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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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ISABELLE GRAHAM WEBB
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 unspeakable comfort which it has afforded to the Minister
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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zealously engaged in promoting interests of the Church
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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a plain but neat and appropriate organ, has been purchased
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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have to make honorable and grateful mention
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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NANCY PYLE SIMONS
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…
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efficient perseverance
The “Female School of Industry” pursues, with characteristic silent, yet efficient perseverance, the benevolent object of its organized association. (Source: The Rev. Jarvis B. Buxton, Parochial Report, St. John’s Church, Fayetteville, 1833 Journal of Convention, 22)
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Ladies Working Society successful
The Sunday School has been continued; and the Ladies’ Working Society has been successful in their commendable exertions for the benefit of the Church. (Source: The Rev. John Avery, Parochial Report, St. Paul’s Church, Edenton, 1833 Journal of Convention, 28)
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for charitable purposes
Our Sunday School is in a flourishing condition; and the Industrious Society formed some years since by the Ladies of the Congregation, for charitable purposes, still exists. (Source: The Rev. William N. Hawks, Parochial Report, St. Peter’s Church, Washington, 1832 Journal of Convention, 10)
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New Diocesan ECW Board Members
Announcing Our NewDiocesan ECW Board Members President – Mary Gordon Mary Gordon has been serving as the Interim President of the Diocesan ECW since November 2015, before her election as President in November 2016. She has been a communicant for forty plus years at St. Mary’s, High Point. At St. Mary’s she proudly serves as…
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