Forward with Faith

In-person Worship Heath & Safety Precautions

Updated December 2023

After careful consultation with our local health experts and feedback from our congregation, masking is optional. We continue following our Wesleyan heritage and teachings to do no harm, do good and stay in love with God.

We have updated our precautions to include:

• Masking is now options. Complimentary masks are available at the church.

• If you are in a high-risk group, we recommend you continue to wear an N95 mask.

• Asking that you stay home if you are sick or feel unwell.

• Recommending you get tested if you have COVID-19 symptoms, or if you have had close contact with someone with confirmed COVID-19.

• We will continue to offer the opportunity to join worship online.

• Our Virtual Meeting Room will continue to be available for online meetings.

• If you would like a COVID-19 test before services on Sunday, the Outland Family Clinic at Ebb’s Chapel will be open for testing from 8:45- 9:20 am on Sundays.

 Love & Serve Others: How you can help those at-risk

If you are willing and able to deliver groceries or medications to those who need to remain at home, please let us know via Email or call 910.995.0759. Jesus’ great prayer for us in John 17 was that we might be one so that the world would believe. We hope that our collective response as the body of Christ will send a message to our community that we are engaged and that we care as we seek to promote a more perfect love, one casting out fear and drawing us more deeply into our relationship with God and one another. 

How to Protect Yourself & Others

With the novel Coronavirus in news, we wanted to keep updated on ways you can protect yourself and your loved ones.

Here at church, you can consider:

• Using hand sanitizer located throughout the sanctuary and fellowship hall

• Staying home when you're sick

• Understanding if others refrain from shaking hands or hugging

• Joining us online to worship if you may you be at high-risk for complications associated with the virus.

• Abstaining from handshakes and hugging and expressing the “Peace” and greetings by placing your hand over your heart.

Worship while you wash:

Most of all, please wash your hands. In fact, you can Worship While You Wash your hands, praising God and in 20-30 seconds. It's as simple as:

Washing your hand and singing a verse from one of the following hymns:

• The Doxology (we'll forgive you even if it's Lent)

• Morning Has Broken

• Be Thou My Vision

Or washing your hands and singing the chorus of:

• Here I am Lord

• How Great Thou Art

• Great is They Faithfulness

Or washing your hands and simply saying the lord’s prayer.