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Episcopal Church Women in NC
Category: Ministries
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Diocese of NC UTO Grants History DIOCESE OF NORTH CAROLINA UNITED THANK OFFERING GRANT AWARDS 1995-2013 2013 St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church (Pittsboro): Circles Chatham: To equip financially insecure families and individuals with access to opportunities, education, and long-term supportive relationships that will enable them to achieve self-sufficiency. The focus of the program is in doing…
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Our Medical missions in China and Africa need assistance. They find it absolutely necessary in many cases to supply proper nourishment as well as medicines to the destitute sick. I have received several requests for such aid. Suppose each of our thirty branches promises to send something for this purpose this year, according to their…
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In response to a call of the Rector of St. James’s Parish, Rev. Mr. Bush, eight ladies, including one visitor, assembled with him in the Vestry Room. He proposed to them to form a society, which should be a part of the Diocesan Branch of the Woman’s Auxiliary to the Board of Missions. This was…
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A Brief History Church Periodical Club was founded in 1888 by Mary Ann Fargo, the wife of a member of the Wells Fargo Express firm. On a trip to the Dakotas with her husband she learned of the great need on the frontiers for Bibles and other spiritual literature. Mrs. Fargo and other church women…
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Offerings to the Church Periodical Club (CPC) on CPC Sunday – the first Sunday in May – or any Sunday following are used to fund the ministry of the printed word. Bibles, Prayer Books, books for seminarians, educational materials, medical textbooks, agricultural manuals and books for those in local and global mission are some of…
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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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No minister in this Church in America can afford to neglect or discourage the Woman’s Auxiliary. No parish is in greater danger of losing its missionary spirit than the parish with a weak Auxiliary, and if a congregation loses its missionary spirit it has lost its life. Every parish branch combines in a wonderful way…
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It is the old story of the “little drops of water, little grains of sand.” The amount that each one can do alone seems hopelessly and discouragingly little and useless, and still the union of these weak and insignificant labors – of these few and feeble and widely scattered bands of women – gave to…
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Of the sum reported as collected for Missions, $47.92 were received by the Bishop at his annual visitation, and $41 were contributed by the Female Missionary Society of Raleigh. (Source: The Rev. R. S. Mason, Parochial Report, Christ Church, Raleigh, 1860 Journal of Convention, p. 46)
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We will tell the stories not because we live for the past but because the past informs the present, and we must be present before we begin, with God’s help, to claim our future. (/the-story-goes-on/) Episcopal Church Women have been an organized, officially recognized presence in the Diocese of North Carolina for more than 130…