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Each Church - You Need a Plan In Place BY P WILLIAMS
Church attenders will likely wear masks: I have a mask. It does not look good on me. I hate to wear it. But if wearing a mask may keep another person from becoming sick, then neighbor love will make me wear it with pride.
We will be seated further from each other: In some instances, a certain number of chairs will be removed from the worship center and in others some portions of the pews will be available for guests while other parts of the pew will be blocked off. Many of our traditional practices will be suspended: There will probably not be any choirs, the passing of offering plates, Sunday School, or child-care in these early reentry services. We also know that the traditional meet and greet, handshakes and hugs, will be on hold indefinitely. We may need to ask our most vulnerable church members to stay home: While every pastor I know wants as many people as possible in the building we may be at a time where we have to encourage those in weakened physical conditions to remain home for a little while longer and view the services online. We may need to establish communication with local elected officials: While Baptists understand that the right to assemble for worship does not come from our elected officials, in fact the role of our elected official is to protect our right to assemble, we will want to cooperate the best we can and be good neighbors to our mayors, council members, judge-executives, and others. This may be a good time, as churches develop their re-entry plan, to give a heads up that the church will resume meeting on May 20 while practicing safe social distancing.
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Each Church - You Need a Plan In Place Continued‌
We will see more hand sanitizer and cleaner buildings than we have ever seen: Each church will want to have a plan in place for how they will sanitize the building before reentry and also, in the case of multiple services, between services. We will need to communicate our plans clearly: It is impossible to overcommunicate and even more so when we are in a transition time. Each pastor and church leadership team will want to overcommunicate to their congregation their plan on how things will be different when we return to in-person services. We will likely need more help from greeters and ushers: services such as holding doors, pointing people to the seating plan, even possibly asking church attenders to abide with agreed upon safe social distancing could be functions that greeters and ushers will help with for the early weeks of in-person services. We may need an overflow room: If we decide on a percentage of seating capacity and more than that number arrives for worship, we may need an overflow space that provides streaming of the services as well as seating that honors social distancing.
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BEFORE DOORS ARE REOPNED TO THE CHURCH THERE ARE QUESTIONS THAT MUST BE ANSWERED BY TEMG The Church must remember that things have changed for now and we must adapt to meet the needs of world in real-time and these questions must be answered! Questions •
What if your worship gathering is limited at first to no more than 100 people?
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Will you be able to offer a physical pass the plate for offering?
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How will you sanitize and sterilize your church building?
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Is Children’s Church a thing of the past for now?
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Are you going to continue hosting church events that are listed on your calendar?
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Should you offer more services with shorter worship services to allow for social distancing?
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What about Sunday School?
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BEFORE DOORS ARE REOPNED TO THE CHURCH THERE ARE QUESTIONS THAT MUST BE ANSWERED continued… • Will the strategy of the church change to worship service only? • Is this the time to suspend or end your church's "meet and greet" time? As a Pastor myself, I would suggest that you Pray, have an online conference with your church leaders, talk with other Pastors, and look and see what resources and answers are available online as well. Moving forward the church should be focused on meeting the churchgoers needs; meaning continue using online services, in person worship at church, and telephone and video conferencing tools along with sending out weekly texts and emails. Listen, it is essential that the churchgoers knows and understand that the church is there and is concerned about them.
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