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United Thank Offering Ingathering

November 19, 2023 @ 8:00 am - 12:00 pm

Our collection for the UTO (United Thank Offering) will be on Sunday, November 19.

The UTO is a ministry of the Episcopal Church Women which makes grants for mostly brick and mortar projects. There is an in-gathering (offering) twice a year. All monies collected are sent to the national headquarters of the Episcopal Church in New York City. A committee then responds to grant requests from all over the country. In this diocese, for example, St. Peter’s Washington received funds for a van for the Hispanic ministry.
This year our in-gathering will be the Sunday before Thanksgiving, November 19. Blue boxes and offering envelopes may be found at the entrances to both the church and the chapel. Take one, use the month of November to begin your practice of thankfulness. Please bring your offering with you or mail it to the church marked for the UTO.
Questions? Please contact Debbie Avery (252-531-0540) or Bets Crean (252-756-0808).

When I was a child my mother always had a blue box on her dresser, the UTO (United Thank Offering) box, into which she put an offering when she was especially thankful for something. One day she took my two-year-old brother and me to her lawyer’s office. It was during the summer and it was very hot. All the windows were open on the second floor and with no screens! My brother got away from my mother and she found him leaning out an open window. She grabbed him back and we went to the car to go home. In the car she said “We must remember to put something in the UTO box in thanksgiving that Phil did not fall out the window!” -Bets Crean

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Date:
November 19, 2023
Time:
8:00 am - 12:00 pm