UTO Fall Webinar: ‘Gratitude Comes Full Circle: 
A Conversation Between Grant Recipients Creating Welcome for the LGTBQ+ Community’

Join us for our fall webinar featuring two 2024 grant sites: Shepherd’s Table in South Dakota, and People are Made to Shine! from Recife, Brazil. This conversation will be hosted by Heather Melton, UTO staff officer, and moderated by Aaron Scott, gender justice officer for The Episcopal Church. To read the bios of the panelists or learn more about the webinar, visit: https://unitedthankoffering.com/webinar/.

In 2024, UTO awarded a grant to the Diocese of South Dakota for the Shepherd’s Table, which seeks to be the place for all people to experience belonging and to be welcomed at Christ’s table with no exclusion for who they are or who they love. At Shepherd’s Table, people have a safe space to be fed physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

UTO also awarded a grant to the Diocese of Recife in Brazil. The objective of “People are made to shine!” is to offerfood, social, educational, psychological, health, and pastoral assistance to vulnerable members of the LGBTQ+ population, especially unhoused transgender people.

You can register for the event here. A Zoom link will be sent in October. This webinar will be offered in English and Portuguese with interpretation offered.