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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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He perceived that the gifts of men and women should be equal in the sight of man
Lex was a charismatic man who could have gathered admiring women around himself and used them to carry out social ministries while he personally wielded power in the church’s political structure. Good works would have been done and few women would have complained. But this was not his way. He perceived that the gifts of…
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On the first Sunday in Lent I visited Durham . . . The next day I visited the day-school taught by Miss Dancey.
On the first Sunday in Lent I visited Durham, celebrated the Holy Eucharist in the morning, and in the afternoon said Evensong and catechized the children of the Sunday-school. The next day I visited the day-school taught by Miss Dancey. (Source: The Rev. William Walker, Report of the Archdeacon in Charge of Colored Work, 1891…
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Remembering Lex Mathews
Remembering Lex Mathews and His Decade as Director of Christian Social Ministries, 1975-1985 A Day of Diocesan Story-telling and Celebration Saturday, April 5, 2014 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.The Church of the Good Shepherd121 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh Few individuals have had a greater positive impact upon the life of our diocese than Lex…
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She taught the public school at Galloway Farm for two years and gave herself fully to the demands of the people upon her time and life
Miss Lillie H. Hill of Pittsboro, after serving three and a half years in this community [Leaksville-Spray, now Eden] has gone to take up a very interesting work at Southern Pines under the direction of Rev. Harry O. Nash. Miss Hill did a very useful and self sacrificing work at Spray for a year and…
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By the inspiration of the one Churchwoman of the community
In The Spirit of Missions for October, 1906, there is an interesting article by the late Miss Kate Cheshire in which there appears the following paragraph: “This little log church (Knollhurst) is in the heart of the woods. By the inspiration of the one Churchwoman (Mrs. C. R. Wall) of the community, it was built…
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two rules continue to be of vital importance in the life of the women of the Church: Prayer – Service
A notable landmark in the history of the Order of the Daughters of the King will be reached this year – the Jubilee Anniversary of its founding. Fifty years ago, at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, New York City (now the Church of the Resurrection), the members of a small Bible class, led my…
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In other words isolated people constitute not only a field but a force of great potentiality
Since the appointment of a national leader by the Department of Religious Education in 1929 the work among the isolated has become a definite part of the program of nearly every diocese and district. The president of the Woman’s Auxiliary in the Diocese of North Carolina is eager to enlarge and intensify this work in…
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We really MUST use only what we need, not more
“The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein.” I am awed, almost to the point of paralysis, by the power of that statement and by the urgency and the magnitude of the task – Caring for God’s Creation… . This afternoon we will hear about Christian responsibility…
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she was throughout her long life an ornament to the Church and one of its most faithful ministers and servants
The death of Miss Kate Cheshire has removed from the contemporary scene a woman of great force of character. Member of a family that has given the church in North Carolina many of its best and most beloved leaders, she herself made a distinct place in the tradition. Endowed with charm of manner, a delightful…
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She finds the heat of our Southern climate too great for her
The parish is soon to lose the services of Deaconess Mitchell … [who] has been giving practically all her time to the work at St. Saviour’s, the parish mission. She finds the heat of our Southern climate too great for her. She has done a good work for us, and we regret to give her…
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