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Episcopal Church Women in NC
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The Episcopal Women’s History Project (EWHP) gave awards and grants while meeting in Indianapolis during the 77th General Convention of The Episcopal Church. Accepting the Malcolm and Pat Diesenroth Parish Award on behalf of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Hillsborough, NC was Ellen Weig. The award, which comes with a $250 prize, is given for…
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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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The hand over in the parking lot of the Choppies grocery that sits on the edge of Gaborone, Botswana’s capital city, is complete. My possessions and I leave the Mothers’ Union officers, with whom I’ve spent the past week, and join five representatives of the Anglican Women’s Fellowship. As we drive toward the center of…
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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…
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On Shrove Tuesday I shared a Lenten meditation with some friends in Botswana. It included a message that had recently been forwarded to me: Pray for the International Anglican Women’s Network as it connects Anglican women across the world, encouraging them to become influential, equal participants throughout the Communion and in their own communities.
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Since, a week earlier, Cecilia was the last person we collected on our journey into Tsabong for the annual conference of the Mothers’ Union, she is the first person to get home. Home is Moshupa, a large village with a population of about 20,000. The afternoon sun is waning as we exit the van to…
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Travel on the two-lane Sir Seretse Khama Highway (named for Botswana’s first president) is uneventful except for encounters with those animals who prefer meandering in the middle of the road. Singing, talking, eating and dozing in the sun streaming through the windows of the Mothers’ Union van help us pass the time.
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There’s a problem with the trusty, hard-working white van that will take us out of the Kalahari Desert and back to Botswana’s capital city, Gaborone. While the repair is being made I take a seat outside to bask in the morning sun and watch the village of Tsabong come to life.