United Thank Offering
New Lenten Materials Now Available
By Heather Melton, UTO staff officer Back by popular demand, UTO gratitude resources for Lent are now available at unitedthankoffering.org/lent. The materials have been expanded and updated to better support those congregations that use UTO as their Lenten discipline. For children, we’ve created a lesson plan that can be used at Sunday School or home. The […]
2021 Annual Report
By Isabelle Watkins, administrative assistant As we reflect on 2021, we wanted to say how grateful we are for each one of you. The United Thank Offering is made up of passionate people all over the world, working on the ground to help spread the practice of gratitude. In 2021, as a result of your […]
Thank you for giving…and continuing to give
By Kathy Mank, UTO Board financial secretary Thank you, diocesan and parish coordinators who have held Ingatherings and have worked together in partnership. We give special thanks for our faithful individual UTO supporters who practice gratitude daily. We also give thanks for the bishops and priests who share the UTO practice of gratitude with their […]
The Future of Gratitude: Celebrating 40 Years of the Memorial Trust Fund
By Sherri Dietrich, UTO Board President Forty years ago the women of UTO wisely established the Memorial Trust Fund to allow the UTO Board to grant every penny of the Ingathering to support innovative mission and ministry and no longer offset the cost of the Board or the creation of educational materials. The trust fund […]
Celebrating Julia Chester Emery
By the Rev. Heather L. Melton, staff officer for the United Thank Offering 2022 marks several milestones that you’ll read about in this newsletter, but perhaps the most important one for our organization is the centennial of the death of our founder, Julia Chester Emery. Each year the church celebrates Miss Emery on Jan. 9, […]
Epiphany: Hope and Gratitude
By the Rev. Heather L. Melton, staff officer for the United Thank Offering One of the things that you might not know about me is that I am a huge fan of folk art and local traditions. With the internet, we’ve been able to learn about all sorts of things that people do to make […]
Upcoming Webinars and Grant Deadlines to Remember
By Joyce Landers, United Thank Offering Board Vice President This January we will offer our final webinar for the 2022 grant cycle. This is an open Q&A session where you can ask about any part of the UTO grant application process. There will not be a presentation and we will stay on until everyone has […]
Thank you for being a part of the Great EpisGOpal Race!
By Isabelle Watkins, UTO administrative assistant Thank You! A HUGE thank you to all who participated in the 2021 Great EpisGOpal Race! One hundred individuals from 22 states came together to go in gratitude and raise nearly $8,000 for UTO and Sawyerville! While this race doesn’t technically have any winners, we want to acknowledge a […]
Countdown to Transmitting Ingathering Offerings to UTO
By Kathy Mank, United Thank Offering Board financial secretary As the year comes to a close, there is still time to make sure all Ingathering funds from 2021 get counted in this year’s Ingathering. Here is a chart with deadlines, address, and a live online link: Notice, Give Make Bless Ingathering Donations by Mail Mail […]
Christmas Cards
By Isabelle Watkins, UTO administrative associate Consider putting your gratitude into action by giving the gift that keeps giving this Christmas. We have special UTO Christmas cards to send to loved ones and those for whom you are grateful. As a Christmas gift, you can donate to UTO in honor of this person, and we […]
