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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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  • The Ladies Sewing Society took upon itself the plans for a Rectory

    The Ladies Sewing Society took upon itself the plans for a Rectory in 1878 and this was completed a few months later by acquisition of an old store and the remodeling thereof. (Source: The Rev. B. T. Brodie, Rector, Trinity Church, Scotland Neck. From brief history in bulletin for Service of Consecration, April 25, 1943)

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  • About the Church Periodical Club

    A Brief History Church Periodical Club was founded in 1888 by Mary Ann Fargo, the wife of a member of the Wells Fargo Express firm. On a trip to the Dakotas with her husband she learned of the great need on the frontiers for Bibles and other spiritual literature. Mrs. Fargo and other church women…

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  • CPC Sunday

    Offerings to the Church Periodical Club (CPC) on CPC Sunday – the first Sunday in May – or any Sunday following are used to fund the ministry of the printed word. Bibles, Prayer Books, books for seminarians, educational materials, medical textbooks, agricultural manuals and books for those in local and global mission are some of…

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  • that upbuilding been lost in the death of Mrs. Jas. D. Glenn

    It seems almost impossible to build up a Parish where people do not stay in a place long enough to become interested in its work. The main human factor in that upbuilding has been lost in the death of Mrs. Jas. D. Glenn. (Source: The Rev. J. D. Miller, Parochial Report, St. Andrew’s Church, Greensboro,…

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  • the first effort towards the erection of a church at Weldon was made by the ladies of the vicinity

    In May, 1866, the first effort towards the erection of a church at Weldon was made by the ladies of the vicinity, under the special direction of Mrs. C. J. Gee and Miss Mary A. Long, the result amounting to $376.06, which was the nucleus of the church fund here. (Source: The Rev. W. Lawton…

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  • MARGARET McLEOD HERRINGTON

    December 17, 1932 – December 17, 2000 by Debbie McCarthy, Church of the Holy Family, Chapel Hill, 2012 Margaret McLeod Herrington: a beautiful Southern woman whose grace-filled spirit, gentleness and elegant charm were coupled with a core of remarkable strength, resilience and resolve. Born in Chesterfield, SC, to John and Eva McLeod, Margaret earned a…

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  • I would record the liberality of the Female Prayer Book Society of Philadelphia

    In conclusion, I would record the liberality of the Female Prayer Book Society of Philadelphia, in forwarding to my care, for the benefit of the destitute, a hundred and forty Prayer Books of their beautiful edition. Our thanks are due for this needful charity. (Source: The Rt. Rev. Levi Silliman Ives, Bishop’s Address, 1843 Journal…

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  • its unostentatious but highly useful labours

    The Working Society continues, with unabated zeal, its unostentatious but highly useful labours. It is pleasant to observe, how one want after another, either of the Church or her Ministers, is supplied by the industrious hands of this small association of females; who manage to earn and to apply to various useful purposes, upwards of…

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  • Property was purchased by women

    Property for the cemetery was purchased by the St. Luke’s Mission Helpers – a women’s organization in the church – on Wilson Street in 1892, making the cemetery nearly 102 years old. (Source: The Tarboro Telegram, November 6, 1994, News clipping, Parish Files, Diocesan Archives)

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  • remembered in the day of the Lord

    The ladies of this Congregation (to whose sex the Church everywhere owes so much) have, during the year, formed a Working Society, whose works have been good, and we hope will be remembered in the day of the Lord. (Source: The Rev. J. A. Backhouse, Parochial Report, Emmanuel Church, Warrenton, 1841 Journal of Convention, p.…

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