ECW-NC
Episcopal Church Women in NC
Author: ECW-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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No minister in this Church in America can afford to neglect or discourage the Woman’s Auxiliary. No parish is in greater danger of losing its missionary spirit than the parish with a weak Auxiliary, and if a congregation loses its missionary spirit it has lost its life. Every parish branch combines in a wonderful way…
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… But to estimate the helpfulness of the Auxiliary only on the basis of (financial asset) would be an error. We believe that if the missionary interest, the missionary prayers, the missionary information, the missionary inspiration and all expressions of missionary spirit in the American Church in this day could be taken into account along…
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The services have been generally well attended by our own congregation and those who have sought refuge with us from the enemy on our coast. May God in good time hear our prayers for peace and deliverance from our enemies! The Ladies still continue their exertions among the poor, though they have during this year…
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During the past year the Church Aid Society has opened a Hospital, and has thus far been blessed in its efforts in the branch of Christian work. This Society, and one formed of the children of the Church, give high promise of usefulness. Soon, the Rector hopes, that a Hospital on permanent foundation, and a…
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The Ladies’ Sewing Society, organized in 1878, was responsible for the purchase of a lot, the acquisition of a building moved to the site, and its renovation and furnishing as a rectory. In an article written for the local paper, presumably in 1928, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the society, Miss Lena Smith, daughter of…
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Grace Church, Plymouth, is in much better condition than I expected to find it, the enemy having put in it plain windows and pews. The only injury the church building sustained during the attack on Plymouth was from three shells, one passing through the spire, one through the roof, and the third destroying the casing…