[sepc] SEPC Live Streaming Worship - 21 February 2021

[Jay Green]

Dear Church Family,

Enclosed is the bulletin
<https://stelmopres.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/02-21-2021-covid19.pdf> for
tomorrow's service, a link to our live stream
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdcXRoC4jF8&feature=youtu.be> (for those
who are choosing to remain at home) that will begin a little before 10:30
AM, and the shared document where we invite you tomorrow to share during
worship your Thanksgivings to God
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/19spOb4IFYagRFHeVg264WV3LldeYPQfngqsrsYcauOc/edit?usp=sharing>
for
his faithfulness over the past week.

Tomorrow is the First Sunday of Lent.  We will be celebrating communion
together during worship.

 Please see the list of COVID protocols below for those attending worship
in-person.  Note too that we have moved to Phase 2 of our re-opening (see
below), which is where we were last fall before things got bad again.  We
are hopeful.  We recognize and understand that many of you have underlying
conditions and other concerns that lead you to remain away from in-person
gatherings.  While we deeply miss your presence among us, we fully support
you in your decision to remain at home in this season.

Please let Bill or any of the elders know about particular concerns or
prayer requests you have.

"Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to
your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity
and cleanse me from my sin." Psalm 51:1-2

For the Session,
Jay

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SEPC Phase 1 COVID-19 Protocols

   - If you are in a high-risk category or have any personal reservations
   about attending, we strongly encourage you to stay home and participate via
   the streaming service.
   - If you have tested positive for COVID, are running a temperature, have
   any other symptoms of illness, or believe you may have recently been
   exposed, please do not attend in person.
   - During this first phase, the nursery and Little Lambs will not be
   offered.
   - We encourage you to worship using the live stream for now if you need
   these programs or if you aren't comfortable having your whole family sit
   through the duration of the service.
   - We have cordoned off every other pew to encourage people to remain 6
   feet apart, and we will be allowing a maximum of 80 people in the
   sanctuary.
   - Please seat 4 people or one family (with children) to a row.
   - We will also be setting up chairs in a socially distanced layout in
   the fellowship hall.
   - The service will be streamed and shown on a projector.
   - Adult Sunday school room is not being used.
   - All bathrooms will be available.
   - The Sunday school wing doors will be locked and we will have signs to
   tell people to enter at the front of the church (or on the porch if the
   sanctuary is full).
   - While inside, everyone ages 5 and up are required to wear a mask.
   - Masks are available for those who do not have their own.
   - We have removed hymnals and songbooks from the sanctuary and put them
   in the adult Sunday school room.
   - Congregants in attendance will use the bulletin for the service.
   - We will have available either hand sanitizer stations or small bottles
   of hand sanitizer.
   - There will be at least 2 deacons on duty who will be wearing masks
   while welcoming people.
   - The doors of the church will be opened so people don't have to touch
   surfaces.
   - We will not be collecting the offering in person during this first
   phase. Please continue to give in any of the ways Mark Slavovsky outlines
   in the weekly bulletin.
   - After the service starts, the doors in the back will be closed and
   will only be opened by a deacon. A sign will be placed outside instructing
   those who arrive after the doors have been closed to go to the fellowship
   hall (via the porch) to participate in the service.
   - At the end of the service, musicians will play and everyone will be
   dismissed row by row by the deacons, starting from the back of the church -
   socializing should be done outside.
   - The church will be cleaned on its normal schedule.

Phase 2

   - We will continue to follow the Phase 1 protocols with the exception of
   children pre-k through 1st graders who can participate in the outdoor
   “children’s church” during the Sunday sermon (weather permitting). The
   Session will announce when this will begin again in 2021.
   - Families with nursery-age children are welcome to use the nursery and
   adult Sunday School room facilities during morning worship. A parent must
   supervise their child(ren) when using the facilities and mask protocols
   should be followed as well. A full nursery program will be included in
   Phase 3 of re-opening.
   -  Any meetings held at the church, such as committees or ministry
   groups, must be held in the fellowship hall with social distancing and
   mask-wearing.
   - Small groups may resume meeting in homes at the discretion of those
   involved; social distancing and mask-wearing is recommended.
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