The ONE Campaign is a new effort to rally Americans, ONE by ONE, to the cause of ending poverty in our world and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Through political action, its goals include:

• Direct an additional one percent of the U.S. budget to address extreme poverty.
• Support debt relief for the world’s poorest countries to help them meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
• Make the rules of international trade fair so all may benefit from the global economy.

Take Action!

• Sign the declaration, tell a friend, wear a wristband!
• Become a ONE Lutheran Congregation
• Get the Bread for the World Offering of Letters Toolkit
• Download and Order Resources
  
   
• NEW!  ELCA Bishops Urge House to Pass AIDS Bill
  We write as religious leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) with a special concern and passion for the well being of our brothers and sisters throughout the world). [read more]
   
• ONE Lutheran Sermon Helps
  Including background on how they relate to ONE: The Campaign to Make Poverty History, scriptural support, stories, quotations, and hymn suggestions from Evangelical Lutheran Worship (ELW).
   
• ONE Lutheran and Millennium Development Goals Tool Kit
  Including the new ONE Lutheran brochure, synod assembly display kit, congregation commitment sheet, and several other resources!
   
• "Called To Be a Public Church: 2008 ELCA Voting and Civic Participation Guide"
  This guide features a global poverty issue brief that covers the MDGs.
   
• "God's Mission in the World: An Ecumenical Christian Study Guide on Global Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals"
  Download or order from Augsburg Fortress

Articles, Background, and Fact Sheets

• NEW Audio clips of Bishop Hanson talking about ONE Lutheran and the Farm Bill at the 2007 Churchwide Assembly:
  Clip 1 (MP3 - 629 Kb) Clip 2 (MP3 - 1.1 Mb) Clip 3 (MP3 - 1.4 Mb)
• Learn more about the Farm Bill
• ONE Lutheran fact sheet on debt relief (pdf)
• ONE Lutheran fact sheet on trade (pdf)
• ONE Campaign Fact Sheet
• Background on the Millennium Development Goals

Legislative Actions Related to the Millennium Development Goals

• Statement of the Religious Working Group on Water
  AUGUST 2007
   
• U.S. House Passes Fiscal Year 2008 Foreign Operations Appropriations with Historic Increases to Fight Poverty
  JUNE 2007
   
• E-mail Congress:  Secure $1 Billion Increase to Fight Poverty and AIDS
  JANUARY 9, 2007
   
• Letter to Chairman McConnell and Ranking Member Leahy Supporting HIV/AIDS Program Funding
  JUNE 23, 2006
   
• Foreign Aid/Debt Relief Issue Page

Statements

• "That All May Be One" - A Joint Pastoral Letter and Reflection on Global Poverty and the Millennium Development Goals from Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson and Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold
• Letter to ELCA Bishops from ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson
• Letter of affirmation from ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson
• World Council of Churches Eighth Assembly (1998) statement on debt

Learn More

• ONE: The Campaign To Make Poverty History
• Millennium Campaign