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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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further improvements
A Female Industrious Association contemplate still further improvements in the general comfort and convenience of the edifice for purposes of worship. (Source: The Rev. Jarvis B. Buxton, Parochial Report, Christ Church, Elizabeth City, 1830 Journal of Convention, 14)
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By the exertions, chiefly, of one lady, $85 have been presented for the purpose of purchasing a bell
Where there is so little cause of rejoicing, it is gratifying to be able to state, that the few members of the Female Episcopal Society, have wrought diligently, and by the sale of a variety of articles, and from some small donations by liberal gentlemen, they have been enabled to defray the expense of painting…
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a slumber of nearly eighteen months
In addition to these gratifying and useful results of a zeal which has been revived after a slumber of nearly eighteen months, I am happy to report the recent formation of an Industrious Society by the Ladies of the Congregation. (Source: The Rev. J. R. Goodman, Parochial Report, Christ’s Church, Newbern, 1829 Journal of Convention,…
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zealous exertions
The Working Society, by their zealous exertions, have been able to apply a considerable sum to sacred uses. (Source: The Rev. John Avery, Parochial Report, St. Paul’s Church, Edenton, 1829 Journal of Convention, 20)
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fifteen dollars
The female Episcopal Working Association of Wilmington has also contributed fifteen dollars to the [Missionary Society]. (Source: The Rev. Thomas S. W. Mott, Parochial Report, St. James’ Church, Wilmington, 1828 Journal of Convention, 18)
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through the zeal of several female amateurs
In the early part of the last year, a very neat set of communion plate was presented to the Church by the female communicants; and more recently, the liberality of the Congregation has been manifested, in the purchase, at an expense of $800, of a handsome and well-toned organ, which is now, through the zeal…
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ANNA LOUISE “ROBBIE” ROBERTSON
March 1893 – January 1987 by Ellen C Weig, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Wilmington, NC, 2016 The training to be a deaconess, director of education, or a parish worker at the Church Training and Deaconess House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, took two to three years of rigorous study and included courses on the Bible and Church…
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UTO Sunday
All Saints’ Sunday, Ascension Sunday, or What Works for You? By Kathy Mank, Financial Secretary, UTO National Board In trying to locate a current source of why All Saints’ and Ascension Sundays have traditionally been selected by congregations throughout The Episcopal Church for UTO Ingatherings, I found little, except for lots of old UTO Blue…
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The Rev. Grace Isaiah Kpari
Grace Isaiah Kpari is the only woman priest in Renk who is married to a priest. Her husband, Gordon Binza Tombu, was ordained in 1994, following a career in the Sudanese Armed Forces. Grace, like the other five women, was ordained more than 10 years later.
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The Rev. Alice Benzine Foke
Alice Benzine Foke has always been a Christian. She was born near the town of Yambio in South Sudan about the year 1957; she thinks she is 49 years old, but is not certain, a common occurrence in Sudan. She grew up in the Episcopal Church and went to church schools. She is Zande, a…
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