Catholic Connection – July 12, 2023 – Hr 1

Deacon Mike Houghton is the Executive Director of UTG at Work. He shares about their efforts to help others witness to Christ and the Gospel in the workplace.

Segment 3 – New ministry, UTG at Work, will help professionals share their faith at work
“The average person will spend 90,000 hours at work during their lifetime — approximately one-third of their working life. That means each person has approximately 3,750 days to Unleash the Gospel and be a missionary disciple while working 9 to 5. To help lay Catholics do that, UTG at Work, a new nonprofit launched by Deacon Mike Houghton and Mary Martin, will serve as a center to help ‘women and men understand their identity as missionary disciples, equip them to discover their unique mission from God, and support them as they joyfully deliver faith and witness to Christ and the Gospel in the workplace,’ according to its mission statement.”

Deacon Mike Houghton was ordained a Catholic deacon in October of 2012. He is the Executive Director of UTG at Work.  For the past ten years he has served as deacon at St. John Vianney in Shelby Township, Michigan, a parish in the Archdiocese of Detroit.  He is also the author of “Restructuring for Mission: The Journey to Families of Parishes in the Archdiocese of Detroit.”