Covid-19 and Memorial United Methodist Church
3-28-2020 Update
Memorial United Methodist Church will continue to follow the recommendations and guidelines of health officials and our Florida Conference Leadership. We received this in an e-mail earlier this week from the Florida Conference:
Bishop Carter and the Appointive Cabinet met to prayerfully discern their collective guidance to churches regarding public worship after April 1st. We recommend churches not hold any public worship through Easter Sunday (April 12th). This decision is based on the current CDC guidelines around public gatherings and the action of many local authorities to enact shelter at home restrictions. We encourage churches to continue to worship virtually and connect with people through other creative means. We reflected together on the Wesleyan Quadrilateral’s four aspects of Scripture, Tradition, Reason and Christian Experience as a resource to make this decision.
We continue to affirm and support the live-streaming of worship by local churches across our conferences. We are making mini-grants for technology to make this possible and offering coaching on how to begin offering worship in this way. This is an act of loving our neighbor, an attempt to flatten the curve, to care for the most vulnerable and to protect health care professionals working on the front lines. We are praying for all of those impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and especially for our health care professionals.
We encourage churches to continue to reach out to their neighbors and find ways to show the love of Christ during this time. We will revisit public worship after April 13th in the coming weeks and we look forward to the day when we can celebrate the resurrection of Christ together!
For up to date resources from our Conference Leaders click here.
Please continue to check back for more updates and events as they unfold.
Bishop Carter and the Appointive Cabinet met to prayerfully discern their collective guidance to churches regarding public worship after April 1st. We recommend churches not hold any public worship through Easter Sunday (April 12th). This decision is based on the current CDC guidelines around public gatherings and the action of many local authorities to enact shelter at home restrictions. We encourage churches to continue to worship virtually and connect with people through other creative means. We reflected together on the Wesleyan Quadrilateral’s four aspects of Scripture, Tradition, Reason and Christian Experience as a resource to make this decision.
We continue to affirm and support the live-streaming of worship by local churches across our conferences. We are making mini-grants for technology to make this possible and offering coaching on how to begin offering worship in this way. This is an act of loving our neighbor, an attempt to flatten the curve, to care for the most vulnerable and to protect health care professionals working on the front lines. We are praying for all of those impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and especially for our health care professionals.
We encourage churches to continue to reach out to their neighbors and find ways to show the love of Christ during this time. We will revisit public worship after April 13th in the coming weeks and we look forward to the day when we can celebrate the resurrection of Christ together!
For up to date resources from our Conference Leaders click here.
Please continue to check back for more updates and events as they unfold.
Church Services Cancelled, Livestream Worship Services Available Sunday @ 10am
Dear Church Family,
We received word from the office of Bishop Ken Carter that, in accordance with the recommendations of the Center for Disease Control, Bishop Carter urged congregations to not meet together for at least the next two weeks. While it is disappointing to us to not be able to gather together, we believe that it is in the best interest of our community that we follow this recommendation.
We are committed, however, to leading you in worship and service of our God, and to equipping you for the Christian life, and so, we will continue to live-stream our worship services and hope that you will join us via our YouTube channel or our Facebook page. While we are disheartened by our inability to be physically together with you, we are excited that we can still engage and meet together through this platform.
Feel free, this Sunday, to engage in the comments section with praises to God, with prayer concerns, and with discussion and questions. If you'd like your prayer concerns to remain confidential, you can send those to our Facebook page as a private message. We are grateful for your continued presence in our faith community, and urge you to be in prayer for our broken and hurting world.
If you have any questions about how to find the services, feel free to call the Church Office (863-669-5344) and ask for Pastor Stuart.
We received word from the office of Bishop Ken Carter that, in accordance with the recommendations of the Center for Disease Control, Bishop Carter urged congregations to not meet together for at least the next two weeks. While it is disappointing to us to not be able to gather together, we believe that it is in the best interest of our community that we follow this recommendation.
We are committed, however, to leading you in worship and service of our God, and to equipping you for the Christian life, and so, we will continue to live-stream our worship services and hope that you will join us via our YouTube channel or our Facebook page. While we are disheartened by our inability to be physically together with you, we are excited that we can still engage and meet together through this platform.
Feel free, this Sunday, to engage in the comments section with praises to God, with prayer concerns, and with discussion and questions. If you'd like your prayer concerns to remain confidential, you can send those to our Facebook page as a private message. We are grateful for your continued presence in our faith community, and urge you to be in prayer for our broken and hurting world.
If you have any questions about how to find the services, feel free to call the Church Office (863-669-5344) and ask for Pastor Stuart.
