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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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MILDRED VIRGINIA MILHAM BIRMINGHAM
January 19, 1895 – July 12, 1990 by Ann Birmingham Head, Columbiana, Alabama, 2015 Known lovingly as “Mimp” to family and friends, Mildred Birmingham was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, to Claude Gilbert and Marjorie Anne England Milham. The poor health of a daughter led Claude to leave his dental practice in 1910 and move the…
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another lady from New York sent me catechisms
I have about 75 volumes Sunday School books sent to me by a good lady of New York (Grace Church) and another lady from New York sent me catechisms. (Source: The Rev. J. H. Postell, Parochial Report, Buncombe County, 1886 Journal of Convention, 82)
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Thanks are due for this
For the Church to be built at Columbia, there are already in hand nearly $800. Thanks are due, for this, to many friends in different parts of the country, who have responded to the Missionary’s call for aid; and, more particularly, to the Ladies of Edenton, who, by their self-denying labors, raised, of the amount…
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the printing of our lamented Bishop’s works
The Working Society continue their zealous exertions. Besides other appropriations for the benefit of the Church and to charitable purposes, they have contributed $20 to the Missionary Fund, which they wish, if necessary, to be applied to the printing of our lamented Bishop’s works. (Source: The Rev. John Avery, Parochial Report, St. Paul’s, Edenton, 1830…
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Hospice to Harnett County (N.C.)
Lucy always felt that St. Stephen’s should be involved in the larger life of the Episcopal Church, often serving as a delegate to the Annual Convention. Throughout the years Lucy served in various leadership positions in St. Stephen’s ECW, including president for 1973-1974 and 1977-1979. As president or as program chairman, Lucy invited friends she…
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LUCY BLAKE WARD ADAIR
b. October 3, 1917 by Barbara Sue Oglesby Nicholl, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Erwin, 2015 Dr. William Adair and his young wife, Lucy, moved to Erwin, North Carolina, in 1941, when Dr. Adair entered family medical practice there. This was good news for St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Erwin, because the couple soon became fully…
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Ladies’ Aid Society erected a metal fence
President of Woman’s Auxiliary – Mrs. Thomas B. Keogh; President of Ladies’ Aid Society – Mrs. Richard C. Pope. The exterior of the church building has been thoroughly repaired and painted, with the valued assistance of the Ladies’ Aid Society, who have erected a neat and delicate metal fence around the church grounds. (Source: The…
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Gifts of silver will be used to make the service
At the annual meeting of the Woman’s Auxiliary in Chapel Hill last week, we voted to collect keepsakes and treasures of gold and silver that people would like to give to be made into a Communion Service. It will first be used, according to our Bishop’s suggestion, at Camp Greene; after the war is over…
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May their hearts, as well as their hands, be ever engaged in the cause of Him who went about doing good
As it may serve to stimulate others to the like good work, I will add, that a number of young misses, between 6 and 14 years old, have, by one of our young ladies, been formed into a society, and spend one afternoon in each week, in working for the purpose of charity. May their…
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instituted for the purpose of furnishing with work females
A Female Benevolent Society has been instituted for the purpose of furnishing with work those females who are unable of themselves to procure it, and also to relieve those who are incapable of labour. A great number of the female members of the congregation are attached to this Society, and take an active part in…
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