ECW-NC
Episcopal Church Women in NC
Author: Lauren Stanley
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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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On 20 March 2005, six women deacons of the Diocese of Renk were ordained priests of the Episcopal Church of Sudan by The Rt. Rev. Daniel Deng Bul. The six, all of whom had been leaders in the Mothers’ Union, all of whom had served as deacons since the Feast of St. Thomas 2003, were…