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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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mainly through the generosity of a member of the Parish and the efforts of the Ladies’ Aid Society
February 15th, the Sunday School met in the new Sunday school room in the basement of the Church, which has been completed mainly through the generosity of a member of the Parish and the efforts of the Ladies’ Aid Society. (Source: The Rev. S. P. Watters, Parochial Report, Grace Church, Morganton, 1885 Journal of Convention,…
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MOLETA WADDELL
b. 1920 by Carolyn Townsend, St. Bartholomew’s Church, Pittsboro, 2014 At the age of eight Moleta Waddell became a member of St. James’ Chapel, the African American mission in Pittsboro. Her parents, Minnie and Charlie Waddell, had seven children, including Mildred, Moleta, Ruth, and two boys who died of diphtheria. Moleta attended Horton School in…
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Let our ladies’ auxiliaries not fail to do what they have hitherto done, and if possible, to increase their contributions.
It is hoped that the churches of the Convocation will not forget our school at Roanoke Rapids. Mr. Joyner, the Rector, of the congregation there, reports a fine school of over forty pupils under the efficient supervision of a teacher from old Virginia, a Mrs. Pace, a thorough churchwoman of good experience, and one who…
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And how many interesting people we know!
A visitor might have the impression that she had come into the midst of a family instead of into a school; it is both a family and a school. To be sure we rise in the morning by a bell for an early breakfast, for the dishes have to be washed and the house cleaned…
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her own beautiful and unselfish devotion to all good works
MRS. LAURA FOARD GALLOWAY – The good lady was called to her rest on the 31st day of January, 1929. She was born October 25th, 1846, the daughter of Major R. W. Foard and Mrs. Maria P. Foard, his wife; and was married to the late Alexander Broadnax Galloway December 4, 1866. For many years…
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These little girls labored long with untiring zeal
On January 1, 1914, was placed in Good Shepherd Church, Cooleemee, a set of brass vases, a set of brass candelabra, and a brass cross bearing this inscription: “to the glory of god, and in memory of Rev. Francis Johnston Murdoch, D. D. Born 1846; Died 1909. Given by the Junior Guild.” These little girls…
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The death occurred near the height of the Christmas season
The Rev. Lex S. Mathews died Dec. 21 [1985] at Morehead City. He had been director of Christian Social Ministries for the diocese for the last 11 years. Mathews died on his sailboat, the Credence, which was moored at the time. Death was by accidental asphyxiation of fumes from a heater on the boat. He…
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in God’s good Providence this arrangement was made possible
The work of “St. James’ Home” Mission has gone on as usual, but we think with increased success, three members of the Sisterhood of the Good Shepherd having charge of it. Since their coming we have had perpetual reason to be thankful that in God’s good Providence this arrangement was made possible. More than eighty…
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Thus God gives peace and rest to his people
Harriet Clark, an aged colored woman of the old school, and who used to belong to Mr. Isaac Smith’s family, a member of the Episcopal Church for many years, baptized by Rev. Joseph Blount Cheshire and confirmed by Rt. Rev. Thomas Atkinson, Bishop of North Carolina, passed away to the unseen land Monday morning, December…
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Harvest Home festival was held in the Chapel; goods and fruits of the earth were presented for charity
In addition to the foregoing, a nice organ has been placed in the Sunday-school room by the congregation. A nice large Bible has been presented to the Chapel, and also a handsome little font in memory of the late Mariah Ann Harris. On November 30, Harvest Home festival was held in the Chapel; goods and…
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