11th June 2020
| As a leadership we are thinking of what the easing restrictions will mean for us as a church. We would sincerely appreciate your prayers for us as we do so. At this point, we have a 3 step roadmap that follows the Queensland Government’s 3 step roadmap for easing restrictions. From this Sunday, we will be a Stage 2, which means: Level 2 easing of restrictions (from THIS SUNDAY 12th June) We will be allowed 20 people in the church for a service. This will be by invitation only and we will focus on inviting singles and couples rather than families so we can have as many different parties as possible. We will invite people to services based on their preferences that they have submitted. We will continue to stream the service to those who are not present. IMPORTANTLY: we will run 2 services on Sunday morning. The first service will begin at 8:30am with some informal sharing time and will become more formal at 9am when streaming will start. The second service will begin at 10:30am and be basically identical to the first service, but won’t be streamed. Level 3 Easing of restrictions (potentially 10th July) We are currently unsure how many we will be allowed in the building at this stage. It is a constantly changing situation and it might be different again next week. We will keep you updated as we are able. We would like to make it possible for as many of our regulars to come as possible so we will move to 3 services. However, we anticipate that even with offering 3 services that the services will reach their legal capacity quickly, if the current restrictions remain in place. If this does happen we will simply be asking people to alternate their attendance from every week to every second week, though we hope this will not be necessary when the time comes. The 8:30am service and 10:30am service will remain and will still be roughly identical to each other We will also add a 4:30pm service which will most likely have a different sermon to the morning services (though one that will be shared at a morning service either the week before or the week after) At this stage we don’t have the equipment we will require to continue streaming services at this point so we may not continue streaming, but we will still continue to record the sermon audio and place them on our website. In order to not overload any of the 3 services, we will need some co-ordination regarding who will attend each service. We will be in touch with you all about this in due course. Ideally, it would be helpful if people could commit to attend 1 of the 3 services at the same time each Sunday At this stage, we don’t know when this time of restrictions will end (but God does!). To help us in planning to try and make sure everyone who would like to gets a chance to attend a service, could you please indicate by emailing the office or one of the pastors which of the 3 services you would like to attend and how many people will be with you. It will be a joy if God keeps infections here in Queensland low so that we can start meeting together in greater numbers soon, so please be praying for that. However, there will be a number of COVID SAFE measures in place when we do return (e.g. social distancing, hand washing/sanitising, recording of attendance for possible contact tracing etc.). More details will come in the coming weeks so keep watching your email inbox and the Sunday live stream, but we wanted to let you in on what we are planning so you can start thinking about how this will affect you. |