• 8:15am Blended Worship in Main Worship Center
• 11am Prayer & Praise Worship in Gym
• no 9:40am Sunday or 7pm Monday Blended worship gatherings at this time

• 9am Sunday New Vintage Worship

• Zoom
• Facebook
• Telephone 1-877-853-5257 ID: 799-892-892 followed by "#"
• Recordings available on YouTube, Facebook, and Website

• Cleanliness: Our buildings are cleaned and sanitized, with surface touch points minimized. Hymnals, Bibles, Communication Cards, pens, brochures, Children’s bags, etc. have been removed from worship spaces, entrances, and common areas to allow for more complete cleaning of those spaces. Some bulletin boards have been removed. Bulletins, paper Messengers, and Communication Cards will not be available. Please bring your own Bible, pen, and paper if needed. Keep up to date on ministry with the weekly eNews. Staff and Volunteers will have their temperatures taken, will be evaluated for health, and will wear masks.

• Health and Hygiene: Those entering our buildings should carefully evaluate their own health prior to attending. Please stay home if you have a fever or any COVID-19 symptoms, if you have been exposed to the virus, if you are in an at-risk category per the CDC guidelines, or if you are not yet ready to return to worship for any reason. We will continue to offer online worship for those not yet returning to in-person worship. Everyone is asked to maintain proper hand washing and hygiene procedures. Hand sanitizing stations will be available.

• Social Distancing will be expected, with no handshaking, hugging, or other close contact. Please greet each other with God’s love, but maintain an appropriate distance of at least 6 feet. Please respect social distancing as you wait to be ushered to your seat for worship upon entering the building, during worship, and upon exiting the building directly after worship. Please be mindful of directions from Elders and Ushers.

• Masks: Out of Christian love and concern for others, everyone entering the building is encouraged and expected to wear a mask. Those not wearing a mask will be offered a mask to wear. PLEASE NOTE: If a worship attendee does not wear a mask, they will be seated in a designated section of the worship space. Staff, Elders and other Volunteers will wear masks and take appropriate health and hygiene precautions.

• Entrances and Exits: To allow for minimizing touch points, doors will be held open by volunteers for worship attendees to enter and exit. All regular entrances will be available for use at the usual times.

• Hand sanitizing stations will be available at entrances and exits.

• Size Limitations: We will limit the number of people attending, based on social distancing and worship space size parameters.

• Seating: Elders and Ushers will show worship attendees to their seats. Pew and chair spacing has been adjusted to accommodate social distancing. Please wait to be directed to your seat, and maintain social distancing while in line. Family groups will be seated together, but will remain distanced from others. Those without masks will be directed to a designated seating area. Please be respectful of the directions given by our Elders and Ushers to ensure the safety of all.

• Drinking fountains are closed for use. Please bring a personal water bottle if needed.

• Children: Nursery will not be available at this time. Bible Adventure and other children’s programs are also suspended at this time. Children’s activity bags will not be provided. Please bring quiet activities for your children to use during worship, if needed. A quieting room is available in the main worship center.

• Services will be revised and shortened to allow for proper cleaning of spaces and to limit the time spent within the enclosed space. Singing will be minimized as well. Masks are to be worn for the entire service, including singing.

• Offerings will be taken by Elders at the exit of the worship space, with no plates or baskets passed during service.

• Communication Cards will not be used at this time.

• Communion: At this time, communion will only be offered at our Wednesday 7pm Drive-In Services, on the first Wednesday of the month. We will not offer it during our Sunday services.

• Bible Classes for all children, youth and adults have been suspended at this time.

• Fellowship Refreshments: Coffee, donuts and other food items will not be provided at this time.

• Exiting Worship: Elders and Ushers will dismiss worship attendees in a socially distanced fashion. Please be patient as you wait to exit, and leave the building in a timely fashion.

• Accessibility of Buildings: For the continued safety of our staff, and to ease the burden on our cleaning staff, our buildings remain closed for walk-in visitors during the week. Anyone wishing to meet with a staff member should contact that staff member directly or the church office to schedule a time to enter and meet. Proper entrance protocols will be adhered to at that time (including temperature taken, exposure evaluated, etc.).

• Welcome Austin!! Austin's Ordination and Installation Today - July 11 - We praise God that our Wixom campus Associate Pastor to be, Austin Wellhousen and wife Claire, were able to find a home in the Wixom area. His ordination and installation is scheduled for Saturday, July 11 at 1pm at the Wixom campus. Because of the need to provide safe, “social distanced” worship, it will be a private ordination and installation, which will be recorded and posted online. 

• Austin’s First Sermon and Gift Card Shower July 26 - Wixom Campus A reception and gift card shower will be held July 26 following the 9am New Vintage service, where Austin will preach his first sermon. Join us as we shower our new Pastor Austin and his wife Claire with welcoming gifts. You may drop off your gift cards to Nancy at the Wixom campus or you can mail them to St. Matthew Lutheran Church, PO BOX 930188, Wixom, MI 48393-9998 attn: Micki Adams. We kindly ask that gifts be received by July 23rd. We look forward to celebrating and welcoming our new Wixom campus Pastor!

• Pastor Michael’s Drive-Thru Wedding Reception - July 25 "Hannah and I are getting married on Saturday, July 25th at our Wixom campus! Though our ceremony will be private with immediate family only due to COVID-19, we would still like our St. Matthew family to join in the celebration via drive-thru reception! Please consider joining us and making our day extra special! For more information, directions, and instructions, visit our wedding website: zola.com/wedding/osborne-hansen/travel "

• Updates on Properties Projects from Dale Schnepp: During the quarantine time, our Properties Team has been very busy working to complete important projects at both campuses. Please read about the many updates HERE and look through photos HERE. Join us in thanking the Volunteers and Staff who make all of it possible! And special thanks to Dale Schnepp and Bryan Davis for spearheading all of these projects! St. Matthew would literally fall apart without you!

• Reminder Regarding Staff and Church Buildings Staff members are working both remotely and onsite, in an effort to provide a safe work environment and to allow our Properties Team to complete necessary work on projects. For the continued safety of our staff, and to ease the burden on our cleaning staff, our buildings remain closed for walk-in visitors during the week. Anyone wishing to meet with a staff member should contact that staff member directly or the church office to schedule a time to enter and meet. Proper entrance protocols will be adhered to at that time (including temperature taken, exposure evaluated, etc.).