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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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a memorial of their dear little daughter in Paradise
This building was consecrated May 3rd of this year. The congregation is small and weak as yet. The work is in its infancy. St. Agnes’, however, is to be the center of a large and important missionary work. To kind friends outside of the Diocese, and a few within, we are indebted for this beautiful…
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The ladies, earnest and untiring in work
The Ladies Aid Society organized last year is a great success. The ladies, earnest and untiring in work, by their example, have greatly increased the interest of all in the Church, cheered and upheld the Rector and drawn the thoughtful attention of others to our Communion… . the ladies Lent work – a new carpet…
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A new organ, which is much needed, will be purchased by a society of the young ladies
The “Home and Hospital,” under the charge of some of the ladies of the congregation, has cared for seven or eight patients since I took charge. A new organ, which is much needed, will be purchased by a society of the young ladies by the end of the year. (Source: The Rev. John K. Mason,…
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This body has a special aim to further the interest of the Thompson Orphanage
A society has been formed in this Parish, by the title of the Thompson Orphanage Guild, consisting at present of forty-seven members. This body has a special aim to further the interest of the Thompson Orphanage, and in other ways to promote the prosperity of the Parish in stirring up an interest in all good…
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The women answered the call for help in the day of necessity
The above report has a sad blank as the result of our fatal calamity on the night of March 27th, last, when our beautiful church, with Sunday School books, Pipe organ, all the furniture, and the Parish Register was all consumed by fire, the actual loss to the Parish being not less than seven thousand…
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that our mites are not frittered among so many places as to count for nothing
Our Medical missions in China and Africa need assistance. They find it absolutely necessary in many cases to supply proper nourishment as well as medicines to the destitute sick. I have received several requests for such aid. Suppose each of our thirty branches promises to send something for this purpose this year, according to their…
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[She] who was taken from us March 6th
The new church was consecrated on the 18th day of April, 1894, ten of the Clergy present. In the death of Mrs. Caroline Burgwin Ashe, who was taken from us March 6th, this parish has sustained a great loss. (Source: The Rev. Charles C. Quin, Parochial Report, Calvary Church, Wadesboro, 1894 Journal of Convention, 136)
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Women kept St. Ambrose Church working and well
From colonial times to the present, African-Americans have affiliated in various capacities with the Episcopal Church. Saint Ambrose Church was established during the post-Civil War era in 1868. By an act of the North Carolina legislature’s 1868-1869 sessions, a lot was granted on the corner of Lane and Dawson Streets for 99 years to Saint…
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Saint Anna Julia Cooper: “…the world needs to hear her voice.”
Today, February 28, we honor Anna Julia Haywood Cooper. A native of Raleigh, North Carolina, Mrs. Cooper was born August 10, c1859 and died on February 27, 1964. It was while attending St. Augustine Normal School and Collegiate Institute, a school in Raleigh founded by the Episcopal Church to educate African-American teachers and clergy, that she…
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A day school has been taught at Southern Pines
A day school has been taught at Southern Pines the past winter by Mrs. Wheeler, whose salary has been paid by the Massachusetts Branch of the Woman’s Auxiliary. (Source: The Rev. William Walker, Report of the Archdeacon for Colored Work, 1897 Journal of Convention, 112)
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