick to a routine of prayer when you start small (hint: Don't go from no prayer life to expecting to do morning, noonday and evening prayer every day!). Consider these ideas for praying the MDGs in daily life:
we pray we will have the will."
Download and print off the prayer card from the website and stick it in your wallet. Whenever you open your wallet and see it, take 4 seconds and pray it.
Counting Prayers is more than one prayer -- it's a movement of prayer. EGR, as a partner in the Counting Prayers movemen asks that every house of worship in every country pledge to say this prayer aloud at every worship service - until the millennium goals are met.
Countingprayers.org will count each prayer, and update the totals on the web daily. You can download the Counting Prayers webcounter here and put it on your church website or personal blog -- and watch the prayers ascend!
Weekly Prayers and Reflections from the Micah Challenge
Every Friday, Regine Nagel of the Micah Challenge, a global Christian campaign to achieve the MDGs, sends out a weekly prayer emailing. You can receive it in your email box every week by sending a blank email to regine.nagel@micahchallenge.org with the words "subscribe prayer" in the subject line.
You can also read the weekly prayer and reflection every Friday on the EGR blog. You can also read the current and archived reflections on the Micah Challenge site.
Congregational Prayer
Prayer transforms communities of faith. Use these resources to incorporate God's mission of global reconciliation into your congregation's prayer life.
General Liturgical Resources
A Worship Kit to Educate and Empower Faith Communities to Build a Prophetic Voice to Address the Crisis of Global Poverty - A resource kit from Sojourners.
Prayers of the People
A Bidding Prayer for an End to Global Poverty and Instability - From the Episcopal Office of Government Relations
Weekly POP inserts for each MDG - courtesy of Ann Finch of St. James Episcopal Church in Potomac, MD
8-part MDG POP - courtesy of Jack Tull, Diocese of Florida
Prayers of the People for ONE Sunday -- written by the Rev. Dr. Jennifer Phillips, vicar of St. Augustine's Chapel, University of Rhode Island
Litanies
A Litany for Living in the Global Village by the Rt. Rev. Jeffery Rowthorn. From The Wideness of God's Mercy.
Seasonal Liturgies and Special Days
Lent
Stations of the Cross with Reflections on Global Poverty - courtesy of St. Mary's Cathedral, Memphis, TN
Feast of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Litany of Dedication and Commitment - courtesy of the Rt. Rev. Jeffery Rowthorn
Daily Office
Faith to heal a broken world: ‘Poverty and Hunger - the Bread of Life.
A series of Evening Prayer Services highlighting the importance of the MDGs from St. Paul's Cathedral in London.
An Evening Prayer Service for MDG #1
An Evening Prayer Service for MDG #2, 3 & 5
An Evening Prayer Service for MDG #4 & 6
An Evening Prayer Service for MDG #7
Liturgies of Commissioning
Closing liturgy and service of commissioning -- from the Diocese of Minnesota's MDG training day.
An Evening Prayer Service for MDG #8
