ecw-dev
Episcopal Church Women in NC
Category: Many Paths, One Journey
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Mrs. George Alston, chairman of the Treasure and Trinket Fund, reports that there is now on hand enough gold for a chalice and asks that gold be sent to her for a paten. This Communion Service is to be given to the new Church for the Deaf to be erected in Durham, the “Advance Work”…
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The ECW of Diocese of NC adopted the Millennium Development Goals as a mission point in 2007. We were integral to the success of the Diocese of NC’s 2011-2012 NetsforLife campaign, actively serving on its steering committee and donating $7,200 to the effort. And now, with ECW Triennial, the focus is again on the…
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The Episcopal Women’s History Project (EWHP) gave awards and grants while meeting in Indianapolis during the 77th General Convention of The Episcopal Church. Accepting the Malcolm and Pat Diesenroth Parish Award on behalf of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Hillsborough, NC was Ellen Weig. The award, which comes with a $250 prize, is given for…
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Every Triennial, ECW delegates receive a cross unique to that year. The Presiding Bishop blesses and personally distributes the crosses. Here’s the cross for 2012. In her homily on Sunday, July 8, during the Holy Eucharist and United Thank Offering Ingathering. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, who’d distributed the crosses just days before, talked about…
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In 1888, when Mrs. Fargo (as in Wells Fargo) and some fellow Episcopal church women in New York began collecting prayer books and hymnals for fledgling Episcopal churches in the western part of the United States, the supplies were shipped via stagecoach. Today, what those women began is still known as Church Periodical Club and…
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The General Convention of the Episcopal Church occurs every three years. The workings of GC are a mystery to many, but what’s decided in the House of Bishops and the House of Deputies (comprised of the laity and the ordained) can very much affect our dioceses, our parishes and by extension our lives as individual…
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A tradition at the ECW Triennial is the recognition of one extra special woman from every diocese of The Episcopal Church. In North Carolina this woman is selected by the Diocesan ECW board. This recognition, once known as Honored Women, is now called Distinguished Women. This Triennial the board elected to posthumously recognize Vivian Edwards,…