• Unlike the early months of the pandemic, it is not now feasible to isolate the virus. It is now dispersed in the community and each of us likely encounter asymptomatic potential carriers in our daily activities. Therefore, public health measures are largely built on risk reduction.

• St. Paul's practices strong safety protocols. Those attending services remain six or more feet apart (except for members of the same household), masks are required, no singing is allowed and attendees disperse quickly without gathering after services.

• The timing of the test result (only two days after the most recent attendance at church and 16 days after the prior attendance), along with our safety protocols, makes it highly unlikely that the person contracted the virus at church. Based on feedback from medical professionals, it is also unlikely that the person was in sufficient contact to have transmitted the virus during the service.

• Your name and the names of any family or household members who will attend with you.
• Your email address
• Your cell phone number

• Tim Peterson, for being the backbone of our daily operations these days. I had to call on him after hours (again) to upload a video to Youtube tonight. That happens more than I wish were true. Tim gets pulled into his job at odd hours, but he never complains. And, in the absence of singing, his organ renditions during Sunday services are true tonic for the soul.

• Bruce Hagemann, who selflessly receives pleas for help from the TRUE Fund and carefully works with each applicant to determine we if can help and if there are other community resources to which he can direct the applicant. It is hard work that requires tact, empathy and judgment. We are very lucky to have him not only as our verger (when full services resume), but as co-chair of the Search Committee, a member of the Vestry and crucially, as the administrator for the True Fund.

• David Eyer and Greta Philips-Ford, who purchased amazing poinsettias for the church nave and chancel and arranged them. Dave even fashioned structures to create poinsettia “trees” - and I am told more is to come each week. A very good reason to tune into the Facebook Live services. Both of these leaders are an inspiration.

• Our hard working Office Administrator, Lisa McCarthy, who is laboring under quite a burden scheduling services, answering questions about memorial garden niches, weddings (which we can’t have now, but about which there are still inquiries) memorial bricks, and dozens of other issues each day in addition to a full load of “regular” duties involving bills, vendors, the diocese and parishioner needs. We only pay her for 16 hours a week and we get far more than we can rightfully expect. She is a blessing.

• Dr. Brian Wagstaff, Lilla Whiteside, and Junior Warden Greta-Philips Ford, for being ready and willing to take phone calls during the dinner hour while we considered how to handle news on the Covid-19 front. We are evolving from a very top down driven parish to a very team oriented one.