Do you have a partially-filled UTO box that you picked up last spring?  It's not too late to turn in whatever you have collected -- and perhaps you can add just a bit more.  Put the box in the offering plate, drop it off at the church office, or let us know if you need it picked up.  To refresh your memory, here's some of the information we distributed last spring when the boxes were handed out. The UTO grant program counts on our generosity.

The United Thank Offering (UTO) is an organization founded by Episcopal Church Women in 1889. It was founded to support women missionaries around the world. It has become a worldwide effort in meeting compelling human needs and to expand the mission and ministry of the church – for men, women and children throughout the world.

The UTO is a way for each person to express tangible thanks to God with prayers and offerings of Episcopalians, its ministry reaches around the world.

In Southern Africa, the funds helped purchase seeds, tools and fertilizer for a community garden. In the Diocese of Minnesota, the funds paid for the translation and publication of the B.C.P. into the Hmong language where there is a large and thriving population of Hmong people. In the Dioceses of Barbados, the funds paid to improve the parenting skills through the Mother’s Union. In the Dioceses of Central Gulf Coast, the funds built handicapped-accessible-entrance and drive-through for a church that serves a growing population of elderly and handicapped people including families left homeless by Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma.

Almighty God; you give us seed for us to sow, and bread for us to eat; make us thankful for what we have received; make us rich to do those generous things which supply your people’s needs; so all the world may give you thanks and glory.
New Zealand Prayer Book