United Thank Offering
Important Update: UTO at General Convention
Dear UTO Members, Coordinators, and Community, On Monday, the UTO Board made the difficult decision not to attend the 80th General Convention and Triennial this July in person. We fully support the discernment of the Presiding Officers and Executive Council to shorten and condense Convention to essential work and participation. The original impetus for the decision […]
The Great EpisGOpal Race is Back!
The Great EpisGOpal Race is back, and you have the first chance to register! This year, UTO is partnering with Episcopal Migration Ministries to race in gratitude for our bodies, environments, communities, and neighbors. Proceeds will support both the 2022 United Thank Offering (UTO) Ingathering and Episcopal Migration Ministries’ (EMM) Neighbor to Neighbor program—founded through funding […]
Julia Chester Emery Icon – Second Edition
by Heather Melton, UTO Staff Officer By the time you read this, the second Julia Chester Emery icon, created by Kristen Wheeler, will be complete. While I’m writing this, the icon is just starting to have color added. So while I can’t share with you the completed image in this newsletter, I can share with […]
2024 UTO Prayer Booklet Call for Prayers
By Heather Melton, UTO Staff Officer You might be doing a double-take given the title of this article, but don’t be alarmed, it is time to start the process of collecting prayers for the next edition of the UTO prayer booklet! You might be surprised to hear that we spend an entire year soliciting and […]
General Convention/Triennial Updates: Registration and UTO Passports
By UTO Workshop Team As the UTO Board and staff continue to plan for our time together this July, we want to share with you as many updates as we can with the understanding that given the ongoing pandemic, something may change as we go along to accommodate changes from the General Convention Office and […]
2022 UTO Grants Announced!
By Joyce Landers, Vice President of the United Thank Offering Board With great excitement, the UTO Board has announced the 2022 grant recipients. We were very pleased that the Ingathering amount of $1,051,154.14 reflected an increase from the 2020 total. Because of your generosity and participation, we were able to fund 22 of the 42 applications […]
2022 UTO Training Day for Beginners and Experts
By Sherri Dietrich, President of the United Thank Offering Board Saturday, June 11, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern/8 a.m. to noon Pacific Please join the UTO Board and staff on June 11 (11 a.m.–3 p.m. Eastern/8 a.m.–noon Pacific) for our next online training workshops and closing worship event. Whether you’ve just taken on […]
Time to Play
By Heather Melton, UTO Staff Officer We live across the street from a park that is well loved in our community. As the seasons change, the number of people using the park shifts. This past week, we had beautiful weather, and the park was constantly in use. Families with young children arrive as soon as […]
Register your Parish with UTO!
Does your parish participate in UTO? Let us know! Registering your parish will give you access to newsletters, materials, and more, and it will help UTO keep up communication with you. Please register here. If your parish doesn’t participate in UTO, but you’re interested in learning more, please fill out the form and we will […]
Julia Chester Emery Icon – Second Edition
One of the hopes that we had when developing the icon program for Julia Chester Emery is that each image developed would be unique and would speak to us in different ways and be quite different in design. Our first icon, created by Marcy Hall, is available now for purchase. This amazing icon is colorful, whimsical and […]
