Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig crkvapaterson.org. NS
Answer
crkvapaterson.org. 4 NS ns-968.awsdns-57.net.
crkvapaterson.org. 4 NS ns-1412.awsdns-48.org.
crkvapaterson.org. 4 NS ns-185.awsdns-23.com.
crkvapaterson.org. 4 NS ns-852.awsdns-42.net.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0