Covid-19 Task Force Guidelines for Worship and Facilities Use – April 20, 2021

April 22, 2021 by

COVID-19 TASK FORCE GUIDELINES FOR WORSHIP AND FACILITIES USE
Approved by Congregation Council on April 20, 2021

Outdoor Worship: 

  • Full worship service with Gathering, Word, Meal, Sending
  • Singing allowed
  • Pickup band, choir, handbells
  • No sign up needed
  • Worshippers please bring lawn chairs
  • Distancing and masks required;  encouraged for kindergarteners and younger
  • Families and children most welcome: We welcome and encourage kids to move and play. We know and trust that parents will encourage their children to be respectful of other congregational members.
  • Communion served using individual, sealed cups
  • Restrooms open, one household at a time
  • Vaccines encouraged 

 Move into the Sanctuary If Weather Prevents Outdoor Worship:

  • Music Director Brooke Joyce and Pr. Amy will make the call about whether we need to move indoors  at 7:30 am Sunday morning. The decision will be announced in the Sunday email. If we move indoors, the sign-up form will be shared in that email and posted on the website. The sign-up form will include encouragement to let others sign up first if you have recently been indoors for worship. 
  • Limit 50 people
  • Sign-up required
  • Masks required and encouraged for those under age four
  • Families and children are most welcome. We welcome and encourage kids to move and play. We know and trust that parents will encourage their children to be respectful of other congregational members.
  • Designated spots for seating in the sanctuary
  • Windows open
  • No singing or wind instruments
  • Communion served using individual, sealed cups
  • No Fellowship Hour
  • Nursery closed to children, open for nursing moms
  • One household at a time in restrooms
  • Vaccines encouraged 

Online Worship Service:

  • During this season of outdoor worship, it will not work well to livestream the outdoor service. We will continue to offer an online worship service, but it will be shorter and simpler than the current online service. 
  • When we return to regularly scheduled worship in the sanctuary, we will then livestream the indoor service.

Building Use:

  • Building open daily 8:30 am-8:30 pm.
  • Masks required
  • Groups of 17 or fewer may meet in the Adult Forum space if distancing is practiced, 10 more can join if the group spreads into the gathering space outside the sanctuary
  • Groups of 8 or fewer may meet in the library if distancing is practiced and windows are open
  • The Fellowship Hall and Sunday School room can be made available for groups in coordination with Kinderhaus
  • Building sanitized regularly
  • Sunday School and Youth Forum will meet outside following outdoor worship. In case of inclement weather they will meet indoors at 10:30 a.m.
  • Confirmation class will meet indoors on Wednesday nights.

Anyone with COVID-19 symptoms needs to stay home.

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