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Episcopal Church Women in NC
Category: Archives
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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,…
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Archives in Action by Lynn Hoke, Archivist/Historian for theEpiscopal Church Women of the Diocese of North Carolina Let’s officially declare Saturday, April 25, 2009 BISHOP TUTTLE SCHOOL DAY! On this last Saturday in April at Saint Augustine’s College the Episcopal Church Women of the Diocese of North Carolina will jointly sponsor “A Distinctive Contribution: Commemorating…