Jubilee 2000: USA Campaign

ELCA Churchwide Assembly Action CA99.03.06

Passed by the 1999 Churchwide Assembly in Denver, Colorado.

Resolved
To affirm the concern for international debt reduction and the alleviation of poverty and hunger in poor nations raised by the Eastern North Dakota Synod, Northern Texas-Northern Louisiana Synod, Northwest Synod of Wisconsin, LaCrosse Area Synod, Lower Susquehanna Synod, Western Iowa Synod, and the Caribbean Synod;

To affirm initiatives which sustain the earth;

To express support for the work of the Jubilee 2000: USA Campaign promoting education and advocacy on international debt issues and to affirm continued ELCA participation in the Jubilee 2000: USA Campaign; and

To transmit this action as information to the synods.