United Thank Offering
Upcoming Deadlines for the 2022 Ingathering
By Kathy Mank, UTO Board Financial Secretary It’s December. It’s the coming of the calendar year-end on New Year’s Eve while we are celebrating Jesus’ birth, God’s greatest gift to the world, for 12 days. We enjoy preparing for our celebrations and wait with anticipation and with gratitude. Similarly, the United Thank Offering prepares for the […]
Upcoming Grant Webinars and Deadlines
By Joyce Landers, Vice President of the United Thank Offering Board We want to remind everyone to mark your calendars for the 2023 granting cycle. Please remember that you need to register to attend any webinar using the links found on the helpful hints page. We want to remind you of the deadlines that we have […]
Gratitude Gift Guide
By Heather Melton, UTO Staff Officer For years people have asked, “What kind of gift should I get to introduce someone else to practicing gratitude?” This is a really tough question because everyone practices gratitude differently. With that said, there are some super fun items you can make or purchase to show your gratitude for […]
Julia Chester Emery Feast Day Celebration
By Heather Melton, UTO Staff Officer January 9 marks the Feast Day of our founder, Julia Chester Emery. Her feast day often gets lost in the post-holiday shuffle, but she was a remarkable person so we want to make sure we remember her. Please join us for a zoom Evening Prayer honoring Julia Chester Emery […]
Christmas Cards Orders Now Available
By Isabelle Watkins, UTO Staff This holiday season, give the gift that keeps giving. You can make a meaningful contribution to UTO in honor of someone you’re grateful for, and we’ll send them a Christmas card to let them know. All contributions for Christmas cards will go to the 2022 Ingathering, which will be granted […]
Cheer Us By Thy Drawing Nigh
By Heather Melton, UTO Staff Officer Advent is unfolding around us with the beginning of a new church year, and I am ready for it. Advent hymns have this lovely gloominess mixed with hope that is unlike any other section of the hymnal. They talk about captives, captive hearts, and release from sin. Sermons during […]
UTO Coloring Contest Deadline Extended to Dec. 31
By Heather Melton, UTO Staff Officer Many of you are just getting your hands on our newest Blue Boxes, so we wanted to extend the deadline for the coloring contest to accommodate those Ingatherings held after Thanksgiving. Just be sure to upload photos of your box before the end of the year to be considered […]
November Grant Webinars
By Joyce Landers, Vice President of the United Thank Offering Board The UTO Board is offering a series of webinars to assist anyone associated with submitting an application for the 2023 granting cycle. This includes not only people involved in writing an application but also diocesan staff members, UTO coordinators, and anyone who serves on […]
Final Julia Chester Emery Icon – from Paige Blair-Hubert
By Sherri Dietrich, UTO Board President This year the UTO Board asked four artists to create images of Julia Chester Emery, a saint in The Episcopal Church and the founder of UTO. This month we are releasing the fourth and final image, created by the Rev. Paige Blair-Hubert, whom many of you know from her […]
Thank You to Everyone who Went in Gratitude – Together! The Great EpisGOpal Race
By Isabelle Watkins, UTO Staff The Great EpisGOpal Race is officially over, and we could not be more grateful for those of you who participated, donated, fundraised, and followed along. While we don’t know the official numbers yet, we know that over 100 of you joined together in gratitude to race your way and raised […]
