Best wishes and greetings to all of you for 2023! I hope this finds each of you and your families in good health and enjoying being with each other. Covid changed our lives over the past couple of years. Here’s hoping we can make the best of those changes and restore our family units.
As you may have noticed, we have added two new members to the NECW board, and they are Madeline Sampson as the Province 8 representative, and Annie Kate Jacobs as our Social Justice Chair. We hope that you will greet them and welcome them warmly to our gatherings.
This issue of the Communique is probably a more contemplative presentation – many things to think about, many prayers to look at and consider how they may affect our lives or the lives of others. Some information about the next issue is also included – which we think you will find very interesting.
We will be having our board meetings in 2023 in Province 8, Province 5, Province 2 and Province 6 – working on our plans for General Convention and Triennial in July 2024 in Louisville. Start making your plans now!
Triennial 2024 planning is already underway. We are excited to announce that our theme will be: Empowering Women of Faith – Empoderando a las Mujeres de Fe. We are blessed that so much of the preplanning we did for Triennial 2022 will be usable for 2024. This will help significantly due to this board’s two year term as opposed to a typical three year term.
Karen Patterson
National Episcopal Church Women President 2022 – 2024
