The
Reverend Jay R. Lawlor
Co-founder and Director
Jay
R. Lawlor is an Episcopal priest and economist and currently
serves as Associate Rector at Church of the Nativity in Raleigh,
North Carolina and as Director of Millennium Congregation. For
over a decade he has been a leading voice on issues of global
poverty and Christian faith. Prior to his current positions,
Father Lawlor served parishes in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts
and was an economist at the Center for International Development
at Harvard University. He
is the author of Faithful
Action: How Each Christian can End Poverty (Gold Lion
Publishing, 2008), The Church and International Development
(Universal Publishers, 1999), contributed a sermon chapter
in Get Up Off Your Knees: Preaching the U2 Catalog (Cowley,
2003), and assisted in editing Waging Reconciliation: God's
Mission in a Time of Globalization and Crisis (Church Publishing,
2002). He has contributed to and appeared in numerous articles
on the Millennium Development Goals and currently writes a regular
article for the Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation (www.e4gr.org)
blog.
Born in
New Hampshire and raised in Massachusetts, Lawlor received is
B.A. at Stonehill College, M.A. at the University of Connecticut,
both in Economics, and his M.Div. at Episcopal Divinity School.
He is married to Angela, a writer, and they live in the greater
Raleigh area with their son Nathaniel.
Mr.
Jonathan (Jon) Denn
Co-founder
Jon
Denn has spent his life offering hospitality in one form or
another. He was CEO of Treadway hotels, prior to joining Trinity
Wall Street fifteen years ago as Co-Director of the Trinity
Conference Center and later, also, The Clergy Leadership Project
with Wendy Denn, his wife. A natural outgrowth of his hospitality
ethic and as a personal spiritual practice is the working to
end extreme poverty. On 9/23/07, at St. Paul’s Chapel at
Ground Zero in NYC the inaugural Counting Prayer, that he authored,
was offered. The Counting Prayer: “The world now has the
means to end extreme poverty, we pray we will have the will.”
The counter on the countingprayers.org
website counts the hundreds of thousands of prayers that will
turn into millions then billions, and as the prayers are answered
the repetition of words will turn into advocacy then action,
and finally a miracle. For Jon Denn, Millennium Congregation
is that action, and with your help will be a miracle.
Millennium
Congregation Partners:
Millennium
Village Team - Mayange, Rwanda
Dr.
Josh N. Ruxin
Director, Millenium Villages, Rwanda
Josh
Ruxin is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Public Health at
the Mailman School of Public Health and directs the Center for
Global Health and Economic Development. Josh focuses on comprehensive
approaches to fighting poverty with emphasis on scaling up national
health programs. He currently directs several related projects
and is based in Kigali, Rwanda. He is the country director for
the Millennium Village Project in Rwanda, where he’s working
in the Bugesera district with over 50,000 Rwandans. The Millennium
Village project is a revolutionary approach to demonstrate that
substantive and rapid investments in human development can help
the poor achieve all the Millennium Development Goals in less
than five years. Josh served as co-chair of the United Nations
Millennium Project task force focused on HIV/AIDS, which published
its findings in January 2005. In 2002, he founded the Access
Project for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria. The Access Project provides technical expertise to
several countries including Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Nigeria
and has helped assemble approved grant requests which yielded
over one billion dollars in funding. In Rwanda the project focuses
on district-level health systems and will be helping to address
the needs of over 1.8 million Rwandans by then end of 2006.
Josh was co-founder and Vice President of ontheFRONTIER, a strategy
consulting firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. During his five
years there and at Monitor Group, he led projects in a dozen
developing countries and was an advisor to government and private
sector leaders on business strategy and economic development.
Josh received a B.A. in the History of Science and Medicine
from Yale University, where he was a Truman Scholar. After Yale,
Josh was a Fulbright Scholar in Bolivia. He holds a Master of
Public Health from Columbia University, and a PhD in History
from the University of London where he was a Marshall Scholar.
Josh serves on the Board of Directors of FilmAid International
and Orphans of Rwanda. He is a member of the Global HIV Prevention
Working Group and serves on faculty at the Clergy Leadership
Project.
Millennium
Congregation has formal parnterships with Millennium
Promise -- an organization co-founded by Jeffrey Sachs to
help fund and operate the Millennium Villages Project -- and
with the Earth Institute
at Columbia University, the flagship research institute
behind Millennium Villages.
Jay
R. Lawlor is an Episcopal priest and economist and currently
serves as Associate Rector at Church of the Nativity in Raleigh,
North Carolina and as Director of Millennium Congregation. For
over a decade he has been a leading voice on issues of global
poverty and Christian faith. Prior to his current positions,
Father Lawlor served parishes in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts
and was an economist at the Center for International Development
at Harvard University. He
is the author of 
Jon
Denn has spent his life offering hospitality in one form or
another. He was CEO of Treadway hotels, prior to joining Trinity
Wall Street fifteen years ago as Co-Director of the Trinity
Conference Center and later, also, The Clergy Leadership Project
with Wendy Denn, his wife. A natural outgrowth of his hospitality
ethic and as a personal spiritual practice is the working to
end extreme poverty. On 9/23/07, at St. Paul’s Chapel at
Ground Zero in NYC the inaugural Counting Prayer, that he authored,
was offered. The Counting Prayer: “The world now has the
means to end extreme poverty, we pray we will have the will.”
The counter on the 
Josh
Ruxin is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Public Health at
the Mailman School of Public Health and directs the Center for
Global Health and Economic Development. Josh focuses on comprehensive
approaches to fighting poverty with emphasis on scaling up national
health programs. He currently directs several related projects
and is based in Kigali, Rwanda. He is the country director for
the Millennium Village Project in Rwanda, where he’s working
in the Bugesera district with over 50,000 Rwandans. The Millennium
Village project is a revolutionary approach to demonstrate that
substantive and rapid investments in human development can help
the poor achieve all the Millennium Development Goals in less
than five years. Josh served as co-chair of the United Nations
Millennium Project task force focused on HIV/AIDS, which published
its findings in January 2005. In 2002, he founded the Access
Project for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria. The Access Project provides technical expertise to
several countries including Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Nigeria
and has helped assemble approved grant requests which yielded
over one billion dollars in funding. In Rwanda the project focuses
on district-level health systems and will be helping to address
the needs of over 1.8 million Rwandans by then end of 2006.
Josh was co-founder and Vice President of ontheFRONTIER, a strategy
consulting firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. During his five
years there and at Monitor Group, he led projects in a dozen
developing countries and was an advisor to government and private
sector leaders on business strategy and economic development.
Josh received a B.A. in the History of Science and Medicine
from Yale University, where he was a Truman Scholar. After Yale,
Josh was a Fulbright Scholar in Bolivia. He holds a Master of
Public Health from Columbia University, and a PhD in History
from the University of London where he was a Marshall Scholar.
Josh serves on the Board of Directors of FilmAid International
and Orphans of Rwanda. He is a member of the Global HIV Prevention
Working Group and serves on faculty at the Clergy Leadership
Project.