Due to the increase in COVID cases in our area (and expected continued increases following the holidays), in-person worship will be suspended January 17, 24, and 31. Church council will meet again the last week of January to re-evaluate. For those 3 weeks, we will have online worship in a format similar to what we had from March through August.
While our precautions for in-person worship seem to be effective and we have no known instances of COVID transmission at church, we do have increasing numbers of COVID cases among our church family and in our community. Earlier this week, Anderson County declared a state of emergency. Anderson County hospitals are at 90% capacity. The numbers are alarming
(see data here). Anything we can do to help reduce the spread has the potential to save lives.
Safety is the priority; God is with us and can be worshiped from wherever we are.
Thank you for your patience, for your diligence in following precautions, and for your faithfulness to our church in these challenging times. It has indeed been a gift to be able to gather in person for worship for these past few months, and hopefully, we will be able to do so again soon.
A couple of other schedule notes:
- The Quarterly Church Conference scheduled for Wednesday, Jan 20 has been moved to one week later and will now take place on Wednesday, Jan 27 at 6:30 pm on Zoom.
- Wednesday night Bible Study will continue on Zoom at 6:30 pm each week (with the exception of Jan 27, due to the church conference).
