That’s U as in YOU!

Tuesday, November 29, 2022 is Giving Tuesday.
This will mark the official start of UNITY’S 6-day appeal to U.

Each year we ask people to recommit to a level of financial support for the year to come.  Last year 304 households made a pledge of financial support. We prayerfully aim to top that this year.  And, as we did last year, at each interval of 50 households, we’ll do something special to mark the moment! Last year we did things like bucket dumps and pies in the face.

NEW FOR THIS YEAR
If you pledge before November 29th
You can make a suggestion in your pledge form comment box for what we should do to mark those 50 household intervals. Be creative!

Last year’s appeal was done as a part of a 70-hour, non-stop live event on Facebook and our Web site. We went to worship, high school soccer games, Adventfest and talked to partners and members here and around the world. Member pledges of support went up by around 10% and so far this year’s giving is largely confirming that (we’re up a little over 5% right now, but year-end is always the most definitive part of the year). This year, we’ll do a variation on that approach.

Starting November 29th, for six straight nights, from 7:00-9:00 pm,
We’ll be live on Facebook and our Web Site.

This year, we’re going to pay special attention to our ministries within UNITY and also the many partners who utilize our buildings. We’ll include conversations with them and each other and we’ll end each night with a brief prayer or music service. We’ll start on Giving Tuesday and continue through Sunday, December 4. We’ll call this our Focus Week.

MOST OF ALL, the last few years have really knocked us off track when it comes to YOU helping with and receiving from all of our ministries. We call this “Time and Talent” or “volunteering.” There’s almost no area where more of YOU wouldn’t be a blessing. Do you love the music in worship? We need more people to make it! Can you fix stuff? We need more folks with handy skills. Able to cook anything edible? We need people for potlucks, and partners, and when another household could use a night off from cooking because of some loss or gain in their lives. It’s a big list. We hope everyone can step forward to be part of one or two things.

Between now and our Focus Week, you can go ahead and pass GO. Go to our website, click on the homepage picture of multicolored tree labeled “Stewardship” and there you can go to our Time and Talent page (please, please, please…) and you can also make a financial goal for 2023. If you give by some form of regular digital giving (bank transfer, credit card, etc), please consider updating your commitment for 2023.

For 2023

We will repeat last year’s giving request options. Given increased costs and our goal of increasing support for benevolence partner please consider,

Increase, decrease or steady, remember that anything you share financially is a great gift to all of UNITY. It’s fun to share when there’s a crowd of saints doing it and when good things happen because of it. We are UNITY and for 2023, let’s have fun remembering that NITY Needs U!

Mary Huss, President
Adrienne Krueger, Treasurer
Phil Roemaat, Finance Chair
John Horner-Ibler, Pastor
Sherrie Lorbeck, Pastor
Muriel Otto, Pastor