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GHDA and You - Welcoming the Reign of God
For more information, call 1-888-786-6707 (in Winnipeg, 984-9165) or e-mail at ghda@elcic.ca |
GHDA Resource Page If we are to take action to address issues of poverty and injustice it is important that we also come to know these issues. Love involves wisdom. At the same time love also involves resources, resources that we can use and resources that we can give to others to use. Click on the link to learn about issues that we are working to address and discover resource which you can use as we engage this work together. Stewardship and Fundraising Resources International Development and Justice What Our Faith Has to Say about Justice
GHDA Fundraising and Stewardship Resources Pre-Authorized Giving (PAG) Pre-Authorized Giving to GHDA is one way to make giving to GHDA both easier and more regular. To promote PAG for GHDA in your congregation we have developed a PAG bulletin insert to assist you.
2006 GHDA Brochure The following brochure has been made available to provide information and awareness of the ministry we all share through GHDA. While copies of this brochure are available through the National Office (orders@elcic.ca), the following link has been made available in a format that is easily printable in either colour or black and white. Download the 2006 GHDA Brochure (pdf file)
ELCIC - GHDA A Christmas For Others Looking to give an unforgettable gift for Christmas this year? Give your family and friends gifts they won't forget! Make a donation to GHDA and send along a special card to the gift recipient to let them know how their gift will help give A Christmas For Others. A set of six gift cards has been designed to be used for Christmas gifts that are given in honour of someone else to the ELCIC Global Hunger and Development Appeal. Download gift cards (pdf file) How to use the gift cards Print the .pdf files from the above link as a double-sided document, or print and photocopy as a double sided document, then cut out each card separately. Print the cards on heavier card stock paper and use them 'as is' or include in a store-bought or homemade card. Be creative and think of ways to use these templates to create your own Christmas cards, perhaps with a picture of you or your family as a special gift.
Gifts from the Heart Through Canadian Lutheran World Relief, the service delivery arm of the ELCIC’s Global Hunger and Development Appeal, you can give a gift that warms the hearts of family and friends while helping those in need elsewhere in the world. For each gift you select, you will receive a card to personalize and forward to your loved one. A charitable donation will also be provided to you. More…
Partners for Healing Resource Package This package, produced cooperatively by GHDA and CLWR, celebrates a partnership that helps to bring healing to the world. Use the resources at a worship service, as seasonal study material (Lent e.g), and throughout the year More…
Think About It…Resources to start discussion
Web Resources Ecumenical Resources Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance’s Page on HIV/AIDS http://www.e-alliance.ch/hivaids.jsp Contact - publication of World Council of Church - HIV PREVENTION - current issues and new technologies - http://wcc-coe.org/wcc/news/contact.html Resources for Celebrating World AIDS Day in your congregation http://www.e-alliance.ch/wad.jsp United Nations Sites UNAIDS http://www.unaids.org/en/ UNESCO Action Against HIV/AIDS You and Aids www.youandaids.org The Global Coalition on Women and Aids http://womenandaids.unaids.org/
PDF Documents [all in web docs] Facing AIDS: The Challenges, The Church’s Response. A study document by the World Council of Churches What is Aids: A basic manual for health care workers to learn about AIDS Learning About Aids: A basic manual for Pastors and Teachers A Guide to HIV/AIDS in pastoral Counseling AIDS Related Stigma: Thinking Outside the Box: The Theological Challenge Books A Race Against Time by Stephen Lewis International Development and Justice For information on a variety of international issues go to KAIROS’ Home Page Millennium Development Goals
International Development Global Debt Global Trade Fair Trade Books
Child Poverty Poverty in Canada from the Perspective of people who are Poor Homelessness
Measuring the Federal Government’s Commitment to Aboriginal Rights – Kairos Document Try the Blanket Exercise
Cam Harder’s (The professor of Systematic Theology at LTS) site. Especially check out the LINK section on his website) Rural Church Network www.ruralchurchnetwork.org
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada’s Global Hunger and Development Appeal Partners. International Development Canadian Lutheran World Relief – Contact Daranne Mills at dmills@CLWR.MB.CA Lutheran World Federation Department of World Service Canadian Foodgrains Bank: http://www.foodgrainsbank.ca/ ELCJ Schools: http://www.holyland-lutherans.org/calendar.htm
Advocacy and Education – In Canada and around the world Lutheran Office of Public Policy (LOPP) [LOPP: http://www.elcic-lopp.ca/ Kairos: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives Working on issues of: Aboriginal Rights, Poverty, Corporate Issues, Ecology, Economic Justice, Human Rights, Refugees and Migrants and with global partners and countries of concern. Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance: http://www.e-alliance.ch Working on issues of HIV/AIDS and Global Trade Addressing poverty in Canada Contact your synod to learn what it is doing:
Peace and Security Project Ploughshares: http://www.ploughshares.ca
The Canadian Ecumenical Anti-Racism Network (CEARN): http://www.ccc-cce.ca/english/justice/racism.htm
Study What Our Faith Has to Say about Justice From the beginning God has called God’s faithful to Justice. To clearer calls has been proclaimed than Micah’s proclamation “What does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, love tenderly and walk humbly with your God.” There is much we can still learn about how God has called God’s people to justice in the past and how God continues to call us today. Below are some resources for our personal group study.
Don't Take Life for Granted Don't Take Life for Granted is a package of worship resources for use in congregations. Collected by GHDA national staff, they are free for you to download, copy and use as best suits your congregation. Their theme of thankfulness would be very appropriate for Thanksgiving Sunday, but could be used at any time. (.pdf file)
GHDA has collaborated with partner Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR) to produced resources which may be used to guide your Lenten discipline of prayer and reflection. May they be signs of the renewal we look to in the Easter Resurrection. The following resources may be viewed online, downloaded, or print versions may be requested .
Need information about a project once featured on this site? Looking Back is a collection of older stories. Please note their dates carefully. Although this provides a good history of GHDA, the programs may no longer be viable. Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free plug in for your browser is required to read .pdf files. If you do not already have this plug in, you can obtain it from Adobe at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
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