wfn.org | CRC NEWS: Prayer Vigil Group Seeks Meeting with Bush

["Henry Hess" <hessh@crcna.ca>]

14 October 2005 -- Calling for a... "global poverty public education
initiative" and asking president Bush for a chance to discuss ... "your
plans for providing leadership toward achieving the Millennium
Development Goals"  an unusual coalition of Christian organizations -
many of them evangelical - and representatives from other major
religions asked for an early meeting with senior White House staff.

The letter to president Bush, signed by representatives of 14
organizations, including World Vision, Episcopalians for Global
Reconciliation, National Association of Evangelicals, and the Islamic
Cultural Center of New York, noted that they "...were encouraged to hear
your unambiguous support for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
during your speech at the recent United Nations World Summit..."

The group went on to take some credit for Bush's MDG support as an
"...answer to the prayers we offered during that public three-day vigil
in New York City, as well as to the prayers of 10,000 supporters around
the country..."

Peter Vander Meulen, Co-Chair of one of the organizing groups, the Micah
Challenge USA, stated that this request was: "A follow-up to an earlier
meting with senior officials at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations
and a subsequent public call to the Bush administration to follow its
words with actions."

For more information contact:
Peter Vander Meulen, Micah Challenge USA at: 616.224.0807 or
vandermp@crcna.org

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Henry Hess
Director of Communications
Christian Reformed Church
905-336-2920 ext.236
hessh@crcna.ca

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