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An increased focus on racial justice and reconciliation also
has characterized the Missionary Society’s work this triennium. In 2013, we convened a first-of-its-kind churchwide
summit in Jackson, Mississippi on “The State of Racism,” and
in 2014, after securing Executive Council approval for new
staff work on racial justice and reconciliation, responded
nimbly and dynamically to the events in Ferguson, Missouri
in partnership with the Diocese of Missouri and its clergy and
lay leaders.
In baptism, we promise to “strive for justice and peace” as
a consequence of our adoption into the family of God. The
Missionary Society is ready to partner with all Episcopalians
seeking to live out this vocation of their discipleship.
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United States as a focus area for the present triennium, and
the Missionary Society is working to put hands to ploughs by
engaging at least one in four Episcopalians in service to the
poor by the end of the triennium. We’ve built a brand new
online-networking platform to draw together those at the
grassroots level working to fight poverty and are pioneering
new models of Asset-Based Community Development and
advocacy at the local level, where they are most effective. We
do this both for the sake of the poor and for the sake of our
own souls, as it is through ministry with and among the poor
that we encounter Jesus.