tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11053708065585797042024-03-13T17:31:43.378+00:00CORE Member Care-----------------------Reflections, Research, and Resources for Good PracticeMember Care Associateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00435755943229949017noreply@blogger.comBlogger338125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105370806558579704.post-14225484029987730272023-10-27T14:17:00.003+01:002023-10-27T14:21:40.386+01:00Humanity Care--UPGs and SDGs 25<p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateContainer" style="background-color: #7690bd; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: black; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templatePreheader" style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 0px; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td class="preheaderContainer" style="padding-top: 9px; 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height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Special News--November 2023</span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;">Multidimensional Poverty</span></strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><em>Ending Poverty in All Its Forms Everywhere<br /><br /><img data-file-id="5526541" height="264" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/776487c9-2997-85fb-09af-d3013e8c1a26.png" style="border: 0px; height: 264px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></em></strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em>"In Panama City inequality is seen side by side. Panama, April 2020."<br />Photo: UNDP/Grey Díaz </em></span></span><a href="https://stories.undp.org/undp-photos-of-the-year-2020" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">UNDP Photos of the Year 2020</span></span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">And in so many other places throughout our world!</span></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest...Massive poverty and obscene inequality are such terrible scourges of our times - times in which the world boasts breathtaking advances in science, technology, industry and wealth accumulation - that they have to rank alongside slavery and apartheid as social evils...millions of people in the world’s poorest countries remain imprisoned, enslaved, and in chains. They are trapped in the prison of poverty. It is time to set them free." </em>(</span><a href="http://www.mandela.gov.za/mandela_speeches/2005/050203_poverty.htm" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Nelson Mandela, 3 February 2005 (speech text)</span></a><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NennMCLG7A" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Make Poverty History (video</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span></div>------------<p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">In this <em>Update</em> (#89), we focus on <strong>multidimensional poverty</strong> and some of the main research tools for measuring and monitoring it in our world. It is such a devastating experience for hundreds of million of people in our world--fellow humans like us who are not simply statistics! Before we go any further, <span style="background-color: lightblue;">we want to encourage you to watch this short video overview on </span><strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;">multidimensional poverty</span></strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;"> </span></span><a href="https://player.vimeo.com/video/843978495?h=4db3ee10ac" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">HER</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">E</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;"> (1 minute 30 seconds).</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">“Poverty is often defined by one-dimensional measures--usually based on income. But no single indicator can capture the multiple dimensions of poverty. <strong>Multidimensional poverty</strong> encompasses the various deprivations experienced by poor people in their daily lives--such as poor health, lack of education, inadequate living standards, disempowerment, poor quality of work, the threat of violence, and living in areas that are environmentally hazardous, among others.” (</span><a href="https://ophi.org.uk/policy/multidimensional-poverty-index/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Tackling the pervasive and massive reality of multidimensional poverty </span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/topics/poverty-eradication" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">i</span><span style="color: mediumblue;">s an underlying emphasis</span></a> <span style="color: black;">throughout the </span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/goals" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (SDGs) and is embodied in Goal 1</span><span style="color: black;">:<strong> </strong>"End poverty in all its forms everywhere." Some of the aims of Goal 1's seven associated targets seek to "eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty, and implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable." (</span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/topics/poverty-eradication" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN DESA website</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">)</span></span><br /><br /><strong>Specifically we feature four core resources--new research and reports</strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">:</span></span><strong> </strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://ophi.org.uk/multidimensional-poverty-index/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2023 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)</span></a><br /><a href="https://ophi.org.uk/gmpi-report-2023/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Global Multinational Poverty Index Report 2023</em></span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, United Nations Development Program</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/brief/multidimensional-poverty-measure#:~:text=The%20MPM%20is%20composed%20of,education%2C%20and%20basic%20infrastructure%20services." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Multidimensional Poverty Measure</span></a> <span style="color: black;">(2023)</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>World Development Report 2023--Migrants, Refugees, and Societies</em></span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">World Bank<br /><br /><strong>How many people live in extreme poverty</strong></span></span><strong>? And w</strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>hat causes poverty</strong></span></span><strong>? </strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">“For most of us, living on less than $2 a day seems far removed from reality. But it is the reality for roughly 800 million people around the globe. Approximately 10% of the global population lives in extreme poverty, meaning that they're living below the poverty line of $1.90 per day.” (The Top 11 Causes for Poverty Around the World, </span><a href="https://concernusa.org/news/causes-of-poverty/?&utm_source=grgs&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=information-content&utm_content=v1&utm_term=causes-of-poverty&c_src=grgs-cpc&c_src2=information-content-causes-of-poverty-v1&gclid=CjwKCAjw7c2pBhAZEiwA88pOF-ObazRqXfOAVzf19h0FJFpYMAEG6qk-hFONoTn-eXG4lYtH6uDKDRoCwCoQAvD_BwE" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">World Concern US, 2022</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>We conclude the <em>Update</em></strong> with some personal perspectives on being "people of faith-hope-love" in the Christian tradition who embrace "common ground for the common good." It is an inclusive approach which encourages active partnership with a diverse group of colleagues on behalf of wellbeing for all people and the planet.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">Suggested Applications--Making It Personal</span></strong></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Review</strong> the information and the key findings and statistics in the materials below.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Watch </span></strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NennMCLG7A" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Nelson Mandela's historic speech for the Make Poverty History Campaign</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (2005, 9 minutes). We have included two quotes from this speech--a summons to action--in this <em>Update</em>.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Probe further </strong>by reading some of the summary materials online</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">. Consider reading through parts of one or both of the two main reports.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Share</strong> this <em>Update</em> with your colleagues, organization(s), and network(s). Discuss practical applications for your life and work.</span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>See these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong></span></span></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/23742389c587/global-integration-update-special-news-13529528" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Halfway into the SDGs: Taking Stock–Taking Action</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (July 2023)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/2a5a1d9567cb/global-integration-update-special-news-13512064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Resisting Despair-Disillusion: Will It Get Worse Before It Gets Worse?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (January 2023)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/021d340d37d2/global-integration-update-special-news-11395549" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Thinking Critically about Sustainable Development</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (February 2022)</span></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><div><strong><em> <img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 142px; outline: none; width: 200px;" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Multidimensional Poverty</span></strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><em>Ending Poverty in All Its Forms Everywhere</em></strong></span><br /><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/multidimensional-poverty-index-mpi" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6691292" height="388" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/a9a73fa6-15d1-a644-b7a1-6e9a61a34954.png" style="border: 0px; height: 388px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Click </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/multidimensional-poverty-index-mpi" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> or on the map above to access the interactive map including more information by country</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>.</em></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>"Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. And overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life. While poverty persists, there is no true freedom... Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom...Of course the task will not be easy. But not to do this would be a crime against humanity, against which I ask all humanity now to rise up."</em></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"> (<a href="http://www.mandela.gov.za/mandela_speeches/2005/050203_poverty.htm" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Nelson Mandela, 3 February 2005 (speech text)</span></a>--<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NennMCLG7A" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Make Poverty History (video</span></a>)</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">----------<br /><a href="https://ophi.org.uk/gmpi-report-2023/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6691316" height="345" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/8d5ca4cf-ef3c-88ae-66d7-e9cc859e2e26.jpeg" style="border: 0px; height: 345px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI)<br />and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)</span></span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://ophi.org.uk/multidimensional-poverty-index/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2023 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)</span></a><br /><a href="https://ophi.org.uk/gmpi-report-2023/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Global Multinational Poverty Index Report 2023</em></span></a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">"This report presents a compact update on the state of multidimensional poverty (henceforth referred to as “poverty”) in the world. It compiles data from 110 developing countries covering 6.1 billion people, accounting for 92 percent of the population in developing countries. It tells an important and persistent story about how prevalent poverty is in the world and provides insights into the lives of poor people, their deprivations and how intense their poverty is—to inform and accelerate efforts to end poverty in all its forms. As still only a few countries have data from after the COVID-19 pandemic, the report urgently calls for updated multidimensional poverty data. And while providing a sobering annual stock take of global poverty, the report also highlights examples of success in every region." (quote from </span><a href="https://hdr.undp.org/content/2023-global-multidimensional-poverty-index-mpi#/indicies/MPI" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UNDP website</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://trainingidn.shinyapps.io/OPHIDataBankGlobalComparison/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><img data-file-id="6691352" height="309" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/86815b50-3286-94ec-6c0e-bbf0ee20e062.png" style="border: 0px; height: 309px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></span></span></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">“The global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)...has three dimensions and 10 indicators [see image above]. Each dimension is equally weighted, and each indicator within a dimension is also equally weighted. Any person who fails to meet the deprivation cutoff is identified as deprived in that indicator. The global MPI is then created using multidimensional measurement method of Alkire and Foster (AF). So the core information the MPI uses is the profile of deprivations each person experience</span></span>s.” <span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">(quote from </span><a href="https://trainingidn.shinyapps.io/OPHIDataBankGlobalComparison/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">OPHI website</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Key Findings</strong><br /><strong>Where do poor people live?</strong></span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Across 110 countries 1.1 billion out of 6.1 billion people are poor – just over 18% are estimated to live in acute multidimensional poverty.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">534 million out of 1.1 billion poor people – half of all poor people – live in Sub-Saharan Africa</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Over a third of all poor people live in South Asia – that’s 389 million people.</span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">730 million – nearly two-thirds of all poor people – live in middle-income countries. Low-income countries are home to over one-third of all poor people – 387 million.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Who are the poorest?</strong></span></span></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The higher the incidence of poverty, the higher the intensity of poverty that poor people experience.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">485 million poor people live in severe poverty across 110 countries, experiencing 50–100% of weighted deprivations.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">99 million poor people experience deprivations in all three dimensions (70–100% of weighted deprivations).</span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">10 million of the 12 million poor people with the highest deprivation scores (90–100%) live in Sub-Saharan Africa</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Which groups are the poorest?</strong></span></span></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Subnational regions are being left behind in two ways: where poverty is widespread, poverty is also most intense.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Half of the 1.1 billion poor people (566 million) are children under 18 years of age.</span></span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">84% of all poor people live in rural areas. Rural areas are poorer than urban areas in every world region.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>What deprivations do poor people face?</strong></span></span></div><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">824–991 million out of the 1.1 billion poor people do not have adequate sanitation, housing or cooking fuel.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">600 million poor people live with a person who is undernourished in their household.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Gaps in years of schooling are a cross regional issue: In all regions except Europe and Central Asia, around half of poor people do not have a single member of their household who has completed six years of schooling.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>How do monetary and multidimensional poverty compare?</strong></span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">In 42 of 61 countries more people live in multidimensional poverty, based on the global MPI, than in extreme monetary poverty according to the World Bank’s $2.15 a day measure.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>How has poverty changed?</strong></span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">72 of 81 countries, covering well over 5 billion people, experienced a significant absolute reduction in MPI value during at least one period. But nearly all data are from before the COVID-19 pandemic.</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">25 countries halved their global MPI value well within 15 years, showing that progress at scale is attainable.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">" (quote from </span><a href="https://ophi.org.uk/global-mpi-2023/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">OPHI website</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span></li></ul><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6691308" height="309" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/e95a5211-5605-66c9-e972-cd2ac34891ca.png" style="border: 0px; height: 309px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">World Bank</span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/brief/multidimensional-poverty-measure#:~:text=The%20MPM%20is%20composed%20of,education%2C%20and%20basic%20infrastructure%20services." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Multidimensional Poverty Measure</span></a> <span style="color: black;">(2023) (MPM)</span><br /><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>World Development Report 2023--Migrants, Refugees, and Societies</em></span></a></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"[The MPM] measures the percentage of households in a country deprived along three dimensions –monetary poverty, education, and basic infrastructure services – to capture a more complete picture of poverty. [It is a] means to capture the complexity of poverty that considers dimensions of well-being beyond just monetary poverty.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">[The <strong>MPM] seeks to understand poverty beyond monetary deprivations</strong> (which remain the focal point of the World Bank’s monitoring of global poverty) by including access to education and basic infrastructure along with the monetary headcount ratio at the $2.15 international poverty line.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The World Bank’s measure takes inspiration and guidance from other prominent global multidimensional measures, particularly the </span><a href="https://ophi.org.uk/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)</span></a><span style="color: black;"> developed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Oxford University but differs from them in one important aspect: it includes monetary poverty less than $2.15 per day, the New International Poverty Line at 2017 PPP (Purchasing Power Parity), as one of the dimensions. <strong>Under this broader definition of poverty, many more people come into view as poor</strong>.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">While monetary poverty is strongly correlated with deprivations in other domains, this correlation is far from perfect. The Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2022 report (</span><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/poverty-and-shared-prosperity" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">World Bank, 2022</span></a><span style="color: black;">) shows that almost 4 out of 10 multidimensionally poor individuals (39 percent) are not captured by monetary poverty, as they are deprived in nonmonetary dimensions alone. A country’s MPM is at least as high as or higher than monetary poverty, reflecting the additional role of nonmonetary dimensions to poverty and their importance to general well-being. Deprivations in nonmonetary dimensions like access to schooling and basic infrastructure, compound poverty and perpetuate cycles of inequality. Securing higher living standards for a population becomes more challenging when poverty in all its forms is considered, but it can provide policymakers with a roadmap for and a means of monitoring improvements in welfare.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">[This 5<sup>th</sup> edition of the MPM] includes the latest estimates for 121 economies. A full list of 149 countries with the latest and historical MPM data is available [on the website]. Major updates to the MPM database happen around March/April of every year, with the possibility of a smaller update in September some years." (</span><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/poverty/brief/multidimensional-poverty-measure#:~:text=The%20MPM%20is%20composed%20of,education%2C%20and%20basic%20infrastructure%20services" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">World Bank website</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going Further</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">See the various events during </span><a href="https://www.genevapeaceweek.ch/en" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Geneva Peace Week (30 October-3 November 2023)</span></a><span style="color: black;"> related to peace and poverty etc<em>. </em>You can<em> r</em>egister to attend several of the events virtually<em>. </em></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">See the many resources related to poverty and corruption on the Global Integrity Day website<em>. The theme for 2021 was </em></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/gid-theme-resources?authuser=0" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Corruption and Poverty--Multidimensional Probity to End Multidimensional Poverty.</span></a></em></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong style="color: mediumblue; font-size: 16px;">Personal Reflections</strong><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Being People of Faith-Hope-Love</span></strong></em></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="2160937" height="342" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ae5c9228-1a80-393d-72e7-bcad838c2de0.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 342px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">California Coastline USA--Image courtesy and </span>© <span style="font-size: 12px;">ENOD 2016</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">As people of <strong>faith</strong> who practice Christian spirituality, we are committed to responsibly engage with others in the challenges facing our world, locally through globally, while holding firmly to our belief that we are in God's hands. We pray that God's purposes "will be done on earth as they are in heaven;" acknowledge that prayer, repentance, and relationship with God are key to human-planetary wellbeing; and live in <strong>hope</strong> for the time when God through Jesus Christ will decisively intervene in human history with equity--righteousness and justice--to restore all things. And in the meantime, we seek to embrace lifestyles of integrity that prioritize a deep, practical <strong>love</strong> for truth, peace, and people--and this includes being willing to acknowledge, resist, and confront evil in its many forms (starting with ourselves ourselves, etc.).</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We do not want to further <em>problematize</em> our world's plight by focusing primarily on the negative. Rather we want to also promote the many examples of the good going forward, as <strong>people of integrity find common ground for the common good</strong>.<br /><br />Finally, we want to highlight that the despair and disillusion that result from seemingly intractable problems like corruption can also be quite positive<strong>. </strong>They can embody a crucial existential message about reality that can be "revisited"--explored and heeded--rather than simply "resisted." They can point us to Someone who is bigger than ourselves, the SDGs, humanity, and our world--the knowable, Eternal One who is both in and beyond space-time and who loves us all dearly. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The above thoughts build upon the Personal Reflections in </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e604085d0973/global-integration-update-special-news-12154064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (<em>Global Integration Update</em>, October 2022)</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 154px; outline: none; width: 150px;" /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. 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It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links building the world we need with being the people we need.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Our <strong><em>Global Integration Updates</em> </strong>are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span><em><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">g</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"><em>lobal integrators</em></span><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good." </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2015-current</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (85+ issues). Some examples of foundational ones:<br /><br />Doomsday?--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Living in Global Integrity--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">April 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Peace and Security--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=651e03107d" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">December 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Global Citizenship--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=3e54230a8f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Faith-Based Partners in Transformation--</span><u><a href="http://eepurl.com/bvl0VH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">August 2015</span></a></u></span></div><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Pearl</strong><br />The Global Integration image used in this <em>Update</em> (the global pearl) is a cover detail from our edited book, </span><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Member Care (volume 2): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2013). William Carey Library. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>------</em></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability;<br />it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God,<br />and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. </em><br />Martin Luther King, Jr., </span><a href="https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Letter from a Birmingham Jail (April 1963)</span></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Member Care Associateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00435755943229949017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105370806558579704.post-29239926396003392122023-06-28T14:35:00.004+01:002023-06-28T14:56:36.715+01:00Humanity Care--UPGs and SDGs 24<div style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;"><strong style="color: #006666; font-size: 18px;">Global Integration Updates<br /></strong><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Special News--July 2023</span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;">Halfway into the Sustainable Development Goals<br /><em>Taking Stock--Taking Action<br />Sounding the Alarm--Rescuing Our World</em></span></strong></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="3004321" height="366" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/90e94aa4-08ff-4c9a-98eb-e851e3b2238f.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 366px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><div><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Image source--internet</span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>“The 2030 Agenda [for Sustainable Development] stated that this generation could be the first to succeed in ending poverty—and the last to have a chance of saving the planet [Paragraph 50]. This higher purpose remains within our grasp, but it requires an unprecedented effort by individual governments, a renewed sense of common purpose across the international community and a global alliance for SDG action across business, civil society, science, young people, local authorities and more. It requires that we come together in September [at the UN General Assembly's SDG Summit] to deliver a Rescue Plan for People and Planet.”</em> UN Secretary-General António Guterres, </span><a href="https://hlpf.un.org/sites/default/files/2023-04/SDG%20Progress%20Report%20Special%20Edition.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals: Towards a Rescue Plan for People and Planet</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(May 2023). Excerpt from Paragraph 8</span></span></div>------------<p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Opening Perspective</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">It’s yet another dismal appraisal of the future and a dire warning by UN Secretary-General António Guterres. The central message of the 105 paragraphs of his May 2023 progress report on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDSs) collectively point to the perilous and catastrophic path that people and planet are inseparably traveling upon. The rallying aspirations at the launch of the SDGs in 2015—“transforming our world”--have regressively morphed into a summons for survival--“rescuing our world.” We take this regressive shift towards survival seriously. We do not believe this is<em> </em>self-serving<em>,</em> fear-mongering rhetoric from the UN. We also believe that from the start<em>,</em> the SDGs have in fact fundamentally been about rescuing and saving the world interlaced with "transforming" it.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong><br />In this <em>Update</em> (#85), we check in again with the </span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/goals" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)</span></a><span style="color: black;">, this time on the occasion of the halfway point in their 15 year time frame (2015-2030). In so doing we want to encourage us all to make it a point to regularly track with the SDGs as a whole as well as with specific goals of interest. Further we want to nudge us all to not only track with but also to <em>engage with</em> these crucial and varied efforts to further realize wellbeing for all people and the planet. <strong>In short: take stock and take action.</strong><br /><br />To help facilitate tracking and engaging further with the SDGs, we present two major progress reports (May and June 2023 versions) and two major United Nations gatherings (High-Level Political Forums in July and September 2023). We really encourage you to take the time to check out what is happening—and in many cases, sadly, what is <em>not</em> happening with the SDGs. Use the materials in this <em>Update</em>...to get updated!</span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Report 1</strong>--<em><a href="https://hlpf.un.org/sites/default/files/2023-04/SDG%20Progress%20Report%20Special%20Edition.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals: Towards a Rescue Plan for People and Planet</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Report of the UN Secretary-General António Guterres (special edition--advance unedited version<em>,</em> May 2023)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Report 2</strong>--<em><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/sites/default/files/2023-06/Advance%20unedited%20GSDR%2014June2023.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Sustainable Development Report 2023</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span> <span style="color: black;">Independent Group of Scientists (IGS) supported by a task team of six UN agencies (advance unedited report<em>, </em>14<em> </em>June 2023)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Event 1</strong>--United Nations High Level Meeting on Sustainable Development under the auspices of the Economic and Social Council--</span><a href="https://hlpf.un.org/2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Pre-SDG Summit</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (10-19 July 2023)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Event 2</strong>--United Nations High Level Meeting on Sustainable Development under the auspices of the General Assembly--</span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/conferences/SDGSummit2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">SDG Summit</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (18-19 September 2023)</span></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">Suggested Applications--Making It Personal</span></strong></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Review </strong>the four items featured below<strong>:</strong> the summary excerpts from the two SDG progress reports and the overviews of the upcoming High Level Political Forums on the SDGs. You may also want to reacquaint yourself with the foundational SDG document from 2015, </span><em><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Transforming Our World<strong>:</strong> The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span></em></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Probe further </strong>into one or more of the featured items. For example, read the Executive Summary of the </span><em><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/sites/default/files/2023-06/Advance%20unedited%20GSDR%2014June2023.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Sustainable Development Report 2023 (GSDR)</span></a></em><span style="color: black;">. To what extent do you concur with the “warning signal" that “unless the world makes an urgent course correction and initiates transformative change, we risk undermining advances made, increasing vulnerability to future crises and cementing unsustainable development pathways.”(page 20)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Save the dates</strong> to watch some of the livestreamed sessions (or recordings) from the SDG Pre-Summit (10-19 July 2023) and the SDG Summit (18-19 September 2023) (</span><a href="https://media.un.org/en/webtv" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN Web TV</span></a><span style="color: black;">). Check out the provisional schedules for these two UN gatherings (links below).</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Share</strong> this <em>Update</em> with your colleagues, organization(s), and network(s). Interact with colleagues to discuss practical applications for your life and work—for taking stock and taking action. For examples and ideas on how to get involved in the SDGs, see </span><span style="color: mediumblue;">“</span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/actnow" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Act Now</span></a><u><span style="color: black;">.</span></u><a href="https://www.un.org/en/actnow" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">”</span></a></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going further--see these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong></span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e604085d0973/global-integration-update-special-news-12154064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (October 2022)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/021d340d37d2/global-integration-update-special-news-11395549" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Thinking Critically about Sustainable Development</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (February 2022)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/c83778c797e5/global-integration-update-special-news-1466097" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Shaping the Future We Want: UN75 Global Conversation</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (January 2020)</span></span></li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://mailchi.mp/a24eaaee7a30/global-integration-update-special-news-1402457" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Progress Reports–Sustainable Development Goals</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (August 2019)</span></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><div><strong><em> <img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 142px; outline: none; width: 200px;" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Halfway into the Sustainable Development Goals<br /><em>Taking Stock--Taking Action<br />Sounding the Alarm--Rescuing Our World</em></span></strong></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="5526541" height="264" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/776487c9-2997-85fb-09af-d3013e8c1a26.png" style="border: 0px; height: 264px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"In Panama City inequality is seen side by side. Panama, April 2020."<br />Photo: UNDP/Grey Díaz </em></span><a href="https://stories.undp.org/undp-photos-of-the-year-2020" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UNDP Photos of the Year 2020</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>“It's time to sound the alarm. At the mid-way point on our way to 2030, the SDGs are in deep trouble. A preliminary assessment of the roughly 140 targets with data [169 targets total] shows only about 12% are on track; more than half, though showing progress, are moderately or severely off track and some 30% have either seen no movement or regressed below the 2015 baseline.” </em>UN Secretary-General António Guterres, </span><a href="https://hlpf.un.org/sites/default/files/2023-04/SDG%20Progress%20Report%20Special%20Edition.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals: Towards a Rescue Plan for People and Plane</span><span style="color: black;">t</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (May 2023). Paragraph 4</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">-----------<br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>SDG Progress Report 1</strong></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="6667444" height="147" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/8a165bc5-cfea-ff9a-f11c-1bf3facd805a.png" style="border: 0px; height: 147px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><em><a href="https://hlpf.un.org/sites/default/files/2023-04/SDG%20Progress%20Report%20Special%20Edition.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals: Towards a Rescue Plan for People and Planet</span></a></em><span style="color: black;">. Report of the UN Secretary-General António Guterres, Advance unedited version (May 2023). Excerpts below.</span></strong><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Summary</strong><br />The present report on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals is submitted in response to General Assembly resolution 70/1, Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. At the mid-way point towards 2030, this Special Edition report provides an update on progress made since 2015 against the global SDG indicator framework. It finds that many of the SDGs are moderately to severely off track and puts forward five major recommendations to rescue the Sustainable Development Goals and accelerate implementation between now and 2030, for Member State consideration in advance of the SDG Summit.<br /> <br /><strong>Paragraph 1</strong><br />Leave no one behind. That defining principle of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a shared promise by every country to work together to secure the rights and well-being of everyone on a healthy, thriving planet. But halfway to 2030, that promise is in peril. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are disappearing in the rear-view mirror – and with them the hope and rights of current and future generations. A fundamental shift in needed – in commitment, solidarity, financing and action - to put the world on a better path. And it is needed now.<br /><br /><strong>Five Major Recommendations</strong><br />10. First, I urge Heads of State and Government to recommit to seven years of accelerated, sustained and transformative action, both nationally and internationally, to deliver on the promise of the SDGs.<br /> <br />13. Second, I call on governments to advance concrete, integrated and targeted policies and actions to eradicate poverty, reduce inequality and end the war on nature, with a particular focus on advancing the rights women and girls and empowering the most vulnerable.<br /><br />16. Third, I urge on governments to strengthen national and sub-national capacity, accountability and public institutions to deliver accelerated SDG progress.<br /><br />18. Fourth, to ensure developing countries can deliver in the above areas, I strongly encourage the international community to recommit this September to deliver on the Addis Ababa Action Agenda and to mobilize the resources and investment needed for developing countries to achieve the SDGs, particularly those in special situations and experiencing acute vulnerability.<br /> <br />21. Finally, I urge member states to facilitate the continued strengthening of the UN development system and to boost the capacity of the multilateral system to tackle emerging challenges and address SDG related gaps and weaknesses in the international architecture that have emerged since 2015.<br /><br /><strong>Concluding Paragraphs 102-105</strong><br />102. The world has been rocked by a series of interlinked crises exposing fundamental shortcomings in business-as-usual approaches to sustainability including the vulnerability and fragility of progress, reinforcing inequalities, life-long impacts of adverse events, increasing threats of irreversible change, risks of ignoring interlinkages, and the geographically imbalanced distribution of global assets for achieving sustainable development.<br /> <br />103. Tepid responses will not do for the millions living in poverty and hunger, the women and girls with unequal opportunities, the communities facing climate disaster or the families fleeing conflict. We need a fully-fledged Rescue Plan for People and Planet.<br /> <br />104. There are no excuses not to be ambitious. Never before have we had such an abundance of knowledge, technology and resources to succeed in ending poverty and saving the planet. Never before have we carried such a responsibility to pivot to a bold set of actions.<br /><br />105. At the SDG Summit, we must match that abundance and responsibility with global, national and local commitments to deliver the finance, to galvanize the leadership and to restore the trust that will put us on course to achieve the SDGs by 2030.”</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Notes</strong><br />--See also a summary of this Report on the <a href="https://sdg.iisd.org/news/un-secretary-generals-report-outlines-rescue-plan-for-people-and-planet/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">SDG Knowledge Hub of the International Institute for Sustainable Development</span></a>.<br /><span style="color: black;">--See also the</span><strong> </strong><a href="https://hlpf.un.org/vnrs" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Voluntary National Reviews of SDG Progress</span></a></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">SDG Progress Report 2</span></strong></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/sites/default/files/2023-06/Advance%20unedited%20GSDR%2014June2023.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;"><img data-file-id="6667428" height="203" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/1e7dac0f-c3e1-2a77-e448-b1cffb672dd6.png" style="border: 0px; height: 203px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></span></strong></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><em><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/sites/default/files/2023-06/Advance%20unedited%20GSDR%2014June2023.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Sustainable Development Report 2023</span></a> (GSDR)</em><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span> <span style="color: black;">Independent Group of Scientists (IGS) supported by a task team of six UN agencies (advance unedited report<em>, </em>14<em> </em>June 2023)</span></strong><span style="color: black;">. </span><strong><span style="color: black;">Excerpts below.</span></strong><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">The GSDR is an independent report and while the IGS have considered all feedback from Member States and stakeholders, they have incorporated changes at their discretion. The current draft is an advance and unedited version that is undergoing editing, fact checking, design, layout. The final version will be available in September 2023. (page 2)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Excerpts from the Executive Summary (pages 6-19)</strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Transformations are possible, and inevitable.</strong> This report is an invitation to embrace transformations with the urgency needed to accelerate progress toward the SDGs. Four years have passed since the 2019 Global Sustainable Development Report (GSDR) was 188 published and even then, the world was not on track to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Since 2019, challenges have multiplied and intensified. The world has moved forward on some fronts, such as the deployment of zero carbon technologies as one of many climate mitigation strategies. Progress has been halted in many areas partly as a consequence of a confluence of crises – the ongoing pandemic, rising inflation and the cost-of-living crisis, and planetary, environmental and economic distress, along with regional and national unrest, conflicts, and natural disasters. As a result, overall progress towards the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs has been severely disrupted in the last 196 three years, yet every inch of progress matters and counts. (page 6)<br /><br /><strong>Strive not for one, but for all securities.</strong> The resilience and well-being of planet, people, environment, and ecosystems are degraded. A better future does not rest on one source of 1security, but on all necessary securities, including geopolitical, energy, climate, water, food,and social security. Strategies to embrace transformations should therefore be based on the principles of solidarity, equity and well-being, in harmony with nature. (page 6)<br /> <br /><strong>Working as a human collective, time and resources must be used as judiciously and effectively as possible.</strong> The world is changing at an accelerated rate. Halfway to 2030, thereis an ever-greater urgency to build momentum, embrace solidarity, and speed up progress on the SDGs. To do that, decision-makers need to use time and resources —human, knowledge, financial, and institutional, among others— as judiciously and effectively as 207 possible, and take a systematic and strategic approach to drive and accelerate 208 transformations. (page 6)<br /> <br />The 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report has six chapters. Chapter 1, asks ‘where are we now?’ and, reflecting on where the world is at the halfway point to 2030, highlights the need for resilience and acceleration. Chapter 2 asks ‘where are we heading?’ and frames the future, from urgency to agency, reviewing new knowledge for understanding the interlinkages between the SDGs and international SDG spillovers. Chapter 3 focuses on ‘what needs to be done?’, reviewing scenario projections for the SDGs alongside key shifts and interventions to accelerate transformations through the six entry points introduced in the 2019 GSDR. Chapter 4 considers ‘how can it be done?’ with a framework that can guide strategic action. It unpacks the dynamics in different phases of transformations towards sustainable development, with examples from historical and recent experience. Chapter 5 is about the unifying role of science, the importance of knowledge from a broader spectrum of society, both in the production of socially robust science, and in connecting science to policy making. Finally, Chapter 6 is a call for action inviting a reflection on the steps ahead, to accelerate transformative action, improve the underlying conditions for transformation, and use science to drive the world forward. (page 7)<br /> <br /><strong>Chapter 1: Half-way to 2030 – progress towards the SDGs.</strong> In 2015, United Nations Member States agreed on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 associated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – as a universal call for action to end poverty and protect the planet. But today at the half-way point, the world is not on track to achieve the SDGs by 2030, and we are more off track than four years ago. This is a warning signal that unless the world makes an urgent course correction and initiates transformative change, we risk undermining advances made, increasing vulnerability to future crises and cementing unsustainable development pathways.(summar of chapter 1, page 20)</span><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Notes</span></strong><br /><span style="color: black;">--See also the </span><u><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>World Development Report 2023</em></span></a><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">: </span></a><em><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Migrants</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span><em><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"> Refugees</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span></u><em><u><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"> and Societies</span></a></u><span style="color: black;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">and related resources from the World Bank.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--See also the advanced information about the upcoming </span><a href="https://hdr.undp.org/content/announcement-2023-hdr-will-explore-how-enhance-collective-action-addressing-global" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Human Development Report 2023</em></span></a><span style="color: black;"> by the UN Develoment Program.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Event 1</strong></span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>High-Level Political Forum<br /><em>UN SDG Pre-Summit July 2023</em></strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Save the dates--tune into the live and recorded events on</span> <a href="https://media.un.org/en/webtv" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN WebTV</span></a></strong></span><br /><br /><a href="https://hlpf.un.org/2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6667436" height="229" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/7fdb7d53-60d9-576d-86ce-3a23ddf33cb3.png" style="border: 0px; height: 229px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></div><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">"The </span><a href="https://hlpf.un.org/2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (HLPF) will be held from <strong>Monday, 10 July, to Wednesday, 19 July 2023</strong>, under the auspices of the </span><a href="https://www.un.org/ecosoc/en" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Economic and Social Council</span></a><span style="color: black;">. This includes the three-day ministerial segment of the forum from <strong>Monday, 17 July, to Wednesday, 19 July 2023 </strong>as part of the High-level Segment of the Council. The last day of the High-level Segment of ECOSOC will be on <strong>Thursday, 20 July 2023</strong>.<br /><br />The theme will be '<strong>Accelerating the recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at all levels '</strong>.<br /><br />In the forum, participants will be able to further discuss the effective and inclusive recovery measures to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and explore actionable policy guidance for the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs at all levels.<br /><br />The HLPF in 2023, without prejudice to the integrated, indivisible and interlinked nature of the SDGs, will also review in-depth <strong>Goals 6 on clean water and sanitation, 7 on affordable and clean energy, 9 on industry, innovation and infrastructure, 11 on sustainable cities and communities, and 17 on partnerships for the Goals."</strong></span></span><br />(excerpts from website)<br /><br /><strong>Notes</strong><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">--See the Provisional Program and other resources </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://hlpf.un.org/2023/programme" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Event 2</strong></span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>High-Level Political Forum<br /><em>UN SDG Summit September 2023</em></strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Save the dates--tune into the live and recorded events on</span> <a href="https://media.un.org/en/webtv" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN WebTV</span></a></strong></span><br /><br /><a href="https://www.un.org/en/conferences/SDGSummit2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6667440" height="217" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/13bd9344-e8e1-61a0-30de-c97ce78d460e.png" style="border: 0px; height: 217px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><a href="https://www.un.org/en/conferences/SDGSummit2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN SDG Summit</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">in New York (18-19 September 2023). High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development under the auspices of the General Assembly</span></strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">"During the United Nations General Assembly high-level week in September 2023, Heads of State and Government will gather at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to review the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).<br /><br />The High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in July 2022 called for the Summit to “mark the beginning of a new phase of accelerated progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.”<br /><br />The </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/conferences/SDGSummit2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">SDG Summit</span></a><span style="color: black;"> marks the mid-point of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. It will bring together political and thought leaders from governments, international organizations, private sector, civil society, women and youth and other stakeholders in a series of high-level meetings. They will carry out a comprehensive review of the state of the SDGs, respond to the impact of multiple and interlocking crises facing the world, and provide high-level political guidance on transformative and accelerated actions leading up to the 2030 deadline for achieving the SDGs. The SDG Summit will be chaired by the President of the General Assembly. The outcome of the Summit will be a negotiated political declaration.<br /><br />The Summit will focus on people. It will culminate 10 months of active preparations involving governments, the UN system and other international and regional organizations, the private sector, NGOs, youth, cities, and multiple other actors and people. It will benefit from the proposals of an independent group of scientists through the </span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/gsdr/gsdr2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Sustainable Development Report</span></a><span style="color: black;">, the Secretary-General’s SDG progress report and analysis from the UN system, think tanks and others.<br /><br />This will be the second SDG Summit, since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda in September 2015." (quote from </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/conferences/SDGSummit2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN website</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Notes</span></span></strong><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">--See the upcoming Provisional Program and other resources </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.un.org/en/conferences/SDGSummit2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="2843649" height="335" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/4ea027e0-228f-41e9-82b6-f6f4fec48a40.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 335px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">For perspective, watch the 2021 HLPF video overview </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVWHuJOmaEk" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Personal Reflections</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Being People of Faith-Hope-Love</span></strong></em></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="2160937" height="342" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ae5c9228-1a80-393d-72e7-bcad838c2de0.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 342px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">California Coastline USA--Image courtesy and </span>© <span style="font-size: 12px;">ENOD 2016</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>We appreciate and enjoy connecting with people<br />from different faiths or of no particular faith.<br />People are people.</em></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">As people of <strong>faith</strong> who practice Christian spirituality, we are committed to responsibly engage with others in the challenges facing our world, locally through globally, while holding firmly to our belief that we are in God's hands. We pray that God's purposes "will be done on earth as they are in heaven;" acknowledge that prayer, repentance, and relationship with God are key to human-planetary wellbeing; and live in <strong>hope</strong> for the time when God through Jesus Christ will decisively intervene in human history with equity--righteousness and justice--to restore all things. And in the meantime, we seek to embrace lifestyles of integrity that prioritize a deep, practical <strong>love</strong> for truth, peace, and people.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We do not want to further <em>problematize</em> our world's plight by focusing primarily on the negative. Rather we want to also promote the many examples of the good going forward, as <strong>people of integrity find common ground for the common good. </strong><br /><br />Finally, we want to highlight that the despair and disillusion that result from seemingly intractable problems like corruption can also be quite positive<strong>. </strong>They can embody a crucial existential message about reality that can be "revisited"--explored and heeded--rather than simply "resisted." They can point us to Someone who is bigger than ourselves, the SDGs, humanity, and our world--the knowable, Eternal One who is both in and beyond space-time and who loves us all dearly. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The above thoughts build upon the Personal Reflections in </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e604085d0973/global-integration-update-special-news-12154064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (<em>Global Integration Update</em>, October 2022)</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 154px; outline: none; width: 150px;" /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. 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William Carey Library. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>------</em></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability;<br />it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God,<br />and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. </em><br />Martin Luther King, Jr., </span><a href="https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Letter from a Birmingham Jail (April 1963)</span></a></span></div></div></div></div></div>Member Care Associateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00435755943229949017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105370806558579704.post-14146831680711426982023-01-05T08:38:00.002+01:002023-03-28T09:11:10.185+00:00Humanity Care--UPGs and SDGs 23<p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateContainer" style="background-color: #7690bd; 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max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #606060; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><div><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/0ce457d4-4eb8-4fe6-9b39-f3c77bbccf8d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Special News--January 2023</span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;">Resisting Despair and Disillusion</span></strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 16px;">Will it get worse before it gets worse?</span></em></strong></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="6623564" height="412" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/6e225100-031a-a29c-c253-9a68cd5dbfa0.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 412px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Image courtesy and © Ken Shepherd 2022--Virginia USA snowscape</span></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><span style="color: black;">“</span>I welcome this opportunity to gather one last time before the end of the year – and I wish you and your families all the best for 2023.</em></span> <span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Our world faced many trials and tests in 2022 – some familiar, others we might not have imagined just one year ago. There may be plenty of reasons for despair....These and so many other challenges make some want to throw up their hands and give up on international problem solving and diplomacy. But I end this year with one overriding conviction: This is not a time to sit on the sidelines, it is a time for resolve, determination, and – yes – even hope. Because despite the limitations and long odds, we are working to push back against despair, to fight back against disillusion and to find real solutions. Not perfect solutions – not even always pretty solutions – but practical solutions that are making a meaningful difference to people’s lives.” </em>UN Secretary-General António Guterres<em>, </em></span><a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/press-encounter/2022-12-19/secretary-generals-remarks-end-of-year-press-conference-including-qa-delivered" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Remarks at End-of-Year Press Conference, 19 December 2022</span></a></span></div>---------<p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">In this <em>Update</em> (Issue 79) we focus on progress and setbacks in the efforts to realize wellbeing for all people and the planet<em>.</em> Specifically, we present a sample of short reports and</span></span>/<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">or stories from 2022 (articles, podcasts, videos) from three civil society organizations<strong>: </strong>the International Red Cross Movement, The New Humanitarian, and Human Rights Watch<em>. </em>Collectively this material represents just some of the main issues facing our world and showcases why these issues matter for 2023<em>.</em><br /><br />Underlying the content of this <em>Update</em> are two questions--two messages--to consider<strong>:</strong><br />1 Given the major problems in our world, how do you maintain your sense of optimism and hope for the future of our world? How are you <strong>"resisting despair and disillusion?"</strong><br />2 Given the major problems in our world, in what sense is it accurate--and helpful--to consider that things overall may not get better? "<strong>Will it get worse before it gets worse?"</strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">We share the above items with a view towards the upcoming major meetings and reviews in 2023 of the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)<em>.</em> This new year marks the midpoint of the world community's aspirational roadmap</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">,</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Transforming our World</em></span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"><u><strong>: </strong></u></span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development</em></span></a><span style="color: black;"><em>. </em></span>You will recall that the 2030 Agenda was adopted by world leaders and member states in September 2015<span style="color: black;"><em> </em>and organized broadly around five overlapping areas</span><span style="color: black;"><strong>: </strong></span><span style="color: black;"><strong>people</strong></span></span><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">,</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> planet</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">, </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">prosperity</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">,</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> peace</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">,</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: black;"> and partnership</span><span style="color: black;"><em>.</em></span></strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">We finish the <em>Updat</em>e<strong>,</strong><em> as </em>we often do<strong>,</strong> with a few personal reflections related to the theme<strong><em>.</em></strong> This time we share a few thoughts on <strong><em>revisiting</em> depair and disillusion as people of faith-hope-love<em>.</em></strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Suggested Applications--Making It Personal</strong><br />We so want good news in 2023--lots of it! And we will certainly have good news<em>.</em> Amidst the mire of suffering and injustice, people continue to tenaciously work together locally through globally to make this world a better place<em>.</em> As Martin Luther King Jr<em>.</em> asserts, "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”<em> </em>(</span><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a><span style="color: black;">). With these thoughts in mind</span></span><span style="color: black;">:</span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Review</strong> the materials in this <em>Update i</em>n the context of its overall theme of maintaining hope for a better future</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">. Do you have any reactions that might reflect your own sense of the future?</span></span><br /> </li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Probe </strong>further into a few of the items that interest you, including the upcoming resources and events related to progress on the SDGs</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">. Are there any SDGs that you are particularly interested in tracking?</span></span><br /> </li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Share</strong> this <em>Update</em> with your colleagues, organization(s), and networks. Discuss it together and consider practical applications--for both your work and life.</span></span></li></ul><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going further--see these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong></span></span><br />-<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">-</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e604085d0973/global-integration-update-special-news-12154064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction?</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(Oct</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> 2022)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/0b3ac723e466/global-integration-update-special-news-7549717" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Climate-Conflict-Corruption: Safeguarding People and the Planet</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(July 2021)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/4911684ca85e/global-integration-update-special-news-1472225" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Wellbeing for Who? Global Reports from Seven Sectors</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (Feb</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> 2020)</span></span><br /> <br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><div><strong><em> <img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 142px; outline: none; width: 200px;" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Resisting Despair and Disillusion</span></strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 16px;">Will it get worse before it gets worse?</span></em></strong></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="6623572" height="412" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/38ce1291-5186-434e-a748-6a8a8f19a401.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 412px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Image courtesy and © Ron Williams 2022--Texas USA rail line</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>“I am more determined than ever to make 2023 a year for peace, a year for action. We can’t accept things as they are. We owe it to people to find solutions, to fight back and to act. At times, discreetly but always with determination – we will fight back. To promote peace and security. To advance the Sustainable Development Goals and address inequalities. To reform a morally bankrupt international financial system. To ensure human rights for all as we mark next year’s 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. And to deliver a livable planet to our children and grandchildren. Thank you.” </em>UN Secretary-General António Guterres<em>,</em></span><span style="color: black;"><em> </em></span><a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/press-encounter/2022-12-19/secretary-generals-remarks-end-of-year-press-conference-including-qa-delivered" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Remarks at End-of-Year Press Conference, 19 December 2022</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">----------</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>1</strong>. <strong>A Selection of Materials--International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement </strong><strong></strong><br /><em><strong>"2022: A Year of Challenges...and Inspiring Stories"</strong></em><br />“2022 has been a heavy year for humanitarians. Conflict, mass movements of people, natural disasters of all types, many of which do not get international attention. Meanwhile, many people face personal crises and challenges that may only be known to their close friends, family or local community....These are our special picks in this special end-of year newsletter.”<br /><br />--</span><a href="https://www.rcrcmagazine.org/series/faces-of-yemen/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Faces of Yemen: Our lives beyond conflict</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.rcrcmagazine.org/series/quiet-crises-quiet-heros/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Kyrgyzstan--Quiet crises, quiet heroes</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.rcrcmagazine.org/series/bangladesh-rising-above/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Bangladesh: Rising above</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.rcrcmagazine.org/series/unanswered-questions/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Unanswered Questions about mental health</span></a><u><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><a href="https://www.rcrcmagazine.org/series/unanswered-questions/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">climate change</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span></u><a href="https://www.rcrcmagazine.org/series/unanswered-questions/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><u> </u>and disasters</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.rcrcmagazine.org/2022/05/because-of-hunger-i-am-here/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Angola-Namibia</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"><u>: </u></span><a href="https://www.rcrcmagazine.org/2022/05/because-of-hunger-i-am-here/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><u>‘</u>Because of hunger I am here’</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://soundcloud.com/rcrcmagazine/ocean-viking-mediterranean-sea?si=13a1f693ba9d4ea9aac46edfb1a164f5&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">‘What made me try to cross this sea? I must be crazy’</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.rcrcmagazine.org/series/migration-and-trust/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">To trust or not to trust</span></a></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>2.</strong> <strong>A Selection of Materials--The New Humanitarian</strong></span><br /><strong><a href="https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2022/12/29/Editors-Picks-2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>"Editors’ Picks: Read These Stories Now to be Ready for 2023"</em></span></a></strong><br /><span style="color: black;">“While you may have a bit of end-of-year time on your hands, here are a few stories our editors would hate for you to have missed, along with their thoughts on why they will still matter in 2023. They include a Dalit journalist’s look at caste discrimination in Indian disaster response, an illustrated diary that explores how life changed in villages around Kyiv as Russian tanks rolled in, and a profile of a farmer in Mali whose peacebuilding efforts with jihadist extremists led to some unlikely victories for his community.” <br /><br />--Reporting on Yemen's war whilst living through it<br />--Aid sector: Tiny steps, not big reforms<br />--India: Caste discrimination in aid <br />--A Syrian refugee reflects on EU asylum double standards<br />--Life on the front line of Russia’s invasion<br />--Easing violence in West Africa’s Sahe--South Sudan: When peace triggers war<br />--Lebanon’s collapse, behind and beyond the headlines<br /><br />Also from <em>The New Humanitarian</em></span></span><span style="color: black;">:</span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2023/01/04/aid-policy-trends-to-watch-in-2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">What’s on our aid policy radar in 2023--The issues and dilemmas shaping humanitarian policy over the next 12 months and beyond (article</span></a><span style="color: black;">,</span><a href="https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2023/01/04/aid-policy-trends-to-watch-in-2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"> 4 January 2023)</span></a></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>3.</strong> <strong>A Selection of Materials--Human Rights Watch</strong></span><br /><em><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">"</span><a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/12/16/top-human-rights-news-2022" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Top Human Rights News of 2022--The Most-Read Stories of the Year</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">"</span></strong></em><br /><span style="color: black;">“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 dominated headlines this year as horrific attacks harmed civilians around the country. We worked to tell the stories of people on the ground, including those trapped in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, and document potential laws-of-war violations. But throughout the year, we covered many topics from around the world. From the Taliban’s ongoing assault on women’s rights in Afghanistan, to abuses against LGBT people in Qatar ahead of the World Cup, to a rollback of abortion rights in the United States, these were the most-read stories on our site this year." (see link above for the stories)</span><br /><br /><a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/12/19/top-human-rights-videos-2022" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Top Human Rights Videos for 2022</span></a><span style="color: black;"> “What were your favorite human rights videos of 2022? Millions of you watched our reels on topics...We counted the views on social media and YouTube, and below are our top ten videos of the year–with the number one video, hitting on a story we bet you know, garnering nearly 4 million views.”</span><br /><br /><a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/12/20/ten-good-news-stories-kids-2022" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Ten Good News Stories for Kids in 2022</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">“Despite enormous challenges facing many children around the globe, 2022 also brought good news. As we approach the end of the year, here are 10 areas of progress for children we can celebrate...These areas of progress show what is possible. In 2023, governments should do much more to protect and advance children’s rights. <br /><br /><strong>Note from Kelly and Michèle</strong>—We appreciate very much the work of Human Rights Watch (HRW) in general. However we do take issue with a few of the perspectives presented by HRW in the materials above. A main case in point is that we affirm the importance of protecting the rights of both women (pregnant or not) and children (prenatal or postnatal).</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Some Details of What's Coming in 2023</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>Tracking Our Success</em></strong>, <strong><em>Setbacks</em></strong>,<strong><em> and Strategies<br />for Sustainable Development</em></strong></span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/gsdr/gsdr2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6623580" height="194" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/2680b5fe-8ce9-712f-b816-78ca4f6f9686.png" style="border: 0px; height: 194px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Header image from the </span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/gsdr/gsdr2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">GSDR 2023 website</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">1<span style="color: black;">.</span><em> </em><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/gsdr/gsdr2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Sustainable Development Report 2023</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span> <span style="color: black;">“</span><span style="color: black;">The 2023 Global Sustainable Development Report will be launched as the world approaches the half-way point of the 2030 Agenda and struggles to rebuild in the aftermath (or in the midst) of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, practical solutions that can accelerate progress on the SDGs will be urgently needed. The 2023 Report will build on the 2019 Report providing evidence that can help decision-makers to accelerate action and overcome impediments that stand in the way of progress on sustainable development. The focus will be on accelerating transformation through important entry points and enabling science to support this acceleration."</span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">2<span style="color: black;">. </span></span><a href="https://hlpf.un.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development under the auspices of the UN Economic and Social Council (10-19 July 2023, UN New York)</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">. </span></span>"<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), through its outcome on "The Future We Want", established the United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) in 2012. </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The HLPF is the central United Nations platform for the follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">at the global level. It is the apex of the architecture for follow-up and review of the 2030 Agenda established by the 2030 Agenda and General Assembly resolution 70/299.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">"</span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">3<span style="color: black;">. </span><a href="https://hlpf.un.org/sdg-summit" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development under the auspices of the General Assembly–SDG Summit</span> <span style="color: mediumblue;">(September 2023, UN New York)</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></span>"<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/conferences/SDGSummit2023" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">SDG Summit</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">marks the mid-point of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. It will bring together political and thought leaders from governments, international organizations, private sector, civil society, women and youth and other stakeholders in a series of high-level meetings. They will carry out a comprehensive review of the state of the SDGs, respond to the impact of multiple and interlocking crises facing the world, and provide high-level political guidance on transformative and accelerated actions leading up to the 2030 deadline for achieving the SDGs. The SDG Summit will be chaired by the President of the General Assembly. The outcome of the Summit will be a negotiated political declaration."</span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>4</strong>.<strong> See also:</strong></span></span></p><ul><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">SDG Indicators--Metadata Repository (UN ECOSOC</span></a>)<span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> “The metadata available in this repository is a work in progress. It reflects the latest reference metadata information provided by the UN System and other international organizations on data and statistics for the Tier I and II indicators in the global indicator framework. This repository will be further updated and periodically reviewed in cooperation with the respective data compilers.”</span></span><br /> </li><li style="text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://sdg-tracker.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">SDG Tracker (civil society organization)</span></a><span style="color: black;">. “Our SDG Tracker presents data across all available indicators from the </span><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Our World in Data</span></a><span style="color: black;"> database, using official statistics from the UN and other international organizations. It is a free, open-access publication that tracks global progress towards the SDGs and allows people around the world to hold their governments accountable to achieving the agreed goals....The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are defined in a list of 169 SDG Targets. Progress towards these Targets is agreed to be tracked by 232 unique Indicators. Here is the </span><a href="https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/indicators/Global%20Indicator%20Framework%20after%20refinement_Eng.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">full list of definitions</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> For many Indicators data is available, but major data gaps remain.”</span></span></li></ul><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: navy;"><strong>Personal Reflections</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Revisiting Despair and Disillusion</span></strong><br /><em style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Being People of Faith-Hope-Love<br />in our Precarious</em>-<em style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Perilous</em>-<em><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Precious World</span></strong></em></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="2160937" height="342" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ae5c9228-1a80-393d-72e7-bcad838c2de0.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 342px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Image courtesy and </span></span>© <span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">ENOD 2016--California USA Coastline</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">As people of <strong>faith</strong> who practice Christian spirituality, we are committed to responsibly engage with others in the challenges facing our world, locally through globally, while holding firmly to our belief that we are in God's hands. We pray that God's purposes "will be done on earth as it in heaven;" acknowledge that prayer, repentance, and relationship with God are key to human-planetary wellbeing; and live in <strong>hope</strong> for the time when God through Jesus Christ will decisively intervene in human history with equity--righteousness and justice--to restore all things. And in the meantime, we seek to embrace lifestyles that prioritize a deep, practical <strong>love</strong> for truth, peace, and people.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We do not want to further <em>problematize</em> our world's plight by focusing primarily on the negative. Rather we want to also promote the many examples of the good going forward, as <strong>people of good will find common ground for the common good. </strong><br /><br />Finally, we want to highlight that the despair and disillusion that result from seemingly intractable problems can actually be quite positive<strong>. </strong>They can embody a crucial existential message about reality that can be "revisited"--explored and heeded--rather than simply "resisted." They can point us to Someone who is bigger than ourselves, the SDGs, humanity, and our world--the knowable, Eternal One who is both in and beyond space-time and who loves us all dearly. </span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The above thoughts build upon the Personal Reflections in </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/e604085d0973/global-integration-update-special-news-12154064" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, Hope: Sustainable Development-Sustainable Destruction?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (<em>Global Integration Update</em>, October 2022)</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 154px; outline: none; width: 150px;" /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. (MCA)</strong> is a non-profit, Christian organization working internationally from Geneva and the USA. MCA's involvement in Global Integration focuses on the wellbeing and effectiveness of personnel and their organizations across sectors (e.g., mission, humanitarian, peace, health, and development sectors) as well as global mental health and integrity/anti-corruption, all with a view towards collaboratively supporting sustainable development for all people and the planet. Our services include consultation, training, research, resource development, and publications.</span></span><br /> </div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Click on these items below to access our:</span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=125" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Member Care Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span><br /><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=133" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">member care books</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=2007" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">recent MCA publications</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Global Integration</strong></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/0ce457d4-4eb8-4fe6-9b39-f3c77bbccf8d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 137px; outline: none; width: 300px;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=373" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration</span></a> (GI) is a framework for actively and responsibly engaging in our world--locally to globally. It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links building the world we need with being the people we need.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Our <strong><em>Global Integration Updates</em> </strong>are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span><em><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">g</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"><em>lobal integrators</em></span><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good."</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2015-current</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (75+ issues). Some examples of foundational ones:<br /><br />Doomsday?--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Living in Global Integrity--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">April 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Peace and Security--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=651e03107d" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">December 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Global Citizenship--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=3e54230a8f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Faith-Based Partners in Transformation--</span><u><a href="http://eepurl.com/bvl0VH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">August 2015</span></a></u></span></div><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Pearl</strong><br />The image at the top of the <em>Update</em> (global pearl) is a cover detail from our edited book, </span><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Member Care (volume 2): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2013). William Carey Library. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>------</em></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability;<br />it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God,<br />and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. </em><br />Martin Luther King, Jr., </span><a href="https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Letter from a Birmingham Jail (April 1963)</span></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Member Care Associateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00435755943229949017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105370806558579704.post-90664518076927376122022-10-02T01:04:00.001+01:002022-12-13T18:33:29.232+01:00Humanity Care: UPGs and SDGs 22<p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateContainer" style="background-color: #7690bd; 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max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #606060; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><div><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/0ce457d4-4eb8-4fe6-9b39-f3c77bbccf8d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Special News--October 2022</span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, and Hope</span></strong></span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Sustainable Development or Sustainable Destruction?</strong></span></span><br /><br /><em><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>A Message to the United Nations General Assembly--<br />and to the World </strong></span></span></em><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/09/1127071" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6522652" height="366" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/731852c3-eed2-1450-a1db-d931816ba832.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 366px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">UN image: Opening address at the UNGA by S-G Guterres, 20 September 2022</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><span style="color: black;">"Progress on [major global] issues and more is being held hostage by geopolitical tensions. O<strong>ur world is in peril--and paralyzed</strong>. Geopolitical divides are: Undermining the work of the Security Council. Undermining international law. Undermining trust and people’s faith in democratic institutions. Undermining all forms of international cooperation. We cannot go on like this.....<strong>But by acting as one, we can nurture fragile shoots of hope</strong>...." </span></em><a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/speeches/2022-09-20/%E7%A7%98%E4%B9%A6%E9%95%BF%E5%90%91%E5%A4%A7%E4%BC%9A%E5%8F%91%E8%A1%A8%E7%9A%84%E8%AE%B2%E8%AF%9D" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the UN (20 September 2022)</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (bold font added for emphasis)</span></span></div>---------<p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;">In this <em>Update </em>we enter into the world of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the 77th one which commenced 20-27 September 2022 at the UN in New York. We feature the opening address by UN Secretary-General António Guterres on 20 September. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;">Mr. Guterres again (and over and over!) raises the alarm about the major issues plaguing our world--primarily humans palguing humans via geopolitical tensions, conflicts, climate change, poverty, etc.). And he calls for urgent action and solidarity by member states and the world community for the sake of people and the planet now and in the future. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">The title and theme of this <em>Update</em>--perils, paralysis, hope--reflects our summary take-away from Guterres' address. In spite of the ongoing perilous picture that he paints, the Secretary-General also emphasizes "hope": hope for collaborative change for the common good in line with the fundamental values and commitments of the </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN Charter (1945)</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Sustainable Development or Sustainable Destruction?<br />Or something in-between like <em>Sustainable Survival</em>? </strong><br />For many people, including ourselves, hearing yet another dark message about the state of the world can lead to a variety of responses: It can stir up a sense of "doomsday message fatigue," or lead to a sense of helplessness and hopelessness, or fill us with immobilizing fear. Perhaps though it can also stoke the fires of responsible resolve to work on a couple important issues in our personal lives and lifestyles, in our communities, and in our spheres of influence. We surely hope so!<br /><br />Are we as humanity heading towards ubiquitous destruction rather than equitable development? Or perhaps a standoff between the two: basic survival?<strong> </strong>We do not know. <strong>But</strong> w<strong>e are not losing our hope--nor our faith and love! </strong><br /><br />We finish the <em>Update</em> with our <strong>Personal Reflections</strong> about "being people of faith-hope-love." We also include the <strong>message by Archbishop Justin Welby on 19 September 2022</strong> <strong>at </strong></span><strong><a href="https://archbishopcranmer.com/archbishop-of-canterbury-queen-funeral-sermon-on-the-crown/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">the funeral service at Westminster Abbey</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"><u> </u></span></strong><strong><a href="https://archbishopcranmer.com/archbishop-of-canterbury-queen-funeral-sermon-on-the-crown/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">for Elizabeth II</span></a></strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> The funeral, much of which was organized in advance by the Queen herself, was viewed by an estimated and unprecedented global audience of over four billion people. Here is one excerpt for starters about her exemplary life of service and underlying faith and hope in God:</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>We will all face the merciful judgment of God: we can all share the Queen’s hope which in life and death inspired her servant leadership. Service in life, hope in death. All who follow the Queen’s example, and inspiration of trust and faith in God, can with her say: ‘We will meet again.’” </em>You can access the full t</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">ext</span> <a href="https://premierchristian.news/en/news/article/full-text-of-the-archbishop-of-canterbury-s-sermon-at-queen-s-funeral" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a> and the v<span style="color: black;">ideo</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0hWqPpKDdE" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;">. </span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Applications--Making It Personal</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">--<strong>Explore. </strong>Read the five excerpts below from Guterres' speech. How does the message of "perils, paralysis, and hope"--or any other major theme--fit with your experience and understanding of the world today?<br />--<strong>Relevance.</strong> Dive deeper into the speech by listening to and/or reading the entire speech</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> Consider a few ways that the perspectives are practically relevant for your life and work.<br />--<strong>Discuss</strong>. Share and discuss this <em>Update </em>with others. Perhaps have a go at relating the message (address) of Secretary-General Guterres with the message (sermon) of Archbishop Welby.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going further--see these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong><br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/c35dc88ee23d/global-integration-update-special-news-12148220?e=4bbe566fe4" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Arming the World--Promoting Positive Peace</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (September 2022)<br />--</span><a href="https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=7f89950dcf&e=4bbe566fe4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Climate-Conflict-Corruption: Safeguarding People and the Planet</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (July 2021)</span><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=6b9a115d25&e=4bbe566fe4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Doomsday: Next Stop, Global Dis-Integration?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (June 2017)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><strong><em> <img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 142px; outline: none; width: 200px;" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Perils, Paralysis, and Hope</span></strong></span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Sustainable Development or Sustainable Destruction?</strong></span></span><br /><br /><em><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>A Message to the United Nations General Assembly--<br />and to the World </strong></span></span></em><br /><br /><a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/speeches/2022-09-20/%E7%A7%98%E4%B9%A6%E9%95%BF%E5%90%91%E5%A4%A7%E4%BC%9A%E5%8F%91%E8%A1%A8%E7%9A%84%E8%AE%B2%E8%AF%9D" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6522656" height="213" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ac83c2c7-b1bd-1a73-186a-665c27ffc50b.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 213px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">UN image: S-G Guterres' opening address to the UNGA, 20 September 2022</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>"The divergence between developed and developing countries…is at the root of the geopolitical tensions and lack of trust that poison every area of global cooperation, from vaccines to sanctions to trade. But by acting as one, we can nurture fragile shoots of hope…So, let’s develop common solutions to common problems--grounded in goodwill, trust, and the rights shared by every human being." </em></span></span><a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/speeches/2022-09-20/%E7%A7%98%E4%B9%A6%E9%95%BF%E5%90%91%E5%A4%A7%E4%BC%9A%E5%8F%91%E8%A1%A8%E7%9A%84%E8%AE%B2%E8%AF%9D" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">UN Secretary-General António Guterres at the UNGA (20 September 2022)</span></span></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">---------</span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Here are five excerpts from the UN Secretary-General's opening address to the UN General Assembly on 20 September 2022</span></span>. N<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">ote that in spite of the ongoing dire picture that he paints, he also emphasizes "hope"--hope for collaborative change in line with the fundamental values and commitments of the UN Charter for the common good</span></span>.<br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Click </span></span><a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/09/1127071" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> for the video of the address<br />Click </span></span><a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/speeches/2022-09-20/%E7%A7%98%E4%B9%A6%E9%95%BF%E5%90%91%E5%A4%A7%E4%BC%9A%E5%8F%91%E8%A1%A8%E7%9A%84%E8%AE%B2%E8%AF%9D" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">HERE</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> for the text of the address<br />Click </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://media.un.org/en/webtv" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> to access UN WebTV in order watch archived events and speeches on various issues at the 77th UNGA.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">--<strong>Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen</strong>, Our world is in big trouble. Divides are growing deeper. Inequalities are growing wider. Challenges are spreading farther. But as we come together in a world teeming with turmoil, an image of promise and hope comes to my mind...<br /><br />--<strong>Excellencies</strong>, We need action across the board. Let’s have no illusions. We are in rough seas. A winter of global discontent is on the horizon. A cost-of-living crisis is raging. Trust is crumbling. Inequalities are exploding. Our planet is burning. People are hurting – with the most vulnerable suffering the most. The United Nations Charter and the ideals it represents are in jeopardy. We have a duty to act. And yet we are gridlocked in colossal global dysfunction. The international community is not ready or willing to tackle the big dramatic challenges of our age. These crises threaten the very future of humanity and the fate of our planet. Crises like the war in Ukraine and the multiplication of conflicts around the globe. Crises like the climate emergency and biodiversity loss. Crises like the dire financial situation of developing countries and the fate of the Sustainable Development Goals. And crises like the lack of guardrails around promising new technologies to heal disease, connect people and expand opportunity.<br /><br /> --<strong>Excellencies</strong>, Progress on all these issues and more is being held hostage by geopolitical tensions. Our world is in peril – and paralyzed. Geopolitical divides are: Undermining the work of the Security Council. Undermining international law. Undermining trust and people’s faith in democratic institutions. Undermining all forms of international cooperation. We cannot go on like this.<br /><br />--<strong>Excellencies</strong>, The climate crisis is coming on top of other heavy weather. A once-in-a-generation global cost-of-living crisis is unfolding, turbocharged by the war in Ukraine. Some 94 countries – home to 1.6 billion people – many in Africa – face a perfect storm: economic and social fallout from the pandemic, soaring food and energy prices, crushing debt burdens, spiraling inflation, and a lack of access to finance. These cascading crises are feeding on each other, compounding inequalities, creating devastating hardship, delaying the energy transition, and threatening global financial meltdown. Social unrest is inevitable – with conflict not far behind. It doesn’t have to be this way. A world without extreme poverty, want or hunger is not an impossible dream. It is within reach. That is the world envisaged by the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals. But it is not the world we seem to have chosen. Because of our decisions, sustainable development everywhere is at risk. The SDGs are issuing an SOS. Even the most fundamental goals – on poverty, hunger and education – are going into reverse. More people are poor. More people are hungry. More people are being denied health care and education. Gender equality is going backwards and women’s lives are getting worse, from poverty, to choices around sexual and reproductive health, to their personal security.<br /><br />---<strong>Excellencies</strong>, The divergence between developed and developing countries – between North and South – between the privileged and the rest – is becoming more dangerous by the day. It is at the root of the geopolitical tensions and lack of trust that poison every area of global cooperation, from vaccines to sanctions to trade. But by acting as one, we can nurture fragile shoots of hope. The hope found in climate and peace activists around the world calling out for change and demanding better of their leaders. The hope found in young people, working every day for a better, more peaceful future. The hope found in the women and girls, leading and fighting for those still being denied their basic human rights. The hope found throughout civil society seeking ways to build more just and equal communities and countries. The hope found in science and academia, racing to stay ahead of deadly diseases and end the COVID-19 pandemic. The hope found in humanitarian heroes rushing to deliver lifesaving aid around the world. The United Nations stands with them all. We know lofty ideals must be made real in people’s lives. So let’s develop common solutions to common problems — grounded in goodwill, trust, and the rights shared by every human being. Let’s work as one, a coalition of the world, as united nations. Thank you."</span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Note:</span></span></strong> <span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Recall that the </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/ga/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN General Assembly</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (UNGA) "is the main policy-making organ of the [United Nations]. Comprising all Member States, it provides a unique forum for multilateral discussion of the full spectrum of international issues covered by the Charter of the United Nations. Each of the 193 Member States of the United Nations has an equal vote. The UNGA also makes key decisions for the UN, including: appointing the Secretary-General on the recommendation of the Security Council electing the non-permanent members of the Security Council, [and] approving the UN budget. The Assembly meets in regular sessions from September to December each year, and thereafter as required. It discusses specific issues through dedicated agenda items or sub-items, which lead to the adoption of resolutions." (quote from the </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/ga/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UNGA website</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Personal Reflections</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em><strong>Being People of Faith-Hope-Love in a Perilous World<br /><span style="background-color: lightblue;">And a Messsage about the Life of Elizabeth II</span></strong></em></span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=26420e3814&e=a8fa1a0034" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6522752" height="309" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/6d6c9a7b-86a9-5ac4-3272-4befca228d17.png" style="border: 0px; height: 309px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Funeral for Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey, 19 September 2022</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">As people of <strong>faith</strong> who practice Christian spirituality, we are committed to responsibly engage with others in the challenges facing our world, locally through globally, while holding firmly to our belief that both fundamentally and ultimately we are in God's hands. We pray that God's purposes "will be done on earth as it in heaven;" acknowledge that prayer, repentance, and relationship with God are key to human-planetary wellbeing; and live in <strong>hope</strong> for the time when God through Jesus Christ will decisively intervene in human history with equity--righteousness and justice--to restore all things. And in the meantime...we seek to embrace lifestyles that prioritize a deep, practical<strong> love</strong> for truth, peace, and people.<br /><br />We do not want to further <em>problematize</em> our world's plight by focusing primarily on the negative. Rather we want to also promote the many examples of the good going forward, as <strong>people of good will find common ground for the common good. </strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;">In line with these reflections above, we want to share t<span style="color: black;">he<strong> </strong>message (sermon) by Archbishop Justin Welby on 19 September 2022 at the funeral service at Westminster Abbey for Elizabeth II. It was<strong> </strong>watched by an estimated and unprecedented global audience of over four billion people. She was a remarkable woman with a steadfast underlying faith as a follower of Jesus Christ<strong>. </strong>You can also access the full text</span> <a href="https://premierchristian.news/en/news/article/full-text-of-the-archbishop-of-canterbury-s-sermon-at-queen-s-funeral" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a> and the v<span style="color: black;">ideo</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0hWqPpKDdE" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span><br />---------------------------</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="6522756" height="275" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/03defc7a-de9b-cfa0-206f-e9fc8338e1bb.png" style="border: 0px; height: 275px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 275px;" width="275" /> <img data-file-id="6522760" height="275" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/929dc96a-36ff-ea13-ee0d-45faefc6d8cb.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 275px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 275px;" width="275" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Archbishop Justin Welby giving the sermon at the funeral for Queen Elizabeth II <br /> Wesminster Abbey, 19 September 2022</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;">Message by Archbishop Justin Welby about the life of Queen Elizabeth II</span></strong></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>The pattern for many leaders is to be exalted in life and forgotten after death. The pattern for all who serve God – famous or obscure, respected or ignored – is that death is the door to glory.</em></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Her late Majesty famously declared on a 21st birthday broadcast that her whole life would be dedicated to serving the nation and Commonwealth.</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Rarely has such a promise been so well kept! Few leaders receive the outpouring of love that we have seen.</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Jesus – who in our reading does not tell his disciples how to follow, but who to follow – said: ‘I am the way, the truth and the life.’ Her late Majesty’s example was not set through her position or her ambition, but through whom she followed. I know His Majesty shares the same faith and hope in Jesus Christ as his mother; the same sense of service and duty.</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">In 1953 the Queen began her coronation with silent prayer, just there at the High Altar. Her allegiance to God was given before any person gave allegiance to her. Her service to so many people in this nation, the Commonwealth and the world, had its foundation in her following Christ – God himself – who said that he “came not to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many.”</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">People of loving service are rare in any walk of life. Leaders of loving service are still rarer. But in all cases those who serve will be loved and remembered when those who cling to power and privileges are long forgotten.</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">The grief of this day – felt not only by the late Queen’s family but all round the nation, Commonwealth and the world – arises from her abundant life and loving service, now gone from us</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">She was joyful, present to so many, touching a multitude of lives.</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We pray especially for all her family, grieving as every family at a funeral – including so many families round the world who have themselves lost someone recently – but in this family’s case doing so in the brightest spotlight.</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">May God heal their sorrow, may the gap left in their lives be marked with memories of joy and life.</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Her late Majesty’s broadcast during COVID-19 lockdown ended with: ‘We will meet again’ -- words of hope from a song of Vera Lynn. Christian hope means certain expectation of something not yet seen.</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Christ rose from the dead and offers life to all, abundant life now and life with God in eternity.</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">As the Christmas carol says, “where meek souls will receive him, still the dear Christ enters in.”</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We will all face the merciful judgment of God: we can all share the Queen’s hope which in life and death inspired her servant leadership.</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Service in life, hope in death. All who follow the Queen’s example, and inspiration of trust and faith in God, can with her say: ‘We will meet again.’”</span></span></em></p><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><hr /></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 154px; outline: none; width: 150px;" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. (MCA)</strong> is a non-profit, Christian organization working internationally from Geneva and the USA. MCA's involvement in Global Integration focuses on the wellbeing and effectiveness of personnel and their organizations across sectors (e.g., mission, humanitarian, peace, health, and development sectors) as well as global mental health and integrity/anti-corruption, all with a view towards collaboratively supporting sustainable development for all people and the planet. Our services include consultation, training, research, resource development, and publications.</span></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Click on these items below to access our:</span><br /><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=125" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Member Care Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span><br /><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=133" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">member care books</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=2007" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">recent MCA publications</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Global Integration</strong></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/0ce457d4-4eb8-4fe6-9b39-f3c77bbccf8d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 137px; outline: none; width: 300px;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=373" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (GI)</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> is a framework for actively and responsibly engaging in our world--locally to globally. It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links <em>building</em> the world we need with <em>being</em> the people we need.<br /> <br />Our <strong><em>Global Integration Updates</em> </strong>are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span><em><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">g</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"><em>lobal integrators</em></span><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good."</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2015-current</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (75+ issues). Some examples of foundational ones:<br /><br />Doomsday?--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Living in Global Integrity--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">April 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Peace and Security--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=651e03107d" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">December 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Global Citizenship--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=3e54230a8f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Faith-Based Partners in Transformation--</span><u><a href="http://eepurl.com/bvl0VH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">August 2015</span></a></u></span></div><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Pearl</strong><br />The image at the top of the <em>Update</em> (global pearl) is a cover detail from our edited book, </span><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Member Care (volume 2): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2013). William Carey Library. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>------</em></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability;<br />it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God,<br />and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. </em><br />Martin Luther King, Jr., </span><a href="https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Letter from a Birmingham Jail (April 1963)</span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Member Care Associateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00435755943229949017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105370806558579704.post-12353864139624546832022-09-02T00:59:00.000+01:002022-11-10T02:06:32.249+01:00Humanity Care: UPGs and SDGs 21<p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateContainer" style="background-color: #7690bd; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: black; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templatePreheader" style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; 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height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Special News--September 2022</span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;">Arming the World</span></strong></span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Promoting Positive Peace</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><em>Facts for Advocacy and Action from 10 Sources</em></strong></span></span><br /><br /><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ed40d772-b8a8-5dbb-5edb-3c08bd58e3f9.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 550px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Boy in a "rebel" camp--Central African Republic--source unknown</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>“The clouds that parted following the end of the Cold War are gathering once more. </em><em>We have been extraordinarily lucky so far. But luck is not a strategy. </em><em>Nor is it a shield from geopolitical tensions boiling over into nuclear conflict. </em><em>Today, humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation."</em> UN Secretary-General António Guterres<em>.</em> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/speeches/2022-08-01/secretary-generals-remarks-the-tenth-review-conference-of-the-parties-the-treaty-the-non-proliferation-of-nuclear-weapons" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Remarks to the Tenth Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (1 August 2022)</span></a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------</span></div><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong><br />Welcome to the 75th issue of our G<em>lobal Integration Updates</em>! We are celebrating nearly eight years of providing strategic resources and personal reflections via the <em>Updates</em> to help "shape and support the emerging diversity of <em>global integrators </em>who as learners-practitioners are committed to the common ground for the common good."<br /><br />In this <em>Update </em>we focus on the various ways that <strong>the world is being outfitted for</strong>,<strong> participating in</strong>, <strong>and being impacted by</strong> <strong>armed conflicts</strong>.<strong> </strong>Specifically, and in the context of summoning us all to promote "positive peace" in our lives and world, we share summary statistics and information from 10 respected sources about national military budgets and military personnel, arms-selling and arms-buying countries, nuclear arsenals, civilian firearms and homicides, mines and munitions, UN Peacekeeping missions, forcibly displaced people, child soldiers, etc.<br /><br />For many people, including ourselves, reviewing the summary statistics and information below can be both surprising and alarming it can also be saddening and maddening! <strong>But we do not lose hope--nor our faith and love! </strong>See our Final Thoughts at the end about "being people of faith-hope-love in our fractured world." We echo the words of Martin Luther King Jr.:</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Our Purpose</strong><br />Our purpose in compiling these summary statistics and information is to help us all better track with the "big picture" of the "offense and defense industry." However, we are not offering specific analyses or judgements. Rather we hope that this collective (all-in-one-place) information will inspire you and many others towards <strong>greater awareness, advocacy, and action to promote positive peace in our world. </strong><br /><br />"<strong>Positive Peace</strong> is defined as the attitudes, institutions and structures that create and sustain peaceful societies. The same factors that create lasting peace also lead to many other positive outcomes that societies aspire to, including: thriving economies. better performance on ecological measures. Other factors that improve with Positive Peace are measures of inclusiveness, wellbeing and happiness. Therefore, Positive Peace can be described as creating an optimal environment for human potential to flourish." Executive Summary (page 4), </span><em><a href="https://www.visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/PPR-2020web.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Positive Peace Report 2020</span></a></em><span style="color: black;">,<em> Institute for Economics and Peace</em></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Applications--Making It Personal</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--<strong>Explore</strong><strong>. </strong>Choose one or more items below that you want to explore further including summary statistics, reports, and organizations. <br />--<strong>Relevance</strong><strong>.</strong> Consider a few ways that the materials are practically relevant for your life and work.<br />--<strong>Discuss</strong>. Share and discuss this <em>Update</em> with others in view of “advocacy and action” to promote positive peace.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going further--see these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong><br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/d40ac0629a27/global-integration-update-special-news-11449161" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Staring War in the Face</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (April 2022)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/ad30f29619c1/global-integration-update-special-news-10514349" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Peace on Earth: Sharing our Stories and Strategies</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(January 2022)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/0b3ac723e466/global-integration-update-special-news-7549717" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Climate-Conflict-Corruption: Safeguarding People and the Planet</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (July 2021)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/0ed050cc4349/global-integration-update-special-news-7088769" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Genocide: Bearing Witness…</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (December 2020)<br />--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Doomsday: Next Stop, Global Dis-Integration?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (June 2017)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><strong><em> <img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 142px; outline: none; width: 200px;" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Arming the World</span></strong></span><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Promoting Positive Peace</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><em>Facts for Advocacy and Action from 10 Sources</em></strong></span></span><br /><br /><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/8032b5fd-421f-f121-997a-9f52a0d3a17b.png" style="border: 0px; height: 343px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Image from the cover of </span><a href="https://icrcndresourcecentre.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/icrc_002_4015.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Children in War</em></span></a><span style="color: black;">,<em> </em>Christoph von Toggenburg<strong>/</strong>ICRC (2009)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>“We are a world in pieces.</em><br /><em>We need to be a world at peace.”</em><br />UN Secretary-General António Guterres</span><br /><a href="https://membercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=b719153dcd&e=a8fa1a0034" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN General Assembly, 19 September 2017</span></a></span><br />-----------</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="color: black;">One:</span> <a href="https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Citizen</span></a></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/facts-about-world-conflicts" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">10 Heartbreaking Facts About Ongoing Conflicts Around the World</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> (</span><span style="color: black;">April 2022)<br />“1. <strong>There Are at Least 27 Live Conflicts Right Now.</strong> According to the Council on Foreign Relation’s </span><a href="https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/?category=us" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Conflict Tracker</span></a> [see image below in this <em>Update</em>]<span style="color: black;">, there are currently 27 ongoing conflicts worldwide. The tracker categorizes conflict into three groups: “worsening,” “unchanging,” and “improving.” Right now, there’s not a single conflict described as “improving.” Of those worsening are the conflict in Ukraine, the war in Afghanistan, political instability in Lebanon, the war in Yemen, the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar, and the conflict in Ethiopia....<br /> <br />3. <strong>2 Billion People Currently Live in Conflict-Affected Areas.</strong> A </span><a href="https://www.un.org/press/en/2022/sgsm21216.doc.htm" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">quarter</span></a><span style="color: black;"> of the entire global population lives in conflict-affected areas. Some of the worst affected places are Ethiopia's Tigray region, South Sudan, Syria, Yemen, and Afghanistan. According to the UN, last year, 84 million people were forcibly displaced because of conflict, violence, and human rights violations. This year, it is estimated that at least 274 million people will need humanitarian assistance."</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/17772c76-31cd-3f52-81f5-2abd34db31ba.png" style="border: 0px; height: 250px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Image source:</span> <a href="https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Council on Foreign Relations, Global Conflict Tracker</span></a></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Two: </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">United Nations</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.un.org/en/un75/new-era-conflict-and-violence" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">A New Era of Violence and Conflict</span></a></strong><br /><span style="color: black;">“The nature of conflict and violence has transformed substantially since the UN was founded 75 years ago. Conflicts now tend to be less deadly and often waged between domestic groups rather than states. Homicides are becoming more frequent in some parts of the world, while gender-based attacks are increasing globally. The long-term impact on development of inter-personal violence, including violence against children, is also more widely recognized. Separately, technological advances have raised concerns about lethal autonomous weapons and cyberattacks, the weaponization of bots and drones, and the livestreaming of extremist attacks. There has also been a rise in criminal activity involving data hacks and ransomware, for example. Meanwhile, international cooperation is under strain, diminishing global potential for the prevention and resolution of conflict and violence in all forms.” (excerpt from the summary)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><a href="https://peacekeeping.un.org/en" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">United Nations Peacekeeping</span></span></a></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">“UN Peacekeeping helps countries navigate the difficult path from conflict to peace. We have unique strengths, including legitimacy, burden sharing, and an ability to deploy troops and police from around the world, integrating them with civilian peacekeepers to address a range of mandates set by the UN Security Council and General Assembly.”</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="6511444" height="403" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/6cad9e3d-fc2e-33a0-32fc-a5a7bb60b85c.png" style="border: 0px; height: 403px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Three:</strong></span> <a href="https://www.sipri.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)</strong></span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">“</span><em><a href="https://www.sipri.org/yearbook/2022" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">SIPRI Yearbook 2022</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">provides an overview of developments in international security, weapons and technology, military expenditure, arms production and the arms trade, and armed conflicts and conflict management, along with efforts to control conventional, nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.” Below are some examples from the </span><a href="https://www.sipri.org/sites/default/files/2022-06/yb22_summary_en_v3.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Summary</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span> <span style="color: black;">See page 18ff also for information on chemical, biological, and health security threats.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/08b76396-b534-0e04-6adf-be3424ab40b7.png" style="border: 0px; height: 374px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /></p><hr />----------<br /><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/91589583-c6fc-9d3f-c793-7ff86d2412da.png" style="border: 0px; height: 515px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /><hr />----------<br /><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/cf7dc079-51c8-5114-0e3f-d1430675db5b.png" style="border: 0px; height: 309px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /><br />----------<br /><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/373dc526-b9bc-bf43-05fd-bc997c56daa5.png" style="border: 0px; height: 527px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /><br />----------<br /><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5b3f5cef-8d45-f892-b88e-7d3a05acfc3a.png" style="border: 0px; height: 563px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /><div style="text-align: justify;"><hr /><hr /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Four:</strong></span> <a href="https://www.rescue.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>International Rescue Committee</strong></span></a><br /><a href="https://www.rescue.org/article/top-10-crises-world-cant-ignore-2022" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Top Ten Crises the World Cannot Ignore in 2022 (updated July 2022)</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">“The International Rescue Committee has released its 2022 Emergency Watchlist, a global list of humanitarian crises that are expected to deteriorate the most over the coming year. Most Watchlist countries—the top ten in particular—have experienced almost non-stop conflict over the last decade, hampering their ability to respond to global challenges like COVID-19 and </span><a href="https://www.rescue.org/topic/climate-change" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" title="Climate Change"><span style="color: mediumblue;">climate change</span></a><span style="color: black;">. These 20 countries are home to 10% of the global population but account for 89% of those in need of humanitarian aid worldwide. (N.B. The 2022 Emergency Watchlist was compiled before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. For updates on the humanitarian situation inside Ukraine, and for refugees who have fled to neighboring countries, please visit our </span><a href="https://www.rescue.org/topic/ukraine-crisis" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Ukraine Crisis page</span></a><span style="color: black;">.)<br /><br />Displaced families, and in particular </span><a href="https://www.rescue.org/outcome/women-girls" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">women and girls</span></a><span style="color: black;">, are disproportionately affected by the crises, which are more than a series of unfortunate events, stresses David Miliband, IRC president and CEO. “The story told by the Watchlist makes a bigger argument,” he writes in the report, “not just that there are more poor and more people forcibly displaced, but that the scale and nature of humanitarian distress around the world constitutes a system failure.”<br /> <br />The IRC has produced a Watchlist each year for over a decade. Over this time, it has evolved from a purely internal aid for emergency preparedness planning into a public report that warns global leaders, policymakers and concerned citizens not just where crises are deepening but why they are deepening and what can be done about it.”</span></span><hr /></div><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Five:</span> <a href="https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)</span></a><br /><a href="https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/figures-at-a-glance.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UNHCR Figures at a Glance</span></a></strong></span></div><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/c4029b8a-9dcc-772a-913e-23f117962c12.png" style="border: 0px; height: 272px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /><br />----------<br /><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/dc7ad121-ab7a-56da-98fa-7db48c2ac1f1.png" style="border: 0px; height: 230px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /><br />----------<br /><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5ac4e31c-a134-5933-fffb-c91473702057.png" style="border: 0px; height: 231px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /><div style="text-align: justify;"><hr /><hr /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Six:</span> <a href="http://the-monitor.org/en-gb/home.aspx" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Landmine and Cluster Munitions Monitor</span></a></strong><br /><a href="http://the-monitor.org/en-gb/reports/2021/landmine-monitor-2021/major-findings.aspx" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Summary of Landmines</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">“Casualties. 2020 was the sixth year in a row with high numbers of recorded casualties due to mines, including improvised types, as well as cluster munition remnants and other explosive remnants of war (ERW). The continuing high casualty total recorded is mostly the result of increased conflict and contamination observed since 2015. In 2020, at least 7,073 casualties of mines/ERW were recorded: 2,492 people were killed and 4,561 people were injured, while the survival status was unknown for 20 casualties. The 2020 total represents an increase from the 5,853 casualties recorded in 2019, and is more than double the lowest annual recorded total (3,456 in 2013). The vast majority of recorded mine/ERW casualties were civilians (80%) where their status was known. In 2020, children accounted for half of all civilian casualties where the age was known (1,872). As in previous years, in 2020, men and boys made up the majority of all casualties (85%) for which the sex was known.”<br /> <br />See also the </span><a href="http://the-monitor.org/en-gb/reports/2022/cluster-munition-monitor-2022/major-findings.aspx" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Summary of Cluster Munitions</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><hr /><hr /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Seven: </strong></span><strong><a href="https://www.smallarmssurvey.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Small Arms Survey</span></a></strong><br /><a href="https://www.smallarmssurvey.org/database/global-firearms-holdings" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Firearms Holdings</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">“There are more than one billion firearms in the world, the vast majority of which are in civilian hands. The Small Arms Survey estimates that of the one billion firearms in global circulation as of 2017, 857 million (85 per cent) are in civilian hands, 133 million (13 per cent) are in military arsenals, and 23 million (2 per cent) are owned by law enforcement agencies. Our studies suggest that the global stockpile has increased over the past decade, largely due to civilian holdings, which grew from 650 million in 2006 to 857 million in 2017.”</span></span><br /> </div><div><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/b88e236d-6fba-860c-7a8f-37e9f1866b08.png" style="border: 0px; height: 178px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /></div><hr /><div>----------</div><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/b7a93afc-c84e-f409-d8ae-61086597106d.png" style="border: 0px; height: 533px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.smallarmssurvey.org/highlight/2022-update-small-arms-surveys-global-violent-deaths-gvd-database" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2022 update of the Small Arms Survey’s Global Violent Deaths (GVD) database</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">“According to the latest update of the Small Arms Survey's </span><a href="https://smallarmssurvey.org/database/global-violent-deaths-gvd" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Violent Deaths (GVD) database</span></a><span style="color: black;">, loss of life resulting from interpersonal violence decreased substantially between 2016 and 2020. The GVD database collates data on homicides and direct conflict deaths into a single ‘violent death’ indicator (not including suicides), dating back to 2004. In its 2022 update, estimating lethal violence as of the year 2020, the database reveals that the global rate of violent deaths decreased from 9.1 per 100,000 people to 6.8 per 100,000 people between 2016 and 2020. Similarly, firearm-related violent deaths on the global scale decreased from 3.9 per 100,000 in 2016 to 2.7 per 100,000 in 2020. In total, 531,000 people died violently in 2020, out of which 40 per cent (211,000) were killed by firearm.<br /> <br />However, while the decrease in the global violent death rate and count suggests a positive trend, the impact of ongoing conflicts (such as in Ukraine), as well as recent increases in homicides in some countries, risk reversing it. This also implies that possible progress towards meeting </span><a href="https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/peace-justice/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Target 16.1 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)</span></a><span style="color: black;">—reducing all forms of violence and related death rates—would similarly be stymied.”</span></span><hr /><hr /> <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Eight:</strong></span> <a href="https://www.hrw.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Human Rights Watch </strong></span></a><br /><a href="https://www.hrw.org/topic/childrens-rights/child-soldiers" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Child Soldiers</span></a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">“Thousands of children are serving as soldiers in armed conflicts around the world. These boys and girls, some as young as 8 years old, serve in government forces and armed opposition groups. They may fight on the front lines, participate in suicide missions, and act as spies, messengers, or lookouts. Girls may be forced into sexual slavery. Many are abducted or recruited by force, while others join out of desperation, believing that armed groups offer their best chance for survival. We are working to prevent the use of child soldiers and to hold accountable the people who send children to fight.” </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Nine:</strong></span> <a href="https://theirworld.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Theirworld</strong></span></a><br /><a href="https://theirworld.org/resources/child-soldiers/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Summary information on Child Soldiers</span></a></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>“What is a child soldier? </strong>Any girl or boy below the age of 18 who is recruited or used by an armed force or armed group, in any capacity. A child soldier is not just someone who is involved in fighting. They can also be those in other roles such as cooks, porters, messengers, human shields, spies, suicide bombers or those used for sexual exploitation. It includes children recruited and trained for military purposes, but not used in war.”</span></span></div><div><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> <br /><strong>How many child soldiers are there?</strong> There are an estimated 250,000 child soldiers in the world today in at least 20 countries. About 40% of child soldiers are girls, who are often used as sex slaves and taken as “wives” by male fighters<br /> <br /><strong>Where are child soldiers recruited?</strong> Fifty countries still allow children to be recruited into armed forces, according to Child Soldiers International. Many non-state armed groups also recruit children. The UN Secretary-General’s annual “name and shame” list for 2017 highlighted the armed forces of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for recruiting and using under-18s for armed conflict. But non-state armed groups also recruit children in these and other countries.”</span></span></div></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Ten:</span> <a href="https://www.economicsandpeace.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Institute for Economics and Peace</span></a><span style="color: black;">—</span><a href="https://www.visionofhumanity.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Vision of Humanity</span></a></strong></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f14536d7-1acc-5148-a4b1-b75ff940ed44.png" style="border: 0px; height: 311px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://www.visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/GPI-2022-web.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Institute for Economics and Peace (2022)</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><a href="https://www.visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/GPI-2022-web.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Peace Index 2022</span></a></em><br /><span style="color: black;">“This is the 16th edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI), which ranks...163 countries comprising 99.7 per cent of the world’s population, using 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators from highly respected sources, and measures the state of peace across three domains: the level of societal Safety and Security; the extent of Ongoing Domestic and International Conflict; and the degree of Militarisation. In addition to discussing the findings from the 2022 GPI, the report includes an analysis of the military conflict in Ukraine. It covers likely increases in military spending, new and emerging uses of technology in the war, its impact on food prices and global shipping routes. The report also contains a deeper analysis on violent demonstrations around the world....<br /> <br />Iceland remains the most peaceful country in the world, a position it has held since 2008. It is joined at the top of the index by New Zealand, Ireland, Denmark and Austria. Afghanistan is the least peaceful country in the world for the fifth consecutive year, followed by Yemen, Syria, Russia and South Sudan. All of these countries have been among the ten least peaceful countries for the last three years....Of the 163 countries in the GPI, 84 recorded deteriorations, while 77 recorded improvements and two recorded no change in score. Fifteen of the 23 GPI indicators deteriorated between 2008 and 2021 while eight improved. Two of the three GPI domains deteriorated since 2008, with Ongoing Conflict deteriorating by 9.3 per cent and Safety and Security deteriorating by 3.6 per cent....<br /><br />Moving forward, the 2022 GPI reveals a world in which many nations have begun to recover from the shock of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, many of the ramifications of the lockdowns remain, including supply chain disruptions and delays, product shortages, higher energy and food prices. It is also a world that is suffering from increasing inflation, the highest levels in forty years in some countries and without an improvement in sight. The rise in food and fuel costs has increased food insecurity and political instability globally, but especially in low-resilience regions such as sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and MENA. It is in these already unstable conditions that Russia launched an attack on Ukraine in February 2022. The conflict will only exacerbate these issues further. The conflict will accelerate global inflation, with Western sanctions further contributing to shortages and hikes in prices. The impacts have been only partially captured in 2022 GPI. These near-term implications to global peacefulness may lead to deteriorations in food security, increases in militarisation and military expenditures in Europe, and greater likelihood of political instability and violent demonstrations." (excerpts from the Executive Summary)</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Final Thoughts</span></span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em><strong>Being People of Faith-Hope-Love in a Fractured World</strong><br /><br />I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.<br />This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/learn/quotations.htm#:~:text=%22I%20believe%20that%20unarmed%20truth,%2C%20Oslo%2C%20Norway%2C%201964." style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1964</span></a></span><br /> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">As people of <strong>faith</strong> who practice Christian spirituality, we are committed to responsibly engage with others in the challenges facing our world, locally through globally, while holding firmly to our belief that both fundamentally and ultimately we are in God's hands. We pray that God's purposes "will be done on earth as it in heaven;" acknowledge that prayer, repentance, and relationship with God are key to human-planetary wellbeing; and live in <strong>hope</strong> for the time when God through Jesus Christ will decisively intervene in human history with equity--righteousness and justice--to restore all things. And in the meantime...we seek to embrace lifestyles that prioritize a deep, practical<strong> love</strong> for truth, peace, and people.<br /><br />We do not want to further <em>problemitize</em> our world's plight by focusing primarily on the negative. Rather we want to also promote the many examples of the good going forward, as <strong>people of good will find common ground for the common good. </strong>And<strong> </strong>we affirm, in the words of Martin Luther King Jr., that human progress comes from "<em>the tireless efforts of [people] willing to be coworkers with God."</em></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><hr /></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 154px; outline: none; width: 150px;" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. (MCA)</strong> is a non-profit, Christian organization working internationally from Geneva and the USA. MCA's involvement in Global Integration focuses on the wellbeing and effectiveness of personnel and their organizations across sectors (e.g., mission, humanitarian, peace, health, and development sectors) as well as global mental health and integrity/anti-corruption, all with a view towards collaboratively supporting sustainable development for all people and the planet. Our services include consultation, training, research, resource development, and publications.</span></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Click on these items below to access our:</span><br /><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=125" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Member Care Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span><br /><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=133" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">member care books</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=2007" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">recent MCA publications</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Global Integration</strong></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/0ce457d4-4eb8-4fe6-9b39-f3c77bbccf8d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 137px; outline: none; width: 300px;" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=373" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (GI)</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> is a framework for actively and responsibly engaging in our world--locally to globally. It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links <em>building</em> the world we need with <em>being</em> the people we need.<br /> <br />Our <strong><em>Global Integration Updates</em> </strong>are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span><em><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">g</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"><em>lobal integrators</em></span><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good."</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2015-current</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (70 issues). Some examples of foundational ones:<br /><br />Doomsday?--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Living in Global Integrity--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">April 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Peace and Security--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=651e03107d" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">December 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Global Citizenship--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=3e54230a8f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Faith-Based Partners in Transformation--</span><u><a href="http://eepurl.com/bvl0VH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">August 2015</span></a></u></span></div><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Pearl</strong><br />The image at the top of the <em>Update</em> (global pearl) is a cover detail from our edited book, </span><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Member Care (volume 2): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2013). William Carey Library. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>------</em></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability;<br />it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God,<br />and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. </em><br />Martin Luther King, Jr., </span><a href="https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Letter from a Birmingham Jail (April 1963)</span></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Member Care Associateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00435755943229949017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105370806558579704.post-37954538115299465482022-08-02T00:47:00.000+01:002022-11-10T02:05:59.715+01:00Humanity Care: UPGs and SDGs 20<p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateContainer" style="background-color: #7690bd; 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max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #606060; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><div><img align="none" height="263" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/0ce457d4-4eb8-4fe6-9b39-f3c77bbccf8d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" width="575" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Special News--August 2022<br />Repentance and Reconciliation</span></strong><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><strong>Learning from the Pope's Pilgrimage of Penance</strong></em></span></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="6493040" height="366" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/272343d4-73ce-a5c6-43fd-f312c81e1e2b.jpeg" style="border: 0px; height: 366px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Pope Francis in Maskwacis, Alberta, Canada July 25, 2022. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane</span></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"Dear brothers and sisters! I have come to your native lands to tell you in person of my sorrow, to implore God’s forgiveness, healing and reconciliation, to express my closeness and to pray with you and for you. I am here because the first step of my penitential pilgrimage among you is that of again asking forgiveness, of telling you once more that I am deeply sorry. Sorry for the ways in which, regrettably, many Christians supported the colonizing mentality of the powers that oppressed the indigenous peoples. I am sorry. I ask forgiveness, in particular, for the ways in which many members of the Church and of religious communities co-operated, not least through their indifference, in projects of cultural destruction and forced assimilation promoted by the governments of that time, which culminated in the system of residential schools." </em></span></span><br /><a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/read-the-full-text-of-pope-francis-speech-and-apology-1.6001384" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-size: 14px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Pope Francis<span style="text-align: justify;">,</span> 25 July 2022<span style="text-align: justify;">, </span>Maskwacis, Alberta<span style="text-align: justify;">, Canada</span></span></a></div><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------</span><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong><br />In this <em>Update </em>we probe into the crucial need for repentance (including giving and receiving apologies and forgiveness) and its central place in the efforts to further reconciliation (including restoring trust and relationships). It is a tough topic with huge implications for the wellbeing of all people and the planet!<br /><br /><strong><em>Repentance</em></strong> involves a significant shift in one's thinking and behavior as a result of understanding and acknowledging wrongdoing. <strong><em>Reconciliation</em></strong> involves a significant shift in broken relationships from alienation and animosity towards reconnection and restoration. There is so much more of course that could be said about these terms--please excuse the brevity here of our definitions!</span></span><br /><br /><strong>S<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">pecifically we present Pope Francis' current week-long "Pilgrimage of Penance" in Canada among Indigenous peoples and feature his 30 minute address on 25 July (links to the text and to the video)</span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">. His public apology to Indigenous peoples on behalf of the Church has been long overdue and from our perspective reflects the courage and contrition needed to own the long-term grievous wrongdoings in the past and their ongoing negative consequences.</span></span><br /><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"I myself wish to reaffirm this, with shame and unambiguously. I humbly beg forgiveness for the evil committed by so many Christians against the Indigenous peoples."</span></span></em></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Repentance is Good</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">We believe it is <em>good</em> to repent and to seek reconciliation as much as possible and that this is something to be <em>practiced</em> by us all (people of faith or of no particular faith) and at all levels</span>:</span><strong> </strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">individual-interpersonal-institutional-international and everything in-between. There may be other terms used rather than <em>repentance</em> and <em>reconciliation</em> such as "full apology" and "relational restoration" respectively yet the basic core aspects remain the same--to acknowledge wrongdoing and take responsibility for one's actions with a view to heal broken relationships. <em>"I was wrong--I am sorry--Please forgive me--I will change--Let's maintain or restore our relationship." </em></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We think that there is so much to learn from the Pope's address as well as the long and arduous process that it has taken to admit and repent from wrongdoings. The same is true for other institutions</span><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></em><span style="font-size: 14px;">and countries</span><em><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></em><span style="font-size: 14px;">who have been willing to confront ingrained leadership</span><em><span style="font-size: 14px;">,</span></em><span style="font-size: 14px;"> systemic</span><em><span style="font-size: 14px;">,</span></em><span style="font-size: 14px;"> and structural deviance and cultures of corruption</span><em><span style="font-size: 14px;">. A</span></em><span style="font-size: 14px;">greeing on the "truth" and way forward however can be quite a challenging process for two or more parties in conflict since there can be so many </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">issues</span></span><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">,</span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> identities</span><em><span style="font-size: 14px;">,</span></em><span style="font-size: 14px;"> and resources etc</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> at stake not to mention misinformation and disinformation etc.! Robert Schreiter’s sobering comments on reconciliation at the societal level are also applicable at all levels</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">:</span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> <br />“Truth-telling, struggling for justice, working toward forgiveness: these are three central dimensions of the social process of reconciliation. In all situations I know, they are never undertaken on a level playing field; the consequences of oppression, violence, and war are not predisposed to honesty, justice, and even good intentions in all parties. Nor are the processes, for the most part, orderly. And they never seem complete, In fact, we usually experience them as truncated, prematurely foreclosed, high-jacked by the powerful....We can find ourselves acquiescing to half-measures, half-truths, compromised solutions.” (Schreiter, 2005, quoted in </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/mcaresources/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Wise Doves and Innocent Serpen<u>t</u></span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"><u>s</u></span></span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/mcaresources/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">?</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/mcaresources/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"> Doing Conflict Resolution Better</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">).</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Applications--Making It Personal</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Consider these items below as you review the materials in this <em>Update</em>--especially reading the text and</span><strong>/</strong><span style="font-size: 14px;">or watching the video of the Pope's 25 July address</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;">:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">1. How is the Pope <em>specifically </em>apologizing: acknowledging wrongdoing<em>, </em>taking responsibility<em>,</em> demonstrating changes<em>, </em>making<em> </em>amends<em>, </em>seeking to restore relationships<em>,</em> calling for justice? Is anything missing?<br /><br />2. What helps and hinders "unambiguously" acknowledging wrongdoing and making full apologies? Can you cite other organizations and leaders that have publicly apologized <em>fully</em> (with or without having been "caught" for wrongdoing)?</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">3. List a few take-aways for your personal life and for your work settings<em>. </em>How might this example among Indigenous peoples be supportive of any efforts to reconcile with others?<br /><br />4. Where else in the world is <em>cultural genocide</em> taking place currently? See the final section below on "Cultural Genocide--Into USA history and current practices internationally<em>."</em></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going further--see these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong><br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/0ed050cc4349/global-integration-update-special-news-7088769" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Genocide: Studying, Preventing, Confronting, Punishing, Healing</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (December 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/4911684ca85e/global-integration-update-special-news-1472225" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Wellbeing for Who? Global Reports from Seven Sectors</span></a> <span style="color: black;">(February 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/5b21acaec259/global-integration-update-special-news-1449681" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Peace, Justice, Inclusion and Strong Institutions: SDG 16+</span></a> <span style="color: black;">(December 2019)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><strong><em> <img data-file-id="2181237" height="142" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" width="200" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Repentance and Reconciliation</span></strong><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><strong>Learning from the Pope's Pilgrimage of Penance</strong></em></span></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="6492948" height="217" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/ab357383-10ba-aed5-9033-77bd090271a0.png" style="border: 0px; height: 217px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Pope Francis is in Canada to personally affirm Indigenous peoples and to apologize for the Church's abusive and catastrophic roles in their history and lives including in residential schools.<br />25 July 2022</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="text-align: justify;">, </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;">Maskwacis, Alberta Canada</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>"Dear brothers and sisters, many of you and your representatives have stated that begging pardon is not the end of the matter. I fully agree: that is only the first step, the starting point. I also recognize that, “looking to the past, no effort to beg pardon and to seek to repair the harm done will ever be sufficient” and that, “looking ahead to the future, no effort must be spared to create a culture able to prevent such situations from happening” (Letter to the People of God, 20 August 2018). An important part of this process will be to conduct a serious investigation into the facts of what took place in the past and to assist the survivors of the residential schools to experience healing from the traumas they suffered." </em></span></span><a href="https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/read-the-full-text-of-pope-francis-speech-and-apology-1.6001384" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-size: 14px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Pope Francis<span style="text-align: justify;">,</span> 25 July 2022<span style="text-align: justify;">, </span>Maskwacis, Alberta<span style="text-align: justify;">, Canada</span></span></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">-----------<br /><br /><img data-file-id="6493044" height="440" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/bd6896dd-8a04-a93c-e63f-3a3c199d10a9.jpeg" style="border: 0px; height: 440px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">"A woman sings Canada's national anthem in the Cree language during a visit by Pope Francis" Maskwacis, Alberta, Canada July 25, 2022. Adam Scotti/Prime Minister's Office/Handout via REUTERS</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>.</em></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">"</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Text</strong><br />--Read the text of Pope Francis' 25 July address </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.ncregister.com/news/full-text-pope-francis-apology-to-the-indigenous-peoples-in-canada" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">--See the short commentary by the Editorial Director of Vatican News</span> <a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2022-07/a-request-for-forgiveness-for-attitudes-incompatible-with-the-go.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>"Remembering the devastating experiences in residential schools is shocking, indignant, painful, but necessary."</em><br /><br /><strong>Pictures</strong><br />See 40+ pictures of the Pope's tour in Canada </span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/in-pictures-popes-canada-apology-tour-idUSRTS9XJX6" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (Reuters)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Videos</strong> <br />--Watch the video (30 minutes) of Pope Francis' 25 July address </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d87PLRrbP0w" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">--Watch somme of the short videos of the Pope's "Pilgrimage of Penance" in Canada on the Vatican News site </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.vaticannews.va/en/search.html?q=Canada&in=all&sorting=latest" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a> </span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Cultural Genocide<br /><em>Into USA history and current practices internationally</em></strong></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="6493036" height="269" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/41a15c41-734d-4bdc-230f-642308e352f1.png" style="border: 0px; float: left; height: 269px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><br /> </p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Screenshot from the opening of the PBS documentary described below</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">-<span style="font-size: 14px;">-See the Vox documentary on Native American children and boarding schools in the USA </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGqWRyBCHhw" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE </span></a><span style="color: black;">(2019<em>,</em> 14 minutes)</span></span>. <span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">"How the US stole thousands of Native American children."</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;">--<span style="color: black;">See the PBS documentary on Native American children and boarding schools in the USA </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo1bYj-R7F0" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a> (2017<span style="color: black;"><em>,</em></span> 57 minutes)</span>.<span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">"A moving and insightful look into the history, operation, and legacy of the federal Indian Boarding School system, whose goal was total assimilation of Native Americans at the cost of stripping away Native culture, tradition, and language. </span><a dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/nativeamerican" spellcheck="false" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">#NativeAmerican</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/indigenous" spellcheck="false" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">#Indigenous</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a dir="auto" href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/indianboardingschools" spellcheck="false" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">#IndianBoardingSchools</span></a><span style="color: black;">"<br /><br /><strong>--And there are other countries currently doing the same with "colonial</strong></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>, </em></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>re-educational and vocational etc</strong>.<strong>" boarding schools where indigenous children and people are being forcibly assimilated in order to change their cultures (including political and religious beliefs) in line with those of the state and dominant party in power</strong>.<br /><br />--See the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_genocide" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Wikipedia</em> entry on "Cultural Genocide"</span></a><span style="color: black;"> including the many historical examples</span></span><br /><br />-<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">-See the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_commission" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Wikipedia</em> entry on "Truth and Reconciliation Commissions</span></a>"<span style="color: black;"> including descriptions of various commissions</span></span></p><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><hr /></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img data-file-id="247905" height="154" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" width="150" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. (MCA)</strong> is a non-profit, Christian organization working internationally from Geneva and the USA. MCA's involvement in Global Integration focuses on the wellbeing and effectiveness of personnel and their organizations across sectors (e.g., mission, humanitarian, peace, health, and development sectors) as well as global mental health and integrity/anti-corruption, all with a view towards collaboratively supporting sustainable development for all people and the planet. Our services include consultation, training, research, resource development, and publications.</span></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Click on these items below to access our:</span><br /><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=125" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Member Care Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span><br /><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=133" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">member care books</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=2007" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">recent MCA publications</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Global Integration</strong></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="137" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/0ce457d4-4eb8-4fe6-9b39-f3c77bbccf8d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" width="300" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=373" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (GI)</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> is a framework for actively and responsibly engaging in our world--locally to globally. It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links <em>building</em> the world we need with <em>being</em> the people we need.<br /> <br />Our <strong><em>Global Integration Updates</em> </strong>are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">global integrators</span></a><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good."</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2015-current</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (70 issues). Some examples of foundational ones:<br /><br />Doomsday?--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Living in Global Integrity--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">April 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Peace and Security--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=651e03107d" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">December 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Global Citizenship--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=3e54230a8f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Faith-Based Partners in Transformation--</span><u><a href="http://eepurl.com/bvl0VH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">August 2015</span></a></u></span></div><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Pearl</strong><br />The image at the top of the <em>Update</em> (global pearl) is a cover detail from our edited book, </span><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Member Care (volume 2): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2013). William Carey Library. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>------</em></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability;<br />it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God,<br />and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. </em><br />Martin Luther King, Jr., </span><a href="https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Letter from a Birmingham Jail (April 1963)</span></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Member Care Associateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00435755943229949017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105370806558579704.post-38483654227243938072022-05-29T13:41:00.006+01:002022-05-30T16:03:15.680+01:00Humanity Care: UPGs and SDGs 19<p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateContainer" style="background-color: #7690bd; 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max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22.5px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="color: #606060; font-size: 15px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Moral Health for a More Whole World</strong></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong style="color: #606060; font-size: 13px;"><em>Global Integration</em> <em>Update--</em>Special News--June 2022<br /></strong><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 15px;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 16px;">Global Integrity Day--9 June 2022</span></em></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Integrity and Corruption in the Health Sector</strong></span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-size: 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6450811" height="288" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/2d04c4a0-9edc-4b77-af7e-eb365bdad5d3.png" style="border: 0px; height: 288px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a><div style="color: #606060; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>"Integrity</em></strong><em> is moral wholeness—living consistently in moral wholeness. <strong>Corruption</strong> is moral rottenness, the opposite of integrity--the distortion, perversion, and deterioration of moral goodness, resulting in the abuse and exploitation of people and the planet. It is <strong>integ</strong></em><strong>roty<em>. </em></strong></span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmailchi.mp%2F8d1c93fec26c%2F21ablt91fq&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw1OV3dELH3kuf9b0EeTZ9M3" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong><em>Global integrity</em></strong></span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em> </em></span><span style="color: black;"><em>is living consistently in moral wholeness at all levels--individual, interpersonal, institutional, and international; across sectors and settings; local through global; the systemic and structural." </em></span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integrity Day website</span></a></span></div><span style="color: #606060;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">---------</span></span><p style="color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview</strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>What does integrity have to do with wellbeing and sustainable development? Everything!</strong> Integrity is at the core of moral health<em>.</em> And moral health at all levels--like <em>global</em> integrity--must be at the core of promoting and protecting wholeness for all people and the planet<em>.</em> <strong>There is no "planetary health" without moral health!</strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">In this <em>Update</em> we focus (again!) on the very practical and personal linking of our work in global integration with integrity<em>.</em> Specifically we present a selection of five<strong> "spotlight events" for you from </strong></span><strong><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integrity Day--9 June 2022</span></a></strong><span style="color: black;"><em>.</em></span><strong><span style="color: black;"> </span></strong><span style="color: black;">The focus this year is on "integrity and corruption in the health sector<em>." </em><br /><br />These special events are free<em>, </em>on-demand video-webinars that can further equip you and colleagues across sectors with the understanding and tools for fostering integrity and fighting anti-corruption<em>. </em>We are both honored and challenged to be the initial GID convenors and website coordinators since the GID launch in 2020!</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Have a Look!</strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;">Take a few minutes to review the materials that we present below. Note the ones you would like to explore further. You will find a description of GID's empahses, a list of the GID spotlight events with suggestions for applications, examples of new resouces on the GID website, and ways to get involved in GID. <strong>Spread the word! </strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going Further--see these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/0b3ac723e466/global-integration-update-special-news-7549717" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Climate-Conflict-Corruption: Safeguarding People and the Planet</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (July 2021)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/10615112b280/global-integration-update-special-news-1320969" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integrity Day and Moral Health</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (January 2019)</span><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/d8606e383d9c/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1055769" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Everyday Global Heroes: Moral Lives Matter</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (August 2017)<br />--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Living in Global Integrity</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (April 2017)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><strong style="color: #606060; font-size: 15px;"><em> <img data-file-id="2181237" height="142" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: none;" width="200" /> </em></strong><span style="color: #606060;"><span style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; font-size: 15px; height: auto; outline-color: initial; outline-width: initial;"><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: none;" /></span></span><strong style="color: #606060; font-size: 15px;"><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="color: #606060; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span><hr style="color: #606060; font-size: 15px;" /><hr style="color: #606060; font-size: 15px;" /><p style="color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Moral Health for a More Whole World</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 16px;">Global Integrity Day--9 June 2022</span></em></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Integrity and Corruption in the Health Sector</strong></span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6450815" height="155" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/9035e4f7-5504-f812-ea79-1aa93cbed73d.png" style="border: 0px; height: 155px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></p><p style="color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><span style="color: black;">“Corruption is criminal, immoral and the ultimate betrayal of public trust.….We must hold leaders to account….A vibrant civic space and open access to information are essential. And we must protect the rights and recognize the courage of whistle-blowers who expose wrongdoing….As an age-old plague takes on new forms, let us combat it with new heights of resolve.” UN Secretary-General António Guterres</span></em><span style="color: black;">,</span> <a href="https://google.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=66e16f9d8a9699d5d627c279d&id=88e4a747a0&e=5c4b2c5c4a" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Statement on corruption in the context of COVID-19</span></a> <span style="color: black;">(15 October 2020)</span></span></p><p style="color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;">---------<br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>What is GID?</strong></span><span style="color: black;"><strong></strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>Four foundational emphases</em> </strong></span></span></p><p style="color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>"Global Integrity Day (GID)</strong> <strong>is a positive day </strong>to reflect, teach, and collaborate on ways to integrate integrity in all we do throughout the entire year.<br /><br /><strong>GID is a strategic day</strong> to promote a) cultivating lifestyles, cultures, and systems of integrity from the individual through the international levels; b) joining together to understand and address the causes and consequences of corruption in its many forms; and c) working towards just and equitable societies marked with wellbeing for all people and for the planet.<br /><br /><strong>GID is a solemn day</strong> to consider our ways: if we are lying and/or stealing in any way big or small, then we need to stop it. If we need to right a wrong we have done, then do so. If we need to prudently confront wrongdoing, preferably in solidarity with colleagues for mutual support and greater impact, then do so.<br /><br /><strong>GID is a companion day</strong> to complement </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.un.org%2Fen%2Fobservances%2Fanti-corruption-day&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3qKEkaxRuWW-AHzQDGnj-S" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UN International Anti-Corruption Day</span></a><span style="color: black;">, 9 December (and vice versa). Both Days are practical rallying points, six months apart, for fostering common ground, organizing events, sharing initiatives, and involving the public." (description from the </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integrity Day website</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></span></p><hr style="color: #606060; font-size: 15px;" /><p style="color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img height="113" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/9035e4f7-5504-f812-ea79-1aa93cbed73d.png" style="border: 0px; height: 113px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 400px;" width="400" /></a></p><p style="color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Spotlight Events</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Integrity and corruption in the health sector</em></span></span></strong></p><p style="color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Spotlight Event 1.</strong> </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Ffpinetwork.org%2F2021%2F12%2F21%2Fwebinar-corruption-and-anti-corruption-in-health-care-why-do-we-speak-so-little-about-them%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw02rEbI8ZFq8-EUUSGDtpCH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Health Care: Why Do We Speak So Little About Them?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (13 December 2021), a one-hour webinar organized by the </span><a href="https://fpinetwork.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Faith and Public Integrity Network</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Spotlight Event 2.</strong> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7jMHkqvCxI&t=17s" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Contributions for Moral Health from Peace Psychology</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (7 November 2018), a 25 minute presentation during </span><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.genevapeaceweek.ch%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw1YfbLfJVThHRSJduGTmNi6" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Geneva Peace Week, held at United Nations</span></a><span style="color: black;">.<br /> <br /><strong>Spotlight Event 3.</strong> </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2F19thiacc.pathable.co%2Fmeetings%2Fvirtual%2F8BuwME7mRpkJLTeAg&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3YpNvv9DZRccI90PVdkMYu" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Breaking Vicious Cycles of Dirty Money and Impunity</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (4 December 2020), a plenary from the </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2F19thiacc.pathable.co%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw2IGuy0wMk0K8Ofu5Zlk5oa" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">19th International Anti-Corruption Conference</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (90 minutes with Q and A).<br /> <br /><strong>Spotlight Event 4.</strong> </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.globalintegritynetwork.org%2Fpost%2Fgin-conference-on-april-30-2022&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw341f3GYNzDsEUsJ9pVMaLS" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Integrity and Anti-Corruption on the Frontlines</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (30 April 2022), five interviews with advocates in the Christian faith-based sector around the world organized by</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="https://www.globalintegritynetwork.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Lausanne-WEA Global Integrity Network</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (about 20 minutes each).<br /> <br /><strong>Spotlight Event 5.</strong> The Use of Technologies for Battling Corruption (free e-course available online from 9 May-June 20--in </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FArabicanticorruption&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw0vggeikt8hq-mNeGvDfii0" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Arabic</span></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Ftechcombatcorruption&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw0k0p9thdx-YtjU37cqzHBA" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">English</span></a><span style="color: black;">) offered by the </span><a href="https://www.unitar.org/sustainable-development-goals/people/our-portfolio/anticorruption" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR</span><span style="color: black;">)</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span></span></p><hr style="color: #606060; font-size: 15px;" /><p style="color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img height="113" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/9035e4f7-5504-f812-ea79-1aa93cbed73d.png" style="border: 0px; height: 113px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 400px;" width="400" /></a></p><p style="color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Applictions</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>Making the most of the GID spotlight events</em></strong></span></span></p><p style="color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Watch one or more of these events during the week before or after 9 June, including doing so interactively with friends and colleagues. Consider:<br /><br />--What did you find the most interesting or helpful?<br />--List a few things that you would like to explore more.<br />--Was there anything you thought to be controversial or not helpful?<br />--List some practical applications for you/your settings.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Click </strong></span><strong><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Nn8NJDHlTLlRiYLCGJHXusZVBSz5skB8/view?usp=sharing" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a></strong><span style="color: black;"><strong> for more information and resources for the spotlight events.<br />Spread the word!</strong></span></span></p><hr style="color: #606060; font-size: 15px;" /><p style="color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img height="113" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/9035e4f7-5504-f812-ea79-1aa93cbed73d.png" style="border: 0px; height: 113px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 400px;" width="400" /></a></p><p style="color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Recent Resources Added to the GID Website</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">In the "Integrity and Corruption in the Health Sector" section--homepage</span></strong></span></p><p style="color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">1</span></strong><span style="color: black;">.</span><strong><span style="color: black;"> Psychological Insights on integrity and corruption</span></strong><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><em><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMistakes-Were-Made-But-Not-ebook%2Fdp%2FB003K15IOE&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw2a6RIMNQZrxXE9HuulqYbs" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Mistakes Were Made (but not by me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Behaviors</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"> (2020, 3rd edition). Caroll Tavris and Elliot Aronson. See the </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMistakes-Were-Made-But-Not-ebook%2Fdp%2FB003K15IOE%3Fasin%3DB003K15IOE%26revisionId%3D8abebf70%26format%3D1%26depth%3D1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw31hOUEVdJAD_gWHn8-3cIA" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">T</span><span style="color: mediumblue;">able of Contents</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMistakes-Were-Made-But-Not-ebook%2Fdp%2FB003K15IOE%3Fasin%3DB003K15IOE%26revisionId%3D8abebf70%26format%3D1%26depth%3D1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw31hOUEVdJAD_gWHn8-3cIA" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">P</span></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMistakes-Were-Made-But-Not-ebook%2Fdp%2FB003K15IOE%3Fasin%3DB003K15IOE%26revisionId%3D8abebf70%26format%3D1%26depth%3D1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw31hOUEVdJAD_gWHn8-3cIA" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">reface</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMistakes-Were-Made-But-Not-ebook%2Fdp%2FB003K15IOE%3Fasin%3DB003K15IOE%26revisionId%3D8abebf70%26format%3D1%26depth%3D1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw31hOUEVdJAD_gWHn8-3cIA" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">I</span></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMistakes-Were-Made-But-Not-ebook%2Fdp%2FB003K15IOE%3Fasin%3DB003K15IOE%26revisionId%3D8abebf70%26format%3D1%26depth%3D1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw31hOUEVdJAD_gWHn8-3cIA" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">ntroduction</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMistakes-Were-Made-But-Not-ebook%2Fdp%2FB003K15IOE%3Fasin%3DB003K15IOE%26revisionId%3D8abebf70%26format%3D1%26depth%3D1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw31hOUEVdJAD_gWHn8-3cIA" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">and Chapter </span></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMistakes-Were-Made-But-Not-ebook%2Fdp%2FB003K15IOE%3Fasin%3DB003K15IOE%26revisionId%3D8abebf70%26format%3D1%26depth%3D1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw31hOUEVdJAD_gWHn8-3cIA" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">1</span></a><span style="color: black;"> in the Amazon book preview.<br /><br />--</span><em><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMoral-Disengagement-People-Harm-Themselves%2Fdp%2F1464160058&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw0juI1Z3HtfcDlKFFv6zmHI" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Moral Disengagement</span></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMoral-Disengagement-People-Harm-Themselves%2Fdp%2F1464160058&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw0juI1Z3HtfcDlKFFv6zmHI" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">: </span></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FMoral-Disengagement-People-Harm-Themselves%2Fdp%2F1464160058&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw0juI1Z3HtfcDlKFFv6zmHI" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">How People Do Harm and Live with Themselves</span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2016). Albert Bandura. Moral disengagement refers to a variety of ways that people (individuals<em>,</em> groups<em>,</em> and social systems) selectively absolve themselves from self-sanctions and responsibility for their harmful behaviors Bandura identifies eight mechanisms of moral disengagement. You can read a summary </span><a href="http://psychology.iresearchnet.com/sports-psychology/moral-development/moral-disengagement/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;">.<br /><br /> --</span><em><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSocial-Psychology-Good-Evil-Second%2Fdp%2F1462525393&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3O3fj9EU_Wych1vxv-yeXx" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The S</span></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSocial-Psychology-Good-Evil-Second%2Fdp%2F1462525393&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3O3fj9EU_Wych1vxv-yeXx" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">o</span></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSocial-Psychology-Good-Evil-Second%2Fdp%2F1462525393&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3O3fj9EU_Wych1vxv-yeXx" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">cial Psychology of Good and Evil</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"> (2016, 2nd edition). Edited by Arthur Miller. See the </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSocial-Psychology-Good-Evil-Second%2Fdp%2F1462525393%3Fasin%3D1462525393%26revisionId%3D%26format%3D4%26depth%3D1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3FJR8XePYfGc4r4nlbr-m0" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Table of Contents, Int</span></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSocial-Psychology-Good-Evil-Second%2Fdp%2F1462525393%3Fasin%3D1462525393%26revisionId%3D%26format%3D4%26depth%3D1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3FJR8XePYfGc4r4nlbr-m0" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">r</span></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSocial-Psychology-Good-Evil-Second%2Fdp%2F1462525393%3Fasin%3D1462525393%26revisionId%3D%26format%3D4%26depth%3D1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3FJR8XePYfGc4r4nlbr-m0" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">oduction</span></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSocial-Psychology-Good-Evil-Second%2Fdp%2F1462525393%3Fasin%3D1462525393%26revisionId%3D%26format%3D4%26depth%3D1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3FJR8XePYfGc4r4nlbr-m0" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">-</span></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSocial-Psychology-Good-Evil-Second%2Fdp%2F1462525393%3Fasin%3D1462525393%26revisionId%3D%26format%3D4%26depth%3D1&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3FJR8XePYfGc4r4nlbr-m0" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Overview, and Index</span></a><span style="color: black;"> in the Amazon book preview.<br /><br />--Positive Psychology Resources. “Positive Psychology is the scientific study of the strengths that enable individuals and communities to thrive. The field is founded on the belief that people want to lead meaningful and fulfilling lives, to cultivate what is best within themselves, and to enhance their experiences of love, work, and play.” </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fppc.sas.upenn.edu%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3Xqd0hMdZ0IjjLV0RXgHYF" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Positive Psychology Center</span></a><span style="color: black;"> at the University of Pennsylvania. Also see the related materials from the </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw0eOTQcg0gD8yqkF4Scl8fg" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Authentic Happiness website</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> including free self-assessments for wellbeing, character strengths-virtues, etc.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>2<span style="color: black;">.</span> </strong><span style="color: black;"><strong>More Health Sector Resources</strong><br />--</span><em><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fti-health.org%2Fcontent%2Fthe-ignored-pandemic%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw2-fbtQZE7eYkppSeVqIe7U" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The Ignored Pandem</span></a><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fti-health.org%2Fcontent%2Fthe-ignored-pandemic%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw2-fbtQZE7eYkppSeVqIe7U" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">ic (2019)</span></a></em><span style="color: black;">. Transparency International (TI). “Achieving the ambitious goal of universal health coverage will require more resources, and the better use of existing resources. At the same time, efforts to achieve universal health coverage are being significantly undermined by widespread corruption in frontline healthcare service delivery. Corruption in the health sector kills an estimated 140,000 children a year, fuels the global rise in anti-microbial resistance, and hinders the fight against HIV/AIDS and other diseases. Unless the most harmful forms of corruption are curbed, universal health coverage is unlikely to be achieved.” <br /> <br />--</span><em><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.who.int%2Fpublications%2Fi%2Fitem%2Freinforcing-the-focus-on-anti-corruption-transparency-and-accountability-in-national-health-policies-strategies-and-plans&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3z5k9937PPkfQcAmmwlwtK" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Reinforcing the Focus on Anti-Corruption, Transparency and Accountability in National Health Policies, Strategies and Plans</span></a></em><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.who.int%2Fpublications%2Fi%2Fitem%2Freinforcing-the-focus-on-anti-corruption-transparency-and-accountability-in-national-health-policies-strategies-and-plans&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3z5k9937PPkfQcAmmwlwtK" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"> (2019)</span></a><span style="color: black;">. World Health Organization and UKaid. “Corruption causes significant losses of public money and may impede the ability of nations to make evidence-based policy choices and build consensus on the most effective approaches to transform health systems as part of the universal health coverage agenda. Corruption in the health sector has high costs both in terms of lives lost and resources wasted. Researchers estimate global average annual losses from health care fraud and error to be 6.19% of total expenditures, amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars (Gee & Button, 2015). Corruption is also a significant predictor of child mortality and other negative health outcomes...”<br /><br />--</span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmembercareassociates.us10.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3De83a5528fb81b78be71f78079%26id%3Db2a6c7c8c7%26e%3Da8fa1a0034&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw1BnsbTJNoVIezbJqlYNPAx" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War</em></span><span style="color: black;"> (2021)</span></a><span style="color: black;">. Leonard Rubenstein. "Bringing together extensive research, firsthand experience, and compelling personal stories, <em>Perilous Medicine</em> offers a path forward, detailing the lessons the international community needs to learn to protect people already suffering in war and those on the front lines of health care in conflict-ridden places around the world.”<br /> <br />--T<em>he World We Want: Actions Towards a Sustainable, Fairer, and Healthier Society</em>. A Short-film Trilogy produced by </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fphmovement.org%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw3Etdd8YjOZ40UbkKvei-Mo" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">People’s Health Movement</span></a> (<span style="color: black;">2022). </span></span><br /><br />><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/otHKAR3mmPE" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Film I. Building Equitable Health Systems</span></a><span style="color: black;">. “The first film records the voices of community health workers and health care professionals and health rights activists from across the globe, on the learning’s from the COVID pandemic for the design of healthcare systems...” </span></span><br /><br />><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/6pPA8w2yJQc" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Film II. Rethinking the SDGs.… in the Pandemic Aftermath…</span></a><span style="color: black;">“The second film shines a spotlight on the Sustainable Development Goals - in what political economic context and what unequal power relations they arose and have continued to perpetuate...” </span></span><br /><br />><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://youtu.be/DosIdxMob_0" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Film III. Post-Pandemic Global Economics</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">. </span><a href="https://youtu.be/DosIdxMob_0" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Re-structure, Reform or just Re-vitalize</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> “The third film delves into the hegemonic, extractive and grossly unequal economic model, which prevails today...[and] underscores the need for a transformative shift...premised on fairness and justice that would ensure human survival...”</span></span></p><hr style="color: #606060; font-size: 15px;" /><p style="color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img height="113" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/9035e4f7-5504-f812-ea79-1aa93cbed73d.png" style="border: 0px; height: 113px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 400px;" width="400" /></a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Ways for You to Get Involved</span></span></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em><strong>Participate in GID to support your work--and world!</strong></em></span></span></p><p style="color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">--1. Review the GID Overview and website. Share your ideas with us about further developing GID.<br /><br />--2. Send us core resources for the GID website in general or specifically related to the annual theme.<br /><br />--3. Include a short description and logo/link for GID on your website.<br /><br />--4. Spread the word about GID via social media and with your colleagues and networks.<br /><br />--5. Join with others to promote integrity by endorsing GID as a group, organization, or network.<br /><br />--6. Organize an event or webinar related to your organization's purpose as it connects to GID's emphases--do so around the time of GID on 9 June and/or UN Anti-Corruption Day on 9 December. We may then "spotlight" these events/webinars on the GID site to support your work and GID.<br /><br />--7. Probe further into a few resources on the GID site that are relevant for you and your settings.</span></span></p><hr style="color: #606060; font-size: 15px;" /><hr style="color: #606060; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="color: black; font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em><strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;">There is no "planetary health" without moral health!</span></strong></em></span></span><hr style="color: #606060; font-size: 15px;" /><div style="color: #606060; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><hr /></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #606060; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates</strong></span></span><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><img data-file-id="247905" height="154" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: none;" width="150" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. (MCA)</strong> is a non-profit, Christian organization working internationally from Geneva and the USA. MCA's involvement in Global Integration focuses on the wellbeing and effectiveness of personnel and their organizations across sectors (e.g., mission, humanitarian, peace, health, and development sectors) as well as global mental health and integrity/anti-corruption, all with a view towards collaboratively supporting sustainable development for all people and the planet. Our services include consultation, training, research, resource development, and publications.</span></span></p><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Click on these items below to access our:</span><br /><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=125" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Member Care Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration Updates</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">,</span><br /><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=133" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">member care books</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=2007" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">recent MCA publications</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Global Integration</strong></span></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="137" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/0ce457d4-4eb8-4fe6-9b39-f3c77bbccf8d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; outline: none;" width="300" /></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=373" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (GI)</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> is a framework for actively and responsibly engaging in our world--locally to globally. It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links <em>building</em> the world we need with <em>being</em> the people we need.<br /> <br />Our <strong><em>Global Integration Updates</em> </strong>are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">global integrators</span></a><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good."</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2015-current</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (70 issues). Some examples of foundational ones:<br /><br />Doomsday?--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Living in Global Integrity--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">April 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Peace and Security--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=651e03107d" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">December 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Global Citizenship--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=3e54230a8f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Faith-Based Partners in Transformation--</span><u><a href="http://eepurl.com/bvl0VH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">August 2015</span></a></u></span></div><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Pearl</strong><br />The image at the top of the <em>Update</em> (global pearl) is a cover detail from our edited book, </span><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Member Care (volume 2): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2013). William Carey Library. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>------</em></span></span></div><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability;<br />it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God,<br />and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. </em><br />Martin Luther King, Jr., </span><a href="https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Letter from a Birmingham Jail (April 1963)</span></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateFooter" style="background-color: white; 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The responsibility for the interpretation and use of the materials lies with the reader.</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Member Care Associateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00435755943229949017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105370806558579704.post-52929083075989707962022-02-10T10:16:00.000+01:002022-05-29T13:42:08.110+01:00Humanity Care: UPGs and SDGs 18<p style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;">More Reflections on People Groups</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZU5n7LO_QwoHOhlsc6TRfm6lHtVhs0GPK0Gvx-1RPgzDybOuXCNA6WcheqSF8b6UA8bDzCqMqjFnHhiKjrsb46Up1duRiGj8MBua7vV3wislYHD-LQzaEsqQqjY4Zt_QS_vzSzJzDS_HfJypextE1xlHGnM0jphGwyj9AJvTyQhAMKQK2NzbPdY3VqQ=s750" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="750" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZU5n7LO_QwoHOhlsc6TRfm6lHtVhs0GPK0Gvx-1RPgzDybOuXCNA6WcheqSF8b6UA8bDzCqMqjFnHhiKjrsb46Up1duRiGj8MBua7vV3wislYHD-LQzaEsqQqjY4Zt_QS_vzSzJzDS_HfJypextE1xlHGnM0jphGwyj9AJvTyQhAMKQK2NzbPdY3VqQ=w460-h171" width="460" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">Detail of the cover image from <a href="https://www.missionfrontiers.org/"><i>Mission Frontiers</i></a> website</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.missionfrontiers.org/issue/current">The Changing Shape of People Group Strategy</a> <i>Mission Frontiers </i>(Janaury 2022)<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #2e2e2e;">.</span> <span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #2e2e2e;">Things are changing all around us every day with increasing speed. Some of it is good and some of it is bad. But in all cases, we are forced to adapt to the new realities that change brings. Some people adapt easily to change, and others do not. For 45 years now, Frontier Ventures has proclaimed the biblical mandate to reach all peoples with the gospel of Jesus Christ, but the realities on the mission field are changing. The fact is, ever since the promise came to Abraham to bless all peoples, the tribes, clans, families, peoples and nations of the earth have experienced. continual change. The problem in our day is that the rate of change is growing exponentially, making it difficult to cope with a rapidly changing people group picture. That is what this issue is all about."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #2e2e2e;"><b>Examples of Articles</b><br /></span></span>--<a href="https://www.missionfrontiers.org/issue/article/reimagining-re-envisioning-people-groups">Reimagining and Re-envisioning People Groups</a><br /><br />--<a href="https://www.missionfrontiers.org/issue/article/lifting-pushing-squeezing-and-blending-the-dynamics-of-ethnicity-and-global">Lifting, Pushing, Squeezing and Blending The Dynamics of Ethnicity and Globalization</a><br /><br />--<a href="https://www.missionfrontiers.org/issue/article/people-groups-and-the-bible">People Groups and the Bible</a></p>Member Care Associateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00435755943229949017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105370806558579704.post-26231225840763857092022-01-30T09:59:00.001+01:002022-01-30T11:54:04.973+01:00Humanity Care: UPGs and SDGs 17<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateContainer" style="background-color: #7690bd; 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max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mcnTextContent" style="color: #606060; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><div><img align="none" height="263" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/0ce457d4-4eb8-4fe6-9b39-f3c77bbccf8d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" width="575" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>February 2022<br />Critical Thinking for Sustainable Development </strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 16px;">Challenging Our Assumptions</span></em></strong></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><em>, </em></span></strong></span><span style="color: black;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 16px;">Agendas</span></em></strong></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>...</em></span></span><span style="color: black;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 16px;">and Actions</span></em></strong></span><br /><img data-file-id="5526541" height="264" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/776487c9-2997-85fb-09af-d3013e8c1a26.png" style="border: 0px; height: 264px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Image: Panama City<em>.</em> UNDP/Grey Díaz 2020--</span><a href="https://stories.undp.org/undp-photos-of-the-year-2020" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">UNDP Photos of the Year 2020</span></a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Wondering:</strong> <br /><em>What would happen if the people you loved the most<br />lived in slums, refugee camps, war zones...</em></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>Would it matter? </em></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>What would change?</em></span><br />KOD<br /><strong>------</strong></span><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Overview.</strong> In this <em>Update</em> we present three insightful books to help us reflect upon and possibly reconsider some of our beliefs and behaviours related to sustainable development and wellbeing of all people and the planet<em>. </em>In what ways might our assumptions<em>, </em>agendas<em>,</em> and actions (attitudes and assertions too)--including our cherished ones!--reflect real-world realities at best or self-serving rhetoric at worst<em>? </em>How can we learn from the critical thinking of a diverse group of respected colleagues who over the years have wrestled to better understand and help address major issues in their communities<em>,</em> countries<em>,</em> and world?</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Here's the lineup of books:</strong><br /><strong>-<em>-Deconstructing Development Discourse: Buzzwords and Fuzzwords</em></strong><br />(pdf version available for free download)<br /><strong><em>--40 Critical Thinkers in Community Development</em></strong><br />(chapters 1-2 available to read for free)<br /><strong><em>--Curtailing Corruption: People Power for Accountability and Justice</em></strong><br />(pdf version available for free download)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">For us<em>,</em> this journey into our "beliefs and behaviours"--as we consider the writings of some incredibly insightful colleagues--is part of an ongoing process<em>. </em>It is fascinating<em>,</em> uncomfortable<em>, </em>challenging<em>,</em> and encouraging<em>. </em>We hope it will be the same for you! And we hope it will truly help make us all better people as we help to make our world a better place!</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">We finish the <em>Update</em> with two items<em>. </em>The first item is information on <strong>Global Integrity Day--9 June 2022</strong>. This year's theme is <em>Integrity and Corruption in the Health Sector. </em>It is a practical example too of how critical thinking is needed to responsibly and relevantly engage in "health and wellbeing for all<em>.</em>"<em> </em>We encourage you to </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">check it out and participate!</span></a> <span style="color: maroon;">The second is Kelly's short "A Reality Check on being a </span>"<span style="color: firebrick;">Non</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>...</em></span></span><span style="color: firebrick;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Wrong way!</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">" See how the word "</span></span><span style="color: firebrick;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">non</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">" can be used inadvertently or intentionally to define relationships<em>, </em>levels of influence<em>,</em> and even worth<em>.</em></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going Further--See these <em>Global Integration Updates</em>:</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/02734b509461/global-integration-update-special-news-7506294" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Tracking Important News</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"><u>: </u></span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/02734b509461/global-integration-update-special-news-7506294" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Issues, Insights, Involvements</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (May 2021)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/4911684ca85e/global-integration-update-special-news-1472225" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Wellbeing for Who? Global Reports from Seven Sectors</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (February 2020)<br />--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Doomsday: Next Stop, Global Dis-Integration?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (June 2017)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>Warm greetings</strong>,<br /><strong>Kelly and Michèle</strong></span></span></p><strong><em> <img data-file-id="2181237" height="142" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" width="200" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></span><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Critical Thinking for Sustainable Development </strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 16px;">Challenging Our Assumptions</span></em></strong></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><em>, </em></span></strong></span><span style="color: black;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 16px;">Agendas</span></em></strong></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>...</em></span></span><span style="color: black;"><strong><em><span style="font-size: 16px;">and Actions</span></em></strong></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="5081477" height="327" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/6fcf89c4-d646-44a2-82cd-5afc8efc41ca.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 327px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Open source image--</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://genocidearchiverwanda.org.rw/index.php/Murambi_Memorial" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Genocide memorial at Murambi</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>,</em></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://genocidearchiverwanda.org.rw/index.php/Murambi_Memorial" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"> Rwanda</span></a></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Wondering: </span></span></strong><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>What would happen if all major UN-Civil Society meetings<br />were convened in slums, refugee camps, war zones...<br />Would it matter? What would change?</em></span></span><br />KOD<br /><strong>------</strong></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://practicalactionpublishing.com/book/461/deconstructing-development-discourse" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6222953" height="565" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/6afa673d-c4a3-c75d-f4bf-fcb08891af73.png" style="border: 0px; height: 565px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://practicalactionpublishing.com/book/461/deconstructing-development-discourse" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Deconstructing Development Discourse: Buzzwords and Fuzzwords </em>(2010). </span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Edited by Andrea Cornwall and Deborah Eade. “Words make worlds. The language of development defines worlds-in-the-making, animating and justifying intervention in currently existing worlds with fulsome promises of the possible. Wolfgang Sachs contends, ‘development is much more than just a socio-economic endeavour; it is a perception which models reality, a myth which comforts societies, and a fantasy which unleashes passions’ (1992:1). These models, myths, and passions are sustained by development’s ‘buzzwords’. Writing from diverse locations, contributors to this volume critically examine a selection of the words that constitute today’s development lexicon. Whereas those who contributed to Sachs’ 1992 landmark publication <em>The Development Dictionary</em> shared a project of dismantling the edifice of development, this collection is deliberately eclectic in its range of voices, positions, and perspectives. Some tell tales of the trajectories that these words have travelled, as they have moved from one domain of discourse to another; others describe scenes in which the ironie –absurdities, at times–of their usage beg closer critical attention; others still peel off the multiple guises that their words have assumed, and analyse the dissonant agendas that they embrace. Our intention in bringing them together is to leave you, the reader, feeling less than equivocal about taking for granted the words that frame the world-making projects of the development enterprise.” (Introductory Overview, page 1)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;">PDF version available for free </span></strong></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10546/118173/bk-deconstructing-development-buzzwords-010910-en.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">HERE</span></span></a></span></strong><br />------</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Table of Contents</strong></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong> </strong>Preface--Deborah Eade<br />1. Introductory overview--Andrea Cornwall<br />2. Development as a buzzword--Gilbert Rist<br />3. Words count: taking a count of the changing language of British aid--Naomi Alfini and Robert Chambers<br />4. Poverty reduction--John Toye<br />5. Social protection--Guy Standing<br />6. Globalisation--Shalmali Guttal<br />7. The F-word & S-word–too much of one and not enough of the other--Cassandra Balchin<br />8. Participation: the ascendancy of a buzzword in the neo-liberal era--Pablo Alejandro Leal<br />9. Citizenship: a perverse confluence--Evelina Dagnino<br />10. Taking the power out of empowerment – an experiential account--Srilatha Batliwala<br />11. Social capital--Ben Fine<br />12. Reflections on relationships: the nature of partnership according to five NGOs in southern Mexico--Miguel Pickard<br />13. Talking of gender: words and meanings in development organisations--Ines Smyth<br />14. Sustainability--Ian Scoones<br />15. From the right to development to the rights-based approach: how ‘human rights’ entered development--Peter Uvin<br />16. Civil society--Neera Chandhoke<br />17. Public advocacy & people-centred advocacy: mobilising for social change--John Samuel<br />18. NGOs: between buzzwords and social movements--Islah Jad<br />19. Capacity building: who builds whose capacity?--Deborah Eade<br />20. Harmonisation: how is the orchestra conducted?--Rosalind Eyben<br />21. ‘Country ownership’: a term whose time has gone--Willem H. Buiter<br />22. Best of practices?--Warren Feek<br />23. Peacebuilding does not build peace--Tobias Denskus<br />24. The uncertain relationship between transparency and accountability--Jonathan Fox<br />25. Corruption--Elizabeth Harrison<br />26. ‘Good governance’: the itinerary of an idea--Thandika Mkandawire<br />27. The discordant voices of security--Robin Luckham<br />28. Fragile states--Eghosa E. Osaghae<br />29. ‘Knowledge management’: a case study of the World Bank’s Research Department--Robin Broad<br />Coda--Deborah Eade<br />Index</span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>See also</strong></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">: </span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb-B0tzPC3A" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Deconstructing Development Discourse: Buzzwords and Fuzzwords Revisited</span></a><span style="color: black;"> was a seminar given by Professor Andrea Cornwall, Dr Tania Kaiser & Dr Meera Sabaratnam (SOAS) on 15 January 2019 at the Department of Development Studies, SOAS University of London. Find out more at </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbGFqeks4bmk0LXIzYzVqSjl4LUpXd2JvdU1Md3xBQ3Jtc0ttblMzR1AxdmxsNVJkSVBaLXkyODhlMDJHRGlQZ2FDV0JlNVEwNUZxcmtUeVhxV1F3MG1nWXpfQ0FRQkY1dl96Ym9DU2tCZVZubVJ5NE9sMllqVkQxYXJ5bElBQ2xkbzlBRG5HQ0hGWFdwZmNQd0ZyUQ&q=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2MYnW4U" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">http://bit.ly/2MYnW4U</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Why should language matter to those who are doing development? Surely there are more urgent things to do than sit around mulling over semantics? But language does matter. Whether emptied of their original meaning, essentially vacuous or hotly contested, the language of development not only shapes our imagined worlds, but also justifies interventions in real people's lives. If development buzzwords conceal ideological differences or sloppy thinking, then the process of constructive deconstruction makes it possible to re-examine what have become catch-all terms like civil society and poverty reduction, or bland aid-agency terms such as partnership or empowerment. Such engagement is far more than a matter of playing word games but involves how we think of development itself.” (quote from Youtube video description)</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://practicalactionpublishing.com/book/2486/40-critical-thinkers-in-community-development" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6222941" height="550" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/7e409917-17c9-0c4c-50b7-94d2fb5765c4.png" style="border: 0px; height: 550px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://practicalactionpublishing.com/book/2486/40-critical-thinkers-in-community-development" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>40 Critical Thinkers in Community Development</em> (2020)</span></a></span><span style="color: black;">.<span style="font-size: 14px;"> Edited by Peter Westoby, David Palmer, and Athena Lathouras. “Who are the great activists, thinkers and writers who can inspire us in our community development work? Environmentalists, poets, philosophers, civil rights activists, trade unionists – all can help us question the assumptions that underlie our international development practice. This book invites students and professionals of community development and citizen activists to reflect on the roots of their practice and discover the wisdom of writers they may not have heard of before.<br /><br />The book highlights 40 personal and rigorous reflections, distilling several wisdoms and 40 ‘gems’ of ideas for community development, from thought-leaders including Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ela Bhatt, Jacques Derrida, Frantz Fanon, Paulo Freire, bell hooks, John Keats, Rosa Luxemburg, Wangari Maathai, Manfred Max-Neef, Arundhati Roy, E.F. Schumacher, Vandana Shiva, Rabindranath Tagore and Greta Thunbergc<br /><br />The book’s introduction will support readers in creating a personal practice framework, and a Coda/Map of Practice offers a vibrant visual representation of practice wisdoms in watercolour. <em>40 Critical Thinkers in Community Development</em> is an important resource for daily or weekly readings and reflections, study groups, working or project teams, and as a resource for teachers of community development.”<br /><br /><strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;">The Foreword</span></strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;">, </span><strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;">Introduction-Chapter 1</span></strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;">,</span><strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;"> and Chapter 2 are available to read </span></strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><a href="https://www.amazon.com/40-Critical-Thinkers-Community-Development/dp/1788530640?asin=B08C1KLMFX&revisionId=c31d1767&format=1&depth=1" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">HERE</span></span></a></strong></span><br />-----</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Table of Contents</strong></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">1. Introduction: Towards a reflective community<br />Development practice: Integrating the gems and wisdoms of critical thinkers<br />2. Jane Addams: Practice mutual accompaniment<br />3. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story<br />4. Hannah Arendt: Time to think<br />5. James Baldwin: We have to go the way our blood beats<br />6. Homi Bhabha: The value of colonial ambivalence<br />7. Ela Bhatt: Start with women; may our action be one of nurturance<br />8. Augusto Boal: Rehearsing the possible<br />9. Behrouz Boochani: Bearing witness in the face of cruelty<br />10. Martin Buber: Practice as an encounter<br />11. Judi Chamberlin: Nothing About Us, Without Us<br />12. Angela Davis: Unlock the gates of poverties and prisons<br />13. Jacques Derrida: Deconstruction, a community development ‘yet-to-come’ and ‘the hauntology of justice’<br />14. Gustavo Esteva: The work of deprofessionalizing ourselves<br />15. Frantz Fanon: A ‘revolution in listening’<br />16. Paulo Freire: Start with the people, but don’t stay with the people<br />17. Mary Graham: ‘Place method’ and custodians of land<br />18. Epeli Hau’ofa: staying close to the ground<br />19. James Hillman: ‘Ensouling the world’ and notitia<br />20. bell hooks: We come to theory because of our pain<br />21. Myles Horton: Educators first, Organizers second<br />22. John Keats: Negative capability and coming into a community<br />23. George Lakoff: Don’t think of an elephant!<br />24. Rosa Luxemburg: Are you willing to go to prison?<br />25. Wangari Maathai: Plant trees and protect genuine democracy<br />26. Joanna Macy: ‘life comes from reconnecting’<br />27. Manfred Max-Neef: Poverties, not poverty<br />28. Chandra Talpade Mohanty: Pay attention to silence and erasure<br />29. Fran Peavey: Questions are the art of gentle revolution<br />30. Arundhati Roy: ‘… do not fragment solidarity …’<br />31. Deborah Bird Rose: Community as the ’shimmer of life’<br />32. Bertrand Russell: Community and the value of idleness<br />33. E.F. Schumacher: Small is Beautiful<br />34. Richard Sennett: Respect<br />35. Vandana Shiva: Be a Seed Saver<br />36. Georg Simmel: The importance of the triad and the stranger in making ‘community’<br />37. Linda Tuhiwai Smith: Listening to old knowledge<br />38. Rabindranath Tagore: … discovering the invitation …<br />39. Thich Nhat Hanh: Being, not doing<br />40. Greta Thunberg: Work where there’s desire and political motivation<br />41. Trinh T. Minh-ha: Recognizing difference in community<br />42. Conclusion<br />Coda – map of practice</span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong>See also</strong></span></span><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">: </span></span></strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxF42RlTWwg&t=1513s" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Editors Interview (3 June 2020)</span>.</span></a><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> "</span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><em>40 Critical Thinkers</em> highlights 40 personal and rigorous reflections, distilling several wisdoms and 40 ‘gems’ of ideas for community development, from thought-leaders...Hear the authors discuss the purpose of book, how the book could be used, and the educational aims of the ideas within it. The authors also share their favourite gems of wisdom from the book that they carry with them in their work." (quote from Youtube video description)</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><a href="https://www.curtailingcorruption.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6222961" height="550" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/573e86bb-e625-0178-1b43-8bf86dd5fdb6.png" style="border: 0px; height: 550px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.curtailingcorruption.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Curtailing Corruption: People Power for Accountability and Justice </em>(2014).</span></a><span style="color: black;"><em> Shaazka Beyerle</em>.<strong><em> </em></strong>“Little did I know in August 2004 that a trip to Ankara, Turkey, would change the course of my professional life. The setting was the New Tactics in Human Rights Symposium, organized by the ever-innovative Center for Victims of Torture. While speaking on a panel discussion, “Mass Actions for Public Participation,” a fellow panelist riveted all of us in the room. He told us about a campaign in Turkey in 1997 that mobilized an estimated 30 million people—yes, 30 million—to fight endemic corruption and linkages between crime syndicates, arms traffickers, the state, the private sector, and the media. The campaign was the One Minute of Darkness for Constant Light, and the speaker was Ersin Salman, one of its founders.<br /><br />I returned home inspired and intrigued. Here was an astounding case of people power that had gone unnoticed—in the international media, in the civil resistance realm, and in anticorruption circles. Regular people mobilized, truly en masse, not to oust a dictator or occupier but to expose, shake up, and begin to change a rotten system of graft, abuse, and impunity. How peculiar, it seemed at the time, that a campaign targeting malfeasance was highlighted at, of all places, a human rights conference. I wondered if the One Minute of Darkness for Constant Light was a rarity, or were more campaigns and movements targeting corruption going on in other parts of the world? My sense was that this case represented only the tip of the iceberg. Thus began a journey— yielding discoveries, knowledge, inspiration, and rich lessons about civil resistance and people power.” (Introduction, page 1)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;">PDF version available for free </span></strong></span></span><a href="https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Curtailing-Corruption-full-book.pdf" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">HERE</span></span></strong></span></a><br />------</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Table of Contents</strong></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><img data-file-id="6222969" height="459" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/80ce01f6-b963-1562-3a87-bb5bb7228855.png" style="border: 0px; height: 459px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></strong></span></span></p><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>See also</strong></span><strong><span style="color: black;">: </span></strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWfoJZvB2OY&t=1966s" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Disrupting Corruption: People Power to Gain Accountability</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(webinar 4 February 2011). “Shaazka Beyerle is a writer and educator on people power and strategic nonviolent action and a Senior Advisor with [International Center on Nonviolent Conflict]. This webinar explores how empowered citizens are engaging in civil resistance to curb graft and abuse. Corruption is intimately linked to violence, human insecurity, and oppression. For the everyday person, this means the denial of basic freedoms and rights. In virtually every part of the world over the past 15 years, citizens are proving that they are not passive onlookers of elite-driven corruption. Rather, they are drivers of accountability, reform and participatory democracy. The webinar will: identify the limitations of top-down, technical approaches to combating corruption and; present successful cases of citizen empowerment through nonviolent campaigns.” (quote from the Youtube video description)</span></span></p><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div><span style="font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Announcing the Third Global Integrity Day!<br /><em>Applied Integrity--Informed Action</em></strong></span></span><br /><br /><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="6226493" height="148" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/b178a365-410a-b339-826d-7c887cfe9c3e.png" style="border: 0px; height: 148px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong> </strong></span></span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integrity Day<br />Theme for 9 June 2</span></a><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">022</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"><u>:</u></span><br /><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Integrity and Corruption in the Health Sector</span></a></em></strong></span><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">“Global Integrity Day (GID), launched on 9 June 2020, is a <strong>positive day</strong> to reflect, teach, and collaborate on ways to integrate integrity in all we do throughout the entire year. The initial theme for this Day (2020) was </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/gid-theme-resources" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Confronting the Corruption of Racism</span></a><span style="color: black;">. How can we positively impact racism by loving truth, peace, and people? The 2021 theme was </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/gid-theme-resources" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Corruption and Poverty</span></a><span style="color: black;">. How can <em>multi-dimensional probity</em> (integrity at a levels, individual--institutional--international) help to curtail corruption's devastating role in <em>multi-dimensional poverty?</em> <br /><br />--GID is a <strong>strategic day</strong> to promote a) cultivating lifestyles, cultures, and systems of integrity from the individual through the international levels; b) joining together to understand and address the causes and consequences of corruption in its many forms; and c) working towards just and equitable societies marked with wellbeing for all people and for the planet.<br /><br />--GID is a <strong>solemn day</strong> to consider our ways: if we are lying and/or stealing in any way big or small, then we need to stop it. If we need to right a wrong we have done, then do so. If we need to prudently confront wrongdoing, preferably in solidarity with colleagues for mutual support and greater impact, then do so.<br /><br />GID is a <strong>companion da</strong>y to complement </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.un.org%2Fen%2Fobservances%2Fanti-corruption-day&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFIhF2vOXKL21FInaoza2xPHr2OyA" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">U</span><span style="color: blue;">N International Anti-Corruption Day</span></a><span style="color: blue;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> 9 December (and vice versa). Both Days are rallying points, six months apart, for organizing events, sharing initiatives, and involving the public.”</span></span><br /> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Learn more--Share with others--Participate!</strong></span></a></span><br /><em><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Be the people we need--build the world we need</span></span></strong></em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">-----</span></span><br /><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Global Integrity Day 2022</strong></span></span></a><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Linking the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)<br />Poverty SDG 1--Health SDG 3--Corruption SDG 16</strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;">--"End poverty in all its forms everywhere."<br /><a href="https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/poverty/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Sustainable Development Goal 1</span></a><br />--"Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages."<br /><a href="https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/health/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Sustainable Development Goal 3</span></a><br />--"Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels." <br /><a href="https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/peace-justice/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Sustainable Development Goal 16</span></a><br />--"Substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms ."<br /><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Sustainable Development Goal 16.5</span></a><br />--"Develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels ."<br /><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Sustainable Development Goal 16.6</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;">-----</span><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Examples of New Resources on the GID Website</span></strong></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--A Day in the News</span>, <span style="color: black;">20 January 2022: Three examples from mainstream international news sources that reflect the multi-faceted and intertwining nature of both integrity and corruption<br />--The World We Want: Actions Towards a Sustainable, Fairer, and Healthier Society. A Short-film Trilogy, produced by</span><a href="https://phmovement.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: mediumblue;">People’s Health Movement (PHM)</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><em><a href="https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2021?gclid=Cj0KCQiA6NOPBhCPARIsAHAy2zA9TK0xuQnAlt49cAJiUNthVA2xXJoyghoWE2NsdDJ_K3_hhkQ7dBwaAo3uEALw_wcB" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Corruption Perceptions Index 2021 (25 January 2022)</span></a></em><span style="color: black;">. Transparency International.</span></span><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;">Final Thoughts</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>A Reality Check on Being a “<span style="color: firebrick;">Non</span>”</strong><br /><strong style="font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><em>Engagement</em></strong><strong style="font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><em> with<span style="color: firebrick;"> </span></em></strong><span style="color: firebrick;"><strong style="font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><em>non</em></strong></span><strong style="font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><em>-State Actors</em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: firebrick;"><strong style="font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Wrong Way!</strong></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: mediumblue;"><img data-file-id="6241681" height="309" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/d48aec84-441c-bd38-c354-676ee1f71fb0.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 309px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></span></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Kelly O’Donnell, 19 January 2022<br />A perspective--critical thinking--shared during the drafting of the</span><br /><a href="https://www.ippf.org/news/announcements/joint-cso-letter-nsa-involvement-who-governing-bodies" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Joint Civil Society Organizations Letter on Non-State Actors <br />Involvement in WHO Governing Bodies</span></a> <span style="color: black;">(24 January 2022)</span></span></div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> <br />I hope this is not</span><span style="color: firebrick;"> </span><span style="color: black;">a tangential distraction but I would like to tap into my background as a psychologist in order to remind us how the use of terms can disempower (maintain power imbalances) and marginalise (minimise inclusion) people and groups.<br /> <br />The case in point is the almost ubiquitous, entrenched, and unquestioned use of the term in English "</span><span style="color: firebrick;"><strong>non</strong></span><span style="color: black;">" in international discourse. For example---</span><span style="color: firebrick;">non</span><span style="color: black;">-Westerners, </span><span style="color: firebrick;">non</span><span style="color: black;">--governmental organizations, </span><span style="color: firebrick;">non</span><span style="color: black;">-state actors and other</span><span style="color: firebrick;"> non</span><span style="color: black;">-sense designations.<br /><br />Practically it is about conveniently defining others by what they are </span><span style="color: firebrick;"><em>not</em></span><span style="color: black;">. And psychologically it is about feeling more secure inside by referring to others as "</span><span style="color: firebrick;">non</span><span style="color: black;">-us"--"those guys." We all do this to an extent of course, especially in terms of the in-groups and out-groups that we categorise as part of our own views of the world.<br /><br />On a curious whim, I googled “</span><span style="color: firebrick;">non</span><span style="color: black;">” and found this result among many: 'What is meant by </span><span style="color: firebrick;"><em>non</em></span><span style="color: black;">? 1: </span><span style="color: firebrick;">not</span><span style="color: black;">: other than: reverse of: absence of nontoxic nonlinear. 2: </span><span style="color: firebrick;">of little or no consequence: unimportant: worthless</span><span style="color: black;"> nonissues nonsystem.' </span><span style="color: firebrick;">Not</span><span style="color: black;"> so nice, I thought.<br /><br />This wee but potentially potent and demeaning word </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">can inadvertently or intentionally define relationships<em>, </em>levels of influence<em>,</em> and even worth<em>. </em>And so it can be with regards to</span></span><span style="color: firebrick;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> non</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">-state actors</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: firebrick;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Non</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> here is not </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">simply used as a functional-linguistic "just the etymological way it is" necessity</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">. </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">And from my perspective, this concern is neither about parsing words nor ranting or raving while riding a hobby horse on behalf of some new cause</span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Rather it is in its core the </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: firebrick;">wrong way--</span><span style="color: black;">and often a</span><span style="color: firebrick;"> <em>morally</em> wrong way </span><span style="color: black;">which props up inequality.<br /><br />But my main question in all of this really is this: Why on earth do people tolerate being referred to as<em> </em></span><span style="color: firebrick;"><em>nons</em></span><span style="color: black;">?</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">I am however totally fine with being respectfully referred to as a </span><span style="color: firebrick;"><em>non</em></span><span style="color: black;"><em>-</em>state actor who is part of a </span><em><span style="color: firebrick;">non</span></em><span style="color: black;">-governmental organisation provided that my government-related colleagues in government-related organisations are fine with being respectfully referred to as </span><span style="color: firebrick;"><em>non</em></span><span style="color: black;"><em>-</em>civil society actors in </span><span style="color: firebrick;"><em>non</em></span><span style="color: black;"><em>-</em>civil society organisations. 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It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links <em>building</em> the world we need with <em>being</em> the people we need.<br /> <br />Our <strong><em>Global Integration Updates</em> </strong>are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">global integrators</span></a><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good."</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2015-current</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (65+ issues). Some examples of foundational ones:<br /><br />Doomsday?--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Living in Global Integrity--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">April 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Peace and Security--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=651e03107d" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">December 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Global Citizenship--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=3e54230a8f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2016</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Faith-Based Partners in Transformation--</span><u><a href="http://eepurl.com/bvl0VH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">August 2015</span></a></u></span></div><hr /><hr /><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Pearl</strong><br />The image at the top of the <em>Update</em> (global pearl) is a cover detail from our edited book, </span><em><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Member Care (volume 2): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2013). William Carey Library. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>------</em></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability;<br />it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God,<br />and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. </em><br />Martin Luther King, Jr., </span><a href="https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Letter from a Birmingham Jail (April 1963)</span></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateFooter" style="background-color: white; 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font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 21px;"> </div><div style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 22px;"><strong style="color: navy; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Member Care Updates</strong></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>Expanding the global impact of member care</strong></span></em></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>Working together for wellbeing and effectiveness</em></strong></span></span></div><hr /></div><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><br /><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Special News<em>--</em>October 2021</strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Mental Health, Trauma, and Wellbeing</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><em>Pathways for Global Mental Health as Mission<br />________________________________________________________________</em></strong></span></span><a href="https://www.who.int/health-topics/mental-health#tab=tab_1" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="13886136" height="427" src="https://mcusercontent.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/cbccbc6c-777a-cfb3-476e-9eb3c1c38e13.png" style="border: 0px; color: black; display: inline; height: 427px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 575px;" width="575" /></a><strong style="color: black;">_________________________________________________________________________</strong><p><span style="color: black;">See also the </span><a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/mental-well-being-resources-for-the-public" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">WHO's mental health resources for the public</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Global Mental Health (GMH) is an international, interdisciplinary, culturally-sensitive,<br />and multi-sectoral domain which promotes human well being,<br />the right to health, and equity in health for all. </em></span><br /><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/gmhmap/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">GMH-Map website</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">-----------</span></p><div style="line-height: 21px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Welcome to our 150<sup>th</sup> Member Care Update!</strong><br /> <br />In this issue we return to the fascinating and crucial area of Global Mental Health as Mission (gmhM), en route to </span><a href="https://wfmh.global/2021-world-mental-health-global-awareness-campaign-world-mental-health-day-theme/" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">World Mental Health Day (10 October)</span></a><span style="color: black;">, now in its 30th year. How can the Church-Mission Community (CMC)--and each of us and our organizations--be involved in promoting and nurturing mental <em>good </em>health and preventing and healing mental <em>ill</em> health? <strong>What are some of the pathways for creatively, competently, and ethically engaging in gmhM, locally through globally?</strong><br /> <br />Mental ill health is a massive, ubiquitous reality with an estimate of nearly 800 million people suffering from a major mental health condition (</span><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/mental-health" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Our World in Data, Mental Health, updated August 2021</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">)</span><span style="color: black;">. <strong>There are many opportunities for the CMC to delve further into this neglected area of ministry, </strong>combining good works and the good news in our churches, communities, countries, and world, on behalf of the wellbeing all people and peoples (</span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians%202%3A10&version=NIV" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Ephesians 2:10</span></a><span style="color: black;">)<br /> <br />Keep in mind that gmhM is not simply about developing more CMC resources for<em> treating </em>possible biological and/or psychological conditions or illnesses. Rather it is also about <em>prevention:</em> including <strong>bravely facing and ministering into the underlying negative influences on mental health, trauma, and wellbeing</strong>—nefarious life-destroyers like social determinants of health, commercial determinants of heath, poverty, trauma, adverse childhood experiences, corruption, etc. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Applications.</strong> We encourage you to take some time to look through the materials below. They are both inspirational and informative and include articles, conferences, webinars, interviews, and videos. Choose a couple items for further review. Consider a few specific applications--<em>pathways!</em>--for you and your settings. <strong>How can we learn from, connect with, and apply some of the resources and examples presented?</strong><br /><br />Finally, we continue to share </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://membercareassociates.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Df34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3%26id%3Dc51897d7b3%26e%3D8abe98a91a&source=gmail&ust=1605985764191000&usg=AOvVaw2LBjlVe_MsB9pnX8x-Mu7G" href="https://membercareassociates.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3&id=c51897d7b3&e=8abe98a91a" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Reflections and Resources for Covid Care</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (click the link for access). These materials have been compiled over the past year to support you, others in your life, and your work in mission and member care. We acknowledge that there are many views about this pandemic including how best to manage it and future pandemics via science, policy, and public cooperation.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Going further--see these resources:</strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/23d69c015730/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-1463301" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Mental Health in Frontier Mission</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Member Care Update </em>(December 2018)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/60b298ef75b5/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-1619857" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Caring for Our Mental Health</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Member Care Update</em> (October 2019)<br />--</span><a href="https://membercareassociates.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Engaging-in-Humanity-Care-Stress-Trauma-and-Humanitarian-Work-final-version-for-CPAW-May-2020.pdf" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Engaging in Humanity Care: Stress, Trauma, and Humanitarian Work</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Christian Psychology Around the World</em> (May 2020)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;">Warm greetings</span></strong><strong><span style="color: black;">,<br />Kelly and Michèle</span></strong></p></div></div></div><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 21px;"><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><strong><em> <img data-file-id="2181237" height="142" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px currentcolor; display: inline; height: 142px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 200px;" width="200" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; line-height: 14px; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong></div><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"> --Share your comments and resources on our </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/globalintegrators/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">MCA Facebook page</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span><br /><span style="color: black;">--Send us your ideas and resources for future <em>MC Updates</em><br />--Forward to your colleagues and networks</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span><br /> <hr /><p><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Mental Health, Trauma, and Wellbeing</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><em>Pathways for Global Mental Health as Mission</em></strong></span></span><br />_______________________________________________________________________<br /><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mItrm78-boFt4Qh0UxMI7veojJWxDxGi/edit#slide=id.p1" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="13886308" height="407" src="https://mcusercontent.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/dc2b5e1e-be40-316c-de11-398f16f7c43d.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: 407px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a><br />_______________________________________________________________________<br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>How can the Church-Mission Community connect-contribute to GMH, and vice versa?</strong></span><br />------------<br /><br /><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Three GMH Events</span></span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mItrm78-boFt4Qh0UxMI7veojJWxDxGi/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=115799334027555263203&rtpof=true&sd=true" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Mental Health: Three Strategic Events (5-12 October 2021)</span></a>. Seven <span style="color: black;">power point slides from Kelly's presentation on 23 September 2021 at the meeting of the </span><a href="https://psychologycoalitionun.org/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Psychology Coalition at the United Nations</span></a><span style="color: black;">. What major events are happening in GMH and why are they important?<br /><br />--</span><a href="https://solidarites-sante.gouv.fr/ministere/europe-et-international/sommet-mondial-sante-mentale/global-mental-health-summit-english-version/article/global-mental-health-summit-english-version" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">GMH Ministerial Summit, Paris</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (5-6 October 2021). Integrating mental health/health in/after the pandemic and innovative practices for mental health-human rights (plenaries to hopefully be live streamed and archived).</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">--World Mental Health Day (10 October) Themes: </span><a href="https://wfmh.global/2021-world-mental-health-global-awareness-campaign-world-mental-health-day-theme/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Mental Health in an Unequal World (WFMH)</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">and </span><a href="https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-mental-health-day/2021" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Mental Health Care for All: Let's Make it a Reality (WHO)</span></a>. <span style="color: black;">"</span><span style="color: black;">The overall objective of World Mental Health Day is to raise awareness of mental health issues around the world and to mobilize efforts in support of mental health. The Day provides an opportunity for all stakeholders working on mental health issues to talk about their work, and what more needs to be done to make mental health care a reality for people worldwide." (</span><a href="https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-mental-health-day" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">quote from WHO</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">--WHO Mental Health Forum (11-12 October). By invitation and hoping that the main sessions will be archived and available as videos shortly.<br /><br /><strong>Coming soon:</strong></span><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/13rZZLzCDVQQtF96uYE0eQmDHAszcDbxK/view?usp=sharing" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Addressing Mental Health in Global Contexts</span></a>. <span style="color: black;">21 October 2021, 19:00—20:30 EDT</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Ffordham.zoom.us%2Fmeeting%2Fregister%2FtZApf-mtqTMqG9VEJSPc2vR9zCM-dcquV55f&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFCIxboK1KfgsBPquU5qO_l95RDCw" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Register here</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></a> <span style="color: black;">Organized by Fordham University--Psi Chi and the </span><a href="https://psychologycoalitionun.org/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Psychology Coalition at the United Nations</span></a>.</p><hr /><hr /><p><a href="https://bibles.com/product/categories/christian-books-and-resources/healing-wounds-trauma-how-church-can-help-stories-north-america-2021-edition" style="color: #336699;"><img data-file-id="13886424" height="484" src="https://mcusercontent.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/b9f1daf1-fc4b-7b70-e703-0832ce3779c8.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: 484px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/14CHmKvnaNmRdRjAm0oWIwSQx53DZIMSB/view?usp=sharing" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The Fellowship of Suffering: Insights for Trauma Healing</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></a><span style="color: black;">(July 2021). Harriett Hill. <em>International Bulletin of Mission Research</em>. </span><span style="color: black;">“In a world brimming over with trauma and suffering, what is the gospel? And what is the church? In this article, Harriet Hill explores the church as a fellowship of suffering, drawing insights from her years of experience in trauma healing. She describes the first “Healing the Wounds of Trauma” workshop in 2002 with pastors from war zones across Africa. Then she explores factors that prevent churches from engaging in this fellowship of suffering, countered with reasons the church is ideally placed to be a fellowship of suffering.” (Abstract)<br /> <br />“Trauma healing [</span><a href="https://bibles.com/product/categories/christian-books-and-resources/healing-wounds-trauma-how-church-can-help-stories-north-america-2021-edition" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Healing the Wounds of Trauma</em></span></a><span style="color: black;">] is now active in 112 countries, with over 16,000 trained facilitators in Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox churches, and with materials in 148 languages. Versions of the materials have been developed for children, teens, and oral communicators, and they exist in print, audio, and video formats. The materials have been contextualized for a host of audiences, including refugees, inmates, African Americans, military, missionaries, natural disasters victims, and Muslims, and for cultures from Greenland to Sri Lanka. Lessons have been developed on domestic abuse, addictions, abortion recovery, and suicide.” (p.271)</span></p><hr /><hr /><p><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Pathways for GMH as Mission</span></strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><em><strong>Perspectives, Resources, Recommendations</strong></em></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="13886432" height="341" src="https://mcusercontent.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/601824f6-ad70-f5ed-a252-57e3971ada5d.jpeg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: 341px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Image courtesy and © 2019 JMLOD</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Interview: </strong>Smith, B., O’Donnell, K., & O’Donnell, M. (27 April 2021). </span><em><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Qlg1RQupZUSFPgipxnsUpSWpyPky9JSw?usp=sharing" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Pathways into Global Mental Health [interview</span></a></em><span style="color: mediumblue;">]. </span><span style="color: black;">Full interview, 55 minutes. See Clip 2--an 8 Minute segment on” Six M’s of Engagement for Global Mental Health: Mindsets, Mentors, Models, Multi-Sectoral, Mainstreaming, Mechanisms.<br /> <br /><strong>Presentation: </strong>Gingrich, F., & Smith, B. (17 September 2921). </span><em><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J94eSxrH5_uvUZo_VnDQFpNUMofwN9Z0/view" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Pathways to engaging global mental health: Here, there and in-between</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">Power point of the workshop presented at The American Association of Christian Counselors International Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA.</span></p><hr /><hr /><p><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;">Global Mental Health</span></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><em><span style="background-color: lightblue;">Defining the Domain<br /><br /><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/gmhmap/" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="13886448" height="200" src="https://mcusercontent.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/9bdf8ca1-5c59-9abf-5b9c-bc800b83a48a.jpeg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: 200px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></span></em></strong></span><br />Logo for our </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/gmhmap/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">GMH-Map</span></a><span style="color: black;"> website</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Mental Health (GMH) </strong>is an international, interdisciplinary, culturally-sensitive, and multi-sectoral domain which promotes human <strong>well being</strong>, the right to health, and equity in health <strong>for all.</strong> It encourages healthy behaviours and lifestyles; is committed to preventing and treating mental, neurological, and substance use conditions (MNS) especially for vulnerable populations (e.g., in settings of poverty, conflict, calamity, and trauma) and in low- and middle-income countries; and seeks to improve policies and programs, professional practices and research, advocacy and awareness, and structural and systemic, social and environmental factors that affect health and well being.” (based on the original definition in </span><a href="http://www.apa.org/international/pi/2012/03/global-health.aspx" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Mental Health: Finding Your Niches and Networks,</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></a><span style="color: black;"><em>Psychology International,</em> March 2012)</span></p><hr /><hr /><p><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://lausanne.org/tag/mental-health-and-trauma" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Mental Health and Trauma Resources</span></a><br /><em><span style="color: black;">Lausanne Movement</span></em></span></strong><br />_________________________________________________________________________</p><p><a href="https://lausanne.org/tag/mental-health-and-trauma" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="13886444" height="256" src="https://mcusercontent.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/dd9048db-952e-c890-9314-82a8699fb445.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: 256px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 575px;" width="575" /></a></p><p><span style="color: black;">___________________________________________________</span><br /> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://lausanne.org/lausanne-global-classroom/mental-health-and-trauma-episode%20%C2%A0" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Rediscovering the WHOLE" in Holistic Mission</span></a><span style="color: black;">, Lausanne Global Classroom (2021, videos). Eleven episodes from different mental health professionals. Most are around five minutes each. <strong>It is a <em>go-to,</em> free training tool to get a good overview on gmhM.</strong> Some episodes: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlNTFmKc4pI&list=PLYGxDL2dvuo5QKSKGBXTaAXyBPg8XNg2m&index=2" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Defining Mental Health and Trauma for the Church</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CssQZD-VsJs&list=PLYGxDL2dvuo5QKSKGBXTaAXyBPg8XNg2m&index=6" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Listening to Local Voices and Utilizing Indigenous Riches for Mental Health</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er2LrrQYK8U&list=PLYGxDL2dvuo5QKSKGBXTaAXyBPg8XNg2m&index=8" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Equipping Christians to Better Understand Mental Health Issues</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">, </span><span style="color: black;">and</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnyRYnpF_NE&list=PLYGxDL2dvuo5QKSKGBXTaAXyBPg8XNg2m&index=10" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Mental Health and Ministry</span></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://lausanne.org/content/lga/2021-01/building-hope-and-resilience-in-the-covid-19-storm" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Building Hope and Resilience in the COVID-19 Storm: Lament, Communities of Care, and the New Normal</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (2020, article). Gladys Mwiti<br /> <br />--</span><a href="https://lausanne.org/content/lga/turning-the-churchs-attention-to-mental-health" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Turning the Church's Attention to Mental Health: Binding Up the Broken Hearted</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (2018, article). Gladys Mwiti and Bradford Smith.<br /><br />--More Lausanne resources for mental health and trauma ministry </span><a href="https://lausanne.org/tag/mental-health-and-trauma" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;">.<br /> <br /><strong>See also:</strong><br />--</span><a href="https://membercareassociates.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2nd-Final-Wellbeing-for-all-GMH-and-CMC-29-Nov-2018-ODonnells-3.pdf" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Wellbeing for All: Global Mental Health and the Church-Mission Community</span></a>. <span style="color: black;">Kelly and Michele O'Donnell. Lausanne Movement’s Global Mental Health and Trauma Network (webinar 29 November 2018; watch the video-webinar </span><a href="https://lausanne.zoom.us/recording/play/J2b4HS_zRGAseSMay2K7Om6Wmny4tAUegCcQEtA5ITlaMUnQK5IfMV_I0Hz-75iw?continueMode=true)" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></p><hr /><hr /><p><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">World Health Organization</span></span></strong><br /><br /><a href="https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240031029" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="13886436" height="656" src="https://mcusercontent.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/8ce5cdb7-6353-b2e9-1ed4-c080a439cb4e.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: 656px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Just released! </span></strong><a href="https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240031029" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2030</em></span></a><span style="color: black;"> (updated 21 September 2021). "</span><span style="color: black;">This updated [Plan] builds upon its predecessor and sets out clear actions for Member States, the WHO Secretariat and international, regional and national partners to promote mental health and well-being for all, to prevent mental health conditions for those at-risk and to achieve universal coverage for mental health services. While the updated action plan includes new and updated indicators and implementation options, the original four major objectives remain unchanged: more effective leadership and governance for mental health; the provision of comprehensive, integrated mental health and social care services in community-based settings; implementation of strategies for promotion and prevention; and strengthened information systems, evidence and research." (</span><a href="https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240031029" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">quote from website</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span><br /><br /><strong>Also see:</strong> <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/mental-well-being-resources-for-the-public" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">WHO's many mental health resources for the public</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span></p><hr /><hr /><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: navy;">Final Thoughts</span><br /><em><span style="color: black;">More Pathways for GMH as Mission</span></em></span></strong><br /><br /><img data-file-id="2195025" height="239" src="https://mcusercontent.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/5d12960e-c2e6-4931-958a-dac3de49147e.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: 239px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><p><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><strong>I</strong>mage courtesy and ©2016 ENOD</span></span></p><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">"Mental health is increasingly being recognized for its pivotal role in health, sustainable development, and wellbeing for all people and of the planet. In this chapter we highlight several markers that collectively reflect crucial developments and directions for mental health’s global impact. These comprise events, reports, manuals, campaigns, consortia, etc., and this body of markers represent the culmination of a series of articles over the past 10 years to orient colleagues in mental health and across sectors to the domain of Global Mental Health (GMH) (GMH-Map Project). We organize the markers into 10 areas of engagement for GMH Collaboration and conclude with perspectives on working together into the future." (</span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/14sQdg6o50-Vtmlii8kH4CPKdCjZvLCnt/view" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">O'Donnell, Eaton, Lewis O'Donnell, 2021)</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"> <br /><strong>An example.</strong> We recently attended virtually the 75 minute UN <strong>High Level Event on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS).</strong> It was really good--with both summary/overview comments and practical in-country examples--and we have copied the short overview and list of speakers below.<br /> <br />You can watch the archive on UN TV here:</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><a href="https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1e/k1eqh2jh54" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1e/k1eqh2jh54</span></a><span style="color: black;">--there were about 10 speakers and it was moderated by </span><a href="https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/people/our-faculty/mgw2106#:~:text=A%20long%20time%20psychosocial%20and,of%20the%20Sphere%20humanitarian%20standards." style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Dr. Mike Wessells</span></a><span style="color: black;">. The main focus was on providing MHPSS in conflict settings and integrating MHPSS and peacebuilding efforts. <br /><br />The </span><a href="https://neemfoundation.org.ng/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">NEEM Foundation</span></a><span style="color: black;"> in Nigeria was one of the featured MHPSS programs/presentations and we want to recommend watching the new video about their work, 30 minutes--a vivid example of what MHPSS looks like, setting it up, measuring needs and impact, etc. Great for us all to get a glimpse beyond only reading the research/studies about mental health in Low- and Middle-Income Settings (LMICs) and in conflict settings. <strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;">Counseling on Wheels</span></strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;">: </span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLtz8FsTxMc" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLtz8FsTxMc</span></span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Stay in touch.</strong> We encourage you to stay in touch with these GMH organizations---staying in touch with the issues, developments, resources, colleagues, applications, research, etc.<br />--</span><a href="https://unitedgmh.org/global-mental-health-action-network" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">GMH Action Network</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.mhinnovation.net/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Mental Health Innovation Network</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.mhpss.net/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Network</span></a><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Finally..."</span></strong><span style="color: black;">The GMH community must join others in the international, multi-sectoral community to advocate for solidarity in common efforts for sustainable development, locally and globally, to stir up and consolidate the <em>best that we can be</em> as individuals and institutions, including: greater <em>empathy</em> for others and mutual reliance on others; greater <em>existential awareness</em> of our finiteness and sense of meaning in life; and greater <em>engagement</em> with others for the common good and protection of the most vulnerable as well as the planet. Positively, the protracted COVID-19 pandemic provides plenty of opportunities for us all- personally, locally, and internationally--to reflect on the types of people we want to be and the types of societies we need to build. Many conversations have been started on the basis of the experience of the pandemic, which must now be operationalized into practical approaches to achieve the types of changes we have to make." (</span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/14sQdg6o50-Vtmlii8kH4CPKdCjZvLCnt/view" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">O'Donnell, Eaton, Lewis O'Donnell, 2021</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Kelly and Michèle<br /><br />Quotes above from: </span></strong><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=14sQdg6o50-Vtmlii8kH4CPKdCjZvLCnt" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">GMH: Collaborating for Sustainable Development and Wellbeing (April 2021)</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></a><span style="color: black;"> A revised version of this article will appear in the forthcoming volume (in press): E.P. Congress, H. Takooshian, & S. Osborn (Eds.), </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.infoagepub.com%2Fseries%2FInternational-Psychology&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGB0JXQcRMRROGlhZfjno5wZk9DWA" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Behavioral Science in the Global Arena</span></a><span style="color: black;">. 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font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"><div style="line-height: 15px; text-align: justify;"><br /><br /><br /> </div><div style="line-height: 15px; text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Disclaimer</strong>:<br />The material and information in these <em>Updates</em> are shared as a service to the community and should not be seen as an endorsement by MCA or as a substitute for professional medical and/or mental health advice. </span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Member Care Associateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00435755943229949017noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105370806558579704.post-21051383376718261402021-09-10T13:30:00.006+01:002021-09-10T13:33:29.821+01:00Humanity Care: UPGs and SDGs 15<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.missionfrontiers.org/pdfs/MF43-5_Web.pdf">Special Issue of <i>Mission Frontiers</i>, September-October 2021:</a></span></b></div></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: #2e2e2e; font-family: "freight text w03 book"; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Defining and Redefining People Groups</i></span></b></div></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU4byMdxy8ygUWKVLY9AM4UE1L6NHUC8ZcBLcn-DfCVW2oDh9gmaEz7ATyWkCRYD7XvMsRQaJhayZ1ZyJGHaDuz1fXOQjWYzzWaGzIcnB5RCQtF05wxJcNrGZkYm8rUO8F_NaCvQ2kV-Ou/s700/YPGs+2014+joshua+project.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="700" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU4byMdxy8ygUWKVLY9AM4UE1L6NHUC8ZcBLcn-DfCVW2oDh9gmaEz7ATyWkCRYD7XvMsRQaJhayZ1ZyJGHaDuz1fXOQjWYzzWaGzIcnB5RCQtF05wxJcNrGZkYm8rUO8F_NaCvQ2kV-Ou/w400-h291/YPGs+2014+joshua+project.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: "freight text w03 book";">"The world is a very different place than it was nearly 50 years ago when the people group paradigm was birthed. Should the missions community still view the world as a waffle? Is traditional ethnolinguistic people group thinking still relevant? This issue will address how the waffle barriers are changing. Global trends are creating new social dynamics and changing both the barriers and boundaries by which groups are defined. New hybrid, trans-national and dynamic groupings must be considered for evangelistic purposes, Disciple Making and Church Planting Movements. Most of the material in this issue is important in shaping our thinking. But be alert for heart knowledge as well as head knowledge; don’t overlook the heart-engaging Unreached of the Day prayer section." (quote from website)</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: "freight text w03 book";"><b>Some of the articles:</b></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span>--<a href="http://www.missionfrontiers.org/issue/article/people-group-lists-and-the-challenge-of-growing-complexity">People
Group Lists and the Challenge of Growing Complexity</a><br />
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--<a href="http://www.missionfrontiers.org/issue/article/how-people-group-information-impacted-a-mission-agency">How People Group Information Impacted
a Mission Agency</a><br />
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--<a href="http://www.missionfrontiers.org/issue/article/people-group-information-in-an-african-context">People Group Information in an African
Context</a><br />
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--<a href="http://www.missionfrontiers.org/issue/article/more-lists-more-data-more-possibilities">More Lists, More Data, More
Possibilities</a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">--</span></span><a href="http://www.missionfrontiers.org/issue/article/urbanization-and-measuring-the-remaining-task" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-shadow: rgb(255, 255, 255) 0px 1px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Urbanization and Measuring the Remaining Task</span></span></a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKPdjioz5AFXvlA7rLbkUaSkze_fwSzc1aCNFUwcd2-NEKrk0sJc8eL8ZzDC_l1EYkx9mHMMguJiQ-KEoJQNLJVVu6AvTTnp9-qw9nih6ma3Pmh22QHQKm4qrDRE6SW0SIIy2ijc0jWwd3/s1024/flags.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="681" data-original-width="1024" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKPdjioz5AFXvlA7rLbkUaSkze_fwSzc1aCNFUwcd2-NEKrk0sJc8eL8ZzDC_l1EYkx9mHMMguJiQ-KEoJQNLJVVu6AvTTnp9-qw9nih6ma3Pmh22QHQKm4qrDRE6SW0SIIy2ijc0jWwd3/w400-h266/flags.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><span style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: "freight text w03 book"; font-size: 18px;"></span><p></p>Member Care Associateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00435755943229949017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105370806558579704.post-69974913294815890712021-07-30T13:50:00.001+01:002021-07-30T13:50:53.938+01:00Humanity Care: UPGs and SDGs 14<p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templateContainer" style="background-color: #7690bd; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: black; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="templatePreheader" style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 0px; min-width: 100%; text-size-adjust: 100%; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td class="preheaderContainer" style="padding-top: 9px; text-size-adjust: 100%;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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height: 263px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 575px;" width="575" /><br /><span style="color: #006666;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong> Global Integration Updates</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;">Common Ground for the Common Good </span></strong></span></em><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Be the people we need--Build the world we need</span></strong><hr /><hr /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Special News<em>-</em>-August 2021</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Sustainable Development Progress Report 2021<br /><em>For Better and for Worse</em></strong></span></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="5526541" height="264" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/776487c9-2997-85fb-09af-d3013e8c1a26.png" style="border: 0px; height: 264px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></div><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em><span style="color: black;">"</span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">In Panama City inequality is seen side by side. Panama, April 2020."<br />Photo: UNDP/Grey Díaz</span> </span></em><span style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://stories.undp.org/undp-photos-of-the-year-2020" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">UNDP Photos of the Year 2020</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em>“<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">2020 brought us tragedy and peril. 2021 must be the year to change gear and put the world on track. We need to move from death to health; from disaster to reconstruction; from despair to hope; from business as usual to transformation. The Sustainable Development Goals are more important now than ever. Now is the time to secure the well-being of people, economies, societies and our planet. It is possible. So we must make it happen. Together.” </span></span></em><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2021-01-28/secretary-generals-remarks-member-states-priorities-for-2021-bilingual-delivered-scroll-down-for-all-english-version" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">UN Secretary-General António Guterres remarks to Member States on Priorities for 2021</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: black;"> (28 January 2021)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;">-----</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">In this <em>Update</em> we feature the latest </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2021/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">progress report by the UN on the Sustainable Development Goals</span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"> (SDGs, 2021). This <em>Report </em>provides important information on the status of the 17 SDGs and their 169 targets. <strong>How are we doing—for better and for worse--in our efforts to eradicate poverty in all its forms; promote peace, justice, and wellbeing for all; protect the planet, etc.?</strong><br /> <br />In addition, we share three sources of information and perspectives to complement this Report from the UN Development Program (UNDP), World Bank, and Our World in Data. And to illustrate some of the real-world challenges—locally through globally--we have included several poignant images from the UNDP for reflection.<br /> <br />We encourage you to look over the Foreword of the SDG Report 2021 (page 2). From there, you may want to review the infographics in the Overview section (page 8 and following) and then probe further into this 68 page <em>Report</em> to consider the mixed progress of one or more of the specific SDGs. <span style="background-color: lightblue;">There is also a </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj-VqSPecfA" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">five minute overview video HERE</span></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">.</span> <br /><br /><strong>Based on the above materials, what are three signs-statistics of serious concern and three signs-statistics of significant hope? Stay informed. Stay involved. Be the people we need.</strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Covid Care. </strong>We also continue to share </span><a href="https://membercareassociates.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3&id=c51897d7b3&e=8abe98a91a" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Reflections and Resources for Covid Care</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (click the link for access). These materials have been compiled over the past 18 months to support you, others in your life, and your work in mission and member care. We acknowledge that there are different views about this pandemic including how best to manage it and future health emergencies via science, public health policy, human rights principles, and international cooperation.<br /><br /><strong>See these <em>Global Integration Updates</em></strong>:<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/12a98fbfa2de/global-integration-update-special-news-7480409" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">March 2021</span></a><span style="color: black;">: Global Trends–Perspectives and Priorities from the Sectors<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/a24eaaee7a30/global-integration-update-special-news-1402457" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">August 2019</span></a><span style="color: black;">: Progress Reports–Sustainable Development Goals</span><br />--<a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">June 2017</span></a>:<span style="color: black;"> Doomsday–Next Stop, Global Dis-Integration?</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Warm greetings,<br />Kelly and Michèle</strong></span><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/globalintegrators/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><em> <img data-file-id="2181237" height="142" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto !important; outline: none;" width="200" /><img data-file-id="802497" height="142" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; height: 142px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 280px;" width="280" /></em></strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">--Share your comments and resources on our</span> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/globalintegrators/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">MCA Facebook page</span></a> <br /><span style="color: black;">--Forward to your colleagues and networks (link to sign up is at the end).</span></span></div><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Sustainable Development Progress Report 2021<br /><em>For Better and for Worse<br /><br /><a href="https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2021/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><img data-file-id="5526585" height="529" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/8185944a-09a2-07de-d391-f8ac045c956a.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 529px; margin: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></a></em></strong></span><span style="font-size: 12px;">Cover of the SDG Progress Report 2021</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>“The global community is at a critical moment in its pursuit of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). More than a year into the global pandemic, millions of lives have been lost, the human and economic toll has been unprecedented, and recovery efforts so far have been uneven, inequitable and insufficiently geared towards achieving sustainable development. The current crisis is threatening decades of development gains, further delaying the urgent transition to greener, more inclusive economies, and throwing progress on the SDGs even further off track.” </em></span><a href="https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2021/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">Excerpt from the Foreword<em>, SDG Report 2021</em></span></a></span><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2021/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><em>Sustainable Development Goals Report 2021</em></span></a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">. United Nations. </span></span></strong><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">We encourage you to look over the Foreword of the SDG Report 2021 by UN Secretary-General António Guterres (page 2, excerpts below). From there, you may want to review the infographics in the Overview section (page 8 and following) and then probe further into this 68 page <em>Report</em> to consider the mixed progress of one or more of the specific SDGs.</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2021/extended-report/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Click HERE for the <em>Extended Report</em></span></a><span style="color: black;">. <span style="background-color: lightblue;">There is also a</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj-VqSPecfA" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">five minute overview video HERE</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">.</span> <strong>Stay informed. Stay involved. Be the people we need.</strong><br /><br />“Had the paradigm shift envisioned by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development been fully embraced over the past six years, the world would have been better prepared to face this crisis – with stronger health systems, expanded social protection coverage, the resilience that comes from more equal societies, and a healthier natural environment. Regrettably, the SDGs were already off track even before COVID-19 emerged. Progress had been made in poverty reduction, maternal and child health, access to electricity, and gender equality, but not enough to achieve the Goals by 2030. In other vital areas, including reducing inequality, lowering carbon emissions and tackling hunger, progress had either stalled or reversed.<br /><br />As the pandemic continues to unfold, The <em>Sustainable Development Goals Report 2021</em> outlines some significant impacts in many areas that are already apparent. The global extreme poverty rate rose for the first time in over 20 years, and 119 to 124 million people were pushed back into extreme poverty in 2020. There is a risk of a generational catastrophe regarding schooling, where an additional 101 million children have fallen below the minimum reading proficiency level, potentially wiping out two decades of education gains. Women have faced increased domestic violence, child marriage is projected to rise after a decline in recent years, and unpaid and underpaid care work is increasingly and disproportionately falling on the shoulders of women and girls, impacting educational and income opportunities and health. Notwithstanding the global economic slowdown, concentrations of major greenhouse gases continue to increase. With the global average temperature reaching about 1.2°C above pre-industrial levels, the climate crisis has well and truly arrived, and its impacts are being felt across the world. The pandemic has also brought immense financial challenges, especially for developing countries – with a significant rise in debt distress and dramatic decreases in foreign direct investment and trade….<br /> <br />The challenges are immense, but there are also reasons for hope. The COVID-19 crisis demonstrated inspiring community resilience, highlighted the Herculean work by essential workers in myriad fields and facilitated the rapid expansion of social protection, the acceleration of digital transformation and unprecedented worldwide collaboration on the development of vaccines. A brighter future is possible. We must use the crisis to transform our world, deliver on the 2030 Agenda and keep our promise to current and future generations.”</span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"> <br /><span style="font-size: 14px;">António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><img data-file-id="5526565" height="258" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/0db19766-f347-a094-4213-6a8b09c93588.png" style="border: 0px; height: 258px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>“Students plant mangroves, Cambodia, March 2020."<br />Photo: UNDP Cambodia/Manuth Buth </em></span><a href="https://stories.undp.org/undp-photos-of-the-year-2020" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">UNDP Photos of the Year 2020</span></a></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Going Further</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><em>More Perspectives and Data on Sustainable Development</em></strong></span></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="5526561" height="280" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/819f1043-cb53-e610-0bc9-6ee214e354d0.png" style="border: 0px; height: 280px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><em>“<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">A highly-instagrammed street stands shuttered and empty, Istanbul, March 2020."<br />Photo: UNDP Eurasia/Karen Cirillo </span></span></em><span style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://stories.undp.org/undp-photos-of-the-year-2020" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">UNDP Photos of the Year 2020</span></a></span><br />_____</div><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><em><a href="http://hdr.undp.org/en/2020-report" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">Human Development Report 2020: The next Frontier-Human Development and the Anthropocene</span></a></em><span style="color: black;">. United Nations Development Program.</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> “Thirty years ago, UNDP created a new way to conceive and measure progress. Instead of using growth in [Gross Domestic Product] as the sole measure of development, we ranked the world’s countries by their human development: by whether people in each country have the freedom and opportunity to live the lives they value. The <em>2020 Human Development Report</em> (HDR) doubles down on the belief that people’s agency and empowerment can bring about the action we need if we are to live in balance with the planet in a fairer world. It shows that we are at an unprecedented moment in history, in which human activity has become a dominant force shaping the planet. These impacts interact with existing inequalities, threatening significant development reversals. Nothing short of a great transformation – in how we live, work and cooperate – is needed to change the path we are on. The Report explores how to jumpstart that transformation.” (quote from web site)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br /><img data-file-id="5526569" height="260" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f0d5f1f2-ca82-eb9b-5fa8-8d80e3a3e085.png" style="border: 0px; height: 260px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><em>“<span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">Abdo Pharaon looks at ruins of his home and Beirut in the aftermath<br />of the 4 August explosion in Port of Beirut. Beirut, Lebanon, 6 August 2020.”<br />Photo: UNDP Lebanon/Rana Sweidan </span></span></em><a href="https://stories.undp.org/undp-photos-of-the-year-2020" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;">U</span><span style="color: blue;">NDP Photos of the Year 2020</span></span></a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><em><a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2021" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">Word Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives</span></a></em><span style="color: black;">. World Bank. </span></strong><span style="color: black;">“Today’s unprecedented growth of data and their ubiquity in our lives are signs that the data revolution is transforming the world. And yet much of the value of data remains untapped. Data collected for one purpose have the potential to generate economic and social value in applications far beyond those originally anticipated. But many barriers stand in the way, ranging from misaligned incentives and incompatible data systems to a fundamental lack of trust. <em>World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives</em> explores the tremendous potential of the changing data landscape to improve the lives of poor people, while also acknowledging its potential to open back doors that can harm individuals, businesses, and societies. To address this tension between the helpful and harmful potential of data, this Report calls for a new social contract that enables the use and reuse of data to create economic and social value, ensures equitable access to that value, and fosters trust that data will not be misused in harmful ways.” (quote from web site)</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: blue;"><img data-file-id="5526581" height="321" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/c56f8cb5-f7ce-f34e-8c3f-c2be43f8ccc1.png" style="border: 0px; height: 321px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"Women repair a school in Yemen, March 2020."</em><br />Photo: UNDP Yemen </span><a href="https://stories.undp.org/undp-photos-of-the-year-2020" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">UNDP Photos of the Year 2020</span></a></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">Our World in Data</span></a></strong><span style="color: black;">. “Poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality: The world faces many great and terrifying problems. It is these large problems that our work at Our World in Data focuses on. Thanks to the work of thousands of researchers around the world who dedicate their lives to it, we often have a good understanding of how it is possible to make progress against the large problems we are facing. The world has the resources to do much better and reduce the suffering in the world. We believe that a key reason why we fail to achieve the progress we are capable of is that we do not make enough use of this existing research and data: the important knowledge is often stored in inaccessible databases, locked away behind paywalls and buried under jargon in academic papers. The goal of our work is to make the knowledge on the big problems accessible and understandable.” (quote from web site)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><img data-file-id="5526765" height="309" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/4156d603-e085-bbfe-24ef-52a968dabff8.png" style="border: 0px; height: 309px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;"><em>"The Noyemberyan forestry, Armenia, June 2020."</em><br />UNDP Armenia/Grant Sahakyan </span><a href="https://stories.undp.org/undp-photos-of-the-year-2020" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">UNDP Photos of the Year 2020</span></a></span></p><hr /><hr /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;">Member Care Associates</span></span></strong><br /><strong><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span></a></strong><br /><span style="color: black;"><img data-file-id="247905" height="154" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px currentcolor; height: 154px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 150px;" width="150" /></span><br /> </p></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Member Care Associates Inc. (MCA)</strong> is a non-profit, Christian organization working internationally from Geneva and the USA. MCA's involvement in Global Integration focuses on the wellbeing and effectiveness of personnel and their organizations across sectors (e.g., mission, humanitarian, peace, health, and development sectors) as well as global mental health and integrity/anti-corruption, all with a view towards collaboratively supporting sustainable development for all people and the planet. Our services include consultation, training, research, resource development, and publications.</span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Click on these items below to access our:</span><br /><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=125" style="color: #336699; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Member Care Updates</span></a></em>, <em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #336699; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Global Integration Updates</span></a></em>,<br /><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=133" style="color: #336699; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">member care books</span></a>, <span style="color: black;">and</span> <a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=2007" style="color: #336699; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">recent MCA publications</span></a>.</span></div><hr /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><span style="color: black;">Global Integration</span></strong></span><br /><br /><img height="137" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/0ce457d4-4eb8-4fe6-9b39-f3c77bbccf8d.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: 137px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 300px;" width="300" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=373" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-weight: normal; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Global Integration</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(GI)</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> is a framework for actively and responsibly engaging in our world--locally to globally. It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links <em>building</em> the world we need with <em>being</em> the people we need.</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;">Our <strong><em>Global Integration Updates</em> </strong></span><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of </span></span><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/global%20integrators" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">global integrators</span></a><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"> who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good." </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">2015-current</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(60+ issues). Some e</span><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">xamples of foundational ones:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">Doomsday?--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/24d24e690a01/doomsday-global-integration-update-special-issue-1013925" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Living in Global Integrity--</span><a href="http://mailchi.mp/8d1c93fec26c/21ablt91fq" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">April 2017</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Peace and Security--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=651e03107d" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">December 2016</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Global Citizenship--</span><a href="http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079&id=3e54230a8f" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">June 2016</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Faith-Based Partners in Transformation-</span>-<u><a href="http://eepurl.com/bvl0VH" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">August 2015</span></a></u></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 20.8px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><hr /></div><hr /><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Global Pearl</strong><br />The image at the top of the <em>Update</em> (global pearl) is a cover detail from our edited book, </span></span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/" style="color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Global Member Care (volume 2): Crossing Sectors for Serving Humanity</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial, "helvetica neue", helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">(2013). 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The responsibility for the interpretation and use of the materials lies with the reader.</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Member Care Associateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00435755943229949017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105370806558579704.post-45076451932830979362021-05-12T07:58:00.003+00:002021-05-13T12:34:39.878+00:00Humanity Care: UPGs and SDGs 13<p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"></b></p><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Integral Mission<br /></span></b></div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><i>Journeying into the UPG-SDG Domain </i></span></b></div></span></b><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In this entry we reconnect with the original purpose for the UPG-SDG focus of these entries and also share a few new resources. This is a journey into <i>integral mission</i> which historically has been part of the Church's work and witness over the centuries.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">We launched this blog series in January 2018 and have periodically posted materials since then. Many of the materials are verbatim re-postings of our monthly <i><a href="https://membercareassociates.org/resource-updates/mca-resource-updates/">Member Care Updates</a></i>. The materials are from many sources and include resources, perspectives, news, stories, etc. Many can stir up sadness and disillusionment Others are more hopeful and inspirational. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">It would be helpful to see a conceptual grid emerge to help guide this venture into the UPG-SDG domain. One example could be using the 17 SDGs as a grid themselves, with applications/examples for different UPGs. Or vice versa, there could be a grid focusing on different UPGs and how SDGs are being implemented within them. Regardless of the grid, some good conceptual thinking and analyses are surely warranted for exploring and evaluating this integrative domain! For instance...wold it be possible to have a tangible albeit likely <i>avant garde</i> article on something like <i>Doing Frontier Integral Mission Well: Perspectives and Practices for Sustainable Movements and Development.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">We continue on this integral mission journey with many others around the world and across the ages, emphasizing the person and work of Jesus Christ, <i>ad majorem Dei gloriam.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Kelly and Michele</p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_PX6hcedEDsWKqsD3pftUwiGbSoASXziKoyQgbwyEqXELE4fgXUlcHv6lM6i05yttYPZ5MJvkCXwL9HT8-mfvw4IuugcpC2Hj8FzO7_XulnmaYneZRlsjSwrqn_yc09WTrts2cq8WUyb4/s1600/YPGs+2014+joshua+project.jpg" style="color: #cc6611; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="509" data-original-width="700" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_PX6hcedEDsWKqsD3pftUwiGbSoASXziKoyQgbwyEqXELE4fgXUlcHv6lM6i05yttYPZ5MJvkCXwL9HT8-mfvw4IuugcpC2Hj8FzO7_XulnmaYneZRlsjSwrqn_yc09WTrts2cq8WUyb4/w539-h395/YPGs+2014+joshua+project.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="539" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b>A Proposal--</b></span><b style="color: #222222;">24 January 2018</b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><br />We are considering a new series of blog entries (and/or perspectives/articles from various colleagues) that will look at the relationship between UPGs and SDGs: connecting points for collaboration, issues, and opportunities on behalf of some of the most vulnerable, overlooked, and often resilient people in the world. How does the global Church-Mission Community (CMC) involvement in the good news and good works especially on behalf of UPGs relate to the world community's efforts (spearheaded by the United Nations and Civil Society groups) to promote sustainable development especially via the SDGs. And vice versa. What are some examples of collaboration or non-collaboration, and the results? TBD</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-_VV-AH3EbnXqv5MKHY96SMThCmFpiklZOSP3rRVWEnVTPB6ryImmBEZBlZWs7JEaoMmrQUJmuo7H2HR15fxJneE4PYrySN3xLSiWL36vNrq4NagWFNqB-Ut_3w1ifbJi-s2v6D7WYNt/s1600/SDGs.jpg" style="color: #cc6611; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="974" data-original-width="1600" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-_VV-AH3EbnXqv5MKHY96SMThCmFpiklZOSP3rRVWEnVTPB6ryImmBEZBlZWs7JEaoMmrQUJmuo7H2HR15fxJneE4PYrySN3xLSiWL36vNrq4NagWFNqB-Ut_3w1ifbJi-s2v6D7WYNt/w538-h330/SDGs.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="538" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="color: #222222;">Humanity Care</b><b><span style="color: #222222;">—excerpts from </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3&id=7155c94ed6" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i>Member Care Update</i>, February 2017</span></a></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“This <i>Update</i> features the newly expanded model for global member care. It emphasizes the <i>missio Dei </i>context for member care and adds a seventh sphere, Humanity Care….Humanity Care, reflects the growing interests and involvements in wellbeing for all people. It surrounds the other six spheres and is itself contained within the <i>missio Dei</i>, that is, the overall work of God in the world through Divine, secular, ecclesiastical, missiological, etc. means. Here is an abridged description of the seven spheres….</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEKxEY_rtNbyJAwGBcn04O4IQ7CxCASEGyfVWIe7o-I6fC4WHvAFS6JD2WHcbkZO_zZLvXWQFbxHPAiNJrIGcFtxCGnoQC7iFaYNk8TkTeVHJray74ZQnzxWgoa39XO6sHCTdXdJM5v6p4/s1600/Missio+Dei+MC+model--18+Sept+2016.png" style="color: #cc6611; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1544" data-original-width="1544" height="498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEKxEY_rtNbyJAwGBcn04O4IQ7CxCASEGyfVWIe7o-I6fC4WHvAFS6JD2WHcbkZO_zZLvXWQFbxHPAiNJrIGcFtxCGnoQC7iFaYNk8TkTeVHJray74ZQnzxWgoa39XO6sHCTdXdJM5v6p4/w497-h498/Missio+Dei+MC+model--18+Sept+2016.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="497" /></a></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b style="color: #222222;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sphere 7. Humanity Care: The Flow of Common Good</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There is a tremendous need to address major problems affecting the wellbeing of people and the planet. Both member care and mission provide many opportunities for strategic involvement—at local to global levels—by Christian colleagues [from all backgrounds, across sectors, cultures, countries, etc.] who can leverage their character, competencies, and compassion. Those with member care responsibility in particular are encouraged to connect and contribute in our globalizing world in new ways for the common good while maintaining the focus on supporting the health, resiliency, and effectiveness of the diversity of mission personnel and their sending groups.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">---------</span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-weight: bold;">Additional Resources--11 May 2021</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><a href="http://www.ijfm.org/PDFs_IJFM/37_3_4_PDFs/IJFM_37_3_4-Bartlotti.pdf">Reimagining
and Re-envisioning People Groups</a><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">. Leonard N. Bartlotti</span><i>. International
Journal of Frontier Mission</i> (July-December 2021).</b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"> “</span>Rethinking
people groups does not mean eliminating the concept but reimagining and
re-envisioning it in light of twenty-first century realities. The essence of my
discussion here is reflexive, consciously acknowledging our assumptions and
preconceptions. It is also corrective, addressed not to critics but to those of
us who embrace and advocate UPG missiology. In this article, I explore ways to
reimagine people groups through an upgraded understanding of the concept itself
and suggest steps to re-envision the UPG approach in order to maximize efforts
to reach all peoples.” (quote from introduction)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
<b><a href="http://www.ijfm.org/PDFs_IJFM/37_2_PDFs/IJFM_37_2-EntireIssue.pdf">Towards
an Integral Mission</a>. International Journal of Frontier Missions (April-June
2020). “</b>Frontier missiology stands on the shoulders of spontaneous
forums. Two consultations which resulted from these conversations recently
published their compendiums, both significant for frontier missiology. This
issue spotlights one convened by the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS)
in 2018, because we like the way it explored the intersection—a missiological gap—
between Jesus movements, relief and development, and the least-reached peoples.
Ten principles are addressed in their subsequent publication, Undivided Witness
(ad, p. 92; book review, p. 106), and the publisher has generously given us
permission to offer you an excerpt (p. 93). The second [compendium] publication
is from the “Rethinking People Groups Forum,” which was sparked by discussions
at ISFM 2018. Any attempt to clarify the global demographics of the remaining
frontiers must address the emerging debate over the concept of “peoples.” After
a year and a half of many virtual and face-to-face deliberations, Marv Newell,
editor of the Evangelical Missions Quarterly (EMQ), agreed to publish an
extensive compendium of those perspectives (now available online from MissioNexus).”
(excerpt of the introduction to this journal topic by the editor, Brad
Gill)<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i><br />
<a href="https://www.regnumbooks.net/products/undivided-witness">Undivided
Witness: Jesus Followers, Community Development, and Least-Reached Communities</a></i></b><b>.</b> <b>Edited by David Greenlee, Mark
Galpin, and Paul Bendor-Samuel. Regnum Books International (2020).</b> Book review
<a href="http://www.ijfm.org/PDFs_IJFM/37_2_PDFs/IJFM_37_2-Books&Missiology.pdf">HERE</a>.
“Undivided Witness presents ten key principles linking community
development and the emergence of vibrant communities of Jesus followers among
the ‘least reached’. Twelve practitioners explore this uncharted missiological
space, drawing on decades of serving and learning among communities in Africa,
the Middle East, Europe, and South, Central and Southeast Asia.” (quote from
website)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><em><b><span style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.regnumbooks.net/products/for-god-so-loved-the-world?_pos=1&_sid=667a3abe3&_ss=r">For
God So Loved th World: The Church & the Sustainable Development Goal<span style="font-style: normal;">s</span></a>. </span></b></em><strong><span style="line-height: 107%;">Edited
by Jorge H Barro, Júlio PTM Zabatiero and Welinton P da Silva</span></strong><span style="line-height: 107%;">.<b>
</b></span><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Regnum Books
International (2021).</span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;"> “What has
poverty reduction, education, health, gender equality and environmental
sustainability to do with the Church? What have these to do with God's mission?
These are just some of the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals, set out in
2015 as "a blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for
all by 2030". In this remarkable book, 28 Brazilian specialists reflect on
the strengths and weaknesses of each goal and their relation to the mission of
God's people. Originally published in Portuguese, Regnum Books is delighted to
bring this unique contribution, coming from the continent that introduced the
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font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><img align="none" height="180" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/Member_Care_Associates_Inc.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: 180px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 175px;" width="175" /></span></div><div style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 22px;"><strong style="color: navy; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Member Care Updates</strong></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>Expanding the global impact of member care</strong></span></em></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>Working together for wellbeing and effectiveness</em></strong></span></span></div><hr /></div><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><br /><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Special News<em>--</em>March 2021</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Global Trends<br /><em>Applications for Mission and Member Care</em></strong></span></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="2195025" height="239" src="https://mcusercontent.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/5d12960e-c2e6-4931-958a-dac3de49147e.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: 239px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><strong>I</strong>mage courtesy and © 2016 ENOD</span></span><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.</em><em> <span id="en-NIV-26932">But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth </span></em>(</span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%201:7-8&version=NIV" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Acts 1:7-8</span></a><span style="color: black;">). <em>This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come</em> (</span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Matthew%2024:14" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Matthew 24:14</span></a><span style="color: black;">).</span></div><span style="color: black;">-----------</span><div style="line-height: 21px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">I</span><span style="color: black;">n this <em>Update</em> we focus on global trends—examples of <strong>perspectives</strong> <strong>and priorities</strong> from various sectors (part one) and mission/member care sources (part two). We do this with a view towards <strong>applications for mission and member care</strong>: the challenges and opportunities for seeing the good news and good works going forward among all nations and peoples (part three).<br /> <br />We encourage you to go over the trends and discuss them with colleagues. How can they inform your work in mission and member care? And your life and lifestyle? What other important trends do you see happening, including positive ones?! We also encourage a group of colleagues in the member care community to join together in <strong>developing, sharing, and updating an annotated list of member care trends and directions</strong>.<br /><br />Keep in mind that when we talk about trends we are not simply talking about statistics but about major influences affecting <em>real people</em> on our beleaguered planet. It helps us to <strong>think of people and places we know and love</strong>, as a way to link with the trends in a more personal and practical way.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">We also continue to include </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://membercareassociates.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Df34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3%26id%3Dc51897d7b3%26e%3D8abe98a91a&source=gmail&ust=1605985764191000&usg=AOvVaw2LBjlVe_MsB9pnX8x-Mu7G" href="https://membercareassociates.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3&id=c51897d7b3&e=8abe98a91a" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Perspectives and Resources for Covid Care</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (part four). These materials have been compiled over the past year to support you, others in your life, and your work in mission and member care. We also acknowledge that there are of course many views about this pandemic including how best to manage it and future pandemics via science, policy, and public cooperation.<br /><br /><strong>Going further--See these <em>Member Care Updates</em>:</strong></span><br /><a href="https://mailchi.mp/d6195e6f9236/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-6349836" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">MC Centers/Hubs–Collaborating for Global Impact</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (March 2020)</span><br /><a href="https://mailchi.mp/ea72a05d56f0/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-1513025" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Member Care and Unreached Peoples</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (April 2019)</span><br /><a href="http://eepurl.com/cDqTrD" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Building Our Future Foundations Now!</span><span style="color: black;"> </span></a><span style="color: black;"> (March 2017)</span><br /><a href="http://eepurl.com/bgSOm9" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">50+ Years of MC History: Our Foundations and Future</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (April 2015)</span><br /><br /><strong style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;">Warm greetings</span></strong><strong><span style="color: black;">,<br />Kelly and Michèle</span></strong></p></div></div></div><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 21px;"><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><strong><em> <img data-file-id="2181237" height="142" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px currentcolor; display: inline; height: 142px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 200px;" width="200" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; line-height: 14px; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong></div><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"> --Share your comments and resources on our </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/globalintegrators/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">MCA Facebook page</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span><br /><span style="color: black;">--Send us your ideas and resources for future <em>MC Updates</em><br />--Forward to your colleagues and networks</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span><br /> <hr /><p><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Global Trends<br /><em>Applications for Mission and Member Care<br /><br /><img data-file-id="2519609" height="185" src="https://mcusercontent.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/88d76744-2b95-4c93-94e7-f8c34294af25.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: 185px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></em></strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><strong>I</strong>mage courtesy and © 2018 ENOD</span><br /><br /><em>"To put it simply, the state of the planet is broken."</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/un-secretary-general-speaks-state-planet" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">UN Secretary General António Guterres, 2 December 2020</span></a><br />----------<br /><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Part One: Global Trends</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><em>Perspectives and Priorities from the Sectors</em></strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/speeches/2021-01-28/remarks-member-states-priorities-for-2021" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Ten Priorities for 2021</span></a><span style="color: black;">. UN Secretary General António Guterres, UN General Assembly (28 </span><span style="color: black;">January 2021). “…Excellencies, 2020 brought us tragedy and peril. 2021 must be the year to change gear and put the world on track. We need to move from death to health; from disaster to reconstruction; from despair to hope; from business as usual to transformation. The Sustainable Development Goals are more important now than ever. Now is the time to secure the well-being of people, economies, societies and our planet. It is possible. So we must make it happen. Together.” In addition to the text linked above, you can also watch the video </span><a href="http://webtv.un.org/watch/ant%C3%B3nio-guterres-un-secretary-general-to-member-states-on-priorities-for-2021-general-assembly-51st-plenary-meeting-/6227017617001/" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: blue;">.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">Here is a list of the 10 priorities presented by Guterres, </span><a href="http://sdg.iisd.org/news/un-secretary-general-presents-10-priorities-for-2021/" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">summarized by the International Institute for Sustainable Development</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">--Respond to COVID-19<br />--Start an inclusive and sustainable economic recovery<br />--Make peace with nature<br />--Tackle poverty and inequality<br />--Reverse the assault on human rights<br />--Gender equality, the greatest human rights challenge<br />--Heal geopolitical rifts<br />--Reverse the erosion of the nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime<br />--Seize the opportunities of digital technologies while protecting against their growing dangers<br />--Launch a reset for the 21st century</span></p><p><span style="color: black;"><img data-file-id="13601336" height="280" src="https://mcusercontent.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/0f4cf600-5c3e-45a2-b81e-a2599872d2b1.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: 280px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Image souurce: UN Department of Global Communications</span></span></p><hr /><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><a href="https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2020/11/16/ten-trends-to-watch-in-the-coming-year" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">The World in 2021: Ten Trends to Watch in the Coming Year</span></a><span style="color: blue;">.</span></strong><span style="color: black;"><strong> <em>The Economist</em> (November 2020).</strong> “The coming year promises to be particularly unpredictable, given the interactions between the pandemic, an uneven economic recovery and fractious geopolitics. This annual [issue] will, we hope, help you improve your odds as you navigate the risks and opportunities ahead. And it’s not all doom and gloom. Our special section, “Aftershocks”, considers some of the lessons, and chances for positive change, that have emerged from the crisis.” Each of the 10 trends summarized is linked to an article in this special issue (a subscription is required to read beyond the first two paragraphs of each article).</span></p><hr /><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><a href="https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2021/01/20/ten-humanitarian-crises-trends-to-watch" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">Ten Humanitarian Crises and Trends to Watch in 2021</span></a></strong><span style="color: black;"><strong>. The New Humanitarian (January 2021).</strong> “Our aim is to offer a forward-looking view of current and emerging issues that are likely to drive new humanitarian needs. While we point to some geographically specific crises, we also look at cross-cutting trends, from growing food insecurity to faltering peace deals. This list is informed by our reporting from humanitarian hotspots around the globe — more than 70 countries in 2020 — and our editors’ research and discussions with analysts, aid workers, and those affected by conflict and disasters. Here’s why the crises and trends listed below (in random order, as this is not a ranked list) have our attention — and should demand yours.” See also </span><a href="https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2021/2/9/peoples-edition-10-crises-to-watch?utm_source=The+New+Humanitarian&utm_campaign=be555ba5c6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_12_11_Weekly_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d842d98289-be555ba5c6-75531053" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">the crowd-sourced list of 10 humanitarian trends for 2021</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span></p><hr /><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><a href="https://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/2020-year-review-impact-covid-19-12-charts" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">2020 Year in Review: The Impact of COVID-19 in 12 Charts</span></a></strong><span style="color: black;"><strong>, World Bank (6 languages).</strong> “This time last year, concepts such as “lockdowns,” “mask mandates” and “social distancing” were unknown to most of us. Today they are part of our everyday language as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact all aspects of our lives. Through the following 12 charts and graphics, we try to quantify and provide an overview of our colleagues’ research in the face of a truly unprecedented crisis.” Focus is on the economic-human impacts. </span></p><hr /><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/spotlight/10-global-health-issues-to-track-in-2021" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">Ten Global Health Trends to Track in 2021</span></a></strong><span style="color: black;"><strong>. World Health Organization (December 2020).</strong> “2020 was a devastating year for global health. A previously unknown virus raced around the world, rapidly emerging as one of its top killers, laying bare the inadequacies of health systems. Today, health services in all regions are struggling to both tackle COVID-19, and provide people with vital care….So in 2021, countries around the world will need to continue battle COVID-19 (albeit with the knowledge that effective tools are evolving). They will need to move swiftly to repair and reinforce their health systems so they can deliver these tools, and to address the key societal and environmental issues that result in some sections of the population suffering so much more than others….we will support them in building strong health systems and healthy populations. Here are 10 ways we will do this:”</span></p><hr /><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><em><a href="https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/media_2021/01/2021_hrw_world_report.pdf" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">World Report 2021</span></a></em><span style="color: blue;">.</span></strong><span style="color: black;"><strong> Human Rights Watch (December 2020).</strong>“This 31st annual World Report summarizes human rights conditions in nearly 100 countries and territories worldwide in 2020. It reflects extensive investigative work that Human Rights Watch staff conducted during the year, often in close partnership with domestic human rights activists.” It begins with an op-ed on “Redeeming a US Role in Human Rights”—note that we do not agree with all the assertions in this op-ed.</span><br /><br /><u><a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2021-02-22/secretary-generals-message-the-opening-of-the-46th-regular-session-of-the-human-rights-council-delivered-scroll-down-for-all-english-and-french" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>UN S-G Guterres Address</strong></span></a><strong><span style="color: black;">,</span></strong></u><span style="color: black;"><strong> 22 February 2021 at the opening of UN Human Rights Council</strong>: “<em>Human rights are our bloodline; they connect us to one another, as equals.</em> <em>Human rights are our lifeline; they are the pathway to resolving tensions and forging lasting peace.</em> <em>And, human rights are on the frontline; they are the building blocks of a world of dignity and opportunity for all – and they are under fire every day.”</em><br /> </span><br /><strong><a href="https://www.un.org/en/exhibits/exhibit/photo4humanity-2021" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">Photography 4 Humanity</span></a><span style="color: blue;">. </span><span style="color: black;">Human Rights Exhibit, UN (2021)</span></strong></p><hr /><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><a href="https://news.un.org/en/news/topic/peace-and-security" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">UN News: Global Perspective—Human Stories. Peace and Security Section</span></a></strong><span style="color: black;"><strong>.</strong> Current and past brief reports on events and situations relating to peace/security around the world. With links to audios for News in Brief, interviews, and podcasts. See also the </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.economicsandpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/GPI_2020_web-1.pdf" style="color: #336699;">G</a></span><a href="https://www.economicsandpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/GPI_2020_web-1.pdf" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">lobal Peace Index 2020</span></a><span style="color: blue;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> Institute for Economics and Peace. Executive Summary on pages 2-4.</span></p><hr /><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><a href="https://www.unep.org/resources/making-peace-nature" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><em>Making Peace with Nature: A Scientific Blueprint to Tackle the Climate</em>,</span></a><a href="https://www.unep.org/resources/making-peace-nature" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;"> Biodiversity, and Pollution Emergencies</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (February 2020). UN Environment Programme</span></strong><span style="color: black;"><strong>. </strong>Links to the Executive Summary, Key Messages, and the full Report are in the link above. Overview-promo video</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqHnmN2A5Yw&feature=emb_logo" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(2 minutes). </span><span style="color: black;"><strong>Summary:</strong><br />"--Climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution add up to three self-inflicted planetary crises that are closely interconnected and put the well-being of current and future generations at unacceptable risk.<br />--Ambitious and coordinated action by governments, businesses and people around the world can prevent and reverse the worst impacts of environmental decline by rapidly transforming key systems including energy, water and food so that our use of the land and oceans becomes sustainable.<br />--Transforming social and economic systems means improving our relationship with nature, understanding its value and putting that value at the heart of our decision making.” (excerpts from </span><a href="https://wedocs.unep.org/xmlui/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/35114/MPNKM.pdf" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Key Messages</span></a><span style="color: black;">)</span></p><hr /><hr /><p><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Part Two: Global Trends</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><em>Perspectives and Priorities from Mission-Member Care</em></strong></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="1894777" height="158" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/13dc147a-24cd-4ab9-b903-a4e64b346608.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: 158px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;">Image courtesy and © 2016 ENOD</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><em>“This is the crisis we’re in: God-light streamed into the world, but men and women everywhere ran for the darkness. They went for the darkness because they were not really interested in pleasing God. Everyone who makes a practice of doing evil, addicted to denial and illusion, hates God-light and won’t come near it, fearing a painful exposure. But anyone working and living in truth and reality welcomes God-light so the work can be seen for the God-work it is.”</em> </span><span style="color: blue;">J</span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+3%3A19-21&version=MSG" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">ohn 1:19-21, The Message</span></a> </p><p>----------</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><a href="https://www.gordonconwell.edu/center-for-global-christianity/resources/status-of-global-christianity/" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">The Status of Global Christianity 2021</span></a><span style="color: black;">, Center for the Study of Global Christianity. </span></strong><span style="color: black;">“Every year in the <em>International Bulletin of Mission Research</em> we present an annual snapshot of global Christianity, a one-page version of which can be </span><a href="https://www.gordonconwell.edu/center-for-global-christianity/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2020/12/Status-of-Global-Christianity-2021.pdf" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">downloaded for free here</span></a><span style="color: black;">. The table provides a statistical overview of the world’s 2.5 billion Christians and their activities.”</span><br /><br /><a href="https://www.christiantrendwatcher.com/blog/the-status-of-global-christianity-in-2021" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Seven trends</span></a><span style="color: black;"> from the Center’ annual report, outlined by <em>Christian TrendWatcher</em>:<br />--The world is becoming more religious, not less<br />--The global church is becoming more Evangelical and Charismatic<br />--The Global South is in the lead<br />--Cities are the growing mission field<br /> --Mission is becoming more indigenous and fragmented<br />--Christian resources are growing<br />--Integrity matters</span></p><hr /><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0265378820970225#_i2" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">COVID-19, Trends in Global Mission, and Faithful Witness</span></a><span style="color: black;">. Paul Bendor-Samuel. <em>Tansformation: “An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies</em> (November 2020).</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: black;">“Mission is shaped by the life and experience of the church, both past and present, and this in turn is the function of both the work of the Spirit of God and the interaction of the people of God with their contexts. In line with this position, we examine the impact of Covid-19, highlighting some elements of the global context of mission, trends in world Christianity and mission. We then explore how global mission is in a process of realignment that has the potential to be enhanced through embracing the conditions Covid-19 has imposed on us. Finally, we consider the need for deep reflection on our identity if we are to take the opportunity to bear faithful witness in this moment.”</span></p><hr /><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><a href="https://mailchi.mp/d93a963c5def/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-6576884" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">Blessing the Planet—Blessing the Peoples</span></a></strong><span style="color: black;"><strong>. <em>Member Care Update</em> (January 2021),</strong> “In this <em>Update </em>we turn our attention to the responsibility to steward creation well--our living in harmony with nature and protecting the earth. In so doing we honor the Creator and seek to bless the entire planet and all the peoples, and hence as far as the curse is found. We feature the recent Special Address by UN Secretary-General António Guterres on the </span><a href="http://webtv.un.org/watch/player/6213596409001" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: black;">State of the Planet</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (part one). This 28 minute video is a good way to overview and probe the ongoing climate-environment concerns and crises, actions and debates…And then as you have time and interest, part two encourages us to go deeper, presenting several resources related to climate and the environment for perspectives and insights (faith-based, civil society, UN).”</span></p><hr /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><strong><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/MC-Future-Directions-ODonnell-for-India-MC-book-Feb-2012-version.pdf" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">Global Treasures for a Global Field</span></a><span style="color: black;">. Kelly O’Donnell. <em>Member Care in India: Ministry Call to Home Call </em>(2012). </span></strong><span style="color: black;">”This article explores member care “treasures.” Treasures refer to the crucial directions and resources needed to support the diversity of Christian workers and senders around the world, both now and in the future. The focus on treasures is reflected in Christ’s conclusion to the Kingdom parables: “Therefore every scribe that has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of the house that brings from his treasure new things and old things” (Matthew 13:52). Doing member care well, as disciples of the kingdom, thus involves the ongoing process of blending fresh, relevant approaches (new treasures) with foundational, relevant approaches (old treasures)….<br /><br />The member care field therefore, while maintaining its core focus on supporting the diversity of mission/aid personnel, must expand into new international and cross-sector areas. Each of us for example, would do well to stay current with at least one related health area and/or international issue that we are particularly passionate about (including organizations, practitioners, resources etc related to the area/issue. We will need courage to face new challenges and a solid theology that sees God at work throughout the variety of human efforts and “treasures” around the world.”<br /><br /><strong>Note:</strong> If you have recent examples of trends/core issues and future directions for member care, please let us know--articles/presentations with links.</span></p><hr /><p><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;">Part Three: Global Trends</span></strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;"><em>Applications for Mission and Member Care</em></span></strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong><em><img data-file-id="12900576" height="298" src="https://mcusercontent.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/f8f82381-7d8a-48d3-836b-271a7eb514da.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: 298px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></em></strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Image source: United Nations Christian Association, Geneva</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><em>The end of all things is near; therefore, be of sound judgment and sober spirit for the purpose of prayer </em>(</span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/1%20Peter%204:7" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">1 Peter 4:7</span></a><span style="color: black;">). <em>For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work among you will complete it by the day of Christ Jesus</em> (</span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Philippians%201:6" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Philippians 1:6</span></a><span style="color: black;">).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">Take time to review the above trends and perspectives, including doing so with others.<br />--Are there other trends to include?<br />--What are some important applications for your life and work? <br />--What are some important applications for your organization, for mission, and for member care?<br />--What kind of mechanism exists or could be developed within the global member care community to monitor, review, and discuss the practical implications-applications of global trends for both mission and member care?<br /><br />For example, consider this application, stimulated by the response to the COVID-19 pandemic: <strong>Less travel, more telecare...and perhaps less activity, more prayer (including teleprayer).</strong></span><br /><br /><a href="https://ethneprayer.org/" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Ethne Prayer</span></a><span style="color: black;"> "is a network of networks established in 2004 with...1,000+ members...Our Goal is to see Global Body of Christ informed and effective in Prayer for Unreached Peoples Groups and Kingdom movements to see peoples and nations obedient to Christ."<br /> </span><br /><a href="https://www.ipcprayer.org/ipc-home" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">International Prayer Connect</span></a><span style="color: black;"> “is a coalition of 4,000+ Christian prayer networks and organizations who share a common vision--to mobilize and equip worldwide prayer for the blessing, healing and transformation of the nations.”<br /><br /><strong>See also: </strong></span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/79ecf7725108/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-6593280" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Sojourning with Prayer and Praise</span></a><span style="color: black;">, <em>Member Care Update</em> (February 2021)</span></p><hr /><hr /><p><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Part Four: Covid Care</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><em>Perspectives and Resources</em></strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Don't fear. Trust God. Do good.</strong></span></p><p><img data-file-id="13600576" height="265" src="https://mcusercontent.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/debb0087-7e77-4422-8346-6374e8d59fe0.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: 265px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>I</strong>mage courtesy and ©2021 JMLOD</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%208&version=NIV" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Romans 8:38,39 NIV</span></a><br /><br /><strong><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=3843" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Covid care:</span></a></em></strong><span style="color: black;"><strong><em> </em></strong><br />Promoting and maintaining resilience and wellbeing for all persons and peoples<br />(ranging from informal services to formal policies, local through global)<br />during the multi-faceted challenges of COVID-19 and beyond.</span><br />---------</p><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><p><span style="color: black;"><strong>1. Perspectives</strong><br />Pandemics, like many crises, bring out the best and the worst in us--our selfless and our selfish qualities. The reality of the uncertainties and anxieties of life, and indeed survival--<strong>existential risk, "mortality reality"</strong>--is heavy upon the world. Positively, the current COVID-19 pandemic certainly provides plenty of opportunities for us all--individually and collectively--to reflect on the types of people we want to be, the types of societies we need to build, and the types of changes we have to make.<br /><br /><strong>We join together in solidarity with </strong><strong>the world community's efforts, locally through globally, on behalf of covid-care and in hopes to stir up the heroic in all of us.</strong> We also note that the many overlapping problems in our world continue unabated--<strong>pandemics themselves</strong>--even as this covid pandemic dominates the center stage globally: multi-dimensional poverty, protracted violence, human rights violations, gross inequalities, racism, mental ill health, environmental degradation, etc. This is the ongoing, cascading context--full of challenges and opportunities--in which member care resources need to be provided and developed for workers and their sending groups around the world. And from our faith-based perspective, as co-workers with God engaged in the many areas of “</span><a href="https://us4.campaign-archive.com/?u=f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3&id=7155c94ed6" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">humanity care</span></a><span style="color: black;">,” we live and work for God’s glory. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Our recent </strong><em><strong>Updates</strong></em><strong> below are compiled for helping ourselves and others with</strong> <strong>covid care.</strong> Examples of issues/resources: anxiety, trauma, depression, confinement, loneliness, loss, grief, relationship strains, coping for children, work insecurities, spiritual struggles, uncertainty/concerns about what is going on, etc. Have a look!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>2. Resources for Covid Care</strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/79ecf7725108/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-6593280" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Sojourning with Prayer and Praise...during the pandemic and beyond</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Member Care Update</em> (February 2021)</span><br />--<a href="https://mailchi.mp/271b7cfc83b7/global-integration-update-special-news-5600265" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Grieving Well--Healing Well: Resources for Growing through Loss</span></a><br /><em>Global Integration Update </em>(November 2020)<br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/fcc80e207742/global-integration-update-special-news-1692273" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Tough Times: Tougher People: Best selves--Better world</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Global Integration Update</em> (October 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/82d89c9d8e91/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-6499388" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Uniting for Covid-Care: Real-Life Ordinary Heroes</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Member Care Update</em> (September 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/1fa53984b1bf/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-6482520" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Doing Good: Positive Stories in the Pandemic</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Member Care Update</em> (August 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/f9529e1f5fb1/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-6464740" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Staying the Course in Global Member Care: Pandemics, Problems, and Beyond</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Member Care Update</em> (July 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/a9a21917d07b/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-6440668" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Managing Stress and COVID-Distress: Faith-Based Resources</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Member Care Update </em>(June 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/bb8e801adc5c/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-6417568" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Staying Sane during COVID-19: Mental Health Resources</span></a><span style="color: black;"> <br /><em>Member Care Update </em>(May 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/75ea33d5f51a/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-6376660" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Confronting COVID-19: “Don’t Be Afraid”</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Member Care Update </em>(April 2020)<br /><br /><strong>See also these resources:</strong></span><br />--<a href="https://www.lausanne.org/category/content/lga" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><em>Lausanne Global Analysis</em> (January 2021)</span></a>:<br />>Building Hope and Resilience in the COVID-19 Storm<br />>Faith, Health, and Collaborative Love<br />--<a href="https://www.oikoumene.org/resources/documents/morning-prayer-for-thursday-14-january-2021" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Morning Prayer during COVID-19</span></a>, World Council of Churches<br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/2020-year-review-impact-covid-19-12-charts" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">2020 Year in Review: The Impact of COVID-19 in 12 Charts</span></a><span style="color: black;">, World Bank (6 languages)</span><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.sentwell.org/covid-19-res-for-yourself" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Curated COVID-19 Resources</span></a><span style="color: black;">, SentWell<br />--</span><a href="https://missionexus.org/covid-19-impact-fall-2020-update/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Covid-19 Impact Survey</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (on missions, 141 organizations, USA based)<br /> Missio Nexus (Nov. 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/academic-centers/humanitarian-disaster-institute/covid-19/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Covid Resources,</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Humanitarian Disaster Institute, Wheaton College</span><br />--<a 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display: inline; height: 180px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 175px;" width="175" /></span></div><div style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 22px;"><strong style="color: navy; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Member Care Updates</strong></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>Expanding the global impact of member care</strong></span></em></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>Working together for wellbeing and effectiveness</em></strong></span></span></div><hr /></div><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><br /><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Special News<em>--</em>January 2021</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Blessing the Planet--Blessing the Peoples</strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>No more let sins and sorrows grow<br />nor thorns infest the ground;<br />He comes to make His blessings flow<br /><strong>far as the curse is found.</strong></em></span><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_to_the_World" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Isaac Watts, 1719, Joy to the World</span></a><br /><br /><img data-file-id="2195025" height="239" src="https://mcusercontent.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/5d12960e-c2e6-4931-958a-dac3de49147e.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: 239px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>I</strong>mage courtesy and (c) ENOD 2017</span></span> <div style="line-height: 21px;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><em>“<span style="color: black;">The Christian mission requires that we meet basic human needs for education, food, water, medicine, justice, and peace. As is evident in the Apostle John’s assertion that Jesus was sent to “destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8 NASB), our mission is to continue his earthly mission by undertaking the kind of organized research and enterprises that combat evil in all its forms—violence, injustice, poverty, environmental exploitation, drug trafficking, and disease”.</span></em><span style="color: black;"> David Hesselgrave, describing Ralph Winter’s “kingdom mission” (2010, p. 196). Quoted in </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Charting-Your-Course-through-the-Sectors-final-ODonnell-2013.pdf" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Charting Your Course through the Sectors</span></a><span style="color: black;">, <em>Global Member Care Volume 2</em> (pp. 10-11).</span></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4sBTgd6yDM&list=PLdVV2HTDx1ADiWK6EZxUiEeUb2F0L__9d" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Blessing</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Music videos of this encouraging song, in multiple languages, during covid and beyond</span><br /><span style="color: black;">-----------</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>In this <em>Update</em> </strong>we turn our attention to the responsibility to steward creation well--our living in harmony with nature and protecting the earth. In so doing we honor the Creator and seek to bless the entire planet and all the peoples, and hence </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_to_the_World" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">as far as the curse is found</span></a><span style="color: black;">.<br /><br />We feature the recent Special Address by UN Secretary-General António Guterres on the </span><a href="http://webtv.un.org/watch/player/6213596409001" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">State of the Planet</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (part one). This 28 minute video is a good way to overview and probe the ongoing climate-environment concerns and crises, actions and debates. <strong>This is the main item in the <em>Update </em>that we want to emphasize.</strong> And then as you have time and interest, part two encourages us to go deeper, presenting several resources related to climate and the environment for perspectives and insights (faith-based, civil society, UN).<br /><br />Note that seven items below are in <span style="background-color: lightblue;">blue highlights</span>--our suggestions for what to prioritize. It is impossible, and arguably irresponsible, for us to only share a couple items on such a crucial, vast, and diverse topic.<br /><br />Guterres’ message (like the resources in this <em>Update)</em> does not shy away from presenting unpleasant news. In fact, it is disturbing. And it comes at a time when so many of us are really wanting—and needing—to hear some good news in our lives and world. Nonetheless, <strong>we encourage you to take the time to prioritize this Special Address, carefully review it, and discuss it with others. </strong></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">We also continue to include </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://membercareassociates.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Df34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3%26id%3Dc51897d7b3%26e%3D8abe98a91a&source=gmail&ust=1605985764191000&usg=AOvVaw2LBjlVe_MsB9pnX8x-Mu7G" href="https://membercareassociates.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3&id=c51897d7b3&e=8abe98a91a" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Perspectives and Resources for Covid Care</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (part three). These materials have been compiled over the past nine months to support you, </span><span style="color: black;">your family, your organization, and others in your life and to support your work in mission and member care.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">Finally, as you go through the resources in this <em>Update</em>, <strong>consider the links between member care in mission and blessing the planet (creation care), blessing the peoples (humanity care), and battling the pandemic (covid care). </strong>This quote below--and others throughout this <em>Update</em>--will surely prime the pump!</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>“What percentage of non-Christians personally know a Christian?...The [research] results are startling in the sense that Christians and non-Christians appear to be living in quite separate worlds. This distance has implications for Christian missions but is also problematic when it comes to dialogue, peace initiatives, environmental and health challenges, and many other areas of human interaction. Our hope is that highlighting the problem will help in planning solutions for the future.” </em>Todd Johnson, David Barrett, and Peter Crossing (2010, p. 29). Quoted in </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Charting-Your-Course-through-the-Sectors-final-ODonnell-2013.pdf" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Charting Your Course through the Sectors</span></a><span style="color: black;">, <em>Global Member Care Volume 2</em> (pp. 9-10).</span><br /><br /><strong style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;">Warm greetings</span></strong><strong><span style="color: black;">,<br />Kelly and Michèle</span></strong></p></div></div></div><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 21px;"><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><strong><em> <img data-file-id="2181237" height="142" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px currentcolor; display: inline; height: 142px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 200px;" width="200" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; line-height: 14px; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong></div><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"> --Share your comments and resources on our </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/globalintegrators/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">MCA Facebook page</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span><br /><span style="color: black;">--Send us your ideas and resources for future <em>MC Updates</em><br />--Forward to your colleagues and networks</span><br /><span style="color: blue;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span><br /> <hr /><p><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources<br />Blessing the Planet--Blessing the Peoples</strong></span></span></p><p><img data-file-id="5142773" height="366" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/d29b7bb6-f2f5-493a-9c7a-841fd577056a.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; line-height: 14px; outline: none;" width="550" /><br /><span style="color: black;">Image source: Global Peace Index, Institute for Economics and Peace</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><em>“To put it simply, the state of the planet is broken…Humanity is waging war on nature. This is suicidal. Nature always strikes back -- and it is already doing so with growing force and fury.” </em>UN Secretary-General António Guterres, </span><a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2020-12-02/secretary-generals-address-columbia-university-the-state-of-the-planet-scroll-down-for-language-versions" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Special Address on The State of The Planet</span></a><span style="color: black;">, 2 December 2020 </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><em>“If Jesus is Lord of all the earth, we cannot separate our relationship to Christ from how we act in relation to the earth. For to proclaim the gospel that says ‘Jesus is Lord’ is to proclaim the gospel that includes the earth, since Christ’s Lordship is over all creation. Creation care is thus a gospel issue within the Lordship of Christ.”</em> </span><a href="https://www.lausanne.org/content/ctcommitment#p1-7" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">The Cape Town Commitment (7-A, We Love God's World, 2010)</span></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><em>“We are called to proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ—the fullness of life, the repentance and forgiveness of sin, and the promise of eternal life—in word and deed, in a violent world where many are sacrificed to the idols of death (Jeremiah 32:35) and where many have not yet heard the gospel….We are called to care for God’s creation, and to be in solidarity with nations severely affected by climate change in the face of a ruthless human-centered exploitation of the environment for consumerism and greed.”</em> </span><a href="https://www.oikoumene.org/resources/documents/the-arusha-call-to-discipleship" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">The Arusha Call to Discipleship (2018)</span></a></p><p>----------</p><p><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Part One</strong><br /><strong>State of the Planet</strong><br /><em><strong>Our Suicidal War on Nature</strong></em></span></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="5142777" height="366" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/7a476408-b1de-4098-8113-582b58f19bd3.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; line-height: 14px; outline: none;" width="550" /> <br />Source: UN image</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><em>“I have detailed an emergency, but I also see hope. I see a history of advances that show what can be done – from rescuing the ozone layer to reducing extinction rates to expanding protected areas. Many cities are becoming greener. The circular economy is reducing waste. Environmental laws have growing reach. At least 155 United Nations Member States now legally recognize that a healthy environment is a basic human right. And the knowledge base is greater than ever”. </em>UN Secretary-General António Guterres, </span><a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2020-12-02/secretary-generals-address-columbia-university-the-state-of-the-planet-scroll-down-for-language-versions" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Special Address on The State of The Planet</span></a><span style="color: black;">, 2 December 2020 </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">On 2 December at Columbia University, UN Secretary-General António Guterres presented an overview--and dire warning--on the woeful state of the planet. He also highlighted progress in improving aspects of the environment yet clearly emphasized the serious collaborative action that needs to take place at all levels--individual through international--to lessen and/or avert major catastrophes. <strong>We strongly encourage you to watch this address and to seriously consider--and critique from your vantage points--the assertions, concerns, and action steps outlined.</strong> <span style="background-color: lightblue;">You can access the video </span></span><a href="http://webtv.un.org/watch/player/6213596409001" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">HERE</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;"> (28 minutes). The </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">t</span></span><a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2020-12-02/secretary-generals-address-columbia-university-the-state-of-the-planet-scroll-down-for-language-versions" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">ext</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;"> is available in the six official UN languages.</span><br /><br /><strong>Guterres mentioned several examples of collaborative efforts/events in 2021:</strong><br />--</span><a href="https://unworldoceansday.org/event/world-ocean-summit-expo-2021" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">World Ocean Summit</span></a><span style="color: black;">, Lisbon, Portugal, 2-4 March 2021<br />--</span><a href="https://www.unenvironment.org/events/conference/un-biodiversity-conference-cop-15" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Biodiversity Conference</span></a><span style="color: black;">, Kunming, China, 17-30 May 2021<br />--</span><a href="http://www.saicm.org/About/ICCM/ICCM5/tabid/8207/Default.aspx" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">International Conference on Chemicals Management</span></a><span style="color: black;">, Bonn, Germany, 5-9 July 2021<br />--</span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/food-systems-summit" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Food Systems Summit</span></a><span style="color: black;">, September or October 2021<br />--</span><a href="https://ukcop26.org/" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">Climate Change Conference (COP 26)</span></span></a><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">, Glasgow, UK, 1-12 November 2021</span></span><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/conferences/transport2020" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Global Sustainable Transport Conference</span></a><span style="color: black;">, Beijing, China, date in 2021 TBA<br /> <br /><strong>Also noted:</strong><br />--</span><a href="https://www.decadeonrestoration.org/about-un-decade" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (2021-2030)<br />--</span><a href="https://habitat3.org/the-new-urban-agenda/" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">New Urban Agenda: Habitat III</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Quito, Ecuador, October 2016<br /><br /><em>“We face three imperatives in addressing the climate crisis: First, we need to achieve global carbon neutrality within the next three decades. Second, we have to align global finance behind the Paris Agreement, the world’s blueprint for climate action. Third, we must deliver a breakthrough on adaptation to protect the world – and especially the most vulnerable people and countries -- from climate impacts”. </em>UN Secretary-General António Guterres, </span><a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2020-12-02/secretary-generals-address-columbia-university-the-state-of-the-planet-scroll-down-for-language-versions" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Special Address on The State of The Planet</span></a><span style="color: blue;">,</span><span style="color: black;"> 2 December 2020</span></p><hr /><hr /><p><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: navy;"><strong>Part Two: Going Deeper<br />Examples of Resources to Review</strong></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">“<em>Woe to you shepherds...who only take care of yourselves! Should not shepherds take care of the flock?... Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of your pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink clear water? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?”</em> (</span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekiel34&version=NIV" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Ezekiel 34</span></a><span style="color: black;">: 1,18 NIV).<br /><br />“<em>The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers, the heavens languish with the earth. The earth is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws, violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt” </em>(</span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah%2024&version=NIV" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Isaiah 24</span></a><span style="color: black;">: 4-6, NIV).</span></p><p><img data-file-id="5143153" height="250" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/d956a507-219a-4dc6-9125-989833da1cd0.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; line-height: 14px; outline: none;" width="550" /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Trash Vortexes in the Oceans</strong> <br />Original source of the above image unknown. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the North Pacific Ocean, also known as the Pacific trash vortex, is the largest. This area covers about 1.6 million square kilometers--twice the size of Texas and three times the size of France. An estimated 8 million tons of plastic enter the oceans each year. More information: </span><a href="https://theoceancleanup.com/great-pacific-garbage-patch/" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Ocean Cleanup</span></a><span style="color: black;">; </span><a href="https://www.unenvironment.org/explore-topics/oceans-seas" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">UN Environment Program, Oceans and Seas</span></a><span style="color: black;">; </span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal14" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">SDG 14</span></a><span style="color: black;">: <em>”Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development” </em>(UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Sustainable Development); and </span><em><a href="https://www.unenvironment.org/resources/report/addressing-marine-plastics-systemic-approach-recommendations-actions" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Addressing Marine Plastic: A Systemic Approach</span></a><span style="color: black;">, </span></em><span style="color: black;">UN (December 2019).</span></p><hr /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>William Carey Publishing</strong><br />--</span><em><a href="https://missionbooks.org/collections/snapshot-series/products/people-trees-and-poverty" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">People Trees, and Poverty</span></span></a></em><span style="color: black;">, Lowell Bliss (2018). “With climate change, global warming, and the environment making headlines on an almost-daily basis, followers of Christ can find themselves asking, “What’s my role in this? What’s my responsibility? And how does it relate to the Great Commission?” <em>People, Trees & Poverty</em> shares a high-level overview, a snapshot, of what it looks like to reach the unreached through advocacy on environmental issues. However, this book does more than raise awareness and pluck your heartstrings. It concludes with a critical feature, listing additional resources, gatherings, and organizations to move the reader from concern to action.” This is a “snapshot” book. See the author’ longer book, </span><em><a href="https://missionbooks.org/products/environmental-missions?_pos=1&_sid=09b4aa7f9&_ss=r" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Environmental Missions</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"> (2013).<br /> <br />--</span><a href="https://missionbooks.org/products/biblical-holism-and-agriculture?_pos=1&_sid=4293c14df&_ss=r" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><em>Biblical Wholism and Agriculture: Cultivating Our Roots</em></span></a><a href="https://missionbooks.org/products/biblical-holism-and-agriculture?_pos=1&_sid=4293c14df&_ss=r" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">.</span></a><span style="color: black;"> David Evans, Ronald Voss, Keith Wright (Editors, revised 2020). “New generations are championing responsibility for both the environment and those peoples who depend upon it in all new ways. Biblical Holism and Agriculture addresses the urgent need for constructing a holistic perspective, grounded in the Bible, to appraise the economic, social, ecological, environmental, and spiritual impact of globalization and the unprecedented impact of powerful agricultural technologies, and marketing systems. The holistic biblical perspectives within reference ancient Hebrew insights about responsible freedom for “keeping” the land by people created in the image of God as representatives commissioned to stewardship and justice.” </span><br /><br /><strong><a href="http://missionconnexion.com/mc2021/" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">Mission Connexion Northwest</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (15-16 January 2021)</span></strong><br /><span style="color: black;">--This a free online conference endorsed and sponsored by many organizations. Four of the </span><a href="https://missionconnexion.com/mc2021/workshops/" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">100+ workshops</span></a><span style="color: black;"> are on on creation care (e.g., <strong>creation care</strong> as a mission of God; environmental degradation as an opportunity for sharing the good news); four are on <strong>member ca</strong>re (e.g., promoting rest/preventing burnout; member care and global mental health); and four are on <strong>trauma care</strong> including in the context of COVID-19.</span></p><hr /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Lausanne Movement</strong><br />--</span><a href="https://www.lausanne.org/networks/issues/creation-care" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">Creation Care Network</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">.</span> “Stewardship of God’s creation (creation care) is a clear biblical command and an integral part of what it means to follow Jesus as Lord….But that’s not all: God’s creation is in the midst of a crisis that is ‘pressing, urgent, and that must be resolved in our generation’ (</span><a href="https://www.lausanne.org/content/statement/creation-care-call-to-action" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Jamaica Call to Action</span></a><span style="color: black;">). This crisis, of which climate change and massive biodiversity loss are just a part, represents an existential threat to the future of human society. The Lausanne/WEA Creation Care Network (LWCCN) is a collaborative effort of both Lausanne and the World Evangelical Alliance to mobilize the global church to respond to this crisis. LWCCN now reaches 130 countries and encourages Christians in every country to work together to heal God’s creation.<br /> <br />--<em>Lausanne</em> <em>Global Insights</em> articles: </span><a href="https://www.lausanne.org/content/lga/2020-03/devastating-fires-churchs-mission" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Devastating Fires and the Church’s Mission: Understanding and Reclaiming Our Call to Care for Creation</span></a><span style="color: black;">, Tim Carriker (March 2020); </span><a href="https://www.lausanne.org/content/lga/2016-05/climate-change-after-paris" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Climate Change after Paris: What it Means for the Evangelical Church</span></a><span style="color: blue;">, </span><span style="color: black;">Ed Brown (May 2016)<br /> <br /><strong>World Evangelical Alliance (WEA)</strong><br />--</span><a href="https://www.lausanne.org/networks/issues/creation-care" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Lausanne/WEA Creation Care Network</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://wea-sc.org/en/home-2" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">WEA Sustainability Center</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"> <br /><strong>Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities</strong><br />--</span><a href="https://jliflc.com/climate/" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Climate and Faith resources</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"> <br /><strong><em>Brigada Today</em></strong><br />--</span><a href="https://brigada.org/?s=creation" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Creation care resources</span></a></p><hr /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>World Council of Churches (WCC)</strong><br />--</span><em><a href="https://www.oikoumene.org/resources/documents/roadmap-for-congregations-communities-and-churches-for-an-economy-of-life-and-ecological-justice" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">Roadmap for Congregations, Churches, and Communities for an Economy of Life and Ecological Justice</span></span></a></em><span style="color: black;"><em><span style="background-color: lightblue;"> </span></em><span style="background-color: lightblue;">(2019</span>). See also: </span><a href="https://www.oikoumene.org/events/webinar-series-churches-on-the-road-to-an-economy-of-life-and-ecological-justice" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Churches on the Road to an Economy of Life and Environmental Justice</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (four archived webinars, 2020).<br /><br />--</span><em><a href="https://www.oikoumene.org/resources/publications/cooler-earth-higher-benefits" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Cooler Earth Higher Benefits: Actions by Those Who Care About Children, Climate, and Finance</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"> Frederique Seidel, Emmanuel de Martel (report, 2020); See also: </span><em><a href="https://www.oikoumene.org/resources/publications/climate-justice-with-children-and-youth" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Climate Justice with and for Children and Youth in Churches: Get Informed, Get Inspired, Take Action</span></a><span style="color: blue;">, </span></em><span style="color: black;">Frederique Seidel and Virág Kinga Mezei (toolkit for churches, church-run schools, camps, 2020)<br /><br />--Examples from the WCC Weekly newsletter (10 December 2020): </span><a href="https://oikoumene.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f0244f95e31455f10903cff36&id=0d757c2fe6&e=8cc0de7293" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">WCC Eco-School 2020 for Pacific region on Water, Food and Climate Justice</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (18 - 24 January 2021); </span><a href="https://oikoumene.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f0244f95e31455f10903cff36&id=4ad08df8ef&e=8cc0de7293" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">WCC interim general secretary welcomes “powerful moment of truth-telling” about climate change</a><span style="color: black;"> (in response the UN Secretary-General's Special Address on 2 December 2020)</span></p><hr /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>Roman Catholic Church</strong></span><br />--<a href="http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;"><em><span style="background-color: lightblue;">Laudate Sí: On Care for Our Common Home</span></em></span><span style="color: black;">,</span></a><span style="color: black;"><strong> Pope Francis (encyclical, 2015)</strong><br /> “13. The urgent challenge to protect our common home includes a concern to bring the whole human family together to seek a sustainable and integral development, for we know that things can change. The Creator does not abandon us; he never forsakes his loving plan or repents of having created us. Humanity still has the ability to work together in building our common home….43. Human beings too are creatures of this world, enjoying a right to life and happiness, and endowed with unique dignity. So we cannot fail to consider the effects on people’s lives of environmental deterioration, current models of development and the throwaway culture....188. There are certain environmental issues where it is not easy to achieve a broad consensus. Here I would state once more that the Church does not presume to settle scientific questions or to replace politics. But I am concerned to encourage an honest and open debate so that particular interests or ideologies will not prejudice the common good.”</span></p><hr /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>United Nations Resources</strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e44de94794d9d2534e5d7f115&id=f66f909ba7&e=e6298c1f56" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Sustainable Development Goal 13: Climate Action--A Greener, Cleaner, Brighter Future</span></a><span style="color: black;">. “As the world looks to recover and rebuild from the COVID-19 pandemic, there is growing global recognition that the catalyst for transformational change is investment in a green and sustainable global economy that produces jobs, reduces emissions, and builds resilience to climate impacts. In December, we highlight </span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal13" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Sustainable Development Goal 13--Climate Action</span></a><span style="color: black;">--as we mark the fifth anniversary of the landmark Paris Agreement on Climate Change [along with other efffrots for] </span><a href="https://www.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e44de94794d9d2534e5d7f115&id=82c34aed30&e=e6298c1f56" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Climate Action</span></a><span style="color: black;"> and an end to an unprecedented year with an ambition to recover better, stronger and healthier.” (quote from website)<br /> <br />--</span><a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.html" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">UN Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"> offers many resources tracing progress and problems related to the SDGs, including the foundational </span><em><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/2030agenda" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Transforming Our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development</span></a></em><span style="color: black;">, UN (2015).<br /><br />--UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs features many items on its website including </span><a href="https://sdgs.un.org/topics" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Sustainable Development</span></a><span style="color: black;"> topics such as the environment, climate, oceans, etc. <br /><br />--</span><em><a href="https://www.greeningtheblue.org/node/5576" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Greening the Blue Report 2020: The UN Systems Environmental Footprint and Efforts to Reduce It</span></a></em><span style="color: black;">. UN Environment Agency (UNEP). “UNEP, in collaboration with hundreds of UN personnel from across the UN System, annually collects and analyses information provided by entities on their environmental impacts and publishes this data and case studies [in this report]…The </span><a href="https://www.greeningtheblue.org/reports/greening-blue-report-2020" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">2020 edition</span></a><span style="color: black;">…focuses on the impacts of over 310,000 personnel in Headquarters, field offices and operations on the ground.”<br /><br />--</span><a href="https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/the-paris-agreement" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Paris Climate Agreement 2015</span></a><span style="color: black;">. “The Paris Agreement is a legally binding international treaty on climate change. It was adopted by 196 Parties at COP 21 in Paris, on 12 December 2015 and entered into force on 4 November 2016. Its goal is to limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels. To achieve this long-term temperature goal, countries aim to reach global peaking of greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible to achieve a climate neutral world by mid-century. The Paris Agreement is a landmark in the multilateral climate change process because, for the first time, a binding agreement brings all nations into a common cause to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects.” (quote from website)</span></p><hr /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>UN and Civil Society-Related</strong><br />--</span><a href="https://www.unsdsn.org/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (SDSN) was set up in 2012 under the auspices of the UN Secretary-General. SDSN mobilizes global scientific and technological expertise to promote practical solutions for sustainable development, including the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate Agreement. SDSN works closely with United Nations agencies, multilateral financing institutions, the private sector, and civil society." (quote from website)<br /><br />--</span><a href="https://www.unglobalcompact.org/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">UN Global Compact</span></a><span style="color: black;">. “Corporate sustainability starts with a company’s value system and a principles-based approach to doing business. This means operating in ways that, at a minimum, meet fundamental responsibilities in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. Responsible businesses enact the same values and principles wherever they have a presence, and know that good practices in one area do not offset harm in another. By incorporating the Ten Principles of the UN Global Compact into strategies, policies and procedures, and establishing a culture of integrity, companies are not only upholding their basic responsibilities to people and planet, but also setting the stage for long-term success." </span><a href="https://www.unglobalcompact.org/what-is-gc/mission/principles/principle-7" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Principle 7</span></a><span style="color: black;">: Businesses should support a precautionary approach to environmental challenges; </span><a href="https://www.unglobalcompact.org/what-is-gc/mission/principles/principle-8" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Principle 8</span></a><span style="color: black;">: undertake initiatives to promote greater environmental responsibility; and </span><a href="https://www.unglobalcompact.org/what-is-gc/mission/principles/principle-9" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Principle 9</span></a><span style="color: black;">: encourage the development and diffusion of environmentally friendly technologies.” (quote from web site)</span></p><hr /><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><a href="https://us4.campaign-archive.com/?u=f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3&id=e4b812d58a" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">Mental Health as Mission</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (mental health and climate as mission)</span></strong><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.cugmhp.org/five-on-friday/mental-health-and-climate-change/" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Mental Health and Climate Change</span></a><span style="color: black;">, <em>Five on Friday</em>, Kathleen Pike (27 September 2019)<br /><br />--</span><a href="https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/15/9/1806" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Addressing Mental Health in a Changing Climate: Incorporating Mental Health Indicators into Climate Change and Health Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments</span></a><span style="color: black;">. <em>International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health</em>, Katie Hayes and Blake Poland (2018, 15, 1806; doi:10.3390/ijerph15091806)</span><br /><br /><a href="http://humanrightspsychology.org/1234-2/" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: black;">--</span><span style="color: blue;">Psychology, History, and Human Rights</span></a><span style="color: black;">. “Past and future generations need guardians to defend their latent interests in the face of capricious short-term policy decisions.” Global Network of Psychologists for Human Rights, Antoon De Baets (25 October 2020)</span></p><hr /><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"> </span><br /><img data-file-id="5143133" height="309" src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f688c8d8-c79d-45d9-96d8-7ad2e45efa5a.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; line-height: 14px; outline: none;" width="550" /></p><p><strong>Concluding Remarks by UN Secretary-General <span style="color: black;">António </span>Guterres</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><em>“This is a moment of truth for people and planet alike. COVID and climate have brought us to a threshold. We cannot go back to the old normal of inequality, injustice and heedless dominion over the Earth. Instead we must step towards a safer, more sustainable and equitable path. We have a blueprint: the 2030 Agenda, the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on climate change. The door is open; the solutions are there. Now is the time to transform humankind’s relationship with the natural world – and with each other. And we must do so together. Solidarity is humanity. Solidarity is survival. That is the lesson of 2020.With the world in disunity and disarray trying to contain the pandemic, let’s learn the lesson and change course for the pivotal period ahead. Thank you.” </em>UN Secretary-General António Guterres, </span><a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2020-12-02/secretary-generals-address-columbia-university-the-state-of-the-planet-scroll-down-for-language-versions" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Special Address on The State of The Plane</span><span style="color: black;">t</span></a><span style="color: black;">, 2 December 2020</span></p><hr /><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><hr /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Part Three--Covid Care<br /><em>Perspectives and Resources</em></strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Don't fear. Trust God. Do good.</strong></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="2195025" height="239" src="https://mcusercontent.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/5d12960e-c2e6-4931-958a-dac3de49147e.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: 239px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>I</strong>mage courtesy and (c) ENOD 2017</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%208&version=NIV" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Romans 8:38,39 NIV</span></a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srCwBJ0-ZY0&feature=emb_logo" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Come Lord Jesus, Maranatha</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Harpa Dei, sung in 10 languages</span><br />---------</p><p><span style="color: black;"><strong>1. Perspectives</strong><br />Pandemics, like many crises, bring out the best and the worst in us--our selfless and our selfish qualities. The reality of the uncertainties and anxieties of life, and indeed survival--<strong>existential risk</strong>--is heavy upon the world. Positively, the current COVID-19 pandemic certainly provides plenty of opportunities for us all individually through internationally--to reflect on the types of people we want to be, the types of societies we need to build, and the types of changes we have to make.<br /><br /><strong>We join together in solidarity with </strong><strong>the world community's efforts, locally through globally, on behalf of covid-care and in hopes to stir up the heroic in all of us.</strong> We also note that the many overlapping, problems in our world continue unabated--<strong>shadow pandemics</strong>--even as this covid pandemic dominates the center stage globally: multi-dimensional poverty, protracted violence, human rights violations, gross inequalities, racism, mental ill health, environmental degradation, etc. This is the ongoing, cascading context--full of challenges and opportunities--in which member care resources need to be provided and developed for workers and their sending groups around the world. And from our faith-based perspective, as co-workers with God engaged in the many areas of “</span><a href="https://us4.campaign-archive.com/?u=f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3&id=7155c94ed6" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">humanity care</span></a><span style="color: black;">,” we live and work for God’s glory. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Our recent </strong><em><strong>Updates</strong></em><strong> below are compiled for helping ourselves and others with</strong> <strong>covid care.</strong> Examples of issues/resources: anxiety, trauma, depression, confinement, loneliness, loss, grief, relationship strains, coping for children, work insecurities, spiritual struggles, uncertainty/concerns about what is going on, etc. Have a look!</span><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">2. </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=3843" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Resources for Covid Care</span></a></strong><br />--<a href="https://mailchi.mp/271b7cfc83b7/global-integration-update-special-news-5600265" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Grieving Well--Healing Well: Resources for Growing through Loss</span></a><br /><em>Global Integration Update </em>(November 2020)<br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/fcc80e207742/global-integration-update-special-news-1692273" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Tough Times: Tougher People: Best selves--Better world</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Global Integration Update</em> (October 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/82d89c9d8e91/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-6499388" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Uniting for Covid-Care: Real-Life Ordinary Heroes</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Member Care Update</em> (September 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/1fa53984b1bf/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-6482520" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Doing Good: Positive Stories in the Pandemic</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Member Care Update</em> (August 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/f9529e1f5fb1/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-6464740" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Staying the Course in Global Member Care: Pandemics, Problems, and Beyond</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Member Care Update</em> (July 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/a9a21917d07b/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-6440668" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Managing Stress and COVID-Distress: Faith-Based Resources</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Member Care Update </em>(June 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/bb8e801adc5c/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-6417568" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Staying Sane during COVID-19: Mental Health Resources</span></a><span style="color: black;"> <br /><em>Member Care Update </em>(May 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/75ea33d5f51a/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-6376660" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Confronting COVID-19: “Don’t Be Afraid”</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Member Care Update </em>(April 2020)<br /><br /><strong>See also these resources:</strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://blogs.worldbank.org/voices/2020-year-review-impact-covid-19-12-charts" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">2020 Year in Review: The Impact of COVID-19 in 12 Charts</span></a><span style="color: black;">, World Bank (5 languages)</span><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.sentwell.org/covid-19-res-for-yourself" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Curated COVID-19 Resources</span></a><span style="color: black;">, SentWell<br />--</span><a href="https://missionexus.org/covid-19-impact-fall-2020-update/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Covid-19 Impact Survey</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (on missions, 141 organizations, USA based)<br /> Missio Nexus (Nov. 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/academic-centers/humanitarian-disaster-institute/covid-19/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Covid Resources,</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Humanitarian Disaster Institute, Wheaton College</span><br />--<a href="https://www.oikoumene.org/resources/publications/ecumenical-global-health-covid-19-response-framework" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Global Health COVID-19 Response Framework</span></a>, <span style="color: black;">World Council of Churches (Nov 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://www.who.int/health-cluster/news-and-events/news/COVID19-Resources/en/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">WHO COVID-19 Resources and Guidance</span></a><span style="color: black;">, World Health Organization</span></p><hr /><p style="text-align: center;"><img data-file-id="2264665" height="253" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/f45726e0-1e88-4db9-90f7-a7cbabecb715.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: 253px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><em><span style="color: black;">Image courtesy Nancy Ford Duncan</span></em><br /><span style="color: black;">Member care:</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+23&version=NASB" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Renewing the strengths of our souls</span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>No more let sins and sorrows grow<br />nor thorns infest the ground;<br />He comes to make His blessings flow<br />far as the curse is found.</em></span><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_to_the_World" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Isaac Watts, 1719, Joy to the World</span></a></p></div><hr /><hr /><p><strong><img align="none" height="103" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/5d30dcdc-c821-4ea2-a82a-8d5741f7af98.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; line-height: 14px; outline: none;" width="100" /></strong><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Member Care Associates</span></strong><br /><a href="mailto:MCAresources@gmail.com" 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font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Member Care Updates</strong></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 21px;"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>Expanding the global impact of member care</strong></span></em></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>Working together for wellbeing and effectiveness</em></strong></span></span></div><hr /></div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><br /><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Special News<em>--</em>December 2020</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Persecution Pandemics: What Is Jesus Worth?</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>The Insanity of God--The Hope of Humanity</strong></span></span></em><br /><br /><img data-file-id="2195025" height="239" src="https://mcusercontent.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/5d12960e-c2e6-4931-958a-dac3de49147e.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: 239px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>I</strong>mage courtesy and (c) ENOD 2017</span></span><div style="line-height: 21px;"><p><span style="color: black;"><em>Simon, son of John, do you love Me</em><em> [with total commitment and devotion]?<br />...Feed My sheep…Follow Me.</em> </span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+21&version=AMP" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">John 21: 16,17,19</span></a> <span style="color: black;">Amplified Bible</span><br /><span style="color: black;">-----------</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">In this <em>Update </em>we focus on <strong>persecution:</strong> the persecution of Christians around the world through harassment, imprisonment, torture, and death (part one), and the persecution of humans around the world through genocide, trafficking, racism, and corruption (part two).<span style="background-color: lightblue;"> It is a tough </span><em><span style="background-color: lightblue;">Update</span></em><span style="background-color: lightblue;"> to navigate because the topics are uncomfortable, perplexing, perhaps overwhelming, egregious, often horrific and they are extremely resistant to real change and sustainable solutions.</span><br /><br />Nonetheless, a guiding light of encouragement for us has been the growing concern and concerted actions being taken locally through globally, many described in this <em>Update</em>. We are also heartened and instructed by the many historical examples of Christ followers and others taking risks to sacrificially and practically love vulnerable, exploited people. Such love is </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/dc6fa724d8fb/moral-care-member-care-update-may-1304809" style="color: blue;" target="_blank">a command from the Lord to cherish and obey</a><span style="color: black;"> and we believe that it is</span><span style="color: black;"> the ultimate measure of our discipleship.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">In <strong>part one</strong> we feature the film, <em>The Insanity of God</em> (2016) which explores <strong>the persecuted Church </strong>and which is making its rounds again internationally. We also include resources for understanding and supporting the persecuted Church. Permeating the material in part one is the central theme in the film: <span style="background-color: lightblue;">"Is Jesus worth it?"</span> And a corollary question, "How can we learn from and love the broken, yet often flourishing Body of Christ, His beautiful Bride?<br /><br />In <strong>part two </strong>we share some of the latest reading and thinking we have been doing--and struggling with--on the broader issues facing our world (</span><a href="https://us4.campaign-archive.com/?u=f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3&id=7155c94ed6" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Humanity Care</span></a><span style="color: black;">). We present these issues in terms of <strong>humans experiencing four types of "persecution": </strong>genocide, trafficking, racism, and corruption (while acknowledging the <b>relentless, often overlapping additional pandemics that lay waste to people and the planet</b> such as multi-dimensinal poverty, gender-based and domestic violence, armed conflict, nuclear proliferation, trauma, environmental degradation, inequalities, humanitarian crises, forced migration, non-communicable diseases, and mental-neurological-substance use conditons--our many global ails: <em>globeails</em>). Is Jesus Christ, the hope of humanity, and are people, our fellow human beings, worth it? How can we support Christians and others who are working in these dark realities?<br /><br />Finally, in<strong> part three</strong>, we continue to address the COVID-19 pandemic, sharing </span><strong><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=3843" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Perspectives and Resources for Covid Care</span></a></strong><span style="color: black;">. We have compiled a variety of materials over the past eight months to support you, your family, your organization, and others in your life and to support your work in mission and member care.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"> </span><br /><strong style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;">Warm greetings</span></strong><strong><span style="color: black;">,<br />Kelly and Michèle</span></strong></p></div></div></div><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 21px;"><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><strong><em> <img data-file-id="2181237" height="142" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/bd60ffbd-ca5d-44f2-8491-1aca94abddee.jpg" style="border: 0px currentcolor; display: inline; height: 142px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 200px;" width="200" /> </em></strong><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/e83a5528fb81b78be71f78079/images/f483a6cc-f259-4e83-805f-356dcbc9da3f.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; line-height: 14px; outline: none;" /><strong><em> </em></strong></div><div style="line-height: 21px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">--Share your comments and resources on our </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/globalintegrators/" style="color: #336699; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">MCA Facebook page</span></a><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">--Send us your ideas and resources for future <em>MC Updates</em><br />--Forward to your colleagues and networks</span><br /><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;">MCAresources@gmail.com</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"> </span><hr style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;" /><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Featured Resources</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Persecution Pandemics: What Is Jesus Worth?</strong></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>The Insanity of God--The Hope of Humanity</strong></span></span></em><br /><br /><img data-file-id="13218660" height="579" src="https://mcusercontent.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/61e8a9aa-dbbb-4803-8ffd-ed59f905516b.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: 579px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God;<br />for He has prepared a city for them</em>. </span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+11&version=NASB1995" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Hebrews 11: 13,16</span></a><br />-----------</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Part One--Persecuted Christians<br />Loving the Broken Body of Christ</strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><em>My Beloved, My Beautiful Bride</em></strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Don't pray for the persecution to stop!<br />We shouldn't pray for a lighter load to carry, but for a stronger back to endure!<br />Then the world will see that God is with us, empowering us to live in a way<br />that reflects His love and power. </em>Brother Yun, Back to Jerusalem (2003, p. 58)</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="color: blue;">1. </span><em><a href="https://www.insanityofgodmovie.com/" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Insanity of God: A True Story of Faith and Persecution</span></a></em><span style="color: blue;"> (2016 film)</span></strong><br /><span style="color: black;">“The Insanity of God is the true story of missionaries </span><a href="http://www.nikripken.com/" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Nick and Ruth Ripken</span></a><span style="color: black;">. After the death of their son, this ordinary couple journeys into the depths of the persecuted church, asking the question- IS JESUS WORTH IT? How does faith survive, let alone flourish in the places of the world that are over come with the darkness of sin, despair and hopelessness? Join the Ripkens as they tell the story of being taught by believers in persecution “how to follow Jesus, how to love Jesus, and how to walk with Him day by day even when it doesn't make sense." The film is based on the best-selling book Insanity of God (BH Publishing) and is released in association with the International Mission Board (IMB).”</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;">Note: For a limited time you can watch the film for free </span></strong></span><strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;"><a href="https://www.revelationmedia.com/WatchInsanityOfGod/RM13411/" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">HERE</span></a></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;">.</span></strong></span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: lightblue;"><span style="color: black;">Watch the film trailer</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX6SWxwKZSE" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">HERE</span></a>.</span><br /><span style="color: black;">Film review by World Venture</span> <a href="https://worldventure.com/review-the-insanity-of-god/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">HERE</span></a>.<br /><br />Q<span style="color: black;">uotes from the film (slightly paraphrased):</span><br /><em>--There is not one free church and one suffering church. There is only one church.<br />--I have a doctorate but what can I teach this man who has gone through so much suffering for Christ?<br />--Our prisons are our seminaries.<br />--Is Jesus worth the lives of your spouse...of your children?<br />--Jesus' resurrection and the gospel is authenticated by what people suffer for Jesus' sake.</em><br /><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/The-Insanity-God-Story-Resurrected/dp/1433673088/?tag=thegospcoal-20" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><em>The Insanity of God: The True Story of Faith Resurrected</em> (2013)</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">Book review by The Gospel Coalition</span> <a href="https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/reviews/insanity-god/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">HERE</span></a>.</p><hr style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;" /><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>2. Going Further--More Resouces</strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Commemorating the Witnesses to the Faith</strong><br />(</span><a href="http://www.worldevangelicals.org/resources/source.htm?id=61" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">chapter five in <em>Doing Member Care Well</em>, 2002</span></a><span style="color: black;">, scroll to the chapter)<br />"This homily was delivered by John Paul II during a special ecumenical gathering, 7 May 2000, to honor all those Christians killed for their faith during the 20th century. It was given at a unique memorial service at the Coliseum in Rome, the ancient site where so many early Christians...gave their lives for their faith.... <i>"[</i><em>following] the footsteps of the crucified King, becoming a numberless multitude "from every nation, race, people, and language"'...bold heralds of the gospel and silent servants of the kingdom." "</em></span><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">Listening to Our Global Voices<br /></span></strong><br />(<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Global-Member-Care-Pearls-Practice-ebook/dp/B00IK71QM6" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">chapter 2 in <em>Global Member Care Vol. 1: The Pearls and Perils of Good Practice</em>, 2011</span></a>)<br /><span style="color: black;">"Our colleagues from around the world have so much to share with us all. We want to carefully listen to them and to learn from one another...--the joys and sorrows, issues and insights--of working in difficult settings. Their voices, and at times their cries, collectively recount the struggles and sacrifices of mission/aid workers, along with their incredible resiliency, the organizational responsibilities for care, helpful member care programs, and discrepancies in resource allocations."</span><br /><br /><strong>Responsible Logistics for Hostile Places</strong><br />(<a href="http://www.worldevangelicals.org/resources/source.htm?id=275" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">chapter 43 in <em>Doing Member Care Well</em>, 2002</span></a>, scroll to the chapter)<br />“<span style="color: black;">Doing logistics well in potentially dangerous and antagonistic settings: that is quite a task! This chapter explores this subject via a team which went through sudden expulsion from their host country. There is much to learn as the authors discuss the salient factors which affect outcomes: good preparation, group cohesion, contingency plans, debriefing, organizational support, and concern for persecuted national believers.”</span><br /><br /><strong><a href="https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Universal Declaration of Human Rights</span></a><span style="color: blue;">,</span> United Nations</strong><br />“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.” (Articles 1,18)</p><hr style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;" /><hr style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;" /><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong>Part Two--Persecuted Humans<br />Loving Broken Humanity</strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><em>Genocide, Trafficking, Racism, and Corruption</em></strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><strong><em><img data-file-id="13218688" height="595" src="https://mcusercontent.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/055369c9-59e0-4491-abe7-4c9ea84a66b1.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: 595px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></em></strong></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>If you travel here, you will feel it all:</em><br /><em><span jsname="YS01Ge">the brightest and the darkest.</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">If you travel here, listen to your heart</span><br /><span jsname="YS01Ge">and take with you what lasts forever</span></em><em>.</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MVRRTIMl3U" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Traveler’s Song, Future of Forestry </span></a><br /><span style="color: black;">(music video)</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>1. Genocide</strong></span><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Global Integration Update </span></a></em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">(December 2020)</span></a><em><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: black;">.</span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">This new <em>Update</em> features the contributions from genocide scholar Dr. Jane Gangi. As the Guest Contributor, she shares her perspectives as well core resources for understanding, preventing, and confronting the crime of genocide. Historical examples of genocide and current crises are also highlighted, noting that genocide in its many insidious forms continues to plague humanity and that confronting it entails political, social, and personal action--and risks.<br /><br />--</span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/events/genocidepreventionday/" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide and of the Prevention of this Crime (9 December, United Nations</span><span style="color: black;">)</span></a><span style="color: black;">. “The purpose of the day is to raise awareness of the [1948 </span><a href="http://www.preventgenocide.org/law/convention/text.htm" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: black;">Genocide Convention]</span></a><span style="color: black;"> and its role in combating and preventing the crime of genocide, as defined in the Convention, and to commemorate and honour its victims. In adopting the [UN’s 2015 resolution for this Day], without a vote, the 193-member Assembly reiterated the responsibility of each individual State to protect its populations from genocide, which entails the prevention of such a crime, including incitement to it.” Watch the UN video on </span><a href="http://webtv.un.org/watch/player/5765925587001" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">The Genocide Convention: A Call to Action</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"> (4 minutes)</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://eu.eventscloud.com/website/3030/home/" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Geneva Peace Week (GPW), 2-6 November 2020</span></a><span style="color: black;">. You can now access the events –presentations, panels, interactions, etc.—from this year’s GPW. The events are arranged into eight thematic areas, accessible </span><a href="https://eu.eventscloud.com/website/3030/thematic-tracks/" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: black;">. The themes are: Harnessing the Economy for Peace, Horizon Scan for Cyber Peace, Building a Culture of Peace, What Works in Peacebuilding, A Ne Vision for peacemaking, How to Build peace, Peacebuilding in a Post-COVID-19 Era and Beyond, and Environment, Conflict, Climate, and Peace.</span><br /><br />--<a href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">The Power of Creativity: A Path to Healing for Survivors of Sexual Violence, War, and Displacement</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">(23 November 2020), <em>Global Geneva</em>. “The Rosebush’ is a story cloth created by a woman whose teenage daughter was raped and murdered in front of her by men who had broken into their home at the dead of night. After escaping from Colombia to Ecuador, she joined a women’s circle facilitated by The Common Threads Project. Creating story cloths gives survivors the opportunity to heal and to bear witness to the trauma and sexual violence that are endemic in conflict situations. Catherine Butterly, psychotherapist, trainer and Adviser for the Common Threads Project, spoke to Sarah Grosso, anthropologist and gender consultant, about the healing powers of creativity and the resilience and courage of survivors of SGBV (sexual and gender-based violence) in conflict.”</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><img data-file-id="13225524" height="399" src="https://mcusercontent.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/0d544665-348d-4359-a57c-f32b9ac8f1fd.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: 399px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></p><hr style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;" /><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>2. Trafficking in Persons</strong><br />--</span><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/human%20trafficking" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Human Trafficking. Humanity Care: Unreached People Groups and the Sustainable Development Goals Number 9</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (6 November 2020) <em>CORE Member Care: Reflections, Research, and Resources for Good Practice, </em>Member Care Associates. This weblog features the special issue from <em>Mission Frontiers</em> (November-December 2020, 10 articles), Human Trafficking: The Church Should Stop Supporting It. “People are trafficked for sexual exploitation, forced labour, forced begging, forced marriage; for selling children and as child soldiers, as well as for removal of organs. Women make up 49% and girls 23% of all victims of trafficking. Sexual exploitation is the most common form of exploitation (59% share) followed by forced labour (34% share). Most victims are trafficked within their countries’ borders – those trafficked abroad are moved to the richest countries.” </span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/end-human-trafficking-day" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">World Day Against Trafficking in Persons (30 June, United Nations)</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></a><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/organized-crime/intro/UNTOC.html#:~:text=of%20national%20authorities.-,The%20Protocol%20to%20Prevent%2C%20Suppress%20and%20Punish%20Trafficking%20in%20Persons,General%20Assembly%20resolution%2055%2F25.&text=An%20additional%20objective%20of%20the,respect%20for%20their%20human%20rights." style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (2000) including the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (2003)</span></a><span style="color: black;">. “This Protocol to the Convention] is the first global legally binding instrument with an agreed definition on trafficking in persons. The intention behind this definition is to facilitate convergence in national approaches with regard to the establishment of domestic criminal offenses that would support efficient international cooperation in investigating and prosecuting trafficking in persons cases. An additional objective of the Protocol is to protect and assist the victims of trafficking in persons with full respect for their human rights.”</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/ending-violence-against-women-day" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (25 November) United Nations</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"> <br />--</span><a href="https://www.ijm.org/" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">International Justice Mission (IJM)</span></a><span style="color: black;">. “There are 40+ million people in slavery globally. That’s more than ever before in human history. Slavery is a multibillion-dollar industry. Human trafficking generates $150B annually. Slave owners prey on the poor and weak.1 in 4 victims of modern slavery is a child.” IJM’s work has three parts: “Rescue and restore victims. Bring criminals to justice. Strengthen justice systems.”<br /><br />--</span><a href="https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/resources/downloads/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Global Slavery Index 2018</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span><span style="color: black;"> Walk Free. "</span><span style="color: black;">Too often, the onus of eliminating modern slavery is placed only on the countries where the crime is perpetrated. They certainly have a responsibility, but they are not alone in this regard. An atrocity as large and pervasive as modern slavery requires a united, global response. Last year, the Global Estimates of Modern Slavery, developed with the International Labour Organization and International Organization for Migration, showed that more than 40 million people globally are living in modern slavery and over a period of five years, 89 million people experienced some form of slavery – whether for a few days or several years. These numbers represent people held in debt bondage on fishing boats, against their will as domestic servants, trapped in marriages they never agreed to, and numerous other abuses. Though almost every country has declared it illegal, modern slavery still exists on a shocking and unacceptable scale in these and many other forms. And yet, action from the countries most equipped to respond is underwhelming. By declaring modern slavery as a problem that happens “over there”, high-GDP countries are ignoring their culpability for this human rights crisis." (page vii)</span></p><hr style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;" /><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"> <strong>3. Racism</strong><br />--</span><em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Color-Compromise-American-Churchs-Complicity/dp/0310113601" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"> (2019), Jemar Tisby.<strong> “</strong>[This book] is <em>not</em> a call to shame or a platform to blame white evangelical Christians. It <em>is</em> a call from a place of love and desire to fight for a more racially unified church that no longer compromises what the Bible teaches about human dignity and equality. A call that challenges black and white Christians alike to standup <em>now</em> and begin implementing the concrete ways Tisby outlines, all for a more equitable and inclusive environment among God's people. Starting <em>today</em>.” (quote from Amazon). “History demonstrates that racism never goes away; it just adapts” (p. 19). “We must learn to discern the difference between complicit Christianity and courageous Christianity” (p.24). “History and Scripture teach us that there can be no reconciliation without repentance. There can be no repentance without confession. And there can be no confession without truth” (p. 15). <span style="background-color: lightblue;">Watch the book trailer </span></span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxwc5C0azjg&feature=emb_logo" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">here</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">.</span><br /><br />--</span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/global-integrity-day/" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Global Integrity Day—Moral Lives Matter (9 June)</span><span style="color: black;">.</span></a> <span style="color: black;">“This is a positive day to reflect, teach, and collaborate on ways to integrate integrity in all we do throughout the entire year. It is a day to promote a) cultivating lifestyles of integrity from the individual through the international levels; b) working together to address the causes and consequences of corruption in its many forms; and c) collaborating for just and equitable societies marked with wellbeing for all persons/peoples and for the planet. [It] is also a solemn day to consider our ways…” The theme this year (2020) is Confronting the Corruption of Racism. The featured resources include statements, articles, books, blogs, and music. See also the </span><a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/cerd.aspx" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">United Nations International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965, entry into force 1969)</span></a><span style="color: blue;">.</span></p><hr style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;" /><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>4. Corruption</strong><br />--</span><u><a href="https://www.globalintegritynetwork.org/post/ten-resources-for-integrity-and-anti-corruption-1" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Ten Resources for Integrity and Anti-Corruption: Moral Resilience and Relevance for the Church Mission Community</span></a></u><span style="color: black;"> (November 2020)<em>. Lausanne-WEA Global Integrity and Anti-Corruption Network. “</em>These resources have practical applications at the individual, institutional, and international levels of society, and everything in-between…and inform our collaborative efforts to promote moral resilience and relevance within the international Church Mission Community.”</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: black;"><img data-file-id="13226464" height="151" src="https://mcusercontent.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/b5e7261b-d907-4780-8fcd-98b8915ff6e3.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: 151px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400067553/ref=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sout?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_w_bb_glide_sout-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1400067553&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"> (2012), Katherine Boo. This is an outstanding work of narrative journalism that takes us into the daily lives of people in Mumbai’s Annawadi slum. I (Kelly) found it to be gripping, disturbing, eye-opening, and at times heart-wrenching as it explores the very personal realities of multi-dimensional poverty; individual, institutional, and systemic corruption; and the despair as well as the tenacity of those who survive the undercity, and those who do not. Over one billion humans live in slums or informal setttlements (</span><a href="https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2019/goal-11/#:~:text=The%20absolute%20number%20of%20people,Southern%20Asia%20(227%20million)." style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">UN, SDG 11, sustainaable cities and communities</span></a><span style="color: black;">).</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://fpinetwork.org/" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Faith and Public Integrity Network</span></a><strong><span style="color: black;">. “</span></strong><span style="color: black;">The Faith and Public Integrity Network exists to help Christians deal with the root causes and long-term effects of corruption. We recognise that most efforts to control corruption have failed, and that churches and individual Christians are often complicit in corruption. However, based on the research findings of leading scholars and the experience of our members, we think there is potential for the global Christian community to make a difference.”</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/anti-corruption-day" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">International Anti-Corruption Day (9 December, United Nations</span><span style="color: black;">)</span></a><span style="color: black;">. “Every year $1 trillion is paid in bribes while an estimated $2.6 trillion are stolen annually through corruption – a sum equivalent to more than 5 per cent of the global GDP…No country, region or community is immune. To mark International Anti-Corruption Day, we will leverage the recognition of the multi-year "</span><a href="http://www.anticorruptionday.org/actagainstcorruption/" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">United Against Corruption</span></a><span style="color: black;">" theme and will continue to support the </span><a href="https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/development-agenda/" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">2030 Agenda</span></a><span style="color: black;">, which forms the backbone of the campaign.” See also the </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.unodc.org/unodc/corruption/tools_and_publications/UN-convention-against-corruption.html" style="color: #336699;">United Nations Convention Against Corruption (2003).</a> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black;"><span style="color: #454545;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;">The 19th <a href="https://iaccseries.org/">International Anti-Corruption Conference</a> (30 November--5 December). The theme is Designing 2030: Truth, Trust, and Transparency. Virtual, free. Archives </span></span></span><span style="color: #454545; letter-spacing: -0.333333px;">hopefully availble too. "</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black;">A global community of anti-corruption experts have contributed to the programme…[and] more than 500 speakers…Together, we will assess the future we want to see in 2030, examine the challenges of combating corruption in the current political climate, and connect with filmmakers, activists and journalists who lead innovative and effective advocacy and action against corruption.”</span></span></p><hr style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;" /><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; text-align: justify;"><hr /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong>Part Three--Covid Care<br /><em>Perspectives and Resources</em></strong></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Don't fear. Trust God. Do good.</strong></span><br /><br /><img data-file-id="2195025" height="239" src="https://mcusercontent.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/5d12960e-c2e6-4931-958a-dac3de49147e.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: 239px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black;"><strong>I</strong>mage courtesy and (c) ENOD 2017</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.</em></span><br /><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%208&version=NIV" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Romans 8:38,39 NIV</span></a></p><p><span style="color: black;"><strong>1. Perspectives</strong><br />Pandemics, like many crises, bring out the best and the worst in us--our selfless and our selfish qualities. The reality of the uncertainties and anxieties of life, and indeed survival--<strong>existential risk</strong>--is heavy upon the world. Positively, the current COVID-19 pandemic certainly provides plenty of opportunities for us all individually through internationally--to reflect on the types of people we want to be, the types of societies we need to build, and the types of changes we have to make.<br /><br /><strong>We join together in solidarity with </strong><strong>the world community's efforts, locally through globally, on behalf of covid-care and in hopes to stir up the heroic in all of us.</strong> We also note that the many overlapping, problems in our world continue unabated--<strong>shadow pandemics</strong>--even as this covid pandemic dominates the center stage globally: multi-dimensional poverty, protracted violence, human rights violations, gross inequalities, racism, mental ill health, environmental degradation, etc. This is the ongoing, cascading context--full of challenges and opportunities--in which member care resources need to be provided and developed for workers and their sending groups around the world. And from our faith-based perspective, as co-workers with God engaged in the many areas of “</span><a href="https://us4.campaign-archive.com/?u=f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3&id=7155c94ed6" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">humanity care</span></a><span style="color: black;">,” we live and work for God’s glory. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Our recent </strong><em><strong>Updates</strong></em><strong> below are compiled for helping ourselves and others with</strong> <strong>covid care.</strong> Examples of issues/resources: anxiety, trauma, depression, confinement, loneliness, loss, grief, relationship strains, coping for children, work insecurities, spiritual struggles, uncertainty/concerns about what is going on, etc. Have a look!</span><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: black;">2. </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=3843" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Resources for Covid Care:</span></a></strong><br />--<a href="https://mailchi.mp/271b7cfc83b7/global-integration-update-special-news-5600265" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Grieving Well--Healing Well: Resources for Growing through Loss</span></a><br /><em>Global Integration Update </em>(November 2020)<br /><span style="color: black;">--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/fcc80e207742/global-integration-update-special-news-1692273" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Tough Times: Tougher People: Best selves--Better world</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Global Integration Update</em> (October 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/82d89c9d8e91/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-6499388" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Uniting for Covid-Care: Real-Life Ordinary Heroes</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Member Care Update</em> (September 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/1fa53984b1bf/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-6482520" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Doing Good: Positive Stories in the Pandemic</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Member Care Update</em> (August 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/f9529e1f5fb1/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-6464740" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Staying the Course in Global Member Care: Pandemics, Problems, and Beyond</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Member Care Update</em> (July 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/a9a21917d07b/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-6440668" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Managing Stress and COVID-Distress: Faith-Based Resources</span></a><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Member Care Update </em>(June 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/bb8e801adc5c/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-6417568" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Staying Sane during COVID-19: Mental Health Resources</span></a><span style="color: black;"> <br /><em>Member Care Update </em>(May 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/75ea33d5f51a/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-6376660" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Confronting COVID-19: “Don’t Be Afraid”</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span><br /><span style="color: black;"><em>Member Care Update </em>(April 2020)<br /><br /><strong>See also these resources:</strong><br />--</span><a href="https://missionexus.org/covid-19-impact-fall-2020-update/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Covid-19 Impact Survey</span></a><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://missionexus.org/covid-19-impact-fall-2020-update/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"> </a>(on missions, 141 organizations, USA based)<br /> Missio Nexus (Nov. 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/academic-centers/humanitarian-disaster-institute/covid-19/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Covid Resources,</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Humanitarian Disaster Institute, Wheaton College</span><br />--<a href="https://www.oikoumene.org/resources/publications/ecumenical-global-health-covid-19-response-framework" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Global Health COVID-19 Response Framework</span></a>, <span style="color: black;">World Council of Churches (Nov 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://www.who.int/health-cluster/news-and-events/news/COVID19-Resources/en/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">WHO COVID-19 Resources and Guidance</span></a><span style="color: black;">, World Health Organization</span></p><hr /><p style="text-align: center;"><img data-file-id="2264665" height="253" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3/images/f45726e0-1e88-4db9-90f7-a7cbabecb715.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: 253px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; width: 550px;" width="550" /><br /><em><span style="color: black;">Image courtesy Nancy Ford Duncan</span></em><br /><span style="color: black;">Member care:</span> <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+23&version=NASB" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Renewing the strengths of our souls</span></a></p></div><hr style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;" /><hr style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;" /><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px;"><strong><img align="none" height="103" 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font-family: Arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;"><div style="line-height: 15px; text-align: justify;"><br /><br /><br /> </div><div style="line-height: 15px; text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="color: black;"><strong>Disclaimer</strong>:<br />The material and information in these <em>Updates</em> are shared as a service to the community and should not be seen as an endorsement by MCA or as a substitute for professional medical and/or mental health advice. </span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Member Care Associateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00435755943229949017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105370806558579704.post-80957070900043201602020-11-06T11:26:00.014+01:002020-12-02T09:47:58.788+01:00Humanity Care: UPGs and SDGs 9<p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;">Human Trafficking</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOyHc0zqAkGN5LcWx_BIZMhC-Yfg33yo7TYkeqlhF7VyN1A-WCAaRm-nP-z5mihPml7cLZ0s3zoHIy1LmH8Mh3F8t-tIDy_qX01olWUnk4tvC7-5Wi3F24yM0TunZaP6G-hm7Cpwjp_gRU/s1200/cover+of+Mission+Frontiers+Nov+2020.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="901" height="569" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOyHc0zqAkGN5LcWx_BIZMhC-Yfg33yo7TYkeqlhF7VyN1A-WCAaRm-nP-z5mihPml7cLZ0s3zoHIy1LmH8Mh3F8t-tIDy_qX01olWUnk4tvC7-5Wi3F24yM0TunZaP6G-hm7Cpwjp_gRU/w427-h569/cover+of+Mission+Frontiers+Nov+2020.jpg" width="427" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Did You Know?<br /></b></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">--“People are
trafficked for sexual exploitation, forced labour, forced begging, forced
marriage; for selling children and as child soldiers, as well as for removal of
organs;</span></div><p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">--Women make up
49% and girls 23% of all victims of trafficking;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">----Sexual
exploitation is the most common form of exploitation (59% share) followed by
forced labour (34% share);<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Most victims
are trafficked within their countries’ borders – those trafficked abroad are
moved to the richest countries.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="Did You Know? --“People are trafficked for sexual exploitation, forced labour, forced begging, forced marriage; for selling children and as child soldiers, as well as for removal of organs; --Women make up 49% and girls 23% of all victims of trafficking; ----Sexual exploitation is the most common form of exploitation (59% share) followed by forced labour (34% share); Most victims are trafficked within their countries’ borders – those trafficked abroad are moved to the richest countries.” World Day Against Trafficking in Persons (30 July) __________ Mission Frontiers Jesus Asked Us to Rescue the Perishing and Set the Captives Free (introduction to the Special Issue) “Human trafficking is a topic that I wish I did not have to cover in the pages of Mission Frontiers [10 articles]. It is ugly and disgusting and does not make for a “pleasant” reading experience. But as followers of Jesus we must sometimes face the ugliness of our world head-on in order to do what is right in the sight of our Lord. We have done our best to present this topic honestly, but with a great deal of discretion in describing the abuse that these modern- day slaves experience. Some readers may object to our covering this topic at all, but the sheer tragedy of 25+ million precious people being enslaved in our day demands that we as Jesus followers speak up in their defense.” Rick Wood, Editor Unreached Peoples & Trafficking? (one of the 10 articles in the Special Issue) “Why an issue of Mission Frontiers on the global tragedy of trafficking? How does this connect in some way to our purpose of advancing and catalyzing movements to Jesus among the least reached peoples of the earth? I want to address that from several lenses, but it might be good first to state as simply as possible what is meant by trafficking. __________ International Organization for Migration Ashraf El Nour, 28 July 2016 Three Necessary Steps to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals on Human Trafficking Addressing human trafficking will only be possible with on-going and enhanced cooperation with all partners working on this issue to strengthen strategies that support prevention of the crime, protection and direct, comprehensive assistance to victims, and prosecution of offenders. The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development last September renewed political commitment for protection against trafficking in persons. Target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) calls for an end to all forms of forced labour, human trafficking and child labour by 2025. Two additional targets specifically address human trafficking: 5.2 ‘Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation’; and 16.2 ‘End abuse, exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of children’. Progress in the other Goals is essential to a strengthened, comprehensive approach to combatting trafficking, for example, in the areas of poverty eradication (Goal 1), gender equality and women’s empowerment (Goal 5), promoting full and productive employment and decent work (Goal 8), reducing inequality within and among countries (Goal 10), and providing access to justice for all and building effective, accountable and inclusive institutions (Goal 16). Target 10.7, which seeks to facilitate safe, orderly, regular and responsible migration, is also critical. It recognizes that realizing the benefits and full potential of migration, while addressing risks such as human trafficking, requires well-managed and well-governed approaches to migration and human mobility. Giving effect to these targets and measuring progress will require enhanced efforts in a range of areas, including data collection. Currently, the Inter-agency and Expert Group on the SDGs is devising a set of indicators to monitor all 169 targets of the 2030 Agenda, including on trafficking and migration-related targets. __________ World Day Against trafficking in Persons (30 July) “This year, we will focus on the first responders to human trafficking. These are the people who work in different sectors - identifying, supporting, counselling and seeking justice for victims of trafficking, and challenging the impunity of the traffickers. During the COVID-19 crisis, the essential role of first responders has become even more important, particularly as the restrictions imposed by the pandemic have made their work even more difficult. Still, their contribution is often overlooked and unrecognized. Through stories from first responders describing their practical work in assisting victims we intend to spotlight their contribution and that of their function, institution, organization, team, or community and its impact on fighting trafficking. The key messages focus on the positive, recognizing the importance of the work done by first responders, as well as seeking support and raising awareness that these actions need to be sustained and replicated. The stories will also highlight how first responders remained committed during the pandemic. Get involved by joining the conversation and using the hashtags #EndHumanTrafficking and #HumanTrafficking on all digital platforms.”">World Day Against Trafficking in Persons (30 July)</a><br />
__________ </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Human Trafficking and UPGs</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Mission Frontiers<br /><a href="http://www.missionfrontiers.org/issue/article/jesus-asked-us-to-rescue-the-perishing-and-set-the-captives-free">Jesus
Asked Us to Rescue the Perishing and Set the Captives Free</a> (introduction to Special Issue)</b><br />“Human trafficking
is a topic that I wish I did not have to cover in the pages of Mission
Frontiers [10 articles]. It is ugly and disgusting and does not make for a
“pleasant” reading experience. But as followers of Jesus we must sometimes face
the ugliness of our world head-on in order to do what is right in the sight of
our Lord. We have done our best to present this topic honestly, but with a
great deal of discretion in describing the abuse that these modern- day slaves
experience. Some readers may object to our covering this topic at all, but the
sheer tragedy of 25+ million precious people being enslaved in our day demands
that we as Jesus followers speak up in their defense.” Rick Wood, Editor</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1105370806558579704/8095707090004320160">Unreached
Peoples & Trafficking? </a>(one of the 10 articles in the Special Issue)</b><br />“Why an issue
of Mission Frontiers on the global tragedy of trafficking? How does this
connect in some way to our purpose of advancing and catalyzing movements to Jesus
among the least reached peoples of the earth? I want to address that from
several lenses, but it might be good first to state as simply as possible what
is meant by trafficking." Kevin Higgins, General Dirctor, Frontier Ventures<br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN7HbT3fomlfKcrDKebv9JDxmb7XqNUIxhb9gofQvgY_hSqnt_SX1ge-O7vhFEkSUsg6VkEKNUGqYZJz2F94_IUtX-V8a4Luf0wg6FLkgm8UpgzIoDR3ExVxsKzjdrktocZMXBwl8NSygx/s750/42-6_Web_Banner+Mission+Frontiers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="750" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN7HbT3fomlfKcrDKebv9JDxmb7XqNUIxhb9gofQvgY_hSqnt_SX1ge-O7vhFEkSUsg6VkEKNUGqYZJz2F94_IUtX-V8a4Luf0wg6FLkgm8UpgzIoDR3ExVxsKzjdrktocZMXBwl8NSygx/w559-h208/42-6_Web_Banner+Mission+Frontiers.jpg" width="559" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;">_________</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Human Trafficking and the SDGs</span></b></div><b><br /><a href="https://weblog.iom.int/three-necessary-steps-achieve-sustainable-development-goals-human-trafficking">Three Necessary Steps to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals on HumanTrafficking</a>.</b><br /><b>International Organization for Migration Ashraf El Nour, 28 July 2016<br />"</b>Addressing human trafficking will only be possible with on-going and
enhanced cooperation with all partners working on this issue to strengthen
strategies that support prevention of the crime, protection and direct,
comprehensive assistance to victims, and prosecution of offenders.<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p>The adoption of the <a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld">2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development</a> [September 2015] renewed political
commitment for protection against trafficking in persons. Target 8.7 of
the <a href="http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/">Sustainable
Development Goals</a> (SDGs) calls for an end to all forms of forced
labour, human trafficking and child labour by 2025. Two additional targets
specifically address human trafficking: 5.2 ‘Eliminate all forms of violence
against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including
trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation’; and 16.2 ‘End abuse,
exploitation, trafficking and all forms of violence against and torture of
children’.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p>Progress in the other Goals is essential to a strengthened,
comprehensive approach to combatting trafficking, for example, in the areas of
poverty eradication (Goal 1), gender equality and women’s empowerment (Goal 5),
promoting full and productive employment and decent work (Goal 8), reducing
inequality within and among countries (Goal 10), and providing access to
justice for all and building effective, accountable and inclusive institutions
(Goal 16).</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p>Target 10.7, which seeks to facilitate safe, orderly, regular and
responsible migration, is also critical. It recognizes that realizing the
benefits and full potential of migration, while addressing risks such as human
trafficking, requires well-managed and well-governed approaches to migration
and human mobility. Giving effect to these targets and measuring progress will
require enhanced efforts in a range of areas, including data collection.
Currently, the Inter-agency and Expert Group on the SDGs is devising a set of
indicators to monitor all 169 targets of the 2030 Agenda, including on
trafficking and migration-related targets."<br />__________</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyw81U8TYgo_KNXhtIlykp42YDJxJ5Shr4vkuOIGmM57DB7lUCeB8PIlD85dO1WqSX5glA2YTN_5h5nQT6DsW3qEw59cEwqUzhUyQ22ImbDfk79stXsigNzHvx5otTJCsve-xiVJsuGa1J/s1114/blue-heart.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="1114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyw81U8TYgo_KNXhtIlykp42YDJxJ5Shr4vkuOIGmM57DB7lUCeB8PIlD85dO1WqSX5glA2YTN_5h5nQT6DsW3qEw59cEwqUzhUyQ22ImbDfk79stXsigNzHvx5otTJCsve-xiVJsuGa1J/s320/blue-heart.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><i>"The Blue Heart represents the
sadness of those who are trafficked, <br />while reminding us of the cold-heartedness
of those who buy and sell fellow human beings."</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/end-human-trafficking-day"><b>World Day Against Trafficking in Persons (30 July)</b></a><br />“This year, we will focus on the first responders to human trafficking.
These are the people who work in different sectors - identifying, supporting,
counselling and seeking justice for victims of trafficking, and challenging the
impunity of the traffickers.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p>During the COVID-19 crisis, the essential role of first responders has
become even more important, particularly as the restrictions imposed by the
pandemic have made their work even more difficult. Still, their contribution is
often overlooked and unrecognized.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Through stories from first responders describing their practical work
in assisting victims we intend to spotlight their contribution and that of
their function, institution, organization, team, or community and its impact on
fighting trafficking. The key messages focus on the positive, recognizing the
importance of the work done by first responders, as well as seeking support and
raising awareness that these actions need to be sustained and replicated. The
stories will also highlight how first responders remained committed during the
pandemic.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Get involved by joining the conversation and using the hashtags #EndHumanTrafficking
and #HumanTrafficking on all digital platforms.”<br />--------</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a data-cke-saved-href="https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/resources/downloads/" href="https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/resources/downloads/" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Global Slavery Index 2018</b></span></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>. Walk Free.<br /></b> "In 2016, 40.3 million people were living in modern slavery. It exists in every corner of the world, yet is seemingly invisible to most people. Unravelling this problem requires sustained vigilance and action..."</span></p><div style="text-align: center;">_________</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><b><span style="font-size: medium;">TBD<br />Human Trafficking and UPGs-SDGs<br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-weight: bold;">Examples and Applications</i><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">--<b>Scoping study:</b> Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; text-align: justify;"> </span><a href="https://aht-ms.jliflc.com/resources/executive-summary-ams-ht-study/" style="background-color: white; color: #6dc6dd; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify; text-size-adjust: 100%;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">The Role of Local Faith Actors in Anti-Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: blue; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">(2019).</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">--<b>Coming soon:</b> <i><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=726">Global Integration Update</a></i> (December 2020), <b>Genocide: Studying, Preventing, Confronting, Punishing, Healing...Weeping. </b>"In this Update we feature the contributions from genocide scholar Dr. Jane Gangi. As the Guest Contributor, she shares her perspectives as well core resources for understanding, preventing, and confronting the crime of genocide. Historical examples of genocide and current crises are also highlighted, noting that genocide in its many insidious forms continues to plague humanity and that confronting it entails political, social, and personal action--and risks."</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">--<b>Coming soon:</b> <i><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=125">Member Care Update</a></i> (December 2020), <b>Persecution Pandemics: What is Jesus Worth? The Insanity of God--The Hope of Humanity.</b> “In this Update we focus on persecution: the persecution of Christians around the world through harassment, imprisonment, torture, and death (part one), and the persecution of humans around the world through genocide, trafficking, racism, and corruption (part two). It is a tough Update to navigate because the topics are uncomfortable, perplexing, perhaps overwhelming, egregious, often horrific and they are extremely resistant to real change and sustainable solutions.”</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; text-align: justify;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRNSdUXusWMHUGsd5kelhyphenhyphenw8SpvtwuOJ-tvFdWuL2E0WtFP3rbI4GB6wvkfVID9V75CVK54-rgx-DFN8bAjisVT53c9VRRcW-nU3gJ2tP66iDDJ6KcrHyI8ztoZqocGP6zSeKf-oVxTZOd/s984/Cloth1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="714" data-original-width="984" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRNSdUXusWMHUGsd5kelhyphenhyphenw8SpvtwuOJ-tvFdWuL2E0WtFP3rbI4GB6wvkfVID9V75CVK54-rgx-DFN8bAjisVT53c9VRRcW-nU3gJ2tP66iDDJ6KcrHyI8ztoZqocGP6zSeKf-oVxTZOd/w400-h290/Cloth1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.global-geneva.com/the-power-of-creativity-a-path-to-healing-for-survivors-of-sexual-violence-war-and-displacement/">The Power of Creativity: A Path to Healing for Survivors of Sexual Violence, War, and Displacement </a>(23 November 2020), <i>Global Geneva</i>. “The Rosebush’ is a story cloth created by a woman whose teenage daughter was raped and murdered in front of her by men who had broken into their home at the dead of night. After escaping from Colombia to Ecuador, she joined a women’s circle facilitated by The Common Threads Project. Creating story cloths gives survivors the opportunity to heal and to bear witness to the trauma and sexual violence that are endemic in conflict situations. Catherine Butterly, psychotherapist, trainer and Adviser for the Common Threads Project, spoke to Sarah Grosso, anthropologist and gender consultant, about the healing powers of creativity and the resilience and courage of survivors of SGBV (sexual and gender-based violence) in conflict.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.bigmarker.com/cuhd-coll-ge-universitaire/Impact-Of-Human-Trafficking-On-Health-Trauma?bmid=662064aadd73">Impact of Human Trafficking on Health: Trauma</a>, 1 December 2020, webinar, Henry Dunant University, Geneva. "<span style="background-color: white; color: #202630; text-align: center;">International webinars on human trafficking </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202630; text-align: center;">in the light of the 5th anniversary of <i>Laudato Si</i> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202630; text-align: center;">and of the new <i>Fratelli Tutti </i>encyclical.</span></span></div><p></p></div>Member Care Associateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00435755943229949017noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105370806558579704.post-18998850212164135392020-07-30T11:23:00.001+01:002020-11-29T10:22:04.032+01:00Humanity Care: UPGs and SDGs 8<table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0" id="templatePreheader" style="background-color: #81a8b8; color: black; width: 600px;"><tbody>
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<span style="color: black;"><em>"Psychological distress in populations is widespread. Many people are distressed due to the immediate health impacts of the virus and the consequences of physical isolation. Many are afraid of infection, dying, and losing family members. Individuals have been physically distanced from loved ones and peers. Millions of people are facing economic turmoil having lost or being at risk of losing their income and livelihoods. Frequent misinformation and rumours about the virus and deep uncertainty about the future are common sources of distress. A long-term upsurge in the number and severity of mental health problems is likely." </em></span><a href="https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/un_policy_brief-covid_and_mental_health_final.pdf" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Policy Brief: COVID-19 on the Need for Action on Mental Health</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (UN, May 2020, p. 2)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">In this <em>Update</em> we share more resources in the world community's battle to confront the corona virus. Specifically we focus primarily on f<strong>aith-based and faith-sensitive resources </strong>(mainly Christian) to support ourselves and others during the prolonged challenges and uncertainties.<br /><br />Many of the resources deal with managing the causes and consequences of stress: <strong>COVID-Distress</strong>. Examples include anxiety, trauma, depression, confinement, loneliness, loss, grief, relationship strains, coping for children, work insecurities, spiritual struggles, uncertainty/concerns about what may "really" be going on, etc.<br /><br /><strong>We also want to emphasize that for hundreds of millions of people, the issue is not only COVID-19 but frankly ongoing survival--managing daily life in settings inundated with multi-dimensional poverty, protracted violence, human rights violations, and gross inequalities. Our many overlapping, major crises continue unabated even as COVID-19 takes center stage in our world.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">We begin the <em>Update</em> with suggestions for COIVD-19 responses by Adjith Fernando (</span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Fernando-What-Could-Christians-Be-Doing-Now-COVID-19-response.pdf" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">What Could Christians Be Doing Now?</span></a><span style="color: black;">) and finish with a new article that we jointly authored on stress and trauma in humanitarian work (</span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Engaging-in-Humanity-Care-Stress-Trauma-and-Humanitarian-Work-final-version-CPAW-May-2020.pdf" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Engaging in Humanity Care</span></a><span style="color: black;">). We think you will find many of the resources below to be helpful for your life and for your work in member care and mission.</span></div>
<span style="color: black;"><strong>Don't be afraid. Trust God. Do good.<br />Stay safe, connected, compassionate, and hope-filled. </strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"> See also:<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/75ea33d5f51a/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-6376660" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Confronting COVID-19: “Don’t be afraid”</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> (</span><span style="color: black;"><em>Member Care Update,</em> April 2020)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/bb8e801adc5c/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-6417568" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Staying Sane during COVID-19</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (<em>Member Care Update, </em>May 2020)</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><em>"Deeply concerned by the morbidity and mortality caused by COVID-19 pandemic, the negative impacts on physical and mental health and social well-being, the negative impacts on economy and society and the consequent exacerbation of inequalities within and between countries….[The WHO World Health Assembly] calls for, in the spirit of unity and solidarity, intensification of cooperation and collaboration at all levels to contain, control and mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic..." </em></span><span style="color: black;">World Health Organization, </span><a href="https://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA73/A73_CONF1Rev1-en.pdf" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;"><em>Resolution on the COVID-19 Response</em></span></a> (May 2020, <span style="color: black;"><em>paragraphs </em></span><em>PP 1 and OP1)</em></div>
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<strong><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Fernando-What-Could-Christians-Be-Doing-Now-COVID-19.pdf" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">What Could Christian Be Doing Now?</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Ajith Fernando, Sri Lanka (May 2020).</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> <em>“While the Bible does not dwell much on the “whys” of things like epidemics, it clearly teaches that when there is a great need, Christians must seek to be involved. Our God is [the God] who acts, and he often acts through us. Let us look at some biblical principles which we need to be asking how we should apply at this time.”</em></span></div>
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<strong><a href="http://olivetreecounseling.org/anxious-times/" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">Anxious Times.</span></a><span style="color: black;"> Corinne Gnepf, Olive Tree, Turkey (May 2020).</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> <em>“Undoubtedly, these recent months have not gone by without leaving marks on you. It is likely that at one point or another you have felt anxious, distressed, upset or depressed because of how Covid-19 has impacted you. Many more people around the world have experienced a heightened level of anxiety as lives, jobs, family routines, livelihoods, and relationships have been impacted or threatened. Forced isolation, social distancing, the worries about loved ones, missing out on milestone events such as weddings, graduations, anniversaries, and other special events takes a toll. Being stuck in a tight space with people who you love but can seriously get on your nerves, or with people who are unsafe to be around can be highly stressful. Being faced with too many deaths and the risk of working in the health care system is traumatic. All of these and many more can cause severe distress. Many people have gotten infected, struggled for every breath, fought back to live. All of these scenarios are difficult, period.”</em></span></div>
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<strong><a href="https://cloud.squidex.io/api/assets/f8368701-6eeb-47d4-9210-36a48d54f938/" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">Healing from the Distress of the Covid-19 Crisis</span></a><span style="color: black;"> and </span><a href="https://cloud.squidex.io/api/assets/497bd7ce-83e5-47bf-b508-02a187bc4c2a/" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">Peace, Be Still: A Family Guide for Living in Crazy Days</span></a></strong><span style="color: black;"><strong>.</strong> Both are some of the resources from </span><a href="https://traumahealinginstitute.org/" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Beyond Disaster, Trauma Healing Institute</span></a><span style="color: black;">, American Bible Society.</span><br />
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<strong><a href="https://www.apa.org/topics/covid-19/faith-crisis" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">Faith in a Time of Crisis</span></a>. <span style="color: black;">Bryan Goodman,</span> <a href="https://www.apa.org/topics/covid-19/" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">COVID-19 Information and Resources</span></a>, <span style="color: black;">American Psychological Association (May 2020). </span></strong><span style="color: black;"><em>“Psychologists’ research shows why some people can find peace during the COVID-19 pandemic, while others may be struggling with their faith.” </em><strong>See the </strong></span><strong><a href="https://www.apa.org/monitor/" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">APA's <em>Monitor on Psychology</em> (June 2020), special issue on COVID-19</span></a><span style="color: black;">.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><em><a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d0d32005d7640000177b27d/t/5e9ca44339f0f40fc872e522/1587323971950/Self-Care+Guide_Change-makers+and+Peacebuilders.pdf" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">A Self-Care Guide for Change-Makers and Peacebuilders during Covid-19</span></a>. </em></strong><span style="color: black;">Annalisa Jackson and Nicholas Sherwood. <strong>Mary Hoch Center for Reconciliation, Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University USA (2020). </strong>This three page summary briefly describes 21 ways to take care of ourselves and our households (see image above). </span><em><span style="color: black;">“It is important each of us take care of ourselves, paying attention to the needs of our own bodies, our minds, and our spirits. We should recognize the new reality we face can contribute to increased feelings of sadness, anger, discouragement, or being overwhelmed. A key component to taking care of ourselves during this time is identifying the things we can control rather than focusing on the things we cannot control. While it is critical to physically isolate as much as possible during this pandemic, finding strategies to maintain our health and our connections with others will significantly impact our well-being.”</span></em></div>
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<strong><a href="https://jliflc.com/covid/" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">Faith and COVID-19 Response</span></a>. <span style="color: black;">Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities. </span></strong><span style="color: black;">“<em>COVID-19 is a global crisis that needs all communities across the world, together with governments, UN entities, and broad civil society organizations, to join forces in keeping people safe and well. As an international learning exchange, the JLI aims to facilitate evidence building and creation to support faith and COVID-19 response. We will update this page with JLI collaborations and partner initiatives (as possible</em>).” <strong>Note: There are many faith-based organizations listed with resources for the pandemic.</strong></span></div>
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<strong><a href="https://www.spiritualfirstaidhub.com/home" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;"><em>Spiritual First Aid: A Step-by-Step Disaster Spiritual and Emotional Care Manual (COVID-19 Edition)</em>.</span></a></strong><strong> </strong><strong>H<span style="color: black;">umanitarian and Disaster Institute, Wheaton College USA</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> (2020, also in Spanish). This manual is a <em>“disaster spiritual and emotional care intervention… using both biblical wisdom and evidence-informed psychological insights….[It provides] a step-by-step approach to learning and providing spiritual and emotional care for others…remotely and while staying at home.” </em>It is oriented for those with a Christian worldview.”</span></div>
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<strong><a href="http://doing%20what%20matters%20in%20times%20of%20stress:%20An%20Illustrated%20Guide./" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><em>Doing What Matters in Times of Stress: An Illustrated Guide.</em></span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">World Health Organization (April 2020).</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> <em>“[This] is a stress management guide for coping with adversity. The guide aims to equip people with practical skills to help cope with stress. A few minutes each day are enough to practice the self-help techniques. The guide can be used alone or with the accompanying audio exercises. Informed by evidence and extensive field testing, the guide is for anyone who experiences stress, wherever they live and whatever their circumstances.” </em>Note: Broadly speaking, the "values" emphasis/section in this guide could also be used to identify and integrate one's spiritual and religious values into coping<em>. </em><strong>More </strong></span><strong><a href="https://www.who.int/maternal_child_adolescent/links/covid19-resources-and-support-for-mncah-and-ageing/en/" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">COVID-19 resources for information and support here</span></a><span style="color: black;"> from WHO.</span></strong></div>
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<strong><em><a href="https://konterragroup.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Recovery-Wellness-COVID-19.pdf" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">Recovery and Wellness—COVID-19: Operating Considerations for US-based International NGOs</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"><em> </em>(May 2020), developed in collaboration with many INGOs.</span></strong><span style="color: black;"> <em>“The events of the past several months have presented a wide range of challenges to the International NGO (INGO) community as COVID-19 has spread rapidly around the world. The operational realities of COVID-19 are causing organizations to create and adapt processes and procedures, reassess organizational customs and norms and establish new ways of working. Organizations are dedicating significant energy to projecting forward and making operational changes to uphold their duty of care and provide staff with a work environment that considers this new reality. Recognizing this effort, the INGO community came together to produce Recovery & Wellness, COVID-19 which convenes subject matter experts and practitioners from the fields of Human Resources, Insurances and Benefits, Staff Wellbeing, Security and Risk Management and Non-profit Law and Compliance. Each module seeks to provide guidance, suggestions for internal communications and an action list organized by Highly Recommended, Recommended and Beneficial actions. These are general recommendations which may not apply uniformly to all organizations and were specifically designed for small to mid-sized organizations.”</em><br /><br />Note: This operational guide is "secular." Arguably it is neither "faith-sensitive" nor faith-inclusive." Nonetheless the information is helpful but you will have to add your own spiritual and religious perspectives and resources to it (for example, in the section on staff wellbeing).<em> </em></span><strong><span style="color: black;">See also the KonTerra Group’s </span><a href="https://konterragroup.net/covid-19/" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">COVID-19: Resources for Organizations and Employees</span></a><span style="color: black;">. See also </span><em><a href="https://missionexus.org/covid-19-contingency-planning-tool/" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">COVID-19 Mission Organization Contingency Planing</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"> (April 2020), Missio Nexus. </span></strong></div>
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<strong><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Engaging-in-Humanity-Care-Stress-Trauma-and-Humanitarian-Work-final-version-CPAW-May-2020.pdf" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">Engaging in Humanity Care: Stress, Trauma, and Humanitarian Work</span></a><span style="color: black;">. Kelly O’Donnell, Heidi Pidcoke, Michèle Lewis O’Donnell. <em>Christian Psychology Around the World; Special Focus: Coping with Stress in Theory and Practice</em> (</span><a href="https://emcapp.ignis.de/pdf/emcapp_journal_14.pdf" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">Issue 14, May 2020</span></a></strong><span style="color: black;"><strong>, pp. 153-167). </strong>“<em>In this </em>article <em>we focus on the wellbeing and effectiveness (WE) of staff in the humanitarian sector. More specifically, in Part One we highlight stress and trauma for humanitarian workers and in Part Two we share perspectives and resources to support humanitarian workers. We draw from our work as Christians in mental health and member care and in the context of our broad, multi-sectoral involvements for “engaging in </em></span><strong><a href="http://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search/label/humanity%20care" style="color: #336699; font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">humanity care</span></a></strong><span style="color: black;"><strong>.</strong>”<em> Keep in mind the personal and organizational benefits when everyone involved in the humanitarian sector stay resilient and healthy. This includes administrators, managers, leaders, volunteers, international and local/national staff, family members, teams, organizations, and the helpers themselves.”</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><em>The Global Pearl of Great Price</em></span></strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">The Pearl of Great Price<br />Detail from cover: </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><em>Global Member Care Volume Two (</em>2013)</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><em>Whoever serves me must follow me;<br />and where I am, my servant also will be.<br />My Father will honor the one who serves me</em>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>Warm greetings!</strong><br /><br />In this <em>Update</em> we feature one item: a short article that we jointly authored, just published online in the <em>Lausanne</em> <em>Global Analysis. </em>In it we distill several of our core perspectives and strategies for staying current and relevant in view of the many new challenges and opportunities for serving Jesus in our world.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.lausanne.org/content/lga/2020-01/following-jesus-globally" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;">Following Jesus Globally: Engaging the World through Global Integration</span></strong></span></a><br />
<span style="color: black;">--The article is also in French, Spanish, and Portuguese (official translations by the Lausanne Movement). We also </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/9bce3c87ab5c/michele-and-kelly-news-fall-5749411" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">link to a copy of the article</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"> which has a translation tool for 50 languages (not official translations by the Lausanne Movement).<br />--We list five suggestions at the end of this <em>Update</em> to stimulate discussions and applications of this article for mission and member care.<br />--We plan to host online round tables in 2020 as a way to further interact with colleagues about the themes in this article.<br /><br />Please consider <strong>discussing and sharing this <em>Update</em>/article</strong> with your colleagues and networks. And join the conversation--consider </span><a href="https://www.lausanne.org/content/lga/2020-01/following-jesus-globally" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;">writing a short comment</span></strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;"> </span></span></a><span style="color: black;">at the end of the article. Many thanks!<br /><br /><strong>See also:</strong><br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/8c89d7b2793f/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-1543285" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Into the Communities of Unreached Peoples</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (<em>MC Update,</em> June 2019)<br />--</span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/c518e2248457/resiliency-for-team-leaders-special-news-may-2018-member-care-updates-1402169" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Righteous and Relevant Leaders</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (<em>MC Update,</em> June 2018)<br />--</span><a href="http://eepurl.com/czhWn5" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Global Member Care Model—Seven Spheres</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (<em>MC Update</em>, February 2017)</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>Our </strong><em><strong>Special News-Updates</strong> </em>1) promote the <strong>w</strong>ellbeing and <strong>e</strong>ffectiveness (<strong>WE</strong>) of staff and sending groups and 2) support the diversity of colleagues with member care responsibilities. The focus is on the mission sector with applications for/from the overlapping health, development, and humanitarian sectors.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: black;">Warm greetings from Geneva,<br />Kelly and Michèle</span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: black;">UN photo (UNRWA)<br />Palestinian refugees in Yarmouk, Syria (January 2014)</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><em><strong>Global Integration:</strong><br />A framework for actively and responsibly engaging with our world,<br />collaborating locally through globally for God’s glory.</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">For the last 10 years we have been working increasingly across sectors (humanitarian, health, development, peace-security, United Nations) as psychologists in mission. Central to our work has been a simple, strategic framework which we call </span><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/?page_id=373" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: blue;">Global Integration</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (GI). <strong>GI is a framework for actively and responsibly engaging with our world, collaborating locally through globally for God’s glory.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">In </span><a href="https://www.lausanne.org/content/lga/2020-01/following-jesus-globally" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><strong><span style="background-color: lightblue;">Following Jesus Globally</span></strong></span></a><span style="color: black;">, we share our updated description of the GI framework and present the material in terms of three strategic <strong>“GI Directions”</strong> to carefully and prayerfully consider:<br /><br />--Following Jesus into Humanity Care<br />--Following Jesus with Global Integrity<br />--Following Jesus as Global Integrators.<br /><br />We conclude this short article with a checklist of seven “directional commitments” for engaging in our world strategically and relevantly, locally and globally. The 20+ end notes include many additional perspectives and resources too. </span></div>
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<a href="https://www.lausanne.org/content/lga/2020-01/following-jesus-globally" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">Following Jesus Globally</span></span></a><span style="color: black;">, like the GI framework itself, is meant to help us forge new relationships and pursue new opportunities for addressing major issues affecting our world and especially the Church-Mission Community’s work among unreached peoples. It supports our efforts for being salt and light for God’s glory; promoting the growth and development of workers in the context of sacrifice, stressful work, and prudent risk; calling upon our best selves--the common sense of our human belonging, identity, and mutual responsibility--as we seek to engage our precarious, perilous, yet precious world as followers of Jesus Christ.<br /><br />Here are five areas of application for the GI Directions emphasized in the article (humanity care, global integrity, global integrators). How can these GI Directions help us to:<br /><br />--Support mission workers and sending groups in their well-being and effectiveness?<br />--Equip mission workers and sending groups with tools and opportunities for their work?<br />--Equip member care colleagues who work with others besides mission staff?<br />--Support colleagues across sectors via materials developed in member care/mission?<br />--Stay informed about and pray for current and crucial issues facing humanity?<br /><br /><strong>Notes</strong><br />--For more ideas for applying GI Directions including across sectors, see the </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/globalmca/volume-2--crossing-sectors/-vol-2-applications" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><em>Volume 2</em>--Application Section</span></a><span style="color: black;"> on the website for the <em>Global Member Care</em> book series.<br />--Here is a </span><a href="https://mailchi.mp/9bce3c87ab5c/michele-and-kelly-news-fall-5749411" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: lightblue;">separate link</span></span></a><span style="color: black;"> a copy of the English version which provides a translation tool into 50 languages. These additional translations are separate from the three official-professional translations done for the Lausanne Movement’s <em>Global Analysis </em>(French, Spanish, Portuguese). We note that online translations are helpful yet have limits, as the technical terms and idioms, for example, are not always easily translated or understood. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #606060; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: black;"><em><strong>Updates on Sustainable Development Goal 16+</strong></em></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">This <em>Update</em> emphases unreached peoples, community development, mental health in mission, and of course, member care. Specifically, we feature the upcoming </span><a href="https://alliancefortheunreached.org/" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">International Day for the Unreached</span><span style="color: blue;"> </span></a><span style="color: black;"> (9 June, Pentecost Sunday) and invite you to learn more about this special day of advocacy, prayer, and its webcast on behalf of unreached peoples. Save the date!<br /><br />We also feature </span><em><a href="https://www.alifeoverseas.com/serving-well-a-book-a-resource-a-shared-life/?fbclid=IwAR0hA2xI2QPmAUm3lJXxauedEGBAh9q0GWmt2jZfYS4rL9hegNSaNm9-pPs" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Serving Well</span></a></em><span style="color: black;"><em> </em>(2019), a book focusing on cross-cultural Christian workers, and three resources for community development in mission: </span><em><a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/setting-up-community-health-programmes-in-low-and-middle-income-settings-9780198806653?cc=gb&lang=en&" style="color: #336699;"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Setting Up Community Health and Development Programmes in Low and Middle Income Settings</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> </span></em><span style="color: black;">(2019, 4th edition), the </span><a href="http://www.millionvillagechallenge.org/faqs.php" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Million Village Challenge</span></a><span style="color: black;">; and Global Mental Health--What's Up? (2019) [coming soon].<br /><br />Our theme this month builds upon the </span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+18%3A12-14&version=NLT" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">parable on the 100 sheep</span></a><span style="color: black;"> (Matthew 18:12-14): In what ways can we emulate God's love by searching out and engaging with communities among the estimated</span><span style="color: mediumblue;"> </span><span style="color: mediumblue;"><a href="https://www.ijfm.org/PDFs_IJFM/35_4_PDFs/IJFM_35_4-Lewis.pdf" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank">t</a></span><a href="https://www.ijfm.org/PDFs_IJFM/35_4_PDFs/IJFM_35_4-Lewis.pdf" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">hree billion people in culturally-distant, unreached people groups</span></a><span style="color: mediumblue;">?</span><span style="color: black;"> We believe it is crucial for us all to think about applications at all levels of mission--personal through partnerships, local through global-- for what it would also mean to leave the one (the found) in order to search for the other 99 (the lost).</span><br />
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Member Care Associateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00435755943229949017noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105370806558579704.post-28783852940457023992019-05-11T01:57:00.001+00:002019-05-11T02:10:12.445+00:00Humanity Care: UPGs and SDGs 4<div style="text-align: center;">
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anniversary of our monthly <i>MC
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reaffirm a special strategic focus: supporting the people and
organizations who are prioritizing work among unreached peoples. We
believe it is both timely and crucial to review and renew the member care
field's historic emphasis on unreached peoples--our MC-UP roots.<br />
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include two of its summary charts. We also share info/links to: a) <b>quotes on Member Care and Unreached
Peoples</b> over the past 35 years (Kelly's writings); and b) some
organizations spearheading <b>prayer
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us all to consider our lives and work in light of the dearth of
culturally-relevant Christ-followers--workers
and communities/movements--present in major blocks of humanity (i.e. the
estimated 3+ billion culturally-distant people in unreached people
groups). How can we responsibly shape and actively support the
Church-Mission efforts among the most historically neglected peoples of
the world? <b>Let's review and renew
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<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Wellbeing for All</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;">.</span></span></b><b><i>A New Paradigm to Guide and Goad Us</i></b></div>
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Health and the Church-Mission Community.</span></a></span></span></b><span style="background: white; color: #1b8be0;"><a href="http://membercareassociates.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2nd-Final-Wellbeing-for-all-GMH-and-CMC-29-Nov-2018-ODonnells-3.pdf"><br style="color: inherit; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: inherit;" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333;">This is a webinar was done on 29
November 2018 (we presented). It was organized by the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue;"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=Lausanne+Movement%E2%80%99s+Global+Mental+Health+and+Trauma+Network&rlz=1C1EJFC_enUS832US832&oq=Lausanne+Movement%E2%80%99s+Global+Mental+Health+and+Trauma+Network&aqs=chrome..69i57.918j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8"><span style="color: blue;">Lausanne Movement’s Global Mental Health and Trauma Network</span></a></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333;">. Click the title above to access the powerrpoint and
notes (notes are under the slides). To watch the webinar, click </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: blue;"><a data-mce-href="https://lausanne.zoom.us/recording/play/J2b4HS_zRGAseSMay2K7Om6Wmny4tAUegCcQEtA5ITlaMUnQK5IfMV_I0Hz-75iw?continueMode=true)" data-mce-style="color: #0000ff;" href="https://lausanne.zoom.us/recording/play/J2b4HS_zRGAseSMay2K7Om6Wmny4tAUegCcQEtA5ITlaMUnQK5IfMV_I0Hz-75iw?continueMode=true)" style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span data-mce-style="color: #0000ff;" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal;"><span style="color: blue;">HERE</span></span></a>-<span data-mce-style="color: #000000;" style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: inherit;"></span><span style="color: black;">-available
1 March 2019).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This webinar focuses on Global Mental Health (GMH)
and its relevance for the Church-Mission Community (CMC)—and vice versa.
Foundational for our discussion is exploring how <b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">“</span></i></b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus
for good works, which God ordained beforehand so that we would walk in them.” </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://biblehub.com/ephesians/2-10.htm">Ephesians 2:10</a></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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overview GMH and its influence as a new paradigm, a growing movement, and a
core part of the world community’s major efforts to realize sustainable
development and wellbeing for all. We then highlight 10 areas for GMH-CMC
engagement. </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">GMH-CMC
engagement is a major strategic and largely overlooked opportunity for “<b>mental
health <i><u>as</u></i> mission</b>” (mhM). Many among the hundreds of million
people currently suffering from mental, neurological, or substance use
conditions reside in low-resource countries--including being part of people
groups and/or in settings of conflict/calamity with limited or no access to
both the Christian message and effective treatments. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b>Opening remarks by UN<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Secretary-General António Guterres at the <span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/speeches/2018-04-24/peacebuilding-and-sustaining-peace-remarks-general-assembly"><span style="color: blue;">UN General Assembly’s High-level Meeting on Sustaining Peace</span></a></span>,
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<i>“We must recognize that in some fundamental
ways, our world is going backwards. More countries are experiencing violent
conflict than at any time in nearly three decades. Record numbers of civilians
are being killed or injured by explosive weapons in urban areas. Record numbers
of people are on the move, displaced by violence, war and persecution. We see
horrific violations of human rights, and rising nationalism, racism and
xenophobia. Inequalities are increasing; whole regions, countries and
communities can find themselves isolated from progress and left behind by
growth. Women and girls face discrimination of all kinds. These are all
indications that we need greater unity and courage – to ease the fears of the
people we serve; to set the world on track to a better future; and to lay the
foundations of sustainable peace and development.”</i><o:p></o:p></div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"><b></b></span></span>Member Care Associateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00435755943229949017noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1105370806558579704.post-81173603905434025712018-07-01T21:19:00.002+01:002018-08-13T20:12:42.312+01:00Humanity Care: UPGs and SDGs 2<div style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: large;">Mental Health and Non-Communicable Diseases </span></b></div>
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<b><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Applications for the<br />Church-Mission Community and Unreached People Groups <br />(MH/NCDs--CMC/UPGs)</span></b></b><br />
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It was written for the general public to better understand how mental health is
linked to the physical non-communicable diseases (NCDs)--e.g., cancer,
diabetes, respiratory, cardio-vascular, and the impact of unhealthy nutrition/diet,
obesity, inactivity, harmful use of alcohol, tobacco, etc. The article is directly related to SDG 3.4: </span>“<i>By 2030, reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being.”</i> United Nations, <a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg3"><span style="color: blue;">Sustainable Development Goal 3.4</span></a></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://enoughncds.com/mental-health-priorities-hlm3/"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Linking Mental
Health and the NCD Alliance Campaign Priorities <br />
for the 2018 United Nations High-Level Meeting on NCDs</b></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The article just
went on the website for the<span style="color: blue;"> <a href="https://enoughncds.com/"><span style="color: blue;">NCD Alliance’s
Enough Campaign—“Our health. Our right. Right now.</span>”</a></span>. This major, global Campaign is bringing together the voices of hundreds of organizations, calling governments to fulfill their commitments to prevent and treat NCDs and doing so en route to the third High-Level Meeting on NCDs to be held at the UN New York this
September. We have been tracking with the global efforts to prevent and treat NCDs
for seven years (e.g., see Kelly’s summary of his time at the first NCD High
Level Meeting on NCDs at the UN, <a href="https://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search?q=NCDs"><span style="color: blue;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">CORE Member Care</i>, 30 September 2011</span></a>). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">We think MH-NCDs is especially relevant for the mission of the global-local Church e.g. (</span><a href="https://us4.campaign-archive.com/?u=f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3&id=e4b812d58a" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: blue;">mental health <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">as</i> mission</span></a><span style="text-align: justify;">). We also see major applications for those working with Unreached People Groups (UPGs). See below for more information and perspectives oriented for the Church-Mission Community (CMC). Please do feel free share with others!</span></div>
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Opportunities for the Church-Mission Community <br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mental health as mission--What are we waiting
for?<o:p></o:p></i></span></b></div>
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“Take special note that approximately 80% of the [estimated 40 million annual] deaths
from NCDs occur among people in low-middle income countries (LMICs). I hasten
to add that many of the world’s poor live in LMICs and are in fact part of
people groups that lack a viable Christian presence [Unreached People Groups,
Least-Reached People Groups].” </span></i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Kelly O’Donnell,
<a href="https://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search?q=NCDs"><span style="color: blue;">Finding our Global Integration Voices</span></a>,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">CORE Member Care</i> (30 September 2011).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">By 2030,
reduce by one third premature mortality from non-communicable diseases through
prevention and treatment and promote mental health and well-being.”</i> United
Nations,<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> <a href="https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg3"><span style="color: blue;">Sustainable Development Goal
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Health and the NCD Alliance Campaign Priorities for the 2018 United Nations
High-Level Meeting on NCDs</span></a> is a new advocacy article, authored by Julian
Eaton, Kelly O’Donnell, Lucy Westerman, and Fiona Adshead. Here is the summary:
“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mental health conditions are one of the
major groups of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) with crucial relevance in
efforts to control and prevent NCDs. Mental health also has links to cancer,
diabetes, cardiovascular and respiratory diseases and other physical NCDs. By
considering mental ill health and other NCDs together, we can improve the lives
of people affected by NCDs worldwide, and guide advocacy at global, regional
and national level for strong commitments at the September 2018 UN High-Level
Meeting on NCDs.”</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in association with the <a href="https://ncdalliance.org/"><span style="color: blue;">NCD Alliance</span></a>,
the <a href="https://wfmh.global/">W<span style="color: blue;">orld Federation for Mental Health</span></a>, and the
<a href="http://www.mhinnovation.net/"><span style="color: blue;">Mental Health Innovation Network</span></a>. It
was just posted on the NCD Alliance’s website (<a href="https://enoughncds.com/">E<span style="color: blue;">nough
Campaign</span></a>) and is already making its rounds far and wide. This short piece
contains many infographics and six key messages for action in order to quickly
orient you to mental health and NCD issues and indeed the NCD epidemic. <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The Church-Mission
Community (CMC) has<span style="background: white; color: black;"> a vast number of
local members/ministries around the world that are in strategic places to potentially
help those with mental conditions and promote mental wellbeing. </span><a href="https://us4.campaign-archive.com/?u=f34fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3&id=e4b812d58a"><span style="color: blue;">Mental
health as mission</span></a> <span style="background: white; color: black;">is a viable
albeit overlooked component of sharing the good news and good works—mission strategy.
Here are two quotes that shine light on opportunities for the increased engagement
by the CMC in mental health/NCDs, especially among Unreached People Groups (UPGs).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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affect mission/aid workers and certainly the people with whom they work.
Understanding and preventing NCDs and encouraging healthy lifestyle choices
should be a core part of the member care that we provide in mission/aid and in
any global health efforts…” </span></i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "arial" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 8.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">“Take special note
that approximately 80% of the [estimated 40 million annual] deaths from NCDs
occur among people in low-middle income countries (LMICs). I hasten to add that
many of the world’s poor live in LMICs and are in fact part of people groups
that lack a viable Christian presence (UPGs, LPGs).</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> Who are the people
and organizations that are explicitly talking about the epidemic of NCDs in
terms of people groups and Christian witness/responsibility? Or for that matter
who is addressing the massive untreated mental health disorders in LMICs in
view of Christian witness/responsibility? There is a huge opportunity for
the church-mission community to confront the NCD epidemic as part of our
commitment to bring love and healing to the peoples of the earth.”</span></i><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> Kelly O’Donnell, <a href="https://coremembercare.blogspot.com/search?q=NCDs"><span style="color: blue;">Finding our Global
Integration Voices</span></a>, CORE Member Care (30 September 2011) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><b>Mental Health as Mission: Resources for the CMC</b></span></div>
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</span>--Psychological First Aid: <a href="http://eepurl.com/cbJmrP"><span style="color: blue;">August
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--Global Mental Health as Mission–Overview and Opportunities: <a href="http://eepurl.com/bZnWoD"><span style="color: blue;">April 2016</span></a></div>
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--Migrant Care–Hospitality for Humanity: <a href="http://eepurl.com/bB-PVX"><span style="color: blue;">October 2015</span></a></div>
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-- Trauma: <a href="http://eepurl.com/bq0P6L"><span style="color: blue;">July 2015</span></a></div>
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--Mental Health and Psychosocial Support: <a href="http://eepurl.com/EkT-r"><span style="color: blue;">September 2013</span></a><br />
-- Mental Health as Mission: <a href="http://eepurl.com/oPNuD"><span style="color: blue;">September
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">Proposal</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">Unreached People Groups</span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: medium;">Sustainable Development Goals<br />(UPGs and SDGs)</span></b><br />
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<b>A Proposal</b><br />
We are considering a new series of blog entries (and/or perspectives/articles from various colleagues) that will look at the relationship between UPGs and SDGs: connecting points for collaboration, issues, and opportunities on behalf of some of the most vulnerable, overlooked, and often resilient people in the world. How does the global Church-Mission Community (CMC) involvement in the good news and good works especially on behalf of UPGs relate to the world community's efforts (spearheaded by the United Nations and Civil Society groups) to promote sustainable development especially via the SDGs. And vice versa. What are some examples of collaboration or non-collaboration, and the results? TBD<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Humanity Care</b>—excerpts from <a href="https://www.blogger.com/fc856e7776d7b69dafd3b3&id=7155c94ed6"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Member Care Update</i>, February 2017</a></div>
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“This <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Update</i> features
the newly expanded model for global member care. It emphasizes the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">missio Dei </i>context for member care
and adds a seventh sphere, Humanity Care….Humanity Care, reflects the growing
interests and involvements in wellbeing for all people. It surrounds the other
six spheres and is itself contained within the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">missio Dei</i>, that is, the overall work of God in the world through
Divine, secular, ecclesiastical, missiological, etc. means. Here is an abridged
description of the seven spheres….</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sphere 7.
Humanity Care: The Flow of Common Good</b><br />
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There is a tremendous need to address major
problems affecting the wellbeing of people and the planet. Both member care and
mission provide many opportunities for strategic involvement—at local to global
levels—by Christian colleagues [from all backgrounds, across sectors, cultures,
countries, etc.] who can leverage their character, competencies, and
compassion. Those with member care responsibility in particular are encouraged
to connect and contribute in our globalizing world in new ways for the common
good while maintaining the focus on supporting the health, resiliency, and
effectiveness of the diversity of mission personnel and their sending groups.” </div>
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