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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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We are all poor, but I have never seen a more faithful and untiring set of ladies
We now have a Woman’s Auxiliary, St. Agnes’ Guild, Junior Guild, Babies’ Branch, and a large branch of the Girls’ Friendly Society which meets once a week. The Junior Guild also meets once a week; the others, once a month. The ladies have had their Seventh Annual Bazaar. Their average profit has been about one…
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She faced the concept of women as “tokens”
[Her] Diocesan roles led to national ones. As Diocesan ECW President, Scott was a delegate to the 1976 ECW Triennial Meeting and witnessed General Convention’s vote for women’s ordination. Swept by the enormity of the gathering and the spiritual silence in anticipation of vote results, Scott returned home [to North Carolina] with new ideas on…
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MARY SCOTT TYREE EVANS HUGHES
b. July 28, 1921 by Ellen Chesley Weig, St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, Hillsborough, 2015 Scott Evans Hughes is a Southern lady of great faith. She is an Episcopal Church woman who has devoted herself to addressing issues important to women and to making the world a better place for all of us. Scott’s methodology for…
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The ladies have been occupied in the vacancy
This Parish has been vacant since the last Convention. The ladies have been occupied in the vacancy in completing the Rectory and reseating the Church, and other improvements in the chancel. The amount of expenditure cannot be exactly known at present, but will be reported next year. (Source: The Rev. A. H. Boyle, Parochial Report,…
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handsome triplit window of stained glass, the gift of a lady of the Parish
Our Church has been much improved during the past year. The old flat roof has been replaced by a high open one and the east end enlarged sufficiently for a recessed chancel, vestry and organ rooms. The chancel is now lighted by a handsome triplit window of stained glass, the gift of a lady of…
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removal of a lady
We have lost, by the removal of a lady, one of the most efficient members of the congregation of St. Mark’s. (Source: The Rev. R. B. Sutton, Parochial Report, St. Mark’s Church, Deep River, 1861 Journal of Convention, 45)
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we no longer have a segregated District in the Woman’s Auxiliary of this Diocese
For the past two years there has been a growing awareness of our responsibility as Church women in the field of racial integration. It became apparent to our Bishops and other diocesan leaders that the next step in the Woman’s Auxiliary should be the integration of the Negro branches into the other eight Districts in…
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financed largely by the proceeds of the sale of looper clips
In 1955 the parish house was constructed, financed largely by the proceeds of the sale of looper clips (used in the crafting of rugs) given by the Halifax Hosiery Mill and packed and mailed by untiring, dedicated church women. (Source: Trinity Church Scotland Neck, Sesquicentennial brochure, 1982)
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Miss Blanche B. Wood, who came to help as assistant teacher at half price
Had it not been for the kindness of an old schoolmate of twenty-seven years ago at St. Augustine’s, whose daughter graduated from the same school last spring, Miss Blanche B. Wood, who came to help as assistant teacher at half price, I could not have served the two last-named places. (Source: The Rev. Henry B.…
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JUDITH DORIS KENN BOGGS
b. May 14, 1941 by Sara Elizabeth Harding Palmer, Assistant to the Rector, Saint Mary’s Episcopal Church, High Point, 2014 Judy Boggs is one of the most faithful, committed, and caring parishioners I know. She was born on Long Island, New York, on May 14th, 1941. She married her husband Jim Boggs in 1962 at…
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