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Episcopal Church Women in NC
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The early morning procession of the flags, where members of the Mothers’ Union carry the standard for the MU branch at their parish through the streets of the host locale, has taken place, as has the closing communion. Chairs in the meeting hall have been stacked, posters removed from the walls, the hiccuping microphone unplugged…
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At its heart, the NetsforLife campaign to eradicate malaria in sub-Saharan Africa is about the promise of the Episcopal Church to raise up the Millennium Development Goals and use them as a mission orientation. Of the eight goals, NetsforLife, an initiative of Episcopal Relief and Development, particularly focuses on goal six: “Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.”…
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There’s hazy sunshine and a good breeze the day I’m to address the annual conference of the Mothers’ Union in Botswana. In the hall are MU representatives from neighboring South Africa, clergy from a range of faith groups, the chief of Tsabong (which has been hosting the assembly), and John Toto, who represents in the…
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b. December 14, 1923 by William Horsley, St. Thomas, Reidsville, 2011 Marian was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, but grew up in Florida. She graduated from Florida State University in 1945 with a degree in accounting. She taught at FSU for a year when the university became co-ed. She attended graduate school at the University…
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The organizational structure of the Mothers’ Union and Episcopal Church Women is very similar, as are the goals of some of our ministries. But in the U.S., every woman of the Episcopal Church is automatically considered an Episcopal Church Woman (the level of involvement in ECW activities is up to her) while in Botswana, and…
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It’s 8:30 p.m. and a group of us attending the Mothers’ Union annual conference in Tsabong, having finished a late dinner capped with cups of hot tea and bowls of cream and fruit (the fruit bearing a strong resemblance to what Americans know as canned fruit cocktail), are ready for the last act of the…
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The choirs have finished competing and are again sitting with the other members of their delegations from churches throughout the Diocese of Botswana. The judges are huddling together, conferring about the energetic performances of the women.
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Activities ran long during the Saturday morning session of the Mothers’ Union conference and now there’s an early afternoon lull. The slower pace, so different from other days at the large gathering in Tsabong, is a little disorienting at first. Then I realize all is not as it seems on the surface.
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Late one afternoon, after the last of the reports have been presented at the annual conference of the Mothers’ Union, about a dozen MU members and I pile into the trusty white passenger van and head to the home of a recently deceased maruti, Mma Toto. Mma Toto, whose husband predeceased her by about a…
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Competitions are an integral part of the annual conferences of the Mothers’ Union in the Anglican Diocese of Botswana. Women from different parishes vie for top honors in a variety of categories. These showcases for skills are friendly competitions, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t taken seriously. The first contest at the conference in Tsabong…