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***These guidelines have been amended since March***

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

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