United Thank Offering
Registration open for children’s program; applications accepted for youth and adult volunteers
Early registration is open for a dynamic children’s day camp at the 81st General Convention that will include hands-on projects, music, field trips, and other activities. Applications are also being accepted for volunteers and junior counselors for the program, which runs June 22-28 at the Hyatt Regency in Louisville, Kentucky. Discounted registration—which runs through April 15—is $45 daily for the first […]
Grant Story: UTO Board Member Visits Charlie’s Place at St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church (2021 grant to the Diocese of Washington)
By Mathy Milling-Downing, UTO Board Province III Representative Each month we like to share a story of where your thank offering has gone in recent years. This month, one of our Board members shares about her experience visiting Charlie’s Place. Founded in 1990 as a nondenominational, anti-hunger and homelessness ministry by the associate pastor of […]
UTO at General Convention
By UTO Executive Committee The pandemic has changed a lot of things for The Episcopal Church; perhaps one of the biggest ways that it has changed is seen through the smaller scale of General Convention this summer in Louisville, Kentucky. For those of us at UTO, there is a loss: For the second time since […]
Gratitude and the Cycle of Resurrection
By Heather Melton, UTO Staff Officer It is very busy around UTO right now. In April, the 2024 grants are off at Executive Council, which means there’s a lot of behind-the-scenes work to make sure that everything is ready to be sent out into the world after that meeting. We’re working on all of our things […]
Grant Story: Rejuvenating Rivers: Creating Environmental Change-Makers Among Youth in South Africa (2022 grant to the Diocese of Grahamstown)
Each month we like to share the story of where your thank offering has gone in recent years. This article is from the final grant report for this project. Give us an overview of how your project went. The project aimed to train, educate, and support a group of high school learners to become environmental […]
2023 Ingathering Total
By Finance and Archives Committee One of the items that held up our release of the March newsletter was the 2023 Ingathering totals. We are thrilled to announce that UTO will give away $1,003,283.78 in 2024. A big thank-you to the 66 dioceses that increased giving to UTO in 2023. You can read the full […]
2023 Annual Report
By UTO Executive Committee Our March newsletter is out a little later this month because we were anxiously awaiting the final Ingathering amounts from 2023 that we needed to finish our annual report and this newsletter. We are happy to share that our 2023 Annual Report is now available here along with every annual report since we […]
3rd Annual UTO Virtual Training Day: May 18, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Eastern
By Sherri Dietrich, UTO Board President We will be offering our annual training and inspiration day for UTO coordinators on May 18, so put it on your calendar now. The UTO Board is just beginning to put together the workshops for that day and we welcome your input so we can give you what you […]
UTO at General Convention
By UTO Executive Committee We’re getting lots of questions about the UTO presence at General Convention this year, so I wanted to share what we know and what we don’t know. The pandemic changed a lot of things, and instead of going back to the way that we always did things, we want to use […]
Growing Gratitude
By Heather Melton, UTO Staff Officer Our March newsletter is coming out right in the middle of Lent, when many of us are receiving a daily text message to help us practice gratitude for some of the overlooked things in our lives. For me, these daily reminders have really helped me think about so many […]
