Greetings Church family in Jesus’ name,
 
I love you all. This forced separation is so difficult. God created us to be in fellowship with one another. It’s part of why He gave us the Church, to fill that basic need. One of the things we’ll be learning as we continue This Journey with the Church through the book of Acts is what the pattern for the Church is:

“They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.” Acts 2:42

Gathering together is an essential part of what it means to be the Church.
 
Several questions that have been raised in the last few days that I want to attempt to answer:
 
1. Why are we still not gathering in person? We are bound to submit to the spiritual leadership in our conference. I believe that we need to be worshipping in person and I assure you, the moment we get word from our Bishop that we may gather, we will!
 
2. Why can’t we stream from the church sanctuary? We may! We haven’t been primarily because the internet upload speed is much faster at the parsonage. You may recall, the first Sunday of all this we did stream from the sanctuary and the feed cut out mid service. Once we can stream smoothly from church, we will!
 
3. Why aren’t we having drive-in worship? At first, we were not allowed by our conference. Now it’s allowed but with a lot of restrictions. We may try it soon! Stay tuned!
 
Please reach out to me if you have questions or concerns at all. I would love to visit and discuss what’s going on, where we’re at in the process, what our options are and what may be coming soon. If you didn’t get to worship with us Sunday or don’t have Facebook, here’s the YouTube link: https://youtu.be/cIHgTk-SGts  Always remember to ‘like’ and ‘share’ our services so we can keep reaching out for Jesus!!
Reminders and Encouragements:
  • No in person gatherings indefinitely and our facilities remain closed (no office hours may be kept by pastors or staff per) per Bishop’s orders.
  • ALL Summer Camps, mission trips have been and VBS have been cancelled for 2020.
  • Worship together! Our LIVE Worship streams on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/murphysboroumc/ and will be posted to our YouTube channel shortly after.
  • Thursday Prayer & Praise at 5:15PM
  • Sunday morning worship 10AM!!!
  • Last Sunday’s Worship May 10th) on YouTube! https://youtu.be/cIHgTk-SGts
  • Please continue to give! https://app.sharefaith.com/app/giving/Murp9999918
  • If you’re in need and cannot get assistance, don’t hesitate to call or email the church office and we’ll do what we can to help out!
 
God be with you till we meet again, in Jesus’ Name, amen!
 
Many blessings in Jesus’ name,
Pastor Danny

 


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