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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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Elected: Lynn Hoke
The board of the national Episcopal Women’s History Project, meeting in Anaheim, has elected three new board members, including Lynn Hoke, the ECW of NC’s archivist and historian. Susan Johnson of the Diocese of West Texas, is president of EWHP, one of three affiliated Episcopal women’s organizations represented at the ECW Triennial. (The other two…
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North Carolina Connections
You never know who you’ll run into at General Convention.
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Young is a State of Mind
Eighteen representatives of the official “youth presence” at General Convention visited the ECW plenary to thank Episcopal Church Women for their support of youth and campus ministries in many dioceses and parishes, to share their dreams and eloquently advocate for their priorities as young Episcopalians: increased youth involvement, evangelism, outreach and human rights.
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ECW Shirts of the ECW Triennial
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Declare Yourself
One of the traditions of the ECW Triennial at General Convention is Shirt Day. Delegations show their team colors, so to speak, with the wearing of shirts announcing their diocese’s name, and sometimes more. (Who knew Province II is the “home of the kazoo”?). Shirt Day was Saturday. Here we are in our but-white-goes-with-everything shirts.…
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Bishop Curry: “Go!”
Present at the United Thank Offering Sharing Dinner Friday evening were 400 people from throughout the Anglican Communion—including bishops, priests, deacons, ECW members and diocesan UTO coordinators. Our own Bishop Curry addressed the assembly. Using the 20th chapter of the Book of John as his frame of reference, he continually referred to the sister ministries…
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Scott Hughes: An Honored Woman
The National Honored Woman award is the highest recognition given by Episcopal Church Women. Every three years, diocesan ECW executive boards around the country are invited to submit the name of a woman from their diocese they believe has, by word and deed, best exemplified the ministry of ECW. She is then honored in a…
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Katerina Whitley’s ‘Yet We Persist:’
The story of women in the church, the story of my life In addition to blogging, I’ve been asked to contribute to the in-house newspaper about the proceedings at General Convention and ECW Triennial. This is taken from an article I wrote for the July 10 issue of The Daily. The Rt. Rev. Barbara C. Harris…
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The Most Rev. Rowan Williams
The Archbishop of Canterbury (aka “ABC”) Rowan Williams had just one day to spend at General Convention, and he made a point of devoting a portion of his time to the Episcopal Church Women. He and his entourage, including what appeared to be a security team, were escorted into our plenary session and he quietly…
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Growing in Grace
And so on Wednesday, July 8, there was joy as hundreds of women from places as diverse as Navajoland and the U.S. Virgin Islands, Delaware and the Dominican Republic, gathered for opening day festivities.
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