MDG Resources for Youth...
Ways to engage your congregation's middle schoolers and high schoolers in God's mission of global reconciliation. Be sure and see also our resource pages for children and young adults.
General Resources
Youth World Hunger Resources from the ELCA - A great collection of activities and resources
MDG Youth Action Guide -- "Only With Your Voice" fromTakingITGlobal.org
Promises, Promises -- a resource from ChristianAid that looks at the promises the rich countries have made to end global poverty
Youth & the MDGs - Final report of the ad hoc working group of youth & the MDGs.
Youth Resources from the Micah Challenge
Voices of Youth -- UNICEF youth MDG resources
Beyond Survival Action Kit -- From TEAR Australia. Comes with everything you'll need to explore the ways in which God's people can work with poor, marginalised communities to help them move beyond bare survival and experience some of the ‘fullness of life' that God offers.
Online Games
MDG Card Game - from TakingITGlobal.org
MDG Simulation Games
From TEAR Australia
Basti Life - Families become paper-bag makers for survival and have to contend with unfair shopkeepers, debt collectors, and other hazards of slum life. It also explores the possibilities of positive social change through community development work in a Basti.
Global Village - explores some of the issues of inequality, wealth and poverty in our world. Pretty complex, lots of setup required. Meant for high school age and over. Group size 20+.
Level Playing Field - raises issue of global aid, trade and debt as part of a full-on game of touch football. Little setup required. Played in a football field, park or playground (assumes working knowledge of touch football). Intended for high school and above. Group size 8-30. Takes 30-60 minutes to play.
Simulations About Water -- highly active (and very wet) games about community development, water and sanitation
Bible Studies
From TEAR Australia
Whose Earth? -- Psalm 24, which opens: "The Earth is the Lord's", is an incredibly confronting statement for Christians in the West, where every bit of the Earth "belongs" to those with enough wealth to "buy" it. How can we live as if we truly believed it? Can we be "right with God" while being "wrong with creation"?
Retreats and Overnights
High School Retreat Schedule - courtesy of the Diocese of Utah. For more information contact Karen Cramer Van Winkle, diocesan youth coordinator
What Youth/Young Adults Are Doing
Programs and nonprofits started and run by Millennials that passionately engage the MDGs
Knoxville Jazz for Justice -- begun by college students at University of Tennesseee, KJFJ is an ensemble of students, musicians, professors, religious and community activists dedicated to help end the suffering in war-torn Northern Uganda and exploring music activism as a tool of social healing and transformation.
Building Community
EGR on Facebook - Youth can link with other youth across the church for creative ministry for the MDGs by joining these and other groups on the social networking site, Facebook:
-Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation (Group) (Cause)
-Bread for the World (Cause)
-Episcopal Peace Fellowship (Group) (Cause)
-Episcopal Relief and Development (Group)
-Episcopal Young Adult Service Corps (Group)
-Five Talents International (Cause)
-Kiva.org - Micro Loans that Change Lives (Group)
-Micah Challenge (Group)
-Who is Wearing the White ONE Band? (Group)
-Oxfam America (Group)
-Oxfam America's Fair Trade Coffee Campaign (Group)
-Raising Awareness of Global Poverty (Group)
-Sojourners (Group)
-Stand Up Against Poverty (Group)
-U2charist (Group)
-UN Millennium Development Goals (Group)
