The Episcopal Church Women (ECW) are women of all ages whose purpose is to assist the women of the church to carry on Christ's work in the world and to take their place in the life and worship of the church. The work of the ECW begins in the local parish and spreads its ministry through the diocesan, provincial and national levels.
Since 1871, The National Episcopal Church Women, ECW, has championed women's rights and the Christian foundation of God and family. We are a ministry of the Episcopal Church and celebrate that Episcopalians believe in a loving, liberating, and life-giving God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Every woman who attends the Episcopal Church is an Episcopal Church Woman!
What We Do
History
ECW Prayer
Support the Diocesan ECW Board
Leadership
Ministry Areas & Partners
United Thank Offering (UTO)
ECW participates in UTO Blue Box Prayer Collections twice a year in the spring and the fall. Money raised is given as grants to local and worldwide projects ranging from literacy or homeless programs to improvement programs in youth centers, community halls, and diocesan buildings.
Ministry in Action (MIA)
Ministry-in-Action (MIA) is an outreach of the Episcopal Church Women of the Diocese of Long Island to help those in need both far and near. The funds are received from ECW chapters throughout the diocese, and help to fund "Box Work" activities such as: the Adopt-A-Family program, supplying layettes to unwed mother facilities, supplying lap robe comforters to those afflicted with AIDS and those in nursing homes, donations of food and clothing to homeless shelters, and more.
Church Periodical Club (CPC)
Dedicated to providing written materials, both religious and secular, to people all over the world through grants, bibles, prayer books, educational books, books for seminarians, educational materials, medical textbooks, agricultural books.
Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD)
Episcopalians responding to natural and man-made emergencies in the US and around the world, such as earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, etc., and civil unrest, wars. Emergency responders help within hours to whatever is needed and continue to help rebuild, and regenerate communities and provide post trauma services that are often overlooked.
Seaman's Church Institute (SCI)
SCi is America's oldest, ongoing charity, established in 1837 by the Episcopal Church to provide respite, pastoral counseling, worship, maritime education, and Christmas gifts of handmade knitted and crocheted hats, scarves, cowls, vests, and socks to the mariners on cargo ships who stop at our U.S. ports, bringing us the goods we buy in our stores.
St. John's Episcopal Hospital
St. John's Hospital, Far Rockaway is the only Episcopal Hospital in NY. It is the only hospital providing emergency and ambulatory care to the densely populated, culturally and economically diverse, and medically underserved populations of the Rockaways and Five Towns in southern Queens County and southwestern Nassau County, N. Y. Celebrating over 110 years of community care, the 257-bed facility provides people of all faiths with comprehensive preventative, diagnostic treatment, and rehabilitative services, regardless of ability to pay.
