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.
The date for visitor registration will be announced at a later date.
Our workshop speakers will review our history and all the new work that is being done by you, the women of the Church. The workshops that will give you information that you can take back to the women in your church to help you look to the future.
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.
ALL certification forms must be returned no later than April 26, 2024
Financial Aid to Delegates
The National Episcopal Church Women is capable of providing financial assistance for its ECW members to attend the Triennial 2024 conference in Louisville, Kentucky. Assistance is provided on a case-by-case review of each member who submits an ‘Aid Request’ form. Assistance is divided equally across all Provinces.
Request for aid must be received by April 1, 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.
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.
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
Tentative Schedule
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.