United Thank Offering
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…
To be honest, here in New Mexico, it was beginning to look a lot like Christmas in mid-October as stores started moving the Halloween candy over to make room for Christmas decorations. I know a lot of folks lament the early arrival of Christmas and push for the recognition of Advent. I am consistently impressed […]
In Case You Missed It…
Rest in Peace and Rise in Glory Last month we shared the news about the health of former UTO Board member Regina Ratteree. Shortly after the October E-News came out, Regina passed away. We ask that you hold Regina’s family in your prayers. Monthly Sermons Beginning in December (so the sermon will be for January), […]
A Thanksgiving Sermon
Almost four centuries ago, fueled by faith and seeking liberty, European pilgrims reached the New World … a world where they could worship according to their own beliefs and start anew. Our national day of thanksgiving is an opportunity for all of us to live in a renewed spirit of gratitude. A spirit of gratitude […]
News from You!
Teach them to Fish, a 2019 UTO grant to the Diocese of Mississippi in partnership with the Diocese of Honduras was recently featured in an ENS article. If you would like to support the work of this amazing grant site, you can purchase beautiful Christmas ornaments or jewelry on their Etsy site. Be sure to let them […]
Expectations on the Camino
As I boarded the eight-hour flight to Madrid, I had no idea what to expect of the UTO Pilgrimage. I did not know much about Spain, I did not know 95% of the people I’d be traveling with, and I did not know what exactly I would get out of a pilgrimage. My lack of […]
Homophones and the UTO Ingathering
Words that are spelled the same and have different meanings are homophones. Rose is an example – rose the noun is a flower, rose the verb is resurrection or lifting higher. In the United Thank Offering world, change is a defining homophone. UTO used the motto “Our Change, Changes Lives” until we found that it was copyrighted by another organization. Change as a noun is […]
The Only Thing Missing Was YOU!
All pilgrims agree: The only thing missing from our UTO Pilgrims on the Camino pilgrimage this October was YOU! From the moment the 35 of us initially met until our nearly tearful departure as friends on the last day, this was a blessed group of pilgrims – each having had her or his own Camino experience. You […]
December 9: Special Webinar on Evangelism for UTO Grant Applicants
Many of you have expressed some concern about how to understand the definition of evangelism for the 2020 UTO Grant application process, so we want to give you a chance to ask your questions about evangelism! Please join us on Monday, December 9, at either noon or 8 p.m. Eastern time at https://zoom.us/my/utomtgs to listen to Jerusalem Greer, Staff Officer […]
Scholars Conference with Diana Butler Bass, April 23-24, 2020
Why be grateful? UTO has offered a steady stream of reasons to practice gratitude, and those of you who live with the spiritual discipline of gratitude know that it is life-changing. But what is the relationship between our faith as Christians/Episcopalians, gratitude, and God? Why does God call us to be thankful so many times […]
30 Days of Gratitude
November is finally upon us, and I feel like I am almost on top of things again after sabbatical (although thank you all for your patience with the e-news coming out late – I haven’t quite gotten back on top of the deadlines yet). Here in New Mexico, the weather has turned chilly and children […]
