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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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Sent to Sudan
Upon hearing about Duduza dolls, the ECW of St. Paul’s in Winston-Salem requested that the women of Holy Comforter in Burlington make such dolls for children in Sudan’s Renk Diocese, where mission and educational efforts of the Anglican Communion have been supported by Episcopal Church Women. These dolls were blessed by the Rev. David Hodges…
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Botswana Diaries Intro
The Botswana Diaries In January of 2010, at the 195th Convention of the Diocese of North Carolina, Bishop Michael Curry appointed Lisa Towle, President of the Episcopal Church Women of the diocese, to the Chartered Committee on Global Missions. The North Carolina-Botswana Companion Link Committee comes under the umbrella of Global Missions, and Lisa has…
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A Relentless Focus on Mission
The Very Rev. David du Plantier, Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in New Orleans, visited the ECW plenary along with Bishop Duncan Gray of the Diocese of Mississippi and Bishop Charles Jenkins of the Diocese of Louisiana. Their central message was this: “Thank you for your constant and relentless focus on mission and ministry, not…
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Seen
Some North Carolinians taking care of business in Anaheim: When it all gets to be a bit too much there’s Barnabas with his human, Mike. Every morning Mike offers people heading into the convention center an opportunity to give the big pooch a pat and scratch behind the ears. As the sign says, “it’s therapeutic.”…
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Marching for Justice
Episcopalians attending General Convention linked arms with hotel workers July 14 to march to the gates of Disneyland to demand economic justice for 2,300 Disney employees protesting a planned hike in the cost of their health insurance.
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Church Comments on $23 Million Budget Cut
Here is a statement from the Church, issued today, July 15, about proposed budget cuts: The Program, Budget and Finance (PB&F) Committee of The Episcopal Church today presented a budget to the General Convention that proposes a $23 million reduction in the 2010-2012 triennial. “This is a very difficult day,” said Pan Adams-McCaslin, chair of…
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Heard
Budget results are starting to trickle in. A big win for the Millennium Development Goals. The .7% has been returned as a line item. The recommendation of the bishops that the MDGs be returned as a line item and upped to 1%, while a wonderful gesture, was never going to happen. I’m just grateful the…
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UTO Grants 2009: $2 million
On Tuesday, the national UTO Committee brought their grant recommendations to the floor of the ECW plenary for a vote of adoption. The delegates voted unanimously in favor of the recommendations.
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Movement on the Matter of Same-Sex Holy Unions
Thought you’d find the text of the following resolution interesting. (The 77th General Convention will take place in 2012). Resolved, that the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music, in consultation with the House of Bishops Theology Committee, collect and develop theological resources and liturgies of blessing for same-gender holy unions, to be presented to the…
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Ending the Ban on Gay Bishops
The bishops have voted to open “any ordained ministry” to gay men and lesbians. This effectively counters the moratorium on ordaining gay bishops that the church passed at the last General Convention. The resolution was written in a nuanced way, however. It allows dioceses to consider gay candidates to the episcopacy, but does not mandate…
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