Antioch Baptist Church-Chapel Hill/ White Cross community

Antioch Baptist Church-Chapel Hill/ White Cross community Sunday School classes for all ages at 9:45 a.m. Sunday Morning Worship Service: 11:00 a.m.

Antioch Baptist Church is a growing body of believers located in the White Cross community west of Chapel Hill, NC. We are committed to worshiping and serving Jesus Christ, to encouraging one another toward Christian growth and discipleship, and to serving God’s purposes in the wider world. At heart, we are a “family” church in (we hope) the best sense of that term. We believe that the “body of Ch

rist” – the church – ought to be a place that unites, equips, and cares for people of all ages, backgrounds and stations of life. That’s why you will find ministries here that are geared to various life stages and needs, …and a willingness to begin new ones as needs emerge. Because we believe the Bible is God’s inspired message to us, and offers the answers to our deepest needs, we take its teachings seriously, and attempt to make it the rule and guide of our lives.

06/15/2026
06/13/2026

Butterflies don't visit your flowers for this. They need a mud puddle.

You planted the flowers for the butterflies, and they'll come. But there's one thing your blooms can't give them, and the males especially go looking for it: salt.

If you've ever seen a cluster of butterflies gathered on damp ground, a muddy track, or the edge of a puddle, wings slowly fanning, they weren't drinking for thirst. They were "puddling" — sipping dissolved sodium and minerals straight out of wet earth. Nectar is almost pure sugar: all fuel, none of the salts a male needs to make the nutrient package he passes to a female when they mate. So he tops up from the ground. Whole little gatherings of swallowtails and sulphurs form over the best damp spots.

You can build them one in five minutes. Take a shallow dish or a saucer, fill it with sand or plain soil, and sink it into a sunny patch of the garden. Wet it down until it's like damp beach sand — never standing water, just moist. Then add the secret ingredient: a small pinch of sea salt worked in, or a spoonful of compost. Keep it damp through the hot weeks and that patch becomes a butterfly bar.

Put it in full sun, low to the ground, near the flowers you already have, and refresh the moisture every couple of days. Skip any table salt with additives — plain sea salt or compost is all it wants.

Give it a week of hot June afternoons and they'll start dropping in: a tiger swallowtail with its wings flat to the sun, a knot of little sulphurs, maybe a red admiral. You gave them the salt of the earth. Literally.

Flowers feed them. Mud completes them. A damp dish of sand is the simplest invitation you can offer.

05/01/2026

Antioch Youth will be hosting a food booth at this event: hotdogs, BBQ sandwiches, desserts & beverages. Payment by donation. Come out and support the youth!

Mark your calendars!
04/28/2026

Mark your calendars!

ALL ARE INVITED! Good food, great fellowship!

ALL ARE INVITED! Good food, great fellowship!
04/20/2026

ALL ARE INVITED! Good food, great fellowship!

Address

1707 White Cross Road
Chapel Hill, NC
27516

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 3pm
Tuesday 9am - 3pm
Wednesday 9am - 3pm
Thursday 9am - 3pm
Friday 9am - 3pm

Telephone

+19199292230

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