Ministry of Generosity: Sunday Offering

Each Sunday, seventy percent of the offering is shared with a community non-profit ​and thirty percent supports the Community Outreach Ministry at Unity Church. The Generosity Ministry Team oversees the distribution of the Sunday offering. Members of this team include Dick Buggs, Andrea Bond, Laurel Lein, Karen Abraham, John Christiansen, and Collin Rust. To nominate an offering recipient, please use the form on this page.  ​

August 2023 Offering Totals

August 6
​​​​​​​​​Offering Total: $1294.77
One Voice (70%): 906.34
Unity Church (30%): 388.43

August 13
​​​​Offering Total: $1732.77
RISE (70%): 1212.94
​Unity Church (30%): 519.83

August 20
​​​​​​​​​​​​Offering Total: $1696.77
Hallman Internship Endowment will receive 100%.

August 27
​​Offering Total: $1994.77
Hallie Q. Food Shelf (70%): 1396.34
​Unity Church (30%): 598.43

Offering Principles
Criteria for Sunday offering nominations submitted by congregation members:

1. All nominations are considered. However, the Generosity Ministry Team places emphasis on non-profits whose annual budget is $500,000.00 or less.
2. The offering amount will be significant in relation to the size of the organization’s or project’s budget.
3. Recipients must have a connection with Unity Church through shared work or church support.
4. Recipients’ mission/values must reflect the core values of Unity Church.
5. Please allow one year before submitting repeat nominations.

Offering Recipients

DONATE TO THE SUNDAY OFFERING

October 1: Mano a Mano
Unity's Mano a Mano Community Outreach Ministry Team supports Mano a Mano International by collecting, sorting, packing, and shipping medical, construction, and school supplies to Bolivia. They also organize community information forums encouraging people to become passionate advocates for Mano a Mano’s many sustainable projects. This collection will support the ongoing outreach work of Mano a Mano. 

October 8: Art from the Inside
Art from the Inside (AFTI) is an onsite program at the Stillwater Corrections Facility fostering healing, forgiveness, and personal transformation. The produced art work is a powerful window into the lives and dreams of incarcerated artists. Art from AFTI artists will be featured in the October Parish Hall gallery. This collection supports AFTI’s outreach efforts to connect greater Minnesota with Minnesota’s incarcerated community. 

October 15: Makoce Ikikcupi 
Makoce Ikikcupi (Land Recovery), is a project of reparative justice on Dakota land in Minisota Makoce (Minnesota). The Makoce Ikikcupi project seeks to bring some Dakota people home, re-establish their spiritual and physical relationship with their homeland, and ensure the ongoing existence of Dakota People. Two villages of earth lodges are currently under construction in Mountain Lake and Granite Falls where Dakota people can live following traditional practices. More villages are planned as additional land is reacquired. 

October 22: Padoc Area Scholars Society (PASS) 
PASS, led by Dr. Ting Mayai (one of the original Lost Boys of Sudan who shared his story at Wellspring Wednesday in August), provides scholarships for impoverished South Sudanese high school graduates to attend university or technical school. $1500 would cover the tuition for eleven students for one year of university study. Unity’s Dayna Kennedy is a supporter of PASS. 

October 29: Good Courage Farm
Good Courage Farm, under the executive leadership of Kerri Meyer, Unity’s former director of religious education, is an agrarian ministry in west central Minnesota where people of all faiths gather to learn and work together for the healing of creation. Good Courage grows organic food while sharing practices of agricultural, social, and spiritual regeneration. This collection will help support two young adults as they participate in a six-week apprenticeship.