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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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  • the generosity of Mrs. E.G. Muse

    Have kept up regular services at Spring Hope, where also Rev. M. A Barber and myself held a very encouraging mission last July. The congregation there has secured a large and desirable lot, partly through the generosity of Mrs. E. G. Muse, and hope to build a chapel this summer. (Source: The Rev. Robert B.…

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  • a more flourishing condition

    The Directress of the ‘Ladies Working Society’ represents it as being in a more flourishing condition than formerly.  (Source: The Rev. Philip B. Wiley, Parochial Report, Christ Church, Elizabeth City, 1832 Journal of Convention, 10)

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  • we have established a Female Missionary, and Common Prayer Book Society

    In giving an account of the State of the Parish, according to the fifth canon, I may further state, that agreeably to the recommendation of the last Convention, we have established a Female Missionary, and Common Prayer Book Society, which numbers about forty subscribers, at three dollars per annum. We have likewise a Bible Society…

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  • They have sold so many of these pansy plants they are now known locally as “Episcopal pansies”

    The Woman’s Auxiliary of Calvary, Wadesboro, have found one source of income they are willing to share with others. They have sold so many of these pansy plants they are now known locally as “Episcopal pansies.” Each year they buy the plants from Felton’s Pansy Farm, Merchantville, N. J., for thirty-five cents per hundred, and…

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  • the ladies of the congregation took the matter up

    A portion of the church fence having been destroyed by fire, the ladies of the congregation took the matter up, and besides restoring the part destroyed, had the whole of the fence repaired, and it is now in good order. (Source: The Rev. Herbert W. Robinson, Parochial Report, St. Mark’s, Halifax, 1887 Journal of Convention,…

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  • The ladies sent to the orphanage two large boxes

    The Ladies’ Aid Society and Woman’s Auxiliary sent to the Orphanage two large boxes, which are not included in the above account. The amount given to Domestic Missions was largely contributed by the Ladies’ Aid Society and Woman’s Auxiliary and the Junior Auxiliary for the Missionary District of Asheville. (Source: The Rev. George M. Tolson,…

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  • OLIVIA TAYLOR FEDUCCIA

    b. September 5, 1947 by Mary Fry Edmunds Haywood, St. Stephen’s Church, Durham Olivia Taylor Feduccia has been a driving force in keeping two Vance County churches alive. A member of the Historic Properties Commission of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, she has served faithfully for many years on the Committee of St. John’s,…

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  • Survey on the Future of ECW

    Take this Survey and Share Your Opinion About the Future of ECW Dear Fellow Members of The Episcopal Church, Empower your voice!We need your help to make a difference. At Triennial Meeting 2012, delegates adopted Resolution 101/104, which called for the research and review of the present function and structure of the Episcopal Church Women…

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  • from a Lady of St Michael’s, Charleston, a Surplice, and “a fair white linen cloth” for communion times

    A Bell is on the way to us from Meneely’s Foundry – weight 224 lbs. A handsome silver Service has been presented by one who desired to be unnamed. Also, we have received from a Lady of St Michael’s, Charleston, a Surplice, and “a fair white linen cloth” for communion times. (Source: The Rev. Jarvis…

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  • strengthening the hands and comforting the hearts of their respective Pastors

    The several “Female Associations of Industry” which have hitherto been foremost in every good work have not abated in their holy zeal, but are still by their pious labors, strengthening the hands and comforting the hearts of their respective Pastors. (Source: Report of the Committee on the State of the Church, 1832 Journal of Convention,…

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