March 30, 2020
Having
come through two weeks of remote worship, how are things going? The plan at this juncture is to have four
platforms on which to gain the worship materials. Two are written and two are video.
1.
Posting the material on the blog. This will include the Order of Worship, the
Scriptures, and the Sermon. The ideal is
that the first two will be posted earlier in the week and then the Sermon soon
after worship on Sunday.
2.
Emailing these three pieces of material to everyone
on our Church Family mailing list. That
will allow people to open, to print, to otherwise put together the materials in
a way that works best for them. Let me know if there are others to whom it should be sent.
3.
Posting a video of the service to Facebook. The intention is to drop this onto Facebook
by Saturday evening so that we can have, for the first time, a Saturday evening
service if that is what people prefer.
To that end, the aim is to drop the video by 6pm.
4.
Posting the video to YouTube and providing an
email link to the Church Family. Tried
this for the first time after the fact on Sunday. For those of you who may initially have had
trouble, the video has been switched from “Private” to “Public”. An outside check has successfully opened the
video. Please let me know if there are
any problems on a retry.
We are working on a ‘snail mail’
option as well for people who are not online.
At the present time, there are four people on this ‘mailing list’, two
regular attenders who do not have online access and two of our shut ins. If there are others who it would be appropriate
to add to this, please let me know via email.
Looking forward, celebrating the Lord’s Supper
will be recessed until things are better.
In the meantime, there is an ancient tradition in the church called the ‘agape’
meal (agape being the word for love, the love of everyone, in New Testament
Greek). I am looking at resources that
will let us adapt this tradition to a meal that we can share remotely that, while
not formally communion, can still bring us together for this sacramental time.
Holy Week begins on Sunday with
Palm Sunday. In preparation, watch for
video and e-resources that can be used on the days of this most Holy Time of
the year as we follow along with the Lord on the last week of his life, and the
first day of his New life.
I desire feedback and reports of
any difficulties. I have received word
of some difficulties in opening the FB video for March 29. Working to resolve that. In the meantime, may the Lord bless us all.
Peace,
Pastor Peter
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