Changes to Worship Groupings

Good morning, friends and family!

Last night the Session had opportunity to evaluate Redeemer’s return to public, in-person worship. All in all, the Session is very encouraged by the process in place and appreciates the congregation’s cooperation and participation. Everyone agreed that Redeemer’s Deacons and those volunteering as usher/greeters have been particularly helpful. Please know that your contributions are significant. Thank you!

As you may have noticed on the livestream, however, the worship services have not come close to reaching the current capacity threshold. Therefore, starting this Sunday, June 14^th, the Session has decided to collapse the every-other Sunday rotation into an all Sunday rotation. This allows anyone who desires to attend an in-person worship service to have the opportunity to do so every week. All other social distancing and building entry and exit protocols will remain in place at this time. You may familiarize yourself with those guidelines here.

Your group number for congregational worship will stay the same, and your group will be paired with another group in the rotation for attending worship services. Groups 1 and 4 will combine, Groups 2 and 5 will combine and Groups 3 and 6 will combine, forming three new groups. These pairs of groups will continue the forward rotation through the three morning services throughout the remainder of June. For this Sunday, June 14^th, this means that groups 3 and 6 are scheduled for the 8 a.m. service, groups 1 and 4 are scheduled for the 9:30 a.m. service and groups 2 and 5 are scheduled for the 11:00 a.m. service. Like before, you will receive an email reminder about your scheduled service time on Friday. The 11 a.m. worship service livestream will continue.

As promised, the Session is closely monitoring the worship plans in place and will make further adjustments that coincide with the advice of state and local leaders and public health officials. It is hoped that over the course of the summer we will be able to relax additional social-distancing protocols. Until then, thank you for your patience and participation.

For Christ our Redeemer,