The society in which we live still depends on us ‘women folk’ to come together in spite of the odds against it, to reach out and remind all of us that the times may be changing, but the issues of life are still the basic ones of loneliness, hunger, shelter, and the need for loving community. Just as our foremothers stood up to the task of extending the church to the frontier and into foreign lands, we today are called to extend the church into the frontier of social change, as well as into the ever-increasing need for support in not so distant but foreign places.

(Source: The Rev. Elizabeth Habecker, as quoted by Carolyn Osborne Darst in her President’s Address to 1993 ECW Annual Meeting)