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Annual Meeting 2025
143rd Annual Meeting Episcopal Church Women,Diocese of North Carolina Saturday, November 15, 2025, 9 AM – 3:30 PM The Station at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church875 W. 5th St. Winston-Salem NC 27101 Special Guest: Lisa Bortner President, National Episcopal Church Women Sharing her vision for… ECW Reimagined! National ECW is a churchwide organization dedicated to empowering Episcopal…
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Her training was as good as that given in the best hospitals North
A part of the colored work in our Convocation claims my especial interest. St. Agnes Hospital and Training School for nurses should appeal to Southern women, as we know how well adapted colored girls are by nature for nursing. For several weeks last winter a graduate of St. Agnes Training School was under my supervision…
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They had $4.40
The ladies of Sanford have on hand an amount, $4.40, for the purpose of building a church. (Source: The Rev. C. T. Bland, Parochial Report, Sanford Mission, Lee County, 1895 Journal of Convention, 114)
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in memory of her son
A beautiful cross for the altar has lately been presented by Mrs. Barbee, of Louisville, Ky., in loving memory of her son, who worshipped with us for a short time and was then called to Paradise. (Source: The Rev. John A. Deal, Parochial Report, St. Agnes’ Mission, Franklin, 1892 Journal of Convention, 93)
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Miss Ruth was a stately lady and a wonderful hostess, but, first, a staunch Episcopalian
I remember Miss Ruth would have the Sunday School picnic at her home on the Dan River, a beautiful place. I can still see those lovely magnolia trees. One was on the front lawn, near the house, and a wonderful tree for kids to climb. We were like monkeys swinging from those limbs. Unlike the…
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She used her time & gifts well
“Residents of Erwin and Harnett County – especially those whom she taught to read – honor Maude, Erwin’s first ‘Woman of the Year,’ for her service to the Harnett County Literacy Council, the Erwin School Board, the Good Hope Hospital, and the Red Cross. “Her fellow parishioners knew the strong leadership that she offered the…
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MAUDE ELIZABETH GRAHAM BOST
January 10, 1903 – April 24, 1991 by Barbara Sue Oglesby Nicholl, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Erwin, NC, 2016 The life of Maude Graham Bost is inextricably intertwined with the history of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. St. Stephen’s was built in 1905 under the leadership of W. A. Erwin, on land he contributed. Mr. Erwin,…
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the elder Female Working Society
A responsibility for $600 towards the price of the Lot on which the Church is placed was generously assumed by the Juvenile Sewing Society of the congregation, and $350 of this sum has been already paid by them. The sum of $500 has also been appropriated to the Vestry by the elder Female Working Society…
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debt extinguished
The female industry of the congregation has extinguished, within the past, year, the balance due upon the Rectory. (Source: The Rev. Jarvis B. Buxton, Parochial Report, St. John’s Church, Fayetteville, 1837 Journal of Convention, 16)
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HENRIETTA (HENRI) DIBRELL BROWN
b. March 7, 1955 by Mary Louise Burress, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC, 2016 Fifteen years ago, three women – Becky Clingman, Trudy Winstead, and Susan Uphoff, with help from St. Paul’s Episcopal Church – started the Winston-Salem Augustine Project with six tutors and students at one school. They believed, as we still do,…
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praiseworthy
The Ladies’ Working Society continues its truly praiseworthy and valuable labours. (Source: The Rev. Thomas F. Davis, Parochial Report, St. James’ Church, Wilmington, 1836 Journal of Convention, 26)
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