Episcopal Church Women of The Diocese of East Tennessee

If you have specific questions about the following events or any activitiy of the diocesan ECW, contact Nancy Bosson, East Tennessee ECW president (NBB721@aol.com or 865-671-6852 or 865-207-8570).

To make a nomination to the ECW's diocesan board, please download and complete this form.

The 2009 Spring Conference, May 1-2, features the Rev. Martha Holton Hedgpeth, speaking on "Forgotten Women of the Bible"

All of the women of the Diocese of East Tennessee are invited to the Annual Spring Meeting of the Tennessee Tri-Diocesan Episcopal Church Women on Friday, May 1 and Saturday, May 2, 2009.

This year we are excited that the meeting will be held in West Tennessee at the St. Columba Episcopal Conference Center in conjunction with their monthly St. Clare Women’s Silent Retreat. We will also enjoy a service at St. Mary’s Cathedral, a conversation with the Bishop of West Tennessee, the Rt. Rev. Don E. Johnson, workshops and a keynote address by the Rev. Martha Holton Hedgpeth from North Carolina speaking on “Forgotten Women of the Bible: Desperate Housewives, Harlots and Heroines.”

We will enjoy meeting women from all over Tennessee.

The Conference Registration Fee is $85 per person per night for a double room ($110 per person per night for a single room). You may stay just one night (Friday) or you may arrive a day early on Thursday so that you can attend the Silent Retreat Friday morning.

For registration information, please go to www.ecwwtn.org or contact Nancy Tanner, (865) 577-7614, nancybt@comcast.net.

You may request a paper brochure by contacting Judy Phillips, (901) 753-0142, jphillips@churchoftheannunciation.com.

To read reports about spring conferences in recent years, please click the desired link below:

Two UTO grants and a Mollie Tucker scholarship were awarded at the 2008 Fall Annual Meeting, Sept. 13, which featured Bishop vonRosenberg and his wife, Annie.

Each fall the diocese’s Episcopal Church Women come together in Knoxville for their annual meeting to worship, visit and conduct business together. The bishop of East Tennessee, the Rt. Rev. Charles vonRosenberg, celebrates Holy Eucharist, and installs new board members and affirms continuing members for the next year. The meeting includes a luncheon and a keynote speaker.

The Tucker Memorial Scholarship Fund was established by the ECW of the Diocese of East Tennessee according to the ECW 2004 yearbook, "in thanksgiving for Mollie Tucker's life and witness and for her many years of service to the Episcopal Church Women in Tennessee." The financial award is intended to help recipients reach educational goals at accredited colleges or technical schools. Since 1988, more than 20 women in the diocese have been awarded a Mollie Hazen Tucker Scholarship for $1,000. It is a one-time grant for one year only.

An update on past Tucker Scholarship winners was included as part of the ECW's 2004 Fall Meeting. Three scholars attended the program, along with the Rev. Louisa Tucker Parsons, daughter of the woman in whose name the scholarship is awarded. The event was covered in the East Tennessee Episcopalian.

If you would like to support this program of the Episcopal Church Women, please send contributions to the ECW treasurer, Ginny Galphin, 15 Mountain Orchard Path, Signal Mountain, TN, 37377. Make checks payable to ECW, Diocese of East Tennessee, and designate your contribution for the "Mollie Tucker Scholarship."

The deadline to apply for grants is May 1 of each year. Winners are announced around June 1, Tucker's birthday. Information, guidelines and applications for the scholarship are available from the ECW scholarship chairman, Cheryl Jones.