United Thank Offering
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 […]
May Webinar Series: Grace and Gratitude in Our Liturgical Life
Please join us on Tuesday, May 12, and Tuesday, May 19, at 7 p.m. Eastern time for a course on liturgy and gratitude! I highly recommend this class for anyone who has ever heard that all Episcopalians are grateful because our common life is rooted in the Eucharist/The Great Thanksgiving but isn’t sure what that […]
Being Grateful in the Time of COVID-19
By: Sandra Squires, UTO Board President Emeritus Stand six feet apart. Wear a mask when out in public. Only go to the grocery store once a week, with a list, get in and out, and shop alone. Wash your hands frequently. Attend church services online, and no gatherings larger than 10. If you decide to eat […]
