Micah Challenge is a global movement of Christians that aims to ignite and fuel a passion to bring about the alleviation of poverty and to speak out, with a common voice, against the injustices of poverty.

It is already uniting countries in the North and South to call their governments to account to realise the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), halving poverty by 2015.

In the UK, it seeks to build on the momentum created by the Make Poverty History campaign. 2005 was marked by a fantastic groundswell of voices that called for substantial improvement to aid, trade and debt.

We need to continue to press the UK government to do more to alleviate poverty and hold them to the promises they made in 2000.

A number of groups have been working on Micah Challenge. They include: Tearfund, SPEAK, World Vision, Evangelical Alliance, Shaftsbury Society, Alpha/HTB, Faithworks, Global Connections, ACEA, CMF and BMS World Mission among others.

In Manchester, we hope that the challenge of Micah to Love Mercy, Act Justly and Walk humbly with our God will continue to inspire a growing number of people to campaign and work for a more just world.

While Micah Challenge is a movement with a long term vision, we will also engage with a small number of specific campaigning moments, thus creating the opportunity to speak with a single, clear voice.

Sign the Micah call (www.micahchallenge.org.uk)

Consider the Micah Course "Just People' for your homegroup, midweek meetings or circle of friends