We are excited to announce that in-person worship at Reformation has resumed.
Reformation’s Transition Team, Worship and Music Team, and Council has recommended updates to our practices based on recent CDC Guidance for fully vaccinated persons and on updates from The Ecumenical Consultation on Protocols for Worship, Fellowship, and Sacrament (ECPWFS.) A few of the changes are highlighted below, and the full document can be found online - https://reformationcae.org/resources-%26-references or on the table in the narthex.
- We will discontinue registration for Worship, but may resume if COVID counts rise in our communities, or if we have more regular attendees than social distancing allows.
- In Worship we will continue to wear masks, covering both mouth and nose.
- We will add hymns (all verses) and more musical liturgy back into the Service.
- We will continue to practice social distancing in the Sanctuary — 16 feet distance from singer(s) to congregation and 6 feet distance between household groups.
- We will continue to use pre-packaged communion elements, and will add a wine option to the grape juice we are currently using.
- We will continue to keep outer doors open as long as weather permits and will keep Fans ON during Sanctuary use to promote good air flow.
Unfortunately, we are not yet ready to resume indoor Fellowship time after worship. However, slowly and safely, we are working to return our Sunday worship experience to the “new normal”.
Note: The Ecumenical Consultation on Protocols for Worship, Fellowship, and Sacrament notes that the latest CDC guidance for masks and social distancing is for what individuals can do -- not what congregations(in which both vaccinated and unvaccinated people gather together) should do. Congregations may include people who are unvaccinated, including children; persons who have not yet been, or may never be able to be vaccinated; and some who have refused vaccination. For the sake of the unvaccinated -- for their safety, and to avoid stigmatizing them, we will continue to wear masks in worship or whenever we gather in groups that may include non-vaccinated people.
