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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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6. Facts are Facts
Though English is the official language of Botswana, Setswana (also spelled Tswana) is the dialect spoken most widely across the country. Four million people across southern Africa use it, and it is written in the Latin alphabet.
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5. Botswana from C to Z
‘I want you to have your own business,’ he said to her on his death bed. ‘You’ll get a good price for the cattle now. Sell them and buy a business. A butchery maybe. A bottle store. Whatever you like.’ (From The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency)
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4. All God’s Creatures
In Botswana, whether in city, suburb or village, there is the strong sense that all of us — the two-legged, four-legged, and winged ones — are in this together.
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3. Sacred Spaces
Of the many benefits of traveling, especially to places that don’t look or sound much like the place you’re from, is the reminder of the infinite variety of God’s creation. It’s a good thing to not get too complacent – or smug – about where you and yours are in the scheme of things.
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2. The Gift of Hospitality
Whether it’s refugees from countries torn by strike, immigrants seeking better opportunities or a church-sanctioned visitor, Botswana welcomes. It’s a country where an emerging middle class is bookended by great wealth and grinding poverty.
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1. First & Last
I begin the story with my first day and my last day in-country.
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Blessed and Botswana Bound
In Botswana, Juli Hauser found a place big enough to accommodate her dream. It was in 2007 that Juli, a retired teacher and member of Church of the Holy Comforter in Burlington, heard about Duduza (“comfort”) dolls. It seems women in the Diocese of Vermont had organized a project where knitters were invited to use…
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7. Phonenyana
Of the many worship services I’ve attended in Botswana during my visits in 2008 and 2010, one in particular stands out. On a cool August morning (August is a winter month in the Southern Hemisphere) in 2010, 500 or so Anglicans sat shoulder to shoulder and bundled against the wind blowing through the broken windows…
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Diocese of North Carolina Honors Vivian Mann Edwards (1935-2010)
A tradition at the ECW Triennial is the recognition of one extra special woman from every diocese of The Episcopal Church. In North Carolina this woman is selected by the Diocesan ECW board. This recognition, once known as Honored Women, is now called Distinguished Women. This Triennial the board elected to posthumously recognize Vivian Edwards,…
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Trihistory Conference
The Diocese of North Carolina will host the national Tri-History Conference at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Raleigh on June 21-23, 2010.
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