MVUU Special Announcement:
COVID Policy and Sunday Services Schedule
September 8, 2021
Dear Mountain Vista,

Wow. This has been a long journey! I am grateful for your patience, grace, and trust as we navigate this together.

Although we hoped to begin offering in-person services this month, we know the reality is more challenging. This reality -- the reality of living together in times of higher risks, and then lower risks, and then higher risks again -- is our new reality.

Your Board and I have drafted and approved a policy to help us navigate this dynamic time. Below, you will see the COVID-19 metrics by which we will open or close our building to small or mid-sized groups and in-person Sunday gatherings. Please read carefully.

Currently, we are not open for in-person Sunday services. We will not open for in-person Sunday services during the month of September. However, after September, we will re-evaluate this on a weekly basis as we watch the COVID numbers and follow our agreements together. Please check your newsletter weekly for updates and changes.

You will also read, below, our new Sunday schedule! Beginning this Sunday, September 12, your MVUU team will be leading you in vibrant, live, Sunday services over Zoom. These MVUU-led services will take place on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month, September through December. On the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Sundays of the month, we will continue to enjoy our Baja 4 YouTube collaborations, available on demand at our YouTube channel, and our Sunday Fellowship Hours on Zoom.

A significant change is this: our live Sunday services (2nd and 4th Sundays) and our post-Baja 4 video Fellowship Hours (1st, 3rd, and 5th Sundays), all begin at 10:30 am. Read below to see how this new schedule works and make a plan to join us each Sunday.

If you have questions about this schedule, please reach out to me. I am looking forward to this next chapter at MVUU! We can do this together.

With care,
Rev. Sam
COVID-19 Reopening Guidelines for MVUU 
(Approved by MVUU Board - September 2021)

We are committed to navigating this pandemic safely together. To do this, MVUU will follow UUA recommendations and rely on data for Pima County from the COVID ActNow website.

COVID ActNow follows three metrics (Daily New Cases, Infection Rate, and Positive Test Rate) to issue a color-coded risk level for our county. We will be relying on these codes to guide us, knowing the following months will include us navigating higher and lower risk levels together. Our community is multigenerational, vaccinated and unvaccinated, and joining from all across Tucson and beyond. We are committed to all of our community’s safety, care, and inclusion as we continue forward together.

You can see Pima County's current COVID ActNow risk level by clicking here.
MVUU will go down to a lower risk level (per COVID ActNow) only after one full week (7 days) of maintaining that level for Pima County. We will go up one risk level after one day of being at a higher risk level for Pima County. 

The Board’s COVID-19 Team will check the status each Wednesday and provide an update to the congregation in the weekly Friday newsletter about the current status of the congregation and will alert the congregation to changes.

We begin September 2021 at a Very High Risk Level and with much to learn about our new building and how to offer high-quality, live, Zoom services. We are also welcoming new staff and training our leaders. Due to these concerns, we will remain virtual with no in-person audiences for Sunday services during the month of September, regardless of change in risk level.

With care,

Your MVUU Board COVID-19 Team
(Lee McMeley, Chuck Tatum, and Rev. Samantha Wilson)
MVUU Sunday Service Schedule
September 2021 - December 2021

1st, 3rd, and 5th Sundays of the Month:
Baja 4 Sunday Service on Demand on YouTube and
MVUU Zoom Fellowship Hour (10:30 am)

Join us as the Baja 4 continues to collaborate on video services, available on demand at our YouTube channel. Jump on to Zoom at 10:30 am for our weekly Fellowship Hour at MVUU -- a time of sharing, reflection, and connection in our community.

2nd and 4th Sundays of the Month:
MVUU Sunday Service on Zoom followed by Zoom Fellowship Hour (Service begins at 10:30 am)

Join us on Zoom at 10:30 am for MVUU live services! Stay online after the service for our regular Zoom Fellowship Hour. Fellowship Hour is likely to begin at 11:30 am.

Zoom links will be available in your weekly
MVUU newsletter each Friday.
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