ECW-NC
Episcopal Church Women in NC
Author: ECW-NC
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As an Auxiliary we are asked to think of Christian social service not merely as visiting the sick or prisoners, the sending of flowers or clothes and magazines but as a constructive plan for making a better citizenship, for removing the causes leading to crime, poverty, disease and ignorance and helping others to help themselves.…
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Through the activity of Mr. S. S. Nash and Miss Kate Cheshire, from Tarboro, this work has been well kept up, and their influence for good is widely felt in all that neighborhood. Their work there clearly proves what earnest lay people may do for the extension of God’s true and holy church. (Source: The…
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After this service the Bishop [Cheshire] spoke to the women in words of appreciation and gratitude of the work which they are doing for his diocese and for the Church at large. He told how the Church was depending more and more upon the work of its women; and seeing how the sphere of woman’s…
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We have now at Micadale a very valuable teacher, Miss Mary B. Skellie, who is sustained by kind friends at the north. She conducts admirably the very large Sunday school, and the large day school of this Mission, and she and her friend, Miss Birdsall, are most useful helpers in the church work of this…
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A faithful and devoted daughter of the Church has presented this Parish with a handsome Stone Font, and by her unceasing efforts and devotion, is doing much in other respects to promote the welfare of the Parish. I take this opportunity of expressing my thanks to an aged lady member of the Parish for kindnesses…
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The contributions of the Parish Branch of the Woman’s Auxiliary have amounted to $15.17, most of which was given to St. John’s Hospital. (Source: The Rev. Walter J. Smith, Parochial Report, Trinity Church, Scotland Neck, 1892 Journal of Convention, p. 126)
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“We the undersigned residents of the town of Wilson in the Diocese of North Carolina do hereby apply to the Right Reverend Joseph Blount Cheshire, Bishop of said Diocese, and request him to organize us into a mission of said Diocese in accordance with the Constitution and Canons of the same; and we do hereby…
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Congratulations to the 16 women, ranging in age from 24-67 years old, who received Lex Mathews Scholarships this school year. The scholarships, awarded annually, help women, many of whom are solely responsible for their families, to achieve self-sufficiency by getting the education necessary to enter or reenter the workforce. Preference is given to Episcopalians or…
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When celebrating her first Eucharist at The Chapel of the Cross on February 13, 1977, Pauli read from her grandmother Cornelia’s Bible, from a lectern given in memory of Cornelia’s owner, Mary Ruffin Smith. (This was also the first Eucharist celebrated by a woman in North Carolina.) In her autobiography (Song in a Weary Throat),…
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November 20, 1910 – July 1, 1985 by Margaret (Meg) McCann, St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, Durham, 2012 The Rev. Dr. Anna Pauline (Pauli) Murray was many things – writer, lawyer, professor, and advocate for the rights of African Americans and women. She was also the first African American woman ordained a priest in the Episcopal…