Welcome to Holy Cross!
Many Orthodox churches in America were established to serve the needs of an immigrant population and to faithfully transmit and preserve the rich cultural heritage, traditions, and language of a specific nation of origin.
Holy Cross is different.
We began in 2006 as a mission of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), and our services are entirely in English. We’re a diverse community of ordinary people from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds. We are a warm and open community, and we welcome all visitors!
If you’re new to the Eastern Orthodox Christian faith, please take a minute to browse our website. You’ll find lots of information about us and about Orthodoxy.
But reading can take you only so far. Come and see for yourself the joy and beauty of Orthodox worship! We’ve provided information that will help you prepare for your first visit. Our new church is located in Kernersville, in the center of the Triad area of North Carolina.
We thank God for bringing you here today and look forward to meeting you!
This Week
SATURDAY
Great Vespers at 6:00 pm
SUNDAY
Hours at 9:40 am
Divine Liturgy at 10:00 am
COFFEE HOUR
Please join us right after Divine Liturgy for food and refreshments and a chance to get to know each other!
ON THE CALENDAR
View information about our next Divine Liturgy.
Fr. Christopher is now teaching our Fall 2025 catechism classes. Please join us!
A reminder that our parish fall workday is scheduled for this Saturday, October 25th at 9:00 a.m. here at the church. Sign up here to lend a hand.
To see the full schedule of our services and activities, go to our Holy Cross Calendar page.
FACEBOOK | INSTAGRAM | YOUTUBE
Visit us on Facebook and Instagram for more photos and videos. Recordings of our live-streamed liturgies can be viewed on our Youtube channel.
CONTACT | CALENDAR | DIRECTIONS
Contact information.
Calendar of services & activities.
Directions to our church.
““From its very beginning Christianity has been the proclamation of joy, of the only possible joy on earth. . . . Of all accusations against Christians, the most terrible one was uttered by Nietzsche when he said that Christians had no joy. . . . Our mission to the world depends on our being real witnesses to the joy and peace of the Holy Spirit, to that new life of which we are made partakers in the Church.”
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Orthodox Worship is Ancient, Timeless, Beautiful
The Divine Services of the Orthodox Church developed over centuries as Christians, filled with the Holy Spirit, prayed and sang to God. Our services are ancient, timeless, and beautiful. During our services, we believe we stand in the very presence of God and join with the saints who’ve gone before us and the heavenly hosts in joyful prayer and worship.
Orthodox worship engages the whole person: the mind, the heart, the senses, the entire body. We stand to pray, we kiss icons, we bow to receive blessings, we light candles and frequently make the sign of the cross. There is much about our worship that is distinctive.
To find out more about what you’ll experience at a typical service, click the link below.
Orthodoxy Began at the Beginning
Our Church did not begin in the 20th Century or the 19th or even with the Reformation in the 16th Century. Our Church began when Jesus Christ established it through His apostles in the first century, and He promised that the gates of hell would never prevail against it.
In the 11th century, the Western church based in Rome broke communion with the churches in the East. About 500 years later, Martin Luther, a Roman Catholic monk, called for the reformation of the Roman Catholic church. In the East, there was no Reformation because the specific abuses that Luther attacked (purgatory, papal pardons, indulgences, and the like) never occurred in the Orthodox church.
The Orthodox Church is called Orthodox (meaning “true or right worship”) because we have held fast to the Apostolic Tradition we received nearly 2,000 years ago and continue to follow to this day.
For more information about Eastern Orthodox Christianity, click the link below.
