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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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She had an obsession for helping others
Aunt Nannie was superintendent, business manager, secretary, and treasurer of the school for 37 years, and the person with whom all business concerning the school was transacted. She did all the employing of school personnel; she was chief disciplinarian; and it was she who made the school the success it was. As one of her…
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MARY ANNA DAVIS GEFFROY
July 21, 1865 – December 20, 1936 Based on an article by George Huntley III, Senior at Beaufort High School, 1960; submitted by Mamré Marsh Wilson, Historiographer, Diocese of East Carolina, 2013 Mary Anna Davis – later known by her chosen name, Nannie Pasteur Davis, or affectionately called “Aunt Nannie” – was baptized in 1865…
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Always her smile was somehow a benediction
The women of the Church Service League of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, want in this way to express a very real sorrow and loss in the death of Mrs. Susan Hill Steadman, and also an appreciation of her meritorious life and service as a loyal, faithful member of our organization. Her life was a…
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We decided to have a “Rooster Party” the following Tuesday
Miss Marshall read an interesting article on Church advertising based on the text, “Go ye into the byways & hedges & compel them to come in.” We decided to have a “Rooster Party” the following Tuesday to help on the Building Fund and to pay the 75¢ per member for St. Luke’s Hospital [Tokyo]. (Source:…
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2015 Branch Pledges
Dear ECW Branch Treasurers or Presidents/Liaisons, It’s budget time again. The Diocesan ECW Budget for the year beginning January 1, 2015 will be presented at the ECW Annual Meeting at St. Mary’s Church, High Point, on November 7-8, 2014. Prior to that time, the ECW Board needs to hear from you concerning the amount of…
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the pleasure of meeting weekly at the house of the Rector
The Ladies have contributed as usual, by means of their Industrious Society, to the good of the Parish; and have now the pleasure of meeting weekly at the house of the Rector, which is chiefly the fruit of their labor. (Source: The Rev.William D. Cairns, Parochial Report, St. James’ Church, Wilmington, 1831 Journal of Convention,…
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Ladies’ Society of great assistance
The Ladies’ Society has been of great assistance in the Parish in works of benevolence, and in beautifying and adorning the Church. (Source: The Rev. John Huske, Parochial Report, St. Philip’s, Durham, 1885 Journal of Convention, 68)
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I have been enabled by the exertions of the ladies
I have been enabled, by the exertions of the ladies, to put one coat of paint on the church. We are exerting ourselves to raise $500 to complete and paint the building. I am pleased to say no debt hangs over the church, as I am determined the building shall remain unfinished rather than be…
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unremitted activity and benevolence of the females
The Sunday school in this place is still kept up by the unremitted activity and benevolence of the females of the congregation. (Source: The Rev. William M. Green, Parochial Report, Warrenton, 1823 Journal of Convention, 11)
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Camp Penick . . . Where is it? Why at Little Switzerland of course, and girls, I wish you could see it
Camp Penick is a camp for the girls of the diocese. The boys have had their camp for two or three years and have had a grand time, and now it is time for the girls to have theirs. Camp Penick? Doesn’t it sound interesting and intriguing? Well it is. Mrs. Challen, the new Executive…
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