One Toolkit Links
One month ago, we asked if ONE members were ready to involve their communities of faith in the fight to end extreme poverty and global disease. Your response floored us. Thousands of you signed up for our ONE Sabbath initiative and, by doing so, sent a strong message that your faith drives you to end the needless suffering of millions.
Now we're making tools available so you can organize a ONE Sabbath event at your house of worship for the weekend of November 23—25, when people of faith across America will be coming together to highlight the need for action to make poverty history.
At ONE, we know that people of faith are already taking action on issues from HIV/AIDS to ensuring access to clean water. That's why we are working with our faith partners to make their resources available to complement these toolkits and create more opportunities for your community of faith to do this critical work.
This year's ONE Sabbath is just the beginning. By downloading a toolkit and taking action, you'll become part of the very first ONE Sabbath. We're counting on you to tell us what works and what doesn't as we get ready to take ONE Sabbath to every church, synagogue, mosque and temple in the country next year.
And even if you can't put together a ONE Sabbath event in time for the weekend of November 23—25, our responsibility to care for the impoverished is timeless. You can still download a toolkit, get your community of faith involved in ONE's anti-poverty work and begin organizing a ONE Sabbath event for another time.
The Book of Isaiah teaches us that:
If you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. Isaiah 58:10
Together, as people of faith, we can bring light where there is darkness and answer the call to bring hope and justice to the world's poorest people.
In Peace,
Mark, Aaron and the ONE Sabbath Team
