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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 Prayer for Your Lenten Devotions: Millennium Development Goal 3
Let us pray for an end to the divisions and inequalities that scar God’s creation, particularly the barriers to freedom faced by God’s children throughout the world because of gender; that all who have been formed in God’s image might have equality in pursuit of the blessings of creation. God, in whom there is neither male…
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Are we our sisters’ keepers?
It’s been said that most organizations meet, eat, and retreat. I pray we do not retreat. What can we do to bring about change? We must be informed and educated. We must be aware of situations facing us, our sisters, daughters, and granddaughters in this time and place. We must seek solutions. Two women in…
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A Prayer for Your Lenten Devotions: Millennium Development Goal 2
Let us pray for schools and centers of learning throughout the world, for those who lack access to basic education, and for the light of knowledge to blossom and shine in the lives of all God’s people. Eternal God, the author and source of all knowledge and truth: Bless all who seek to learn and…
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“Don’t do it”
Rockingham, N.C., November 18th, ‘27 My dear Bishop Penick: It has been suggested at our Guild meetings that we give a card party as a means of making money for church activities. Mr. Hartzell, our rector, is agreeable, provided it is not out of harmony with church procedure in the larger parishes in the state. Some of us…
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A Prayer for Your Lenten Devotions: Millennium Development Goal 1
Let us pray for the poor, hungry, and neglected all over the world, that their cries for daily bread may inspire works of compassion and mercy among those to whom much has been given. Almighty and most merciful God, you command us to offer food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted:…
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What it means to give witness
The Interracial Committee, appointed a few years ago for the purpose of coordinating the work of the Woman’s Auxiliary, has served you faithfully to the best of its ability in bringing about better and more effective relations among the districts. Last year you approved the abolishing of the Negro District as requested. This year the…
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28. Cold Night, Warm Meal, Long Agenda
The hand over in the parking lot of the Choppies grocery that sits on the edge of Gaborone, Botswana’s capital city, is complete. My possessions and I leave the Mothers’ Union officers, with whom I’ve spent the past week, and join five representatives of the Anglican Women’s Fellowship. As we drive toward the center of…
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Of Dinosaurs & Discernment
We will tell the stories not because we live for the past but because the past informs the present, and we must be present before we begin, with God’s help, to claim our future. (/the-story-goes-on/) Episcopal Church Women have been an organized, officially recognized presence in the Diocese of North Carolina for more than 130…
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For the more worthy objective of relieving the poor …
The establishment of Female Societies for the purpose of aiding the contingent expenses of their respective congregations, and for the more worthy objective of relieving the poor; calls for the commendation, and from their general existence in almost every parish, we believe that the aggregate benefit to the church will not be inconsiderable. (Source: Report…
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27. One God and Father of All
On Shrove Tuesday I shared a Lenten meditation with some friends in Botswana. It included a message that had recently been forwarded to me: Pray for the International Anglican Women’s Network as it connects Anglican women across the world, encouraging them to become influential, equal participants throughout the Communion and in their own communities.
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