United Thank Offering
Congratulations to the 2020 UTO Grant Recipients!
By: The UTO Board Thank you to everyone who, through a personal spiritual discipline of gratitude, contributed to the United Thank Offering’s 2019 Ingathering. As a result of your gratitude and generosity, we raised $1,548,013.66 in thank offerings. Of this, $30,600 went to support six Young Adult and Seminarian Grants within the focus of Holy Gifts: Bringing together our blessings […]
Showing Gratitude in the Time of COVID-19
By: Mary Brennan, All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Georgia Expressing gratitude while isolating from the very folks who deserve our thanks takes a little creativity. I’ll admit to being a hugger, a back-patter, someone who loves to read the look in someone’s eyes or see a smile on their face when telling them, “Thanks!” While a […]
Community, the Body of Christ, and COVID-19
By: Sherri Dietrich, President, United Thank Offering Board As I write this, many of us have been staying at home in self-isolation for more than two months and learning to wear face masks and use hand sanitizer on the rare occasions when we do go out into the world. The rules on self-isolation are finally loosening, […]
2021 UTO Grant Process Update
By: Joyce Landers, Vice-President, United Thank Offering Board In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Thank Offering Board has decided to postpone the published 2021 focus of Act: Turn love into action by caring for God’s creation to protect the most vulnerable who will bear the largest burden of pollution and climate change to 2022. The new […]
Summer Webinars and Upcoming Educational Resources
Over the summer, we offer combined E-Newsletters, so this edition covers all there is to know from UTO in June and July. You will receive your next edition in mid-August for August and September. That edition will include webinars for September as well as the November Gratitude Challenge. In June and July, we will offer […]
Connections and Gratitude
By: The Rev. Canon Heather L. Melton, Staff Officer for the United Thank Offering In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help […]
2019 Annual Report and Ingathering Data Now Available – and a Challenge for the 2020 Annual Report
By: The UTO Board and Staff The 2019 UTO Annual Report is now available here. In the annual report, you can find out what UTO accomplished in 2019. We have to admit, it feels more like a trip down memory lane than usual, since what was normal in 2019 was no longer normal when we were compiling […]
Theology of Gratitude Conference
By: Diana Butler Bass When the UTO/Bexley Seabury team told me that they were proceeding with their planned gratitude conference online, I felt both a little sad and apprehensive. As a teacher and speaker, I know the power of being face to face when discovering new ideas, hearing familiar concepts in new ways, and engaging questions […]
Courage, Dear Heart
By: The Rev. Canon Heather L. Melton, Staff Officer for the United Thank Offering [While navigating the darkness in the ship…] Lucy leant her head on the edge of the fighting top and whispered, “Aslan, Aslan, if ever you loved us at all, send us help now.” The darkness did not grow any less, but she began […]
Outpourings and Ingatherings
By: Sherri Dietrich, President, United Thank Offering Board For I have learned, whatever state I am in, therein to be content. —Philippians 4:10 Difficult times bring out both the best and worst in us, and the COVID-19 pandemic and self-isolation are doing just that. Some people have hoarded hand sanitizer and toilet paper that they then […]
