ECW Fall Conference

This year's Episcopal Church Women (ECW) Fall Conference will be at St. Stephens Episcopal, Friday, November 4th from 2:00pm - 8:00pm AND Saturday, November 5th from 8:30am - 2:00pm. All women in the diocese are invited to this conference! Our speaker will be Melinda Rainey Thompson, author and humorist. Be a Part of us! The mission of the Alabama ECW is to empower, motivate, and nurture the women of the Diocese of Alabama in utilizing their gifts and talents to serve Christ in this world. Would you like to learn more about ECW? Contact President Fran Bramlette or visit https://www.alabamaecw.org/


More about ECW: Each year at the conference a Memorial Roll is read, and names are placed into a book of Remembrance, of women from each Parish who passed away in the previous year. (I am submitting names from 2020, 2021 and 2022.)

 

 If you would like to submit a memorial gift for this roll either for an individual or in general you can make a check out to ECW with memorial roll on the memo line. Money goes to support the ECW college scholarship fund. 

 

The names being submitted are: 

 

Nancy Barker—1/3/2020

Marilyn Beard—9/9/2020

Gloria Brandon—1/14/2022

Leigh Burke—12/03/2020

Ava Chandler—8/04/2022

Frances Flynn—04/25/2022

Leann Hampton—11/17/2021

Barbara Hudson—08/19/2020

Kay Kellum—09/16/2021

Evelyn Layman—01/23/2022

Nona McGarity—12/04/2020

Marie Phillips—01/14/2020

Jane Poole—09/22/2020

Johanna Talley—06/06/2022


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