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Episcopal Church Women in NC
Category: Missions
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2017 United Thank Offering Grant Focus and Criteria Evangelism-Reconciliation: Following Jesus’ way of creating loving, liberating, and life-giving relationships with God, each other, and all creation. Friday, February 3, 2017: Submission deadline for individual parish UTO grant applications. The applications will be reviewed by the diocesan ECW review committee. All grant applications should be submitted…
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Letter to All – The Christmas Mission Fund November 27, 2020 Dear Rector, ECW President/Local Missions Chairperson, and Members, As Missions Coordinator for the Episcopal Church Women, Diocese of NC, I am writing to ask for your participation in the Christmas Mission Fund. This offering supports children’s programs inside and outside the diocese. This offering…
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Recommendations for 2020 Mission Funds Awards The Episcopal Church Women, Diocese of North Carolina accepts offerings from churches to support two ministries. The generous support of these programs enables us to help demonstrate Jesus’ love. 1. The Christmas Mission Fund is a designated gift for mission work in children’s programs, inside and outside the diocese.…
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The call of all Episcopal Church Women to mission work dates back more than a century to the earliest days of ECW as an organized ministry. This call is summed up in our Missions Prayer: Almighty God, help us we pray Thee to shed abroad the light of They church in all the world. Give…
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Announcing Our NewDiocesan ECW Board Members President – Mary Gordon Mary Gordon has been serving as the Interim President of the Diocesan ECW since November 2015, before her election as President in November 2016. She has been a communicant for forty plus years at St. Mary’s, High Point. At St. Mary’s she proudly serves as…
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Of the above reported contributions (in money) to the Thompson Orphanage, $150.00 was collected and given by St. Agnes’ Guild, which also contributed to the same most deserving charity, boxes of clothing and other supplies, valued at $50.00, additional. The “Mother’s Meetings” contributed $10.00 worth of supplies to the Orphanage, which is not included in…
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At our last annual meeting, a letter was received from Miss Emery, suggesting that at the various summer resorts Missionary Garden Parties be held during the summer months. In response, we held the first of these garden parties in our Diocese, at Saura Town, the beautiful summer home of Miss Ruth Hairston, our United Offering…
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Hearts, Homes & the Holy Spirit: Mission and Ministry in North Carolina Mill Villages, 1890-1940. The stories and contributions of churchwomen and “women workers”.
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At the annual meeting of the Woman’s Auxiliary in Chapel Hill last week, we voted to collect keepsakes and treasures of gold and silver that people would like to give to be made into a Communion Service. It will first be used, according to our Bishop’s suggestion, at Camp Greene; after the war is over…
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The Ladies’ Aid Society and Woman’s Auxiliary sent to the Orphanage two large boxes, which are not included in the above account. The amount given to Domestic Missions was largely contributed by the Ladies’ Aid Society and Woman’s Auxiliary and the Junior Auxiliary for the Missionary District of Asheville. (Source: The Rev. George M. Tolson,…