This slideshow was presented at the Stellenbosch University Winter School. I was asked to talk about the role of the Church in contributing towards the reaching of the Millenium Development Goals. Of course I spoke about 'EXPOSED - Shining a light on corruption' and Unashamedly Ethical, of which I am a part.

2. The Millennium
Development Goals and
the Church – Finishing
well!Revd. Dr. Dion Forster

3. Three
important
stories.

4. 1. Why are
we poor?

5. Philip’s
story

6. The earth is the Lords, and
everything in it, the world,
and all who live in it.
Psalm 24.1 (NIV)

7. • Globally, 854
million people
are
undernourishe
d.1
• Annually
Americans
spend $558
billion on
takeout food.2

8. • A child dies every 5
seconds due to
hunger related
causes.1
• Half of the world’s
population lives on
less than $2 per
day.2
• 1.6 billion people
have no access to
clean drinking

9. • Providing
malaria
prevention to the
developing world
would only cost
$4.2 billion.1
• $25 billion a year
would be enough
to give life saving
medical services
in low income
countries.2

10. SOUTH AFRICA
• Unemployment
of 25.5%
• 1.3 million
children and 1.2
million adults
suffer from
hunger each day.
• 6.7 million
people live in
informal housing
• 31% of South
African

11. SOUTH AFRICA
• In 2011 between R25
and R30 Billion rand
went missing from state
coffers as a result of
corruption.
• These funds could have
dealt with two of the
above problems
completely.
• In fact the R70 billion
rand that has been spent
on the arms deal could
have dealt with all 4 of

12. SOUTH AFRICA
• Highest gini
coefficient
(Inequality index) in
the world!
• Our TI ranking has
dropped by an
average of to 10
places per year
since 1
• 2010 (54) 2011 (64)
2012 (69)2

13. % Christians in SA: 1911-2001

14. “We will spare no effort to free
our fellow men, women and
children from the abject and
dehumanizing conditions of
extreme poverty, to which more
than a billion of them are
currently subjected.”

15. The Millennium
Development Goals

16. Listing the challenges:
The Millennium Development
goals
•Eradicate extreme poverty and
hunger
•Achieve universal primary
education
•Promote gender equality and
empower women
•Reduce child mortality
•Improve maternal health
•Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and
other diseases
•Ensure environmental sustainability
•Develop a global partnership for
development

17. Each year 1 Trillion Dollars
goes missing as a result of
Global Corruption.
The result is most acutely
felt by the poor!

18. What does a Trillion Dollars
look like?

19. • All this talk about "stimulus
packages”, "bailouts” and corruption...
• A billion dollars...
• A hundred billion dollars...
• Eight hundred billion dollars...
• One TRILLION dollars...
What does that look like? Think about
it…

20. • We'll start with a $100 dollar bill (About R900!)
• Currently the largest U.S. denomination in
general circulation.
• Most everyone has seen them, slightly fewer
have owned them.
• Guaranteed to make friends wherever they go.

21. • A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less
than 5cm thick and contains $10,000
(that‟s almost R1 million)
• Fits in your pocket easily and is more than
enough for week or two of serious fun!

22. • Believe it or
not, this next
little pile is $1
million dollars
(100 packets
of $10,000).
• You could stuff
that into a
grocery bag
and walk

23. • While a measly $1 million looked a little
unimpressive, $100 million is a little more
respectable.
It fits neatly on a standard
pallet...

24. • And $1 BILLION dollars... now we're
really getting somewhere…

25. • Next we'll look at ONE TRILLION
dollars.
• This is that number we've been
hearing so much about. What is a
trillion dollars? Well, it's a million
million.
• It's a thousand billion.
• It's a one followed by 12 zeros.
• You ready for this?

26. • Ladies and gentlemen... I give you $1
trillion dollars...
Notice those pallets are double stacked.

27. ..and remember those are $100 bills.

28. So the next time you
hear someone toss
around the phrase
”one trillion dollars"...
that's what they're talking
about.

29. A map of the world (land area)

30. The spread of wealth
(a representational map)

31. The most impoverished places in the world
(a representational map)

32. Christians in the world
(a representational map)

33. But, is there enough for all
of us?

37. Military spending (a representational map)

38. AIDS deaths in the world (a
representational map)

39. Christians in the world
(a representational map)

40. Each year over US$ 1
Trillion goes missing from
the global economy through
bribes, dishonest deals and
tax evasion.
It’s called corruption.
Corruption is more than bad
business: it kills people

41. So, is there enough for all of
us?
Just 1% of the world’s GDP
could end Global Poverty!
Yet, US$ 1 Trillion goes
missing!

42. 2. A Biblical
story: God’s
economy.

43. Economics:
• Oikos (οἶκος)
– household
• Nomos
(νόμος) – to
manage
God’s economy and the economic
systems of the world.

44. Which Jesus
shapes our
faith and
mission?

45. Is this how you view the
Lord?

46. Campol
o:
Read
only the
RED
letters.

49. food to the
poor they call
me a saint.
When I ask
why the poor
have no food
they call me a
communist.”

50. Claude
Nikondeha
’s story

51. Unearthing the real
Jesus
Historical
Jesus
Pre-
Pauline
Jesus
Pauline
Jesus
Synoptic
Jesus
Apostolic
Jesus
Popular
Jesus

52. tendency for Christians has often
been to begin with the politics and
work back- wards to find religious
rationale for our political beliefs. As
a result, most people read the
Bible not to challenge our deeply
held beliefs, but to affirm the
decisions we've already made
with our lives.”
(Tim Suttle God’s Politics)

53. Prayer and justice
God‟s „economy‟
He has showed you, what is good.
And what does the Lord require of
you? To act justly and to love
mercy and to walk humbly with
your God.
(Micah 6.8)

54. Learn to do good.
Seek justice.
Help the oppressed.
Defend the cause of orphans.
Fight for the rights of widows.
(Isaiah 1.17)

55. “The Spirit of the Lord is
on me, because he has
anointed me to preach
good news to the poor.
He has sent me to
proclaim freedom for the
prisoners and recovery
of sight for the blind, to
release the oppressed, to
proclaim the year of the
Lord’s favor.”
(Luke 4.18-19)

56. There can be
no personal
holiness
without
social
holiness.
(John Wesley –
Parent of
Methodism,

57. “Justification by
faith leads to
doing justice, and
doing justice can
make many seek
to be justified by
faith”
Tim Keller
(Generous Justice
p.140)

58. "The chief political concern of the Scriptures is
for God's wise and loving ordering of his world
to be operative through humans who will
share his priorities, especially his concern for
the poor, the weak and the vulnerable. This
concern was embodied by Jesus in his
inauguration of 'God's kingdom' through his
public career and especially his self-giving
death, which together set the pattern for a
radically redefined notion of power."
— N.T. Wright, New Testament Scholar at
University of St. Andrews

59. "The chief political concern of the Bible is the
restoration of God's shalom on the entire
world: human and nonhuman, animate or
inanimate. That encompasses all aspects of
the human polis and thus politics but also the
entirety of creation so that nothing is left
outside this primal 'political' concern."
— Brent Strawn, Old Testament Scholar,
Candler School of Theology at Emory
University

60. "I believe that the central political question is
the management of public power in order that
there should be an economically viable life for
all members of the community. Thus justice is
front and center and some texts, especially in
Deuteronomy, are for the distribution of
wealth in order that all may be viable.
Obviously such justice is marked by mercy,
compassion and generosity. The purpose is to
create a genuine neighborhood for all the
neighbors.”
— Walter Brueggemann, Old Testament
Scholar, Columbia Theological Seminary

61. "The vision of the city of God is the goal. We
work for it not by forcing it down from heaven
to earth, but by treading in the footsteps of
the crucified and resurrected Christ."
— Miroslav Volf, Systematic Theology, Yale
Divinity School

62. "God's solidarity with the poor, oppressed,
outcast and forgotten."
— Brian McLaren, Author and theologian

63. “[W]e may well be coming to the end of the
era of the sovereign nation-state as we have
known it for the past three centuries.
Economic, financial, and technical forces have
created a global system that is far more
powerful than most existing states. The secular
powers shaping human life are increasingly
transnational If the Church is to speak the
truth to Caesar, it is these powers that must be
more and more in our sights.”
— Lesslie Newbigin, Truth to Tell: The Gospel
as Public Truth p89

64. 3. A new
story: God’s
story and
our story.

65. Listing the challenges:
The Millennium Development
goals
•Eradicate extreme poverty and
hunger
•Achieve universal primary
education
•Promote gender equality and
empower women
•Reduce child mortality
•Improve maternal health
•Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and
other diseases
•Ensure environmental sustainability
•Develop a global partnership for
development

66. Since 1990
• 2 billion people have been
lifted out of abject poverty
and the proportion of people
living below that line has
been halved.
• Child stunting from poor
nutrition has dropped from

67. Since 1990
• An additional 110 million
children are in school, over
90% of all children are now
enrolled in primary
education.
• In almost all countries girls
now have the same chance

68. Since 1990
• Child deaths have been cut
by 37%.
• Maternal deaths have been
cut by 47%.
• New infections from HIV, TB
and Malaria are all dropping.

69. Since 1990
• Access to an improved
water source has risen from
76% to 89%
• Adequate sanitation has
risen from 49% to 63%

70. Let‟s finish
well!

71. The SAME mission in an ever
CHANGING world
"The gospel must
be constantly
forwarded to a new
address because
the recipient is
always changing
his place of
residence.”
Helmut Thielicke

76. www.exposed2013.com
David Korten 4
stages of
engagement:
1. Relief / Charity
2. Training / Projects
3. Policy / Activism
4. Social movements

77. www.exposed2013.com
personal action is
vital! Preach,
Workshop, Pray,
Engage!
2. Light in my
Community: Join or
plan a public Vigil
during 14-20 October
2013. Local action
(Bribe box)
3.Light in my world!
Sign the Global Call
on the website!

78. www.exposed2013.com
1.Light in my
heart:
personal action
is vital!
Preach,
Workshop, Pray,
Engage!

79. www.exposed2013.com
2. Light in my
Community:
Join or plan a
public Vigil
during 14-20
October 2013.
Local action
(Bribe box, Visit
a politician)

80. Three
examples!

81. Three
examples!Promising Life
www.micahchallenge.org.za

82. Three
examples!
Visit your politician
www.micahchallenge.org.au

83. Three
examples!
91 countries, 200
communities, one voice!
www.unashamedlyethical.co

84. www.exposed2013.com
3.Light in my
world!
Sign the
Global Call
on the
website!

85. Why the Global
Call?

86. Where does all the
money go?
Corruption
Dictators 5%
Criminals 30%
Tax evasion 65%

87. Do a little bit of good
wherever you are;
its those little bits of
good put together that
overwhelm the world
- Desmond Tutu

88. http://www.exposed2
013.com

89. Thank you!
Revd. Dr. Dion Forster