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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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Shifting Into High Gear
The gang’s all here in the Diocese of Los Angeles. Good thing as the activity level, already humming along, has picked up. Joining me in Anaheim are the following Diocesan ECW board members: We very much miss Moli Jones, Church Periodical Club Director. She was to have been a part of the delegation, but her…
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More MDG News
This afternoon the House of Bishops requested that the Millennium Development Goals remain a program and budget priority for the Episcopal Church for the next triennium. But then they went even further. They not only recommended reinstatement of the MDGs budget line item of 0.7%, but to raise it to 1% of the non-government revenue…
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Just In
The House of Deputies has adopted five priorities proposed by the Program, Budget and Finance Committee that will guide the mission of the Episcopal Church for the next three years. Included is reinstatement of a triennial budget line appropriating 0.7% in revenue for specific Millennium Development Goal spending as well as Christian education and formation.…
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Lots More to Come
Off to a 7:30 am hearing. There’s so much more to share, I’ve just run out of time and zip the past few nights. Live blogging (i.e. blogging from a meeting hall) is not allowed, so I have to wait until I get back to my room. And when events go until 10 pm or…
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A Deeper Sense of Mission and the MDG Debate
People from around our diocese who share my passion for the Millennium Development Goals and the way they help frame the twin issues of Christ-centered transformation and mission, asked to be kept informed of all things MDG at Convention. The Big Debate, of course, centers on whether or not the national church will retain the…
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Some Telling Stats
The numbers of the 76th General Convention tell interesting stories. One is that we are a church that’s diversifying. According to the Church’s record keepers, included in the deputations are 85 African Americans, 53 Latinos/Hispanics, 17 Native Americans, 14 Asian Americans and 4 native Hawaiians. That’s 16.1 percent of all deputies, compared to 15.3 percent…
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Point A to Point B. Caffeine needed.
A steady flow of people are making their way here today. But the check-in lines are nothing compared to the line for those waiting for their Starbucks fix, morning, noon and night.
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God’s Grace
The theme of this year’s ECW Triennial is “Grow in Grace”. It was inspired by II Peter 3:18. I was feeling anything but graceful or grace-filled after arriving in Anaheim this afternoon about 2:30 pm PST. Getting up at 5 am for a 7:50 am flight from Raleigh-Durham International Airport to Dallas-Ft. Worth to the…
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Lex Mathews Scholarships for Women Awarded for 2009-2010 School Year
Thirteen women across the Diocese of North Carolina will be in class this school year thanks in large part to the fact they’ve been awarded Lex Mathews Scholarships. The Diocesan ECW administers and helps finance the Lex Mathews Scholarship program, begun more than two decades ago by family and friends of the Rev. Lex Mathews,…
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All Saints’ – Roanoke Rapids
We’ve received a report from Ruthie Gregory at All Saints with quite a bit of information about their ECW: Their Christian Education programs were on the fruits of the Spirit and come from the book “Living Beyond Yourself” by Beth Moore. They meet monthly and have a lunch catered by one of the church members.
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