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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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FRANCES LOUISE SAMPSON MASK
November 12, 1912 – November 12, 2004 by Alyce Mask Calmore, All Saints’ Church, Hamlet, 2013 Our mother was a native of La Porte, Indiana. She was baptized the twenty-second day of March, 1913 at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in La Porte where her parents and grandparents were communicants. After completing high school in La…
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This change does not give women the right to become members of the vestry
The interesting question, which has been before the Convention for several years, concerning the right of women to vote in parochial elections, was finally disposed of by a favorable vote, changing the constitution so as to allow women this right where a majority of the present qualified voters express their approval of it. This was…
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Some fair daughter of the Church sympathized with us, and contributed as she was able
Some time ago an appeal was made through The Church Intelligencer to the wealthy and liberal churchmen of this diocese, imploring them to give of their abundance a small mite, to aid a feeble and struggling congregation of ladies in erecting in a community in which the Church is just being planted, as it were, a plain,…
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A handsome memorial chair for Christmas
At Christmas a handsome memorial chair was presented to the Church by a lady now at Patapsco Institute, whose memory we all hold dear – one of the Church’s women. (Source: The Rev. Gilbert Higgs, Parochial Report, Church of The Saviour, Jackson, 1882 Journal of Convention, 129)
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Christmas and a beautiful set of toys for the Sunday School
Miss Horner gave a donation and Mr. J. C. Horner presented a beautiful large Bible to St. Cyprian’s Chapel. Mrs. Graham, Mrs. R. W. Lassiter, and Mrs. Gilliam are true friends of this work, bringing the church before the colored people as often as they can. Last Christmas Miss Catharine W. Hilliard sent a beautiful…
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try to find if there are not some Church people in these five townships
The following is a quotation from a letter written by a lady who is a member of Holy Innocents, Henderson: “I have taken the map of this [Vance] county, and find that out of the nine townships only four have anything that pertains to an Episcopal Church, and, I believe, Sunday School. After the rush…
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a Thanksgiving Day Box of household articles
Besides the amount above reported in aid of Thompson Orphanage a Thanksgiving Day Box of household articles valued at $19 was sent by the Parish Guild. (Source: The Rev. William H. Meade, Parochial Report, Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill, 1900 Journal of Convention, 81)
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ECW offers prayers for the President and intercession for peace
During our Annual Meeting, a special time was set apart for prayers for the President of the United States, and intercession for the peace of the world. The following telegram was sent to the President: “We, the Woman’s Auxiliary to the Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of North Carolina, in…
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Aunt Becky: “Many mickles make a muckle”
In her persona as “Aunt Becky”, Rebecca Cameron, a member of St. Matthew’s, Hillsborough, wrote her “Messengers of Hope” column beginning sometime in the 1890s until September 1922. The Diocesan newspaper was called The Messenger of Hope between October 1889 and September 1909, when the name changed to The Carolina Churchman. The Diocesan Archives has…
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We may call it “A Foundation Sale” – since on its success rests our basic hopes
The fall has come and with it a deep interest that something shall be done within the year toward uplifting the conditions surrounding this institution. The women of the Thompson Orphanage Guild of Charlotte are taking the first step toward this direction; but they cannot step far without your assistance nor do they wish to.…
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