Triennial Meeting June/Junio 2024
Your National ECW board is busy planning a week full of worship, fun, and education for our 51st Triennial to be held in Louisville, Kentucky in conjunction with General Convention. The dates for Triennial are June 22 through June 28, 2024.
Triennial, including the workshops, will be held at the Galt House Hotel which is one block from the convention center. We will be joining General Convention, at the Kentucky International Convention Center, each day for worship services. We will worship along with volunteers and visitors from all over the world.
We wish to emphasize that the Episcopal Church Women Triennial is for all women of the church. All are welcome whether you are an official delegate or a visitor to the event.
We are excited to be celebrating our 150th year as a women’s ministry in the Episcopal Church with a big birthday party to be held the evening of June 23. Please see a draft of our tentative schedule shown below.
This is extremely important, General Convention housing for Triennial 2024 has already begun. If you are an ECW President/Chairperson please contact your diocesan office if any ECW delegates and alternates will require rooms in the diocesan rooming block. This is the only way for ECW delegates and alternates to obtain rooms for Triennial.
Remember each Diocesan ECW is allowed four delegates and two alternates. We will begin registration and certification of ECW delegates at a later date, but housing needs must be communicated now through your Diocese. If you are planning to attend Triennial as a visitor, you may want to make hotel reservations now as rooms may be difficult to find later.
Gift Giving This Triennial
The Unified Gift and Community Connection Gift have a long history of supporting the local community in which the Triennial meeting is held. This year’s recipients are both wonderful examples of how community support and stellar leadership can provide a lasting impact through their ministries.
Orphan Care Alliance
The ministry serves three different populations in the spectrum of child welfare. Each ministry area is attuned to the population being served and works to provide positive outcomes through our own programs and in collaboration with many other organizations.
The national board is excited to award the Unified Gift to Orphan Care Alliance (OCA). They are a wonderful organization that is great in addressing orphan children’s issues and supporting their adoptive families, families in crisis and aging out foster care.
House of Hope Kentucky
The facility offers refuge, guidance and transformation to single, homeless women over the age of 18 who have completed a treatment program for substance abuse. Over the course of two years, residents live in the home, develop individual goals and are personally mentored in order to help them to achieve those goals. The National Board is proud to present House of Hope Kentucky with this Triennial’s Community Connection Gift.
Upon graduation from the program permanent housing assistance is provided to ease residents back into mainstream living.
The Rev. Catherine Amy Kropp
Keynote Speaker
The Rev. Catherine Amy Kropp currently serves as Vicar of Christ Memorial Episcopal Church on Kaua’i in Kilauea, Hawai’i. She spent seven months in 2022-2023 as an international volunteer in north Lebanon at a safe house for vulnerable youth with Relief & Reconciliation.
Previously she served in Alaska as Associate Rector at St Mary’s Episcopal Church in Anchorage, and as a traveling instructor and Episcopal priest for Dancing with the Spirit, a music ministry and social change outreach program connecting Alaska Native elders and youth through the joy of music and preserving Alaska Native music, language and culture. She holds an M.Div. and a S.T.M. from Yale Divinity School and a Diploma in Anglican Studies from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. Read More
Final Schedule for Triennial 2024
The schedule images links to a pdf that can be viewed or printed. The schedule is exactly as it appears in the Triennial Program Book; pages 4 & 5
If any corrections are needed they will be displayed on the Schedule Billboard located in the hallway outside of the plenary room.
Philadelphia Eleven – Triennial Showing
The National Board will screen the movie on Thursday at 3:00 in the plenary room. The showing will take place once voting has been completed and before the election results are posted.
In an act of civil disobedience, a group of women and their supporters organize their ordination to become Episcopal priests in 1974. The Church of the Advocate in Philadelphia welcomes them, but change is no small task. The women are harassed, threatened and banned from stepping on church property.
In this feature-length documentary film, we meet the women who succeed in building a movement that transforms an age-old institution, and challenges the very essence of patriarchy within Christendom.
Distinguished Women for Triennial 2024
On behalf of the National Board of Episcopal Church Women, I warmly congratulate each and every one of you Triennial 2024 Distinguished Women, and what a true joy it is to be together, face to face, surrounded and celebrated by your ECW sisters from across the Episcopal Church, your family, and friends.
Chosen by the women of your diocese for this honor, each one of you has been a true gift to our Episcopal Church Women’s group, your parish, your diocese, and your community in so many wonderful, distinct and myriad ways. Those who know and honor you see you as women of deep faith in God, with strong convictions and the desire to be Christ’s hands and heart in this world using all your gifts and talents.
As you go forward, supported by the sisterhood of Episcopal Church Women, may you continue to lead the way in empowering other women of faith, shining and loving examples of the hands and heart of Jesus in this time and this place.
Blessings to each of you on this joyous occasion.
Jennifer Kenna, Province II Representative
Distinguished Women Celebration Co-Chair
51st Triennial – 2024
Nominations for Board Positions
The nominating committee is pleased to present the following slate of nominees for the 2024 Triennial Meeting.
President
Lisa Bortner Province 7
1st Vice President
Gloria Rogers Province 4
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Cindy Mohr Province 3
Secretary
Patricia Rutenberg
Province 4
Treasurer
Valzie Peterkin
Province 4
Member at Large – Social Justice
Annie Jacobs
Province 4
Chaplain and Musician
Having been ordained (2015) when her contemporaries were retiring, Rev. Gayle Fisher-Stewart, recently retired after having served as associate rector, Calvary Episcopal Church, and interim rector, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, both in Washington, DC. Prior to being ordained, she served as lay associate for ten year with the Church of Our Saviour, also in Washington, D.C.
Elaine Conger is a native of Nashville and life-long musician and music educator. After years of teaching and touring, she’s finally settled down in the mountains of East Tennessee for another chapter in her musical journey. Her current passion is writing and performing worshipful songs that stir the soul and encourage spiritual reflection.
Workshop
Sixteen workshops are scheduled for Triennial.
Please do not record the workshop without the presenters consent.
Workshops are for:
Delegates and Alternates …with Badge
Keynote and Workshop Presenters …with Black or Purple Ribbon
National Board Members …with Red Ribbon
Badges and ribbons are checked at the door.
Workshop room assignments are posted daily in the Triennial Today as well as on the wall outside their respected rooms.
Seating is first come, first seated.
Certification
Two, multi-part steps are required to ensure that your delegation has completed the proper paperwork for Triennial Meeting, which is part of the General Convention of The Episcopal Church. Delegates and Alternates need to be registered by their diocesan office and once that is complete the head of delegation must submit their delegation to the National Episcopal Church Women office for certification.
Resolutions
The NECW Bylaws state the management of the organization’s furtherance of its objects as stated in the Bylaws, financially and otherwise, is vested in The National Board. Delegates to the Triennial Meeting have the opportunity to provide direction to the Board by means of resolutions. They may be as simple as a single sentence motion.
Deadline for receipt: May 15, 2024.
Four (4) bylaw amendments are being proposed for Triennial 2024
There are amendments which will be proposed to abolish the office of Second Vice President and one of the Member at Large positions. The vote on the amendments will precede the election of officers.
The Bylaws Committee has also proposed amendments to the bylaws which, if adopted, would change the term of office for service on the NECW Board.
Donations, Gift Giving, and Literature – Policy
In order to provide the best possible opportunity for fundraising, we are limiting community information and donations to our Community Connection Gift: House of Hope, Kentucky, Unified Gift: Orphan Care Alliance, and our workshop presenters.
Donations for the House of Hope, KY and Orphan Care Alliance will be collected throughout Triennial.
Workshop presenters will be able to display their literature in the plenary room according to the following schedule:
- Sunday, the 23rd – Episcopal Community
- Monday, the 24th – Church Periodical Club
- Tuesday, the 25th – Girls Friendly Society
- Wednesday, the 26th – Episcopal Women’s History Project
- Thursday, the 27th – Episcopal Relief and Development
All other collection boxes or literature within the areas used by the Episcopal Church Women will be removed.
Register for the Distinguished Women Luncheon
The luncheon is Tuesday, June 25th 12pm to 2pm at The Galt House. Pre registration is required. Each person attending will receive an ‘Attendance Ticket’ from their diocesan representative prior to the event. The bundle of tickets will b
e placed in the diocesan’s mailbox on Monday the 24th.
Deadline for registration is June 15th
Each diocese may have up to nine (9) persons attend the luncheon. This includes the Distinguished Women and her chosen two (2) guests; this is three (3) tickets for her. The diocese delegates and alternates are also invited to attend. This brings the total tickets available for each diocese to nine(9).