Mission and Outreach Committee

The Mission and Outreach Committee of Holy Trinity Church focuses on overseas mission using the Eight Millennium Development Goals as a guide for where our energy and money will be used.

• We will look at ways to use the overseas mission offerings of Holy Trinity Church.
  
  
• We will watch for opportunities to participate in hands-on overseas mission, and communicate them to the parish.
  
  
• Current members are Susan Howland, chair, Pastor Mary Gustafson, Deacon Mary Hicks, Suzanne Sharp, The Rev. John Lindsay and Lana Pieczynski.
  
  

The Millennium Development Goals are:

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

Learn more about the Millenium Development Goals here:

• globalgood.org - A resource portal for Episcopalians working together to support the Millennium Development Goals
  
  
• Gateway to UN System's Work on Millenium Development Goals

Read about our friends at the Balm in Gilead Ministry in Zimbabwe here

Not Justa Stove . . .

At our September meeting we chose to support a Micro-Enterprise Stove Project that builds stoves for women in rural areas of Honduras. All money placed in the mission plate between July 1st and September 31st will go to this project through an organization called Trees, Water, People. Their goal is to build 3,200 "Justa stoves", and they need to raise $10 per stove to make the dream a reality. The local families put in about $10 worth of materials and their in-kind labor during stove construction, so they have a personal investment in the stoves. It would be great to send enough for 50 stoves.

You can read about the Justa Stove project here.

And you can see a great little video here.