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Nov 28, 2025

📝From the Pastor’s Desk – 11.30.2025 – ‘Gratitude is a Choice’: UCC GMP offers special message for Thanksgiving

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‘Gratitude is a Choice’: UCC GMP offers special message for Thanksgiving

UCC Message

Rev. Dr. Karen Georgia Thompson, General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ, shares a Thanksgiving message of hope, gratitude, and justice for our wider church family.

Dear Holy Covenant,

I invite you to receive this heartfelt message from Rev. Dr. Karen Georgia Thompson, our UCC General Minister and President. She speaks to the power of gratitude as a spiritual practice—one that sustains us even when the world feels heavy.

‘Gratitude is a Choice’: UCC GMP offers special message for Thanksgiving

by Charles Jefferson, Jr. | published on Nov 25, 2025

In honor of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, UCC General Minister and President/CEO Rev. Karen Georgia Thompson shares an important message for the wider church.

“Gratitude is a choice. A choice to experience God present in the world. Gratitude is the practice of giving thanks in everything,” Thompson said in her recorded remarks.

Thompson noted that even though things in the world aren’t ideal, the church can still embrace gratitude as a spiritual practice.

You can watch Rev. Thompson’s full remarks in the video below:

Peace and Blessings,

Rev. Christopher Czarnecki
Senior Pastor, Holy Covenant UCC

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