***These guidelines have been amended since March. Click here for the latest***
We will be reopening the building on a limited basis starting Sunday, March 21. We will have a 9 AM service in our educational wing’s Adult Sunday school room. Our second service will be in the sanctuary at 10:15 AM. We will livestream our second service and also offer it on the radio. Below are our updated reopening guidelines.
Worship
- Persons who are sick must stay home
- Masks required for everyone*
- Singers or preachers might take off mask for a limited amount of time
- Persons attending in-person worship must socially distance by utilizing the open areas of the pews (folks living in the same household may sit together)
- Persons are encouraged to use one staircase to go up to the sanctuary and one staircase to leave sanctuary
- Elevator should be sanitized after each use
- Sanitizer bottles filled and strategically placed
- Limited areas of the church facility will be open to the public
- Worship services shortened for safety
- Disinfection of sanctuary in line with CDC guidelines after worship
- No communion
- No passing of the plate- offering receptacles will be strategically placed for offering
- No physical bulletins
- No greeters
- No handshaking
- No singing in-person except by designated persons
- No passing of the peace
- No nursery or in-person Sunday school
- Physical objects (hymnals, Bibles, etc.) in the sanctuary will be moved from pew areas
- The head usher to take attendance by name on Sundays for contact tracing and normal attendance tracking purposes (and solicit contact information from visitors)
- High touch areas will be cleaned regularly
- Only the bathroom in the children’s chapel area will be open
- Persons need to sanitize bathroom after use, please follow signs
- An online option for worship will be offered (streaming or recorded)
Ministry Outside Worship
- Meetings, Sunday School, Bible studies, and other gatherings should be conducted by video calls and/or social media
- Persons visiting church or pastor’s offices should visit carefully with the aim of social distancing
*Persons with ongoing respiratory problems and children under the age two may choose not to wear mask
