ecw-dev
Episcopal Church Women in NC
Category: The Story Goes On
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Where we have fallen short, let us make a greater effort; where we have done good work, let us make it even better; where new work presents itself let us widen our field of service. In the coming year it is particularly important that every parish church and especially the Auxiliary women should be prepared…
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While many of you have long ago identified your ministry, there may be some of you here today who feel you are not fully using your talents or perhaps there’s someone at home who needs your encouragement. I challenge you to listen, and to dream, to make new plans and open new doors. The world…
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The need, still, is for more “laborers in the harvest.” Mrs. William Gordon has written the following challenge to us and has given me permission to quote from her letter: “If the Auxiliary had been able to have the Annual Meeting, I should have offered through your Department, a resolution asking the Auxiliary to make…
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Mr. Taylor, of the Red Cross, was given five minutes to talk about the disaster by cyclone at Wendell, and a collection was taken for the sufferers. (Source: Minutes of Annual Meeting, 1923 Woman’s Auxiliary Annual Meeting, 11)
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The Bishop Tuttle School for young women who are preparing to enter fields of Social Service or Religious Education has been maintained for a number of years as a special project of the National Women’s Auxiliary. Our Church is the first and only Church to provide such an opportunity for training so that this school…
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An interesting feature of the day was the action taken on the resolution made through a member of the Auxiliary, by a member of the Convention. Voting against the resolution, “That we, the members of the Woman’s Auxiliary present at this annual meeting do approve of the proposition that women be eligible to vote in…
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August is the month for picnics and Home Comings in this section of the country, and our congregation Good Shepherd, Cooleemee has participated in several of them… . August in Davie and Rowan impresses one that life is just one picnic after another. And the cookery is excellent. The fame of these tables has gone…
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Our Parish had the misfortune to lose, on September 29th, 1877, one of its best members and ablest workers, Mrs. Laura Ingraham James, mother of our faithful communicant, George James. Mrs. James was a woman of many Christian attributes, also a woman of many sorrows and acquainted with grief, losing three children, who are buried…
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Charlotte’s new hospital set-up with a large Memorial Hospital combining the old St. Peter’s will at the same time perpetuate the name by means of a section in the new structure to be known as “St. Peter’s Wing,” the Rev. John L. Jackson declared to Executive Council meeting in Raleigh on September 20. His remarks…
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Aunt Nannie was superintendent, business manager, secretary, and treasurer of the school for 37 years, and the person with whom all business concerning the school was transacted. She did all the employing of school personnel; she was chief disciplinarian; and it was she who made the school the success it was. As one of her…