ecw-dev
Episcopal Church Women in NC
Category: South Sudan
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Meet the Keynoter Petero Sabune was born in Uganda. The son of a priest, he came to the United States through the American Field Service (AFS) exchange program in 1969. He returned to Uganda 1970 and, fleeing the ruthless dictator Idi Amin, came back as a freshman at Rutgers University in 1972 where he joined…
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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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Martha Deng Nhial, also known as Nhiebol, her childhood name, is a trained nurse who for years worked at the diocesan clinic in Renk Town. A leader in the Mothers’ Union as well, she was an obvious choice to be among the first ordained women in the Diocese. Martha is well-respected in town, a leader…
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Deborah Akon Wei, who grew up in a family with a Muslim father, decided to become a Christian in 1973. Growing up in Malakal, a major city along the White Nile in South Sudan, she lived near a Christian cemetery, and remembers hearing the songs of hope being sung and the Bible being read at…
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Grace Isaiah Kpari is the only woman priest in Renk who is married to a priest. Her husband, Gordon Binza Tombu, was ordained in 1994, following a career in the Sudanese Armed Forces. Grace, like the other five women, was ordained more than 10 years later.
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Alice Benzine Foke has always been a Christian. She was born near the town of Yambio in South Sudan about the year 1957; she thinks she is 49 years old, but is not certain, a common occurrence in Sudan. She grew up in the Episcopal Church and went to church schools. She is Zande, a…
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Ludia Galia Jambo is a Moro, and might have been born in the year 1939. She is not really certain of her age, which is quite common for those born in rural areas of South Sudan. She knows she was born in Mundri District, and knows that she was baptized by Bishop Oliver Allison, possibly…
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Teresa Aduk Jerboam was born in the village of Duk, north of the town of Bor, in South Sudan in 1968. She came to Renk in 1987, two years after getting married, when her husband, Joseph Nyading, was transferred here from Malakal, where they had been living. Joseph is now a brigadier general in the…
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b. May 12, 1947 by Lucy Couch Payne Paynter, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC, 2016 After retiring from 31 years as an educator (teacher and administrator), Kay transferred that same passion for service and ministry to the many outreach opportunities at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Winston-Salem, NC. There she was drawn in by…
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In Botswana, Juli Hauser found a place big enough to accommodate her dream. It was in 2007 that Juli, a retired teacher and member of Church of the Holy Comforter in Burlington, heard about Duduza (“comfort”) dolls. It seems women in the Diocese of Vermont had organized a project where knitters were invited to use…