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Episcopal Church Women in NC
Category: United Thank Offering (UTO)
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UTO Report – Annual Meeting 2022 The United Thank Offering was founded in 1889 by two Episcopal women. UTO’s focus was and still is to foster a practice of being thankful for the blessings God gives us each day. These blessings may be little or big – finding a parking space, morning coffee, a doctor’s…
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Spring 2021 UTO Grants The United Thank Offering Board has announced the spring 2021 grants. The focus was Recovering with Love and Gratitude: An Episcopal Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Local Contexts for both the fall 2020 and spring 2021 granting cycles. The board split the 2020 ingathering fund between two cycles so money…
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2021 United Thank Offering Grant Applications The 2021 United Thank Offering grant application materials are now available. The focus of this year’s grants is Recovering with Love and Gratitude: An Episcopal Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Local Contexts. The deadline for submission of a completed application for the first round of grants to the…
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All Saints’ Sunday, Ascension Sunday, or What Works for You? By Kathy Mank, Financial Secretary, UTO National Board In trying to locate a current source of why All Saints’ and Ascension Sundays have traditionally been selected by congregations throughout The Episcopal Church for UTO Ingatherings, I found little, except for lots of old UTO Blue…
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2022 United Thank Offering Grant Applications The 2022 United Thank Offering grant application materials are now available. The focus of this year’s grants is Care of Creation: Turning 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—through justice, advocacy, environmental reparations,…
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Donate to the United Thank Offering We ask that you consider making a donation to the United Thank Offering. If you want to give, you may do so right now using the secure services of PayPal by clicking this button: Donate You may also donate via check. Checks should be drafted to: ECW – Diocese…
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Episcopal Church Women:Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow The following bite-size blurbs help tell the story of the ECW. They can be used in any order and and are appropriate for distribution via parish newsletters, websites and Sunday bulletins. We’ll continue to add to what’s here, so make sure to check back. One aspect of the NC…
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Things ECW Branch Presidents and TreasurersNeed to Know What It Is, Where It Goes and When Christmas Mission Fund: Checks distributed to missionaries in mid-March; offerings should be sent to Diocesan Treasurer by March 1st. Epiphany Offering: Check distributed in late April to a designated missionary or missionary family. Offerings should be sent to Diocesan…
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Each of the seven missionaries assigned to convocations in our diocese receives a gift from this fund. Gifts are sent by the ECW branches to the Diocesan Treasurer no later than November 1 of each year. The resulting fund is divided equally among the missionaries. Individual checks are prepared by the treasurer and are sent…
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GRATITUDE (WHY?) “give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” (1 Thes. 5:18) “Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior…Gratitude is peace.” (Anne Lamott ‘Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers’) “Gratitude turns what we have into enough.” (Anonymous) “Gratitude is the attitude that…