Quadrennial Priority (2004-2008)

“Strengthening Families Worldwide in the 21st Century”

  1. Promoting diversity in a more inclusive society where there is equal opportunity, acceptance and dignity for all persons, creative multi-cultural understanding and where racism no longer presents its evil power.
  2. Promoting access for all to quality health care, with more effective disease prevention and ethical choices regarding health issues. Promoting healthy lifestyles for women and children.
  3. Promoting quality education, with life long learning, effective and accessible education for all persons, including pre-school, and, in particular, education of young adults for parenthood.
  4. Promoting economic justice by emphasizing issues of living wages, workplace dignity and safety, environmental integrity, employment opportunities, gender equality and adequate and equitable childcare resources.
  5. Promoting ways to diminish violence and hate against all God's creation by working for the elimination of gun violence and violence in all forms in neighborhoods, schools and homes, by advocating against the expansion of weapons worldwide, by promoting respect for international humanitarian laws, and by supporting ways to diminish the threat of terrorism in the United States and worldwide. To stand firm against the use of women and children as weapons of war.
  6. Promoting responsible media and information technology by promoting respectful media portrayals of women, children and families, minority persons and persons with disabilities, by criticizing consumerism and exploitation, and by advocating for justice in the allocation of media resources.
  7. Promoting and supporting the care of all God's creation, understanding that the very survival of earth demands our immediate attention to lifestyle, governmental and institutional impact upon this home that God has given us.