Should Your Church Stop Meeting to Slow COVID-19? How 3 Seattle Churches Decided.

s I write this, my heart is very heavy. I just spent the second Sunday morning of Lent in my living room with my wife, watching a livestream of the worship service from my church.

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CNN – Finding God online: People turn to live-streaming religious services during coronavirus pandemic

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/13/tech/religious-services-livestream/index.html

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Website and Manual of Humanitarian Disaster Institute, in partnership with the National Association of Evangelicals: “Preparing Your Church for Coronavirus”

Download the Manual preparing-your-church-for-coronavirus.pdf

For the web site: https://coronavirusandthechurch.com

Use #covid19church to share how your church is preparing, any questions you have about how to prepare, and to connect with other church leaders.

Covid-19: Interim Guidance for Community and Faith Leaders of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

This interim guidance is to help community- and faith-based organizations (CFBOs), whose members may include vulnerable populations, plan for community transmission of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) encourages CFBOs to prepare for the possibility of a COVID-19 outbreak in their local communities.

Visit the site: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/organizations/guidance-community-faith-organizations.html

COVID-19 Upends American Religious Life

With Easter, Passover and Ramadan approaching, religious leaders from Kentucky to New York prepare for new ways of worship.

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2020-03-13/americas-religious-communities-confront-coronavirus

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2020-03-13/americas-religious-communities-confront-coronavirus

Why faith communities are key partners in planning for a coronavirus outbreak

Minnesotan Religious Communities Respond After First Conrmed Case Of Coronavirus