Kindred in Christ,

As you may be aware, last week we began a new series titled Kin-dom Vision, which serves as a type of pledge campaign 2.0. While we are very grateful to all of you that gave this past pledge season of November 2021, after all the pledges were counted, we are still short of funding our missional goals for 2022. We invite you to prayerfully consider pledging at utemple.org/give.

Yet more than a request for financial commitment, our series is really about our vision for our church and the U District. It is about our dreams for ministering to our current members, as well as the new folks we are connecting with. And this week we will reflect on how the vision God stirs up in our hearts in the present is linked to the visions our ancestors and saints received in the past, and the emerging ministry that will bless those in the future. To have kin-dom vision is to have eyes to see our kinship with the past, present, and future, all weaved together in God. I hope you will join us online for worship and in the other ways we show up in the world.

Alongside you,

Rev. Paul Ortiz