The following statement was submitted today by David Liners, Executive Director of WISDOM.
Greetings, ladies and gentlemen.
Please take a minute to share this post with your friends, family, members of your faith community, your social media accounts, and anyone else you think might have a concern for the hundreds of thousands of children living in poverty in our state.
Additionally, make sure you and your contacts have signed on to endorse the campaign. You can do so here.
Part of our WISDOM Prophetic Declaration reads: "We believe in shared abundance and stand against the dominant culture of reckless consumption and consumerism for some and deprivation for others."
Poverty is not just an economics problem or a public policy problem. Poverty is a spiritual and moral issue. We live in a state and country with more than enough to go around. We just need to make a decision that we will all work to make elimination of poverty and racial disparities a top priority. Ensuring the well-being of the most vulnerable among us needs to be the measure of the success of any society that truly believes in the infinite, God-given worth of every human being.
Since WISDOM and our partners at the Wisconsin Council of Churches, the Wisconsin Citizen Action Education Fund and KidsForward began this campaign, more than 1,500 people have added their names to be counted as believers in these goals.
Our goal is to gather 10,000 signers. Before we approach the politicians and decision-makers, we want to be able to show them that this is truly the will of the people of Wisconsin.
Please take a minute to share this post with your friends, family, members of your faith community, your social media accounts, and anyone else you think might have a concern for the hundreds of thousands of children living in poverty in our state.
Additionally, make sure you and your contacts have signed on to endorse the campaign. You can do so here.
Part of our WISDOM Prophetic Declaration reads: "We believe in shared abundance and stand against the dominant culture of reckless consumption and consumerism for some and deprivation for others."
Poverty is not just an economics problem or a public policy problem. Poverty is a spiritual and moral issue. We live in a state and country with more than enough to go around. We just need to make a decision that we will all work to make elimination of poverty and racial disparities a top priority. Ensuring the well-being of the most vulnerable among us needs to be the measure of the success of any society that truly believes in the infinite, God-given worth of every human being.
Since WISDOM and our partners at the Wisconsin Council of Churches, the Wisconsin Citizen Action Education Fund and KidsForward began this campaign, more than 1,500 people have added their names to be counted as believers in these goals.
Our goal is to gather 10,000 signers. Before we approach the politicians and decision-makers, we want to be able to show them that this is truly the will of the people of Wisconsin.
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