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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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it was found that we were doing more than twice as much as any other southern diocese
After this service the Bishop [Cheshire] spoke to the women in words of appreciation and gratitude of the work which they are doing for his diocese and for the Church at large. He told how the Church was depending more and more upon the work of its women; and seeing how the sphere of woman’s…
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She conducts admirably the very large Sunday school, and the large day school of this Mission
We have now at Micadale a very valuable teacher, Miss Mary B. Skellie, who is sustained by kind friends at the north. She conducts admirably the very large Sunday school, and the large day school of this Mission, and she and her friend, Miss Birdsall, are most useful helpers in the church work of this…
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expressing my thanks to an aged lady
A faithful and devoted daughter of the Church has presented this Parish with a handsome Stone Font, and by her unceasing efforts and devotion, is doing much in other respects to promote the welfare of the Parish. I take this opportunity of expressing my thanks to an aged lady member of the Parish for kindnesses…
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Giving all they had for mission and ministry
The contributions of the Parish Branch of the Woman’s Auxiliary have amounted to $15.17, most of which was given to St. John’s Hospital. (Source: The Rev. Walter J. Smith, Parochial Report, Trinity Church, Scotland Neck, 1892 Journal of Convention, p. 126)
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Of the 13 signatories in the year 1900, 8 were women
“We the undersigned residents of the town of Wilson in the Diocese of North Carolina do hereby apply to the Right Reverend Joseph Blount Cheshire, Bishop of said Diocese, and request him to organize us into a mission of said Diocese in accordance with the Constitution and Canons of the same; and we do hereby…
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Lex Mathews Scholarships for Women Awarded for 2012-2013 School Year
Congratulations to the 16 women, ranging in age from 24-67 years old, who received Lex Mathews Scholarships this school year. The scholarships, awarded annually, help women, many of whom are solely responsible for their families, to achieve self-sufficiency by getting the education necessary to enter or reenter the workforce. Preference is given to Episcopalians or…
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All the strands of my life had come together
When celebrating her first Eucharist at The Chapel of the Cross on February 13, 1977, Pauli read from her grandmother Cornelia’s Bible, from a lectern given in memory of Cornelia’s owner, Mary Ruffin Smith. (This was also the first Eucharist celebrated by a woman in North Carolina.) In her autobiography (Song in a Weary Throat),…
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ANNA PAULINE (PAULI) MURRAY
November 20, 1910 – July 1, 1985 by Margaret (Meg) McCann, St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, Durham, 2012 The Rev. Dr. Anna Pauline (Pauli) Murray was many things – writer, lawyer, professor, and advocate for the rights of African Americans and women. She was also the first African American woman ordained a priest in the Episcopal…
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mourning the loss of a wife who, in the highest and best sense, had been “a help meet for him”
The consecration of the Church erected in this place Leaksville was prevented by the prevalence of malignant fever during the Fall, which left hardly enough well persons to attend upon the sick or to bury the dead. I found the worthy Pastor just recovering from a fearful attack, and mourning the loss of a wife…
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KATHRYN SEWELL NELSON
b. October 1, 1927 by Mamré Marsh Wilson, Saint Paul’s Church, Beaufort, 2012 Kathryn Sewell was the only daughter of Lottie, a housekeeper, and Capt. Jack Sewell, a chief engineer on a Beaufort-based menhaden boat. One grandfather traveled on horseback downeast in Carteret County as a Free Will Baptist minister. The family lived on north…
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