Dear Church Family,                                                                 May 23, 2020

As pastor and church council, we want to let you know our current thinking on when we can again come back and worship in the church building together.  We know some of you are getting excited about doing so in the very near future.  Others know they will play it safe and stay away for a longer time.

Your church council had their monthly meeting this week and discussed this quite thoroughly.  We made the decision that we need to wait.  How long?  We don’t know that yet!  Information does keep changing nearly every day.  Our president wants to have worship as “essential”.  Our governor has put worship services at the bottom of the list of a time frame of when we can again worship together.  Then there are confusing and perhaps conflicting ideas of just what restrictions and protocols will make it safe. 

We will keep watching and listening for San Diego County information on this.  All three California Bishops have jointly put out a letter that we will have on our web page and with a link to it on our Face Book page.  They have written some helpful points for us to remember.  One thing I read, elsewhere, made an impression on me – when we go to Costco or Walmart with face masks on, we are moving and passing people briefly and are likely in and out of the store in a few minutes.  When we worship together in our church building, we are basically in one place for about an hour and breathing the same air over and over. 

Am sure you have watched on TV as Casinos, for instance, have sprayed floors and surfaces with disinfectants.  As a small congregation, we don’t have the resources to be able to do something like that.  But we will continue to watch and hope and pray for specific ways we will be able to “reopen” safely.

Blessings,

Pastor Ramon and Council