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Formation

To find information, activities, resources and opportunities during the time of the coronavirus crisis, we encourage you to visit the At-Home Worship and Formation page created especially for this time.


To live the gospel to the fullest means it must be part of our daily life. The work of lifelong formation has long been underway in this diocese, but to go even deeper, the Diocese of North Carolina has dedicated resources, including a Missioner for Adult Formation and Lifelong Learning, and the Chartered Committee on Lifelong Formation. Together, they work to help us integrate Christian formation into our daily lives in ways that are guided by four principles: that it be intergenerational, relationally based, creative, adaptive and highlight the role of liturgy.

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Adult Formation

Formation doesn't stop once a Christian ages out of Sunday school, vacation Bible school or youth group. A wealth of resources are available for adults looking to deepen their biblical knowledge, learn a new spiritual discipline, or find some comfort and inspiration. We've collected a handful of our favorites below.

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Children and Youth Formation

These resources can be used to assist with the faith formation of young people at home and on the parish level. Please check back often, and share resources you have found helpful by emailing the youth department.

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Way of Love

Excerpted from Practice That's Not About Perfection, But the Way of Love, by the Rt. Rev. Sam Rodman

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Gospel-Based Discipleship

Gospel-Based Discipleship (GBD) is intended to provide you with a daily opportunity to encounter the Gospel and encourage reflection. Each day includes Gospel readings from the Daily Office Lectionary as well as prayers from the diocesan clergy prayer list and diocesan cycle of prayer, for each day of the liturgical year.

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Lectionary Commentaries

Read the Fred Horton Lectionary Commentaries.

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North Carolina Saints

The Episcopal Church recognizes five saints native to North Carolina: Manteo and Virgini Dare, Anna Julia Haywood Cooper, the Rt. Rev. Henry Beard Delany (celebrated with the Rt. Rev. Edward Thomas Demby) and the Rev. Pauli Murray.

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Video Curricula

With the support of a grant from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, the former School of Ministry produced these courses for use in congregations, and are intended as a stimulus for adult group discussion. The brief programs, usually lasting between 12 and 15 minutes, draw upon the rich human resources of our diocese. Facilitator's guides for each course are also available for download.

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Licensed Lay Ministry

While ordained ministers, whether deacon or priest, are usually the ones who lead Sunday morning services, there are many opportunities in The Episcopal Church for lay people to lead and participate in services. If you are a lay person interested in becoming a worship leader, preacher, catechist, Eucharistic minister or Eucharistic visitor, please read the following guidelines and then talk to your rector or vicar about becoming licensed.

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The Rt. Rev. Anne Elliott Hodges-Copple
VI Bishop Suffragan of North Carolina

    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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    Children and Youth

    Way of Love

    Gospel-Based Discipleship

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    North Carolina Saints

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