All Tip Sheets Offerings should be collected in secure receptacles near entrances and exits. We advise continued encouragement of electronic offering. A safe method for counting the offering must be implemented including the use of disposable...
All Tip Sheets Though you will be communicating to people that they should stay home if they feel ill or if someone at home is sick, you must prepare for the possibility that someone may become ill during a church gathering. Identify a space in...
All Tip Sheets Why? The Sacrament of Holy Communion is one of two sacraments in The United Methodist Church. (Baptism is the other sacrament.) Preserving the sanctity of this holy ritual while celebrating it during a time of pandemic may be a...
All Tip Sheets In the words of the Ecumenical Consultation of Protocols for Worship, Fellowship, and Sacrament (based at Emory University’s UM affiliated Candler School of Theology in Atlanta, a consulting team to the CDC): “The...
All Tip Sheets The church campus must be prepared to ensure that people comply with physical distancing from the time they enter the property until they leave. (BWC Guidelines for Re-entering Well, p. 3) Why? Some government leaders have...
All Tip Sheets Develop a method to track attendance at in-person worship and other gatherings. This is especially important in case someone develops COVID-19 so that you might notify those who have been exposed.(BWC Guidelines for Re-entering...
All Tip Sheets Set up your facilities as needed to support people in maintaining six feet of physical distancing from the time they enter the building and worship space until they exit. (BWC Guidelines for Re-entering Well, p. 4) Why? The Centers...
All Tip Sheets Leaders, identified and equipped by the task force, must take responsibility for enforcing necessary policies to create a safe space for people who come into our church buildings to worship. (BWC Guidelines for Re-entering...
Every moment we have a decision whether to create more inclusion, diversity, equity and antiracism (IDEA) or less. This 8-session course will focus on six actions that you and community partners can take to grow in building beloved community...
Your District Missional Action Planning team (dMAP) is working to ensure that your church has the data it needs to develop meaningful relationships and ministry with your community using the ComparativeInsite report from MissionInsite...
