ECW-NC
Episcopal Church Women in NC
Author: ECW-NC
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It is also with pleasure I have to inform the Convention, that we have ordered an Organ: the Ladies, (as usual,) deserving most, if not all, the credit of it. We hope, ere the next visit of our Diocesan, to have the organ in its place. (Source: The Rev. John Morgan, Parochial Report, St. Luke’s,…
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December 21, 1919 – February 5, 2000 by Mary Louise Gregory Wilson, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC, 2016 Mary Louise Riddick was born December 21, 1919, to Louise Josey and Neusom Allsbrook Riddick in Scotland Neck, North Carolina. She was baptized (1920), confirmed (1931), and married (1946) at Trinity Church in Scotland Neck. In…
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The Ladies Working Society is now supporting a Charity School of about forty members. (Source: The Rev. Thomas F. Davis, Parochial Report, St. James’ Church, Wilmington, 1834 Journal of Convention, 19)
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The labors of the Ladies’ Working Society are still exerted with a wholesome and blessing effect on the interests of the congregation. They have zealously undertaken to pay a considerable portion of the Church debt. (Source: The Rev. William M. Green, Parochial Report, St. Matthew’s Church, Hillsborough, 1834 Journal of Convention, 22)
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March 28, 1926 – June 14, 2014 by Ellen Chesley Weig, for Saint Matthew’s Episcopal Church, Hillsborough, 2016 When Isabelle was a young girl, St. Matthew’s held Sunday School “in the church building and the different classes just went to different corners of the church.” Memories of her Sunday School teachers stayed with her, as…
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The Ladies Working Society continues its operations, and I am happy to report has, within four years, with some assistance from the gentlemen, entirely paid for the building of a Rectory, the cost of which was about $1500. The great advantages of this effort to the parish, the unspeakable comfort which it has afforded to…
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The “Female Associations of Industry,” noticed in the former reports of this Committee, are still zealously engaged in promoting the interests of the Church; and their success, the past year, shows how much may be accomplished, with the blessing of God, by persevering efforts to do good. One of these Societies deserves to be particularly…
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Through the unwearied exertions of a few industrious females, aided by the contributions of the liberal, a plain but neat and appropriate organ, has been purchased, at an expense of upward of $500. It has recently been placed in the Church, and is now regularly used in the stated services of the Sanctuary. (Source: The…
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Of the ‘Ladies Working Society,’ I have to make honorable and grateful mention. Their efforts the past year have been more than ever successful; and in addition to a personal kindness to myself, which I thus take pleasure to acknowledge, they purpose making considerable improvements in the appearance and comfort of their Church, in the…
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by Carolyn Townsend, St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, Pittsboro, 2016 Nancy Pyle Simons has served the Episcopal Church for more than sixty years with the Altar Guild, as a choir member and as a volunteer in the church office. At. St. Bartholomew’s she was editor of the Grapevine newsletter and worked on the church grounds with…