Ministry of Generosity: Sunday Offering

Each Sunday, sixty percent of the offering is shared with a community non-profit ​and forty 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.  ​

2025 Offering Totals

2025 Offering Totals

This is the list of recipients and the amount collected and dispersed through our Sunday offering. 

Upcoming Offering Recipients

DONATE TO THE SUNDAY OFFERING

January 4
Evergreen Quilters is a group of members and friends of Unity Church who quilt or want to learn how to quilt, and who love to share their creativity and skills with the wider community. Their creative work is displayed at church, shared at the Celebration of New Lives, donated to families at Project Home and sold several times a year as a fundraiser for their community partners including Jeremiah Program, Project Home, Star House Crisis Nursery, and Hallie Q. Brown Food Shelf. This collection will underwrite the purchase of a variety of quilting materials.

January 11
Project Home provides 24/7 emergency shelter and rapid exit case management services for area families facing homelessness. Stabilizing services include basic daily needs, meals, laundry, and case management along with assistance finding housing, employment, daycare, financial education (budgeting, saving, credit/debt recovery), and onsite mental health therapy. This collection will support the installation of a new security system for Project Home's new Bandana Square location. 

January 18
Jeremiah Program located in St. Paul’s Summit-University neighborhood, supports single mothers and their children as they pursue career paths, life goals, and chart pathways to economic mobility. Unity’s Evergreen Quilters provides meals for the mothers and their children several times a year. This collection will provide personal hygiene products as well as supplemental apartment needs for the infants, children, and mothers at Jeremiah Program.

January 25
The Good Acre is the largest non-profit food hub in Minnesota. Its mission is to unlock economic opportunity for farmers in our region through a unique combination of personalized support and market development. Their LEAFF (Local Economic Accelerator for Farmers) program supports emerging small farmers by purchasing their fresh food for local food shelves, thus fostering a healthier, more equitable food system. Unity Church has sourced ingredients from The Good Acre for its food ministry. This collection will support its local community supported agriculture (CSA) program.

Nominate an Offering Recipient

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.