Where can I find out more?
Watch your email and the weekly e-Beacon for information on how to reserve your spot for worship, as well as what you might bring to add to the altar during the Open House. And don’t forget to bring your water for water communion.
How will worship happen after October 10?
After October 10, we will resume one service every Sunday, at 10am. This service will be live-streamed and in-person on a reservation basis, with in-person activities for kids of registered families based on the risk category we are in.
What risk category are we in now?
We are currently in ORANGE. The current risk category will be shared each week in the e-Beacon and is available by clicking on the COVID19 molecule picture on the Unity Temple webpage.
How did this risk category get decided?
As their final act, the Community Transformation Team produced the new Phased Re-Opening Guidelines. Going forward, the E-Team will meet each week to determine what risk category we are in.
How will the E-Team decide what risk category we are in?
We will continue to use the Community Transformation Team Guiding Principles of start small and simple, safety as highest priority, guidance by science, assume trauma, full (as possible) inclusion, collective care versus individual, accessibility, connection to one another/community across multi-platforms, and clear and frequent communications.
While the scientific data will continue to play a key role, we have recently realized that making decisions only based on science is not sufficient. It is like saying that reason is the only source of knowledge, and not acknowledging that there are so many other ways of knowing. Reason and science are both important, but they are not the only factors to consider.
Going forward, the E-Team will be looking at a lot of different factors, including the health and well-being of the community. It is difficult work because sometimes our values are in conflict with each other. And so we will be taking it on a week-by-week basis.
We encourage you to decide for yourself what you feel safe participating in and what you do not. Thanks to the Phased Re-Opening Guidelines, we can pivot quickly and easily between risk categories as the need arises.
