-
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…
-
CYNTHIA YEAGER BOULDIN
b. 1947 by the Landscape Committee of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC, 2016 Cynthia, along with her husband, Edwin E. Bouldin, Jr., has been a member of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Winston-Salem since 1974. Her longtime involvement in church activities includes serving as a Cub Scout and Webelos leader, a member of the…
-
labored with usual diligence
The Ladies Working Society has labored with its usual diligence; and the Sunday School has not ceased to pour its blessings on the young, and to train up candidates for the full communion of the Church. (Source: The Rev. William M. Green, Parochial Report, St. Matthew’s Church, Hillsborough, 1832 Journal of Convention, 12)
-
the untiring zeal of these industrious Daughters of Zion
The Congregation continues to be indebted for no inconsiderable share of its outward prosperity, to the little band of devoted females constituting what is called ‘the Church Society.’ Among their other benefactions, they have generously appropriated one hundred dollars of their earnings to aid in procuring a Bell, although the accomplishment of their favorite object,…
-
active and efficient
The benevolent Institutions connected with the Church, are active and efficient. Among them, the ‘Female Industrious School Association,’ is distinguished, not less for its laudable object, than for the zeal and prudence with which that object is pursued. (Source: The Rev. Jarvis B. Buxton, Parochial Report, St. John’s, Fayetteville, 1832 Journal of Convention, 9)
-
A Parish and Sunday School Library have been established
A Parish and Sunday School Library have been established, and the Working Society have been able to contribute a considerable sum to the advancement of the interests of the Church. (Source: The Rev. John Avery, Parochial Report, St. Paul’s, Edenton, 1831 Journal of Convention, 10)
-
May they not be weary in well doing
Here also, your Committee would beg leave to direct your attention to those benevolent associations of females which exist in all our larger Congregations, and which, by their silent but efficient course, are yearly fertilizing this portion of the garden of the Lord. Were it practicable to calculate the amount of good derived both to…
-
The Female Working Association have diligently prosecuted their object
The Female Working Association have diligently prosecuted their object – and the avails of the labor, added to the voluntary subscriptions of the Congregation generally have resulted in the building of a Rectory, now nearly completed. (Source: The Rev. William D. Cairns, Parochial Report, St. James, Wilmington, 1830 Journal of Convention, 10)
-
Ms. Episcopalian
“Following the death of my mother in the fall of 2011, I learned that a few older priests in the diocese affectionately referred to her as ‘Ms. Episcopalian.’ My mother loved God, her family and her Church, in that order.” Thus begins a story about Hanna Kitchin, who died just days shy of her 99th…
-
HANNA LAW RICHARDSON KITCHIN
October 16, 1912 – October 9, 2011 by Hanna Kitchin Herring, Trinity Church, Scotland Neck, 2016 Following the death of my mother in the fall of 2011, I learned that a few older priests in the diocese affectionately referred to her as ‘Ms. Episcopalian.’ My mother loved God, her family and her Church, in that…
-
a set of beautiful lamps
And the Society of Ladies, mentioned in the former Parochial Reports, have, by their industry, been enabled to furnish the Church with a set of beautiful Lamps, which cost upwards to $100; and to contribute $50 towards the Rector’s salary. (Source: The Rev. Philip B. Wiley, Parochial Report, St. Peter’s, Washington, 1830 Journal of Convention,…
ECW-NC
Episcopal Church Women in NC