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Vaccine Information

Vaccines have saved more lives than virtually every public health measure other than clean drinking water. The COVID-19 vaccines are our best chance of stemming the pandemic and have been shown to be very safe and very effective at reducing the risk of dying or requiring hospitalization because of the virus.

The Diocesan Task Force on Vaccine Education, comprised of medical professionals and experts on the virus, worked together to answer the most commonly heard concerns about the vaccine.


GET YOUR SHOT

Find a Spot to Get Your Shot: yourspotyourshot.nc.gov | 1-888-675-4567
*Task Force Tip: If you are able to obtain a spot on a vaccination waitlist, take the spot! This is proving effective at obtaining an appointment.


KEY RESOURCES

NC Department of Health & Human Services (English | Spanish)

  • Facts Flyer (Bilingual: English & Spanish)
  • Communications Tools (English | Spanish)
  • Faith Leaders Toolkit (English)


Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(English | Spanish)

  • Communications Tools (English | Spanish)


ADDRESSING VACCINE HESITANCY

COVID vaccines are more widely available than ever, yet clinics are increasingly empty, appointments are going unbooked, and more and more doses are going unused as many are hesitant to get vaccinated. The reasons are many: concern over safety, questions about side effects and the belief it's just not necessary.

The Rev. Maureen Flak and Dr. Joseph Graves of the diocesan Task Force on Vaccine Education address these concerns in the hope it will encourage all those who have not yet gotten vaccinated will make the decision to do so.


GENERAL INFORMATION VIDEOS

The Diocesan Task Force on Vaccine Education worked together, and in conversation with church leaders, to name and answer the most commonly heard concerns about the vaccine. All of the videos below contain the same information, and we invite you to download and share the video of your choice to help share this critical information in the hope it will dispel fears, impart the facts and encourage us all to take the vaccine when we have the chance.

IN ENGLISH:

IN SPANISH:


HOW YOU CAN HELP

With the greatest challenges to the mass vaccination being the ability to understand the facts about vaccines and obtaining appointments to receive one, there are several ways you can help both your church family and your community neighbors:

  • Share the information. Post available videos, and supplement them with your own message.
  • Organize informational opportunities. If your congregation or local community still has questions related to the vaccine, offer an online meeting and contact the Diocese to enlist a knowledgeable advocate to come and answer questions.
  • Offer to help with appointments.
    • If members of your congregations or neighbors do not have access to computers or the confidence to navigate the appointment system, enlist volunteers to take on the task. With just a bit of information, volunteers can make appointments on another’s behalf. If you are serving a community member without an email address or phone number, consider creating a general email address you can monitor for notifications on their behalf (just be sure you can reach them if a notification arrives).
    • Similarly, hold times when making appointments by phone can be time some can’t spare. Enlist volunteers to assist with this method of appointment-making as well
  • Sign up to be a vaccination location
  • Share your shot: When you get your shot, take a photo and add it to the diocesan Instagram campaign, using the hashtag #GotMyShotNC.


FROM THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH

Toolkit from The Episcopal Church (access to both English and Spanish on same link)



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Contacts

The Rt. Rev. Samuel Rodman
XII Bishop Diocesan of North Carolina
The Rt. Rev. Anne Elliott Hodges-Copple
VI Bishop Suffragan of North Carolina

The Rt. Rev. Samuel Rodman

XII Bishop Diocesan of North Carolina

The Rt. Rev. Samuel Rodman was ordained and consecrated as the XII Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina in Duke Chapel on the campus of Duke University in Durham on July 15, 2017. He was elected on March 4, 2017.

Prior to his election, Bishop Rodman served as the Special Projects Officer for the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, a role he took on after spending five years as the diocesan project manager for campaign initiatives, where he engaged congregations, clergy and laity, in collaborative local and global mission through the Together Now campaign, helping to raise $20 million to fund these initiatives. Prior to that, he spent 16 years as the rector of St. Michael’s in Milton, Massachusetts, during which the parish established a seven-year plan that included a capital campaign for a major renovation of the church school building.

Ordained in 1988, Bishop Rodman is a graduate of Bates College and Virginia Theological Seminary. He and his wife of 32 years, Deborah, live in Raleigh. They are the parents of two adult daughters. In his free time, Bishop Rodman enjoys basketball, golf, kayaking, crosswords and creative writing.

The Rt. Rev. Anne Elliott Hodges-Copple

VI Bishop Suffragan of North Carolina

Anne Elliott Hodges-Copple was elected the Diocese's sixth Bishop Suffragan and the first female bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina on January 26, 2013, at the 197th Annual Convention. She was consecrated on June 15, 2013, in Duke Chapel on the campus of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

Bishop Hodges-Copple grew up in Dallas, Texas, and attended Duke University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in 1979 with a major in public policy. She earned her Master of Divinity from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California, in 1984.

In the years between college and seminary and then seminary and ordination, Hodges-Copple worked as a community organizer in Massachusetts and Appalachia and as a shelter director for victims of domestic violence in North Carolina. She was ordained a deacon in 1987 and a priest in 1988.

Bishop Hodges-Copple has served her entire ordained life in the Diocese of North Carolina, working 13 years in parish ministry and 13 years as a campus minister. She served as the rector of St. Luke’s, Durham, until she was elected to the episcopate. Bishop Hodges-Copple has a particular passion for shaping mission and ministry to be attuned to the voices, needs and wisdom of disempowered communities.

In her role as Bishop Suffragan, Bishop Hodges-Copple has particular responsibilities in campus and young adult ministries, new mission starts (Galilee ministries), the Racial Justice and Reconciliation Commission, the ordination process for the diaconate, global partnerships for mission, ecumenical and interfaith collaborations and the pastoral care of retired clergy, their spouses and surviving spouses. In the spring of 2018, she led a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, her third such pilgrimage, and plans another in 2020.

Hodges-Copple is currently a member of the Executive Council for The Episcopal Church, the Board of Historic Black Colleges & Universities and the Task Force for Social Advocacy. She served on the Special Legislative Committee for Marriage at the 2015 General Convention in Salt Lake City and chaired the House of Bishops’ Legislative Committee on Social Concerns at the 79th General Convention in Austin, Texas. She is also a member of the Bishops United Against Gun Violence.

During the transition between the 11th and 12th Bishops of North Carolina, she served as Bishop Diocesan Pro Tempore, the ecclesiastical authority of the diocese.

She and her husband, John, have three adult children. John is Director of Planning for the Triangle J Council of Governments.

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