While many of you have long ago identified your ministry, there may be some of you here today who feel you are not fully using your talents or perhaps there’s someone at home who needs your encouragement. I challenge you to listen, and to dream, to make new plans and open new doors. The world is a different place from what we’d like for it to be. Our noisy, chaotic and polluted culture bombards us daily. There are wounded and pained people who need healing. There are abused, homeless, unemployed, hungry, illiterate, depressed and victims of racism and sexism out there; and more and more it appears they may not be “out there” but they may indeed be sitting beside you – those who need your help, or your ear or your ministering. There are daily opportunities and daily choices to hear – really hear, - these cries, and to act.

(Source: June Gregson Gregory (Mrs. John T.), President’s Address to 1987 ECW Annual Meeting)