It is the mission of the Wade Chestnut Memorial Chapel to spread the Good News of God’s work to all on Topsail Island and to provide opportunity for the continued sharing of spiritual growth.
Welcome to the Wade H. Chestnut Memorial Chapel, an Episcopal Chapel in North Topsail Beach, NC of the Diocese of East North Carolina.
Sunday: 11:00 am English The Holy Eucharist is celebrated from late May to early September by visiting clergy.
Since 2012, the Reverend Robert Jemonde Taylor serves as the eleventh rector of Saint Ambrose Episcopal Church. He grew up in Saint Matthias’ Episcopal Church, Louisburg, NC. Father Taylor nurtures a season of liturgical renewal at Saint Ambrose with an emphasis on African American and African culture through Ethiopian Orthodox icons as Stations of the Cross, icons and kneelers of African American Episcopal saints, Episcopal service music based on African American Spirituals, and a Jazz Mass. Father Taylor recently led Saint Ambrose through a three-year capital campaign raising twice the church’s annual budget while maintaining strong stewardship, with building upgrades emphasizing environmentalism through rain gardens and rainwater cisterns installations, restroom and water renovations using 80% less water, and low-e glass protecting the stained-glass windows to reduce heat transmission.
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