UPDATE: Staff Health and Upcoming Services
A Trinity staff person tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this week and has forced us to re-evaluate our previously announced intentions to open the church for small, distanced gatherings on Sundays and Christmas Day.
From Rev. Luk’s email on the subject, sent yesterday evening:
“Conversations with medical staff to discuss test results have been instructive: they are reporting that the spread of the virus is increasingly affecting people who are observing all possible safety measures. Because the virus is so ubiquitous at this point, regular safety precautions, such as masks, use of hand sanitizer, safe distancing or limiting exposure as much as possible, are no longer sufficient to avoid contamination.
Our Trinity church services will, therefore, continue online only. In-person services, however desired they are by many of our parishioners, will need to be put on hold until further notice. The plan for an in-person Christmas service, on Friday, December 25, at 11 a.m., was ambitious and is unfortunately no longer feasible. In-person weekday prayer times are discontinued for the time being as well.
As we make our way through this challenging season, with or without COVID-19 in our system, I pray that we all can cling to the hope that next year we will able to put this coronavirus chapter behind us and resume our in-person church services. And I pray that the spiritual nourishment and faith community that we are missing now gives us a deepened appreciation and renewed desire to value the beauty and strength of what we mean to each other and of what a shared prayer experience means for our connection with God.
Thank you for your prayers! Let us enjoy our unity in Christ. Together, we will get through this.
Luk+”
Please note therefore that until further notice:
All regularly scheduled Sunday 8 a.m. services are cancelled.
All previously announced meetings or use of the Trinity space, including committee meetings and the open door hours for prayer, are to be cancelled, rescheduled, or moved online.
The Christmas Day 11 a.m. service originally schedule in the sanctuary will now move to an online, Zoom-enabled format.