Articles – Poems – Announcements
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Articles and Announcements
Women in Healing Scholarship
Women in Healing Professions Graduate Studies Scholarship Application Deadline: April 1, 2026 Applications Open: February 1, 2026 Award Amount: $5,000 Submit to: scholarship@ecwnational.org Download the Application Overview This scholarship supports women pursuing graduate-level studies in a healing-related profession (e.g., nursing, medicine, counseling, social work, public health). Eligibility Requirements Applicants must: Identify as female Be enrolled or accepted into a graduate program in a healing-related profession (e.g., nursing, medicine, counseling, social work, public health) Be active in an Episcopal parish Be involved with Episcopal Church Women or women’s ministry group (parish, diocesan, or national level) Provide a letter of recommendation [...]
Poems
Praying with Sparrows – A poem of the 2020 pandemic
Praying with Sparrows A poem of the 2020 pandemic I never thought to pray with sparrows, black throated wild and scrambling for seeds cast carelessly on the hillside. They hover throughout the hours like unceasing prayers Giving thanks when no words can. Warily they brave the rains, the frenzied force, even my hoarse voice an unknown thunder in their world. Spring’s worst storms roll by and they sing unheard, choral chirping drowned in human despair Yet the birds of heaven will teach us. Tomorrow I will not seek the wood-dark birds; I must wait for monochrome March skies to bend [...]
The Episcopal Churchwomen – The First 150 Years
To better understand how the Episcopal Church Women came into being, let’s look at a little bit of the Episcopal [...]
UNCSW 65 – Taking It Back Home: Report Back from the Presiding Bishop’s Delegation
National ECW President, Karen Patterson, will attend and speak at the UNCSW 65 - Taking It Back Home: Report [...]
Women of The Episcopal Church Province IX January 2021 Report
Highlights: At the province level, women are making use of the Zoom and WhatsApp platform to be able to be [...]
Saint Andrew’s Saratoga CA – Exciting Times
ECW WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE While our parish is going through some very challenging and exciting times, The Board of Saint [...]
2021 Lenten Series on Women
There are hundreds of remarkable stories of women who have served the Episcopal Church with love, with persistence, with energy [...]
News from St. Jude’s in Hawaii
Aloha! I thought you might be interested in the following from St. Jude's Epicopal Church in Ocean View, Hawaii. Aloha! [...]
Church Periodical Club Province VIII National Grants Announcement
National Book Grant applications are available for enhancing, supporting, and developing your ministry with written materials including books, eBooks, CD, [...]
Church Periodical Club Quilt Fundraiser
The CPC TRIENNIAL QUILT Fundraiser is now LIVE!The Province VIII ECW Board are encouraging each Diocese or Diocesan ECW to [...]
Good Book Club to start 2021 with the Gospel of Mark
Start the new year with a renewed spiritual practice of reading God’s Word. Forward Movement, with support from partners from [...]
Province Reports October 2020
Province I The Province One Board has met twice since the last NECW Board meeting - September 21 and [...]
Planning Committee for General Convention – Update
At the meeting today of the Planning Committee for General Convention and Triennial, no decision was reached as to the [...]
Province I Board Meeting October 2020
The Province One Board has met twice since the last NECW Board meeting - September 21 and October 19th. The [...]
Women of the IX Province Beijing CONSERVATORY
Santiago de León de Caracas September 30, 2020 Attention: Ms. Karen O. Patterson Episcopal Church Women Best regards, [...]
Online Retreat: Winning the Right to Vote Oct 24th 2020
Diocese of El Camino Real in California Join us for this morning retreat with Ida B. [...]
Province VII ECW Zoom Conference – Sept 12 2020
All women in Province VII are invited to this conference. Province VII, also called the Province of the [...]
Healing in Yarn with the Diocese of Chicago
Chaplain Micheal at Rush Hospital Chicago Bishop Anderson House provides spiritual care training to lay persons as [...]
Episcopal Women’s Ministries Fall Retreat
September 25 and 26 on Zoom - 2020 Living our Call as Disciples - a Virtual Retreat - Led by the [...]
St. Asaph’s Prays through Epidemic Times
July 19, 2020 Rev. Joy delivers Homily July 19, 2020 Service in Pavilion July 20, [...]
St George Mask Makers Respond To An Urgent Call for Help
Haven House, a domestic abuse shelter in Leesburg, FL, had an urgent need for face masks for the 40 [...]
Triennial 2021 Status Update
I wanted to bring you all up to date on the status for Triennial 2021. Basically at this [...]
St. Francis Episcopal Church Sews Masks for Local Hospital
When shortages of PPE were reported throughout the nation as the pandemic took hold in mid-March, the women of [...]
ECW Province 5 news – New Website
I am pleased to inform you that the ECW of Province 5 has a new website! You may reach [...]
St. Gregory’s ECW Awards Scholarship
Three years ago the Episcopal Church Women of St. Gregory's Episcopal Church in Boca Raton, Florida started a scholarship program [...]
Announcing our New Website
Over the past three months we have rebuilt our website. We've included a lot of upgrades that allow us [...]
Province II continues to serve in the midst of Covid-19 pandemic
Jennifer Kenna, Province 2 Representative National Board of Episcopal Church Women As I write this article, I hold in [...]