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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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our treatment of our returned soldiers is without excuse
As an Auxiliary we are asked to think of Christian social service not merely as visiting the sick or prisoners, the sending of flowers or clothes and magazines but as a constructive plan for making a better citizenship, for removing the causes leading to crime, poverty, disease and ignorance and helping others to help themselves.…
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They should be sturdy in physique, free from family responsibility or financial obligations here or at home
I have written the National Church for information concerning the need for recruits, and have the following from Rev. A. B. Parsons, the Associate Secretary: “The opportunities which are before us on the Mission Field never were greater. Evangelistic workers are needed. These should be young women of unquestioned devotion, winning personality, and those with…
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Mrs. Mary S. Henderson has deeded to Trustees a parcel of land near the Vance Cotton Mills
Besides this property, Mrs. Mary S. Henderson has deeded to Trustees a parcel of land near the Vance Cotton Mills, on which St. John’s Chapel is now being built. The Trustees are to reserve a lot each for the chapel, a rectory and a school-house, and hold the funds arising from the sale of the…
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the church is doing a grand work here
Mrs. J. W. King keeps the Sunday-school in a healthy condition, and in our Parish school, with the assistance of Miss Annie Jacobs and Mrs. P. A. King, the church is doing a grand work here. The school stands high in the community, and it is patronized by all the different denominations around us. The…
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a very valuable missionary-box from the ladies of St. John’s Parish Guild
I desire to acknowledge here the receipt of a very valuable missionary-box from the ladies of St. John’s Parish Guild, Washington City, Mrs. E. C. W. Chubb, Secretary. The box contained, besides many articles of value for my family, a complete outfit for myself, including a handsome surplice and stole, for all of which they…
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paid an old debt
The Ladies’ Aid Society, organized January 1st, 1882, has, through its exertions, paid an old debt upon the church of $104.50; also an old debt upon the organ of $109. (Source: The Rev. S. P. Watters, Parochial Report, Grace Church, Morganton, 1882 Journal of Convention, 159)
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He proposed to them to form a society
In response to a call of the Rector of St. James’s Parish, Rev. Mr. Bush, eight ladies, including one visitor, assembled with him in the Vestry Room. He proposed to them to form a society, which should be a part of the Diocesan Branch of the Woman’s Auxiliary to the Board of Missions. This was…
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so will St. Gabriel’s Church fulfill its heavenly mission, and carry the glad tidings
Last year I asked the women of the diocese for a special Jubilee Offering of one thousand dollars. I now report one thousand and fifty dollars as the result of that appeal. It has been decided by the Bishop and the Diocesan Officers to give this sum to the Mission at Selma; and with the…
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our treatment of our returned soldiers is without excuse
As an Auxiliary we are asked to think of Christian social service not merely as visiting the sick or prisoners, the sending of flowers or clothes and magazines but as a constructive plan for making a better citizenship, for removing the causes leading to crime, poverty, disease and ignorance and helping others to help themselves.…
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what earnest lay people may do for the extension of God’s true and holy church
Through the activity of Mr. S. S. Nash and Miss Kate Cheshire, from Tarboro, this work has been well kept up, and their influence for good is widely felt in all that neighborhood. Their work there clearly proves what earnest lay people may do for the extension of God’s true and holy church. (Source: The…
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