Join the Holy Cross Chancel Choir!
If you enjoy singing in the car or the shower, consider joining the Holy Cross Chancel Choir. We rehearse on Wednesdays from 7pm-8:30pm in the Skiles Hall Choir Room. Can't read music? No problem. Afraid you can't carry a tune? That's probably false. Afraid of the time commitment? Just talk to Shane. We'd love to have you join this aspect of our music ministry.

Items Missing from VCCC Shop
As you are recovering from the hugely successful Valle Country Fair, cleaning up and putting away for next year, if you've borrowed anything from the Conference Center, please return any items that may have been used for the Fair to the shop in the first floor of the Annex (where the Dining Hall is). Thank you!

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2026 Calendars Available!
A limited supply of 2026 Churchman’s Ordo Calendars are available for purchase for $5 in the Parish Office. This calendar offers a full listing of the traditional feasts and devotional days which are frequently celebrated throughout the Anglican Communion.

Ushers and Greeters Needed
Holy Cross congregants, we are in dire need of additional Ushers to serve at both the 8am and the 11am services. Please prayerfully consider serving in this capacity.

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Dewey’s Bakery Holiday Shop Now Open!

Hello Parishioners who have supported SmileOnADG, the Adam Galleher Memorial Fund for many years!

Our Dewey’s Bakery Holiday Shop is now open at Shoppes on the Parkway, Blowing Rock. We are located in Unit #2, open 7 days a week. Our contact phone is 828-572-9679.

Remember, when you purchase cookies & gifts from our shop, you are supporting Adam’s Memorial Fund at 35% and we thank you for that.

This enables us to continue giving grants and scholarships to our local schools in Watauga, Ashe & Avery. --Debbie & Mike Galleher

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Helping the Hungry in the High Country

You’ve seen the changes in funding for the SNAP food program. You’ve generously supported the Summer Food Program for Children through Holy Cross. Thank you for that. There is a great need again to help fill the shelves of local food banks. The need is urgent.

Please bring your canned and boxed goods to Skiles on Sundays (or any day) and place them on the tables in the Welcome Center designated for Hunger and Health Coalition, Hospitality House Kitchen Pantry or Foscoe Hometown Team. Check out store BOGOs, sales flyers, look over your own pantry and ask your clubs and social groups to join in the fight against hunger. Every can or box counts. You count. Someone nearby goes to bed with food in the belly because of you. A child, an older person, someone out of work needs what you do.

We are fortunate to have drivers to carry food to our local food banks. We just need the food. Bring any of these: canned fruits, vegetables, tuna or chicken. Boxes of cereal, milks and juices, baby formula, paper products, jars of peanut butter and jelly, condiments like ketchup, mustard, salt and pepper, hot sauce. New socks, sweatshirts and sweatpants, gloves, scarves, coats, winter work clothes and bottled water are all needed in Foscoe, where there are still homes without running water. Fill your green Simple Gesture bags. Kip Kingree or Judy Bondi will take them to Hunger and Health. Jeff and Angela Williams will tote goods and food to Foscoe Hometown Team. Ron Armstrong will carry food to Hospitality House Kitchen Pantry.

Thank you so much for your response to this food drive. It matters. Things work because of you. Blessings on you and yours for what you do for others.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2025
Valle Glow – Tree Lighting Event

Help the Valle Crucis Community Council raise funds to re-string the Christmas Tree and throw the biggest holiday party ever! Every dollar counts towards making the lights this year the brightest and best. Valle Glow is more than a tree lighting. It's community, coming together. To make Valle Glow possible, we need your help. We’re raising funds to cover the cost of the lights and installation on the giant Norwegian spruce below Holy Cross Episcopal Church. Visit www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/valle-glow to make a contribution. All donations go through the Valle Crucis Conference Center and are tax deductible.

Together, we’ll make the Valle Glow brighter than ever. Be a shining light and donate today!

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2025
A Quiet Advent Retreat – 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Our annual Advent Retreat will take place on Saturday, November 22, in Johnson Hall, Valle Crucis Conference Center, from 10:00 to 2:00. Everyone is invited, men, women, and young people.
Advent fills us with the thrill of anticipation for the joy that is to come. We will experience this together with those who were present and waiting more than 2000 years ago. Whom were they expecting? What was it they were seeing? How did they greet the mind-opening promises given to them?
We will also look at the promises and follow them in awe, accompanied by angel song, to a humble manger.
Please contact the Valle Crucis Conference Center to register for this program, or follow this link to sign up: https://pci.jotform.com/form/232883990404160.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2025
Drama and Carols – 11:00 am
This year, Lessons and Carols will be performed as Drama and Carols. We will listen to the story of God’s dream for us in the form of drama instead of the traditional readings. The readings will become the drama spoken by the characters we meet in the Biblical stories. The choir will emphasize every part of the great drama with beloved carols. Come to listen and to sing and invite your friends to participate in a new Advent experience.

 

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2025
Annual ECW Pre-Thanksgiving Bake Sale

Holy Cross ECW will be in Skiles Hall after the 11:00 am service selling cakes, pies, and other goodies to help you prepare for your Thanksgiving holiday. Come check out all the goodies you'll need to feed family and friends this Thanksgiving.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2025
Cooperative Thanksgiving Service – 6:00 pm
The Watauga Cooperative Thanksgiving Worship Service will be held on Sunday, November 23rd at 6:00 pm at Henson’s Chapel UMC. As usual, the Offertory for the service will be a bag of canned or boxed food that will be donated to the Western Watauga Food Outreach Program and possibly, the Blessings Bin at Brushy Fork Baptist Church.

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IT'S ANGEL TREE TIME!!

There are several families at Valle Crucis school, and residents at The Life Care Center in Banner Elk for whom Holy Cross Church is their only Santa Claus. We also are helping out our Valle Crucis Teachers with gift cards this year as well. Thank you all in advance for your generosity!

Follow the link below to access this year’s “Virtual Angel Tree” registry and sign-up for gift donations. Here is how the Angel Tree gift donations will work this year:

• Sign-up for gift(s) donations via this SignUPGenius: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/508084FADAC23A2FB6-holy1

• Bring your wrapped and tagged gift(s) to Skiles Hall. The Christmas tree will be in place in Skiles Hall after November 28, 2025.

  • Please begin bringing wrapped and tagged gifts starting on Sunday November 30, 2025.

  • All gifts and teacher gift cards need to be delivered to Skiles Hall no later than Sunday December 14, 2025.

  • For those buying gifts Life Care Persons please add a few nice toiletries (lotions, creams, body washes, etc.)

• THANK YOU so much for your help!