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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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22. Speechifying and Sharing
There’s hazy sunshine and a good breeze the day I’m to address the annual conference of the Mothers’ Union in Botswana. In the hall are MU representatives from neighboring South Africa, clergy from a range of faith groups, the chief of Tsabong (which has been hosting the assembly), and John Toto, who represents in the…
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MARIAN LAMBETH SAFRIET
b. December 14, 1923 by William Horsley, St. Thomas, Reidsville, 2011 Marian was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, but grew up in Florida. She graduated from Florida State University in 1945 with a degree in accounting. She taught at FSU for a year when the university became co-ed. She attended graduate school at the University…
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BERTHA MERRILL “B” HOLT
August 16, 1916 – June 18, 2010 by Shara Partin, Church of the Holy Comforter, Burlington, 2010 My friend was born and reared in Eufaula, Alabama. She graduated from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA, attended UNC Law School and got her LLB from the University of Alabama in 1941. Luckily for us, she married…
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FLORENCE TRAVER STRATTON MORRILL
April 25, 1897 – November 6, 1994 by Eva Morriss, Saint Timothy’s Church, Wilson, 2011 “Life is exciting. There’s a new adventure every day,” declared Florence T. Stratton Morrill, who moved to Wilson, North Carolina, in 1925. Florence was very active at Saint Timothy’s, Wilson, where she taught Sunday school for an extended period and…
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ELIZA ADAM JONES
1839 – 1911 by Ellen C. Weig, Saint Matthew’s Church, Hillsborough, 2010 Baptized Eliza Adam Jones, Miss Lizzie was the daughter of Mary Cameron Jones and Hillsborough physician Halcott Pride Jones. Both parents were from genteel families of longstanding Episcopal faith. Miss Lizzie attended the Burwell School from 1848-1852. It was a progressive education at…
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Laboring with their own hands to build up the cause of God
In noticing the various institutions which hold out promise of good to the Church, we cannot omit to mention those female associations of industry, which, in many of our congregations are laboring with their own hands to build up the cause of God. It appears from several Parochial Reports, that much good has already been…
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21. Committing to Women’s Ministry
The organizational structure of the Mothers’ Union and Episcopal Church Women is very similar, as are the goals of some of our ministries. But in the U.S., every woman of the Episcopal Church is automatically considered an Episcopal Church Woman (the level of involvement in ECW activities is up to her) while in Botswana, and…
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20. Stewardship with A Smile & A Song
It’s 8:30 p.m. and a group of us attending the Mothers’ Union annual conference in Tsabong, having finished a late dinner capped with cups of hot tea and bowls of cream and fruit (the fruit bearing a strong resemblance to what Americans know as canned fruit cocktail), are ready for the last act of the…
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19. Speaking a Universal Language
The choirs have finished competing and are again sitting with the other members of their delegations from churches throughout the Diocese of Botswana. The judges are huddling together, conferring about the energetic performances of the women.
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18. Showtime!
Activities ran long during the Saturday morning session of the Mothers’ Union conference and now there’s an early afternoon lull. The slower pace, so different from other days at the large gathering in Tsabong, is a little disorienting at first. Then I realize all is not as it seems on the surface.
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