Updated Worship Protocols
Masks are required at all services, programs and events at the Chapel of the Cross.
Please note, in accordance with recommendations from the Episcopal Diocese of NC:
- We will offer social distancing by pod, using every third pew in the nave.
- Refraining from congregational singing and in-person choir practice through at least January 16, 2022.
We are continuing to offer a full schedule of Sunday services (7:45, 9 and 11:15 a.m., and 4 p.m.). The 9 a.m. service is livestreamed on the parish YouTube channel.
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Email Scams
We've received reports of scam emails being sent using fake email accounts resembling a variation on the clergy and staff email addresses. Recent attempts even used staff headshots from our website.
No one from COTC will contact you asking you to purchase gift cards. Our IT provider recommends that if you receive email communication that seems suspicious, look at the email address of the sender.
If it ends with anything other than @thechapelofthecross.org, it is spam and should be reported and deleted.
The best thing you can do is to remain vigilant: if something seems suspicious check the address or contact the church office before acting or responding.
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Sunday, January 23 | Acolyte Training
Do you want the best view in the house of our worship? Do you want to support our church? Are you in 5th-12th grade? Then we want YOU to serve as an acolyte!
We will be holding a training for anyone who wishes to serve as an acolyte (as well as those who already do) on Sunday, January 23 from 1-2 p.m. in the church. If you would like to join the acolytes, just come to the training or contact our Youth and Family Minister, Mike Peterson. No experience whatsoever is necessary, so come on out!
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CHRISTIAN FORMATION
Bible Study Updates
The Women's Wednesday and Thursday Bible Studies will continue to meet in a hybrid format, in-person or on Zoom.
Our women’s bible studies will be reading seasonal hymns alongside the Sunday lectionary during the weeks after Epiphany. Contact Boykin Bell (bbell@thechapelofthecross.org) if you would like the zoom link or other information about the Wednesday group (which meets 9 – 10 a.m.) or the Thursday group (9:30 – 10:30 a.m.).
Father Noah's Friday Bible Study will meet on ZOOM on January 14. Contact Father Noah for the Zoom link or call 919-442-2572.
Youth and Family
Our Youth and Family Programming has kicked off, this year's planning includes:
- Youth Small Groups
- Small Group(s) For Parents of Adolescents And Teens
- The Next Chapter: A Small Group For Parents of Adults And Those Approaching That Stage Of Life.
For more information about these programs and all of our fall youth programming, click here. Please sign up here to receive our weekly Youth E-Newsletter and/or feel free to follow our Youth Program on Facebook and Instagram. For more information about our Youth and Family Programs, please contact our Youth And Family Minister, Mike Peterson.
Episcopal Campus Ministry News
Episcopal Campus Ministry (ECM) meets on Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m. when classes are in session in the campus center followed by free dinner around 6:30 p.m. Click here for the latest e-news update! Find us on Facebook or Instagram, or email ECM to be added to the email list. If you'd like to learn more about our UNC ministries and outreach, contact Mary Cat Young.
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FAITH IN ACTION
Caring for God’s Creation
What would it take to get to net zero emissions by 2050? Is it even possible? It is a huge task, but there IS a way there. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has laid out a roadmap, which includes, starting today, NO investment in fossil fuel supply projects and immediate use of all available clean energy technology, combined with a major global push to accelerate innovation. It’s a new year, let’s do this a new way. Read the January issue of the Creation Care newsletter!
Building Hope 2022
Join your fellow Parishioners & members of other Churches in this Partnership, for a build-day of Building Hope 2022 for Orange Habitat, on Saturday, January 15. This will be the first Build-day for 2022, and it's a specific "all-hands" COTC day -- so please volunteer! We will be building with and in support of the Chrit Hae & Collage Paw family, in the growing Odie Street housing development in Hillsborough. For Chapel of the Cross specific details on this family, this Odie home-build & O.C. Habitat, see this document.
Mark Biggers is the Chapel of the Cross liaison for Habitat, and can be contacted at biggers@utsl.com or 919-360-4561. Please contact Mark, when you sign-up to work at this link: http://buildinghope.orangehabitat.volunteerhub.com/events/index TO SIGN UP, create a VHub account and then select: "Build at Odie (Building Hope), January 8 morning (and/or) afternoon shifts"
The Chapel of the Cross Community Dashboard
Check out the Community Dashboard on our website. The Dashboard is where you will find items of interest from throughout our community and the wider world.
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Livestreaming at the Chapel of the Cross
All livestream services and programs can be found at the same location, on the parish YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/thechapelofthecross
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Deadline for Submissions
The deadline for submissions to this email publication (This Week at the Chapel of the Cross) is Friday at noon. Please send all submissions to submissions@thechapelofthecross.org.
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Pastoral Care
Please do let us know of pastoral care requests by clicking this link.
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Shop at Amazon Smile and Support the Chapel of the Cross
If you are an Amazon shopper, you have the option of shopping with Amazon Smile and when you do, Amazon donates 0.5 percent of the transaction back to the Chapel of the Cross! Use the URL below to go directly to Amazon Smile, which will link your purchases with the Chapel of the Cross. Amazon Smile is the same Amazon you know, with the same products and service. Amazon makes it easy, visit: https://smile.amazon.com/ch/56-0623934 to learn more and start shopping.
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