October 1997

NEAC’s Goals for the 1998-2000 Triennium

NEAC will begin to

  • Confront and seek to help heal the racism which contributes to both the spread and the denial of HIV in our Church, our nation, and our world.

  • Develop new strategies for continuing its historic role in spiritual and practical support of the network of AIDS ministries in our Church.

  • Prepare itself and the whole Church for constant and changing AIDS ministry in the coming triennium in response to the hope now dawning in our own country, and the expanding tragedy still unfolding in the developing world.

NEAC will continue to

  • Prophetically call every congregation, diocese, province, and agency of the Episcopal Church to find and accept its role in reponsding to the national and international HIV epidemics.

  • Identify, develop, and disseminate resources that support Episcopal responses to the need for compassion, accurate and scripturally-sound prevention education, and justice in the midst of AIDS.

NEAC will refine

  • Its role in national HIV/AIDS public policy issues through support of the Office of Government Relations of the Episcopal Church and its Public Policy Network as it calls the Church to faith-based responses to these critial concerns.

  • Its vision of leadership by empowering its diverse and geographically dispersed Board of Directors to promote HIV/AIDS action and activism within the Church.


Conclusion

The pursuit of these concerns by NEAC and its constituents will bring us closer to fulfilling the vision of a just world—the New Jerusalem—described in our Baptismal Covenant. Through these actions we can seek and serve Christ in all persons and be living witnesses, respecting the dignity of every human being.

These goals were developed by the Board of Directors and will guide the direction of NEAC through the next triennium.