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April 12, 2008 |
From Alleen Cater:
Greetings, all,
One more plug for the April
17th auction at All Saints' in Homewood.
Click
here for a "Short list" of the items for the Silent Auction.
"Short List" is a misnomer, as we are now up to 250 items, with more
coming in. We have something for everyone.
Top
of the list is the gourmet dinner for eight at Bp. Parsley's home.
We now have Auburn tickets to go along with the Alabama tickets (neither
is for the AU/UA game). Don't forget about that puppy!
Vacation homes, great wines (in various price ranges), pottery, quilts,
jewelry in all price ranges - you name it, we've got it!! We're only
charging $5.00 admission so you can spend all your cash (credit cards and
checks, too) on these fabulous items.
full details on event...
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April 9, 2008 |
Over
200
items will be in the Silent Auction at the April 17th ECW Arts
Auction! Please make plans to attend and bring your friends.
more details on event....
Women's Weekend page updated with more
details of fun and interesting
activities planned by the Tennessee Valley Convocation
including a Book Signing by author Rev. Richard Losch of his book
All the People in the Bible - An A
to Z Guide to the Saints, Scoundrels, and Other Characters in Scripture. Make plans to attend this getaway weekend May 16 - 18th.
April 2008 Archives Report
added to Board Reports page |
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April 7, 2008 |
Here for 2 Posters you can print and post at your parish and other places
to help us publicize the Arts Auction. (legal
size 8 1/2 x 14 inch color) (letter
size poster/flyer 8 1/2 x 11 color). We are counting on all women in the diocese to help us make this
event a success. Even those not in Birmingham can contribute in
various ways, and in the coming 2 years, we will have similar fundraisers
in North Alabama, and the Montgomery area.
Full event details are
here...
New! We now have a way for
you to register online for Women's
Weekend. Details on the Weekend are
here... Please make plans to attend May 16 - 18 at Camp
McDowell.
Board reports added:
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April 2, 2008 |
Click here to see
a great Preview of the Auction Items for the
April 17th ECW Arts Auction.
Please take a look and start dreaming of bidding strategies to win that
item you really want! (Note: This preview is only viewable using MS Internet Explorer.)
Here is a publicity flyer about the
April 17th ECW Arts Auction.
Please print it and post it at your parish and hand out to members
of your parish and your friends. Help us spread the word so
we can have a success in raising funds for the new chapel to be built at
Camp McDowell. It's easy to send this flyer by email:
once you have the flyer showing on your computer browser, click File, then
click "Attach to Email....". (or if using FireFox, click File, then
click "Send Link".)
Reports added to
Board Reports:
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March 26, 2008 |
Your help is needed with the April 17th ECW Arts
Auction
to
raise funds for our diocesan ECW pledge to the ACTS2 Campaign
to go towards the Sacristy of the proposed new Chapel at Camp
McDowell. Please prayerfully consider how you and your
parish can help and get involved.
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March 20, 2008 |
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The
Montgomery Convocation will have their Spring
Meeting on Wednesday, May 7th at the Church of the Ascension as they
celebrate their 100 year anniversary. Attendees will be treated to
nationally known speaker and author Rev. Mary Earle of San Antonio,
Texas.
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The
Mountain Convocation Spring Meeting will be
Tuesday April 29, 2008 at Church of the Epiphany, Guntersville.
The speaker will be Paula Dabney on "Greening of the Church".
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March 6, 2008 |
Parish Giving Report as
of 2/29/08 uploaded to Board Reports.
See how your parish compares to other parishes in the diocese in its
giving to the work and ministries of the Diocesan ECW. |
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March 5, 2008 |
Cheaha
Convocation Spring Meeting will be held Thursday, March 27th at Grace
Episcopal in Anniston. The Rev. Deacon Dave Drachlis will speak
about the recent missions trips to Haiti and our commitment in supporting
Alabama's companion diocese relationship with that country.
More details |
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February 27, 2008 |
Church of the Epiphany,
Guntersville will host World Day of Prayer, March 7, 2008 at 11 am.
This service sponsored by Church Women United is an annual observance of
prayer. This year's service will focus on the country and people of
Guyana.
more
details...
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February 23, 2008 |
The Black Belt Convocation Spring meeting
will be held Saturday March 8th at Christ Episcopal in Tuscaloosa.
The Rev. David Meginniss will speak on The Treatment of Women in the
Bible. More details and RSVP
form on the invitation. |
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February 21, 2008 |

Plans
are underway for an
Arts Auction on
April 17th to
raise funds for our diocesan ECW pledge to the ACTS2 Campaign to go towards the Sacristy of the proposed
new Chapel at Camp McDowell. Please make plans to
contribute and attend!
See photos from the DOK Spring
Assembly held Feb. 2nd at Grace Episcopal Church in
Cullman
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February 10, 2008 |
For the first time the Diocesan ECW Board will be conducting a
workshop at the Parish Leadership Training Event in
Birmingham on April 5th. See
more details on this workshop, "Episcopal Church Women:
The Hub of the Parish" and please make plans to
attend. For further information, contact
President Elect Gethryn Giles. |
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February 7, 2008 |
Please plan to attend the 59th Annual ECW Women's Weekend at
Camp McDowell May 16th - 18th.
Registration Form and more info now
posted. Deadline for registration is May 2nd. |
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February 5, 2008 |
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January 30, 2008 |
We now have an Online Submission Form
for you to update the Diocesan ECW Board with info about your parish ECW
leaders and contacts. Please use this form and help us keep in
touch with you!
New Search feature added - we have hundreds
of pages on Alabama ECW website now and sometimes we know you might need to
search for what you are looking for. Hopefully the new search page
will help you find what you are looking for....
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January 29, 2008 |
 Photos posted from
November 2007 event to introduce
the Trinity Wetumpka cookbook
fundraiser which was at a Business After Hours event with the Wetumpka
Chamber of Commerce. Pictured at right from the event is Trinity
Wetumpka Rector Rev. Ben Alford with Wetumpka Mayor Jo Glenn.
January 2008 Board Meeting Minutes posted
2008 Alabama ECW Budget posted |
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January 18, 2008 |
Website updated with 2008
Theme
"Blessed Is She Who Believes"
See
photos from Annual December
tri-parish gathering of St. Luke’s, St. Mary’s on-the-Highlands and Advent
in Birmingham on December 3rd |
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January 14, 2008 |

2008
ECW Scholarship Application forms are now available on our
Scholarship page. Please note the
application deadline of April 30th.
Slideshow presentation shown
at Fall Conference on ECW Diocesan Communications uploaded
ECW President Dee Buzby shares
her thoughts about the ordination of Bishop Suffragan McKee Sloan on
January 12:
Ladies,
Just a short note to try to describe the very beautiful service yesterday at
the Advent. First of all, Brian and I arrived at 10:00 and all the seating
was taken, we stood till 12:45 when several seats opened up. We were pleased
that Marilyn stood with us and kept us company. What a service! All the pomp
and circumstance that our Church does so well. The procession was festive
and Alleen did a super job carrying the Diocesan Banner (former Corporate
Gift) and she made us proud. The music were hymns that we all love, the
number of Bishops- at least 7 or 8 from our Province IV- who laid hands on
Kee, our Presiding Bishop who during the announcements received the warmest
welcome including a standing ovation, the sometimes hilarious sermon by
David Meginniss, and our new Bishop celebrating the Eucharist. The reception
was very
nice
and Marilyn and I enjoyed working with the women of the Guild, especially
Linda Kennedy who so graciously organized the reception. It as packed.
Alleen made a beautiful caviar pie in the shape of the Episcopal Shield
which was beautiful and delicious and which must have taken much patience.
After the reception, I had the opportunity to meet the
Presiding Bishop at Carpenter House and she was lovely. I knew she was tired
and this was her down time so I stayed just a few minutes. She has a warm
and welcoming feeling about her.
Brian and I then went to the new campus ministry building and enjoyed the
Tea and Conversation with the Presiding Bishop. I would describe her as
confident, very intelligent, very spiritual, articulate, compassionate, and
having a sense of humor. Just wish this could have been recorded. The
questions ranged from the problems in our church today, to a college student
asking about the priesthood, and to biblical questions. It was a comfortable
time and I enjoyed it.
Blessings to you all,
Dee
Also, Alleen
Cater, past president, shares her thoughts about the event and and her
Episcopal Shield Caviar Pie:
Attached is a photo of the caviar pie I made as a
contribution of the diocesan ECW to the reception yesterday. It's Johnny
Tyson's recipe and instructions, but it was still a learning curve for me.
As I was using tweezers and a very small spatula to pick out waxed paper
strips and stray bits of caviar, it occurred to me that it would have been
much simpler to have a big chocolate chip cookie decorated with the shield;
but .... nothing's too good for our bishops! I'm happy to share
Johnny's recipe with anyone who wants it.
In addition to being as lovely as Dee Buzby said it was, yesterday was also
a high moment of closeness, joy, optimism and togetherness for our diocese,
in my opinion. The Holy Spirit led us all, no doubt; the fruit of that
Spirit is infectious and we should all try to catch and keep it. How
wonderful to see women of various parishes working hand-in-hand with the
women of the Advent! Thanks to one and all. The women of this diocese are
the best! Please let me know if there are others who should receive thanks
for their help. I was rather late getting into the reception and missed
seeing who all was helping.
Blessings,
Alleen
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January 14, 2008 |
Posted on
Board Reports page:
Posted
Brochure on DOK Spring
Assembly in Cullman Feb. 2nd
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December 30, 2007 |

The Diocesan
2008 Calendar Handbook can now be downloaded. Also our Calendar and
ECW Board pages have been updated with 2008
information.
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December 18, 2007 |
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St. Mark's, Birmingham invites
you join the "Voices of Praise" and their children as they present a musical
and narrative performance of Jesus, There's Something About That Name,
December 23rd at 5:00pm.
more
details....
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November 21, 2007 |

Trinity Wetumpka is offering their beautiful cookbook,
"Shall We Gather", in
our Alabama ECW MarketPlace. It features
wonderful recipes with emphasis on the use of Alabama products and beautiful
orginal artwork by award winning Wetumpka artist Hope Brannon.
See photos from the
cookbook fundraiser kickoff...
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November 21, 2007 |
Alleen
Cater informs us of this
video interview of ECW board president Kay Meyer (scroll
down to 11/9/07 link)
during the national board meeting October 15 - 19. |
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November 9, 2007 |
Read
about our recent Fall Conference in Auburn and see
photos.
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November 4, 2007 |
Deacon Louise Thibodaux has
organized a ministry called Power Socks
and we have added it to our Ministries
and Resources page. Knitters donate the time and materials
to make hand-knit socks, then sell the socks for charity to
help women with rising utility bills and transportation costs.
Contact Deacon Louise Thibodaux (yellowboots@charter.net)
about ways you might become part of this worthwhile project. |
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November 4, 2007 |
"The Episcopal Church Women of
the East Alabama Convocation are wonderfully talented. Their
kindnesses, helpfulness and generosity in planning and implementing their
different parts of the 2007 ECW Fall Conference in Auburn was greatly
appreciated. We had many hands at work knitting, setting up,
registering, decorating, preparing food and the innumerable activities that
make our fall gatherings successful. Thank you to the ECW board
members for their steadfast leadership. They understand the needs of
the different parishes and can "sit their own brooms" with great dignity and
perseverance. As soon as St Stephen's Birmingham gets their
registration material out for 2008, I'm there!! Please be sure to
register early!"
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The women of the Church of the Ascension were proud to feed nearly 400
hungry parishioners and guests at their
annual Chicken Curry
Luncheon, Thursday October 25. Homemade curry, tomato
aspic, marinated green beans along with the always popular rum cakes was the
traditional fare. Hattie Boo Johnson was this year's Chicken Curry
Luncheon chairman.
See photos.
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October 23, 2007 |
At Fall Conference, some of our
reports were shown as slideshows. We will place them on the website.
The first one posted under Board Reports is
the Fall 2007 Treasurer's
Report Slideshow, which was created by Lisa Gruner and Brenda
Mayhall. More to come....
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October 20, 2007 |
Anne Kimzey wants to:
"thank everyone who donated "vitamins for the diocesan Haiti mission.
Malnutrition is such a severe problem in Haiti, and these vitamins are truly
a critical need. You can see photos and read the daily updates about
the trip at our diocesan website:
http://www.dioala.org/ministries/companion_diocese_haiti.html.
So far they have been building desks and benches for schools and planning
the medical mission for February. They also spent a day at the
nutrition clinic in the mountain village of Crochu and visited the site of a
well and water project we have funded in Thomazeau."
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October 15, 2007 |
St. Philip's Episcopal Church NoteCards added to the MarketPlace
- depicting St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Fort Payne, during its 50th
Anniversary Celebration
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September 14, 2007 |
From Alleen Cater, ECW
President, concerning Fall Conference
and The Memorial Roll:
One of the
most moving moments of all my time spent on ECW each year comes during
the Memorial Eucharist at Fall Conference, when the names are read of
all the fine women in the Diocese of Alabama who have died in the last
year. There are so many names that it takes several readers to get
through the list. Always I hear some names which are dear to me.
Even hearing unfamiliar names evokes an image right out of the gospel
and hymn: and endless line of the saints of God "serve These as
Thy hosts above." Each time I am deeply and newly humbled to be
included in the faithful group here. It reminds me of an endless
chain of paperdolls. If you've heard the list being read, you have
your own image of that moment.
The deadline is upon us for sending along the names of
all of our parish sisters who have died since September 2, 2006. Contributions to the scholarship fund in memory of those women can be
sent to Carpenter Hall, 521 North 20th Street, Birmingham, AL. 35203 and
marked "memorial gift." The deadline is for the names only
and the contributions may be sent at any time, thought it's good to send
them while the suggestion is in front of you. The deadline is
September 15, but we want the names even if the deadline has passed.
If you have not registered for Fall
Conference yet, please go ahead and do so.
Blessings for a great day,
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September 13, 2007 |
Alabama
Folk School at Camp McDowell
Need a Get Away? Here's
your chance. How would you like to spend time studying your
favorite craft or trade at a retreat center that features modern
accommodations as well as over a thousand acres of forests, canyons, and
waterfalls? Come join us for a week or weekend to participate in
any of the
40 classes ranging in everything from pottery, weaving and
woodcutting to dance, music, and printmaking located near Poplar
Springs, AL. Please check the website
www.campmcdowell.com/FolkSchool and register today to secure your
spot. For more information, contact Megan Huston at 205 387-1806
or
folkschool@campmcdowell.com. There's a rocking chair waiting
for you!
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August 6, 2007 |
Registration Form and Updated Information for Fall Conference posted
- see all Fall Conference information
here |
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July 31, 2007 |
Detailed schedule for Fall
Conference posted |
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June 21, 2007 |
Fall Conference Information is
now posted. |
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June 20, 2007 |
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June 2007 |

The ECW of
the Diocese of Alabama has made a gift of a cross in memory of
the late Rt. Rev.
Furman C. Stough,
Eighth Bishop of Alabama, which
hangs in the center window of the Chapel at Carpenter House.
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May 19, 2007 |
Alabama ECW has pledged $65,000 over 5 years to the
ACTS2
fundraising campaign for our Diocese. This is to be
applied towards the $125,000 item of the Sacristy for the proposed new
Chapel at Camp McDowell. We will keep tabs on how we are doing to
reach our goal on this page. |
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April 3, 2007 |
2007 Clergy Pictorial Directory
provided by ECW.
It is the hope of the ECW
that the pictorial directory will be a useful tool for clergy and laity alike, in
working together on the various ministries to which Our Lord has called
us. We offer it in the loving spirit of the countless women who have
served this diocese faithfully throughout its history. |
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March 27, 2007 |
Added
to our
Study page:
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February 22, 2007 |
Check
out the terrific new webpages for
National ECW |
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January 17, 2007 |
A calendar listing
thirty-one different biblical virtues to use in praying for our church
added to Study page |
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December 30, 2006 |
ECW Constitution and ByLaws
added |
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October 3 |
Sawyerville Work Project has a beautiful
set of Notecards for sale. See them in the
ECW MarketPlace. |
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March 26, 2006 |
Grace At The Table cookbook from Grace
Woodlawn information added to Marketplace |
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November 4, 2005 |
Set of NoteCards of St.
Wilfrid's Episcopal Church added to
Marketplace
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October 26, 2005 |
St. Luke's Evening
Choir, Crossfire, CD available for purchase |
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Starting a New
ECW or Reorganizing an Existing Group? |
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Reminder |
Don't forget: you can post
items at our Marketplace that your parish
ECW is selling |
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