Millennium Congregation: Responding Through Faith to End Extreme Poverty

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Rwanda: Better health at the click of a button
Health workers in Mayange are using cell phones provided by Ericsson to monitor the villager’s health.

Pomegranates Mean Prosperity
Turwanyubukene Farmers Cooperative in the Millennium Village in Rwanda helps the community rise out of poverty through the production and sale of pomegranates and other high value crops.

Millennium Congregation receives the endorsements of prominent global leaders:
Archbishop Desmond M Tutu
Dr. Jeffrey D. Sachs
The Rev. Dr. Sir John Polkinghorne
Dr. Miroslav Volf

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Dr. Josh Ruxin, Director of Millennium Villages in Rwanda, discusses the success of Millennium Villages in Mayange, Rwanda
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John McArthur, CEO & Executive Director of
Millennium Promise, discusses Millennium Villages at The State of The Planet 2008 conference
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Millennium Congregation's President & CEO discusses how Christians can take faithful action to end poverty in his recently released book.

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The Prayer Vigil to End Extreme Poverty

The Counting Prayer

"The world now has the means
to end extreme poverty,
we pray we will have the will."

Jonathan Denn, 2007

Our Partners: Millennium Promise and The Earth Institute at Columbia University.
Millennium Congregation receives sponsorship support as an MDG ministry of the Church of the Nativity, Raleigh, NC