Episcopal Church Women in NC
A Greeting and A Farewell Hello, and WELCOME to the Episcopal Church Women (ECW) 2020 Annual Meeting in the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina. My name is Barbara Longmire, and I have been blessed to be your diocesan ECW President for the past two years. Unfortunately, I will not be able to join you this year because I have resigned as President of the…
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History Focus for 2020 ECW Annual Meeting BISHOP TUTTLE MEMORIAL TRAINING SCHOOL by Lynn R. Hoke, Diocesan Archivist What follows is a slightly revised version of my “story” about how our Diocesan ECW commemorated the Bishop Tuttle Training School in 2009. Built, furnished and funded primarily by members of the National Woman’s Auxiliary and local…
Elbow Grease and More: Still Honoring Our History Lynn Hoke, ECW Historian & Diocesan Archivist ECW President Shara Partin reported to the 1995 Diocesan Convention: “Women’s involvement in hands-on efforts is the elbow grease that turns the wheels in many parts of the Diocese.” This is true now, as it was in 1995, in 1895,…
Annual Meeting 2014 – Book of Remembrance In Remembrance Reading from The Book of Remembrance is a cherished tradition at the annual meetings of the Episcopal Church Women of the Diocese of North Carolina. All ECW branches are invited to submit a list of members who have died since the previous Annual Meeting for inclusion in The Book…
Annual Meeting 2009 – Slideshow
Traveling the Way of Love: Sarah Hunter’s Loving Servicefor Saint Agnes’ Hospital By Lynn Hoke, Archivist,the Diocese of North Carolina Today we might call them an Episcopal Church power couple – Sarah Lothrop Hunter and the Rev. Aaron Burtis Hunter. These two were married in January 1888 in New York, then moved almost immediately to…
GIFTS OF GRACE The United Thank Offering at Workin North Carolina Lynn Hoke, ECW Historian & Archivist We are winding up a year of celebration for the Bicentennial of the Episcopal Church in North Carolina. With history in mind, this year’s Annual Meeting provides an ideal time for a retrospective on the United Thank Offering.…
Annual Meeting 2010 – Book of Remembrance In Remembrance Reading from The Book of Remembrance is a cherished tradition at the annual meetings of the Episcopal Church Women of the Diocese of North Carolina. All ECW branches are invited to submit a list of members who have died since the previous Annual Meeting for inclusion…
ECW Designates the Annual Meeting Eucharistic Offering to Support Sabbatical Project of Canon Lee The 2019 ECW Annual Meeting Eucharistic Offering will be awarded to Canon Rhonda Mawhood Lee. The offering will help support asylum seekers and those living on our Southern Borders via our Regional Diocesan Cannon Rhonda Lee. This fall, she will be…