Personally, I feel frustrated by this\u2026 and I would guess I\u2019m not alone. After just three services back in Bell Hall, we were finding our groove, welcoming new members and visitors to our physical space, and simply enjoying being in each other\u2019s presence. Our volunteers and Staff have put in hundreds of hours to bring our Sunday experience back to the full congregation, both in-person and online. We\u2019ve been growing our skills, building a sense of momentum, and most importantly, feeling the warmth of hope for something new: that we might finally be able to put the days of online-only worship behind us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But alongside my frustration, sit the values I hold closest to my heart. I know that we set our guidelines for a reason. When cases rise, this is one of the things our congregation can do, to keep us and the wider community safe and well. I don\u2019t want cases to continue to rise. I don\u2019t want any of us to lose another loved one to this pandemic. I don\u2019t want any of our parents who sent children back to school buildings this Fall to have to face your own closures. We are doing our best to follow the guidance available to us, to hold our community together through the pandemic \u2013 and to balance all that with the knowledge that when things start to get worse, anything we can do to reduce the spread of this virus helps to turn that trajectory around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This Sunday, we are going to try something different: about a dozen people (our musicians, preacher, worship leader, and tech volunteers) will gather in Bell Hall to bring you a \u201clive broadcast\u201d of the Sunday service at 10am on YouTube<\/a>. It\u2019ll be similar to what you saw, if you joined us online for September 5 or 12 \u2013 just with no congregation in the room. YouthSpirit will also return to its online \u201cZoomRoom<\/a>\u201d while in-person services are suspended, gathering at 9am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We will wait to resume gathering the congregation for in-person worship until transmission risk in both Chester and Montgomery Counties falls back below the \u201cVery High\u201d level for at least 7 consecutive days.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n This suspension of in-person services will be temporary. We\u2019ve made this transition once before, so beautifully \u2013 and we will be even more ready now, when it\u2019s time to gather again in Bell Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I miss you all, and I pray this is a hiccup in our plans, rather than a long-term adjustment. But as our Fall message series, beginning this Sunday, reminds us: none of us can predict the future. What we can do is choose our actions in each moment \u2013 and continue to choose this world, and all the beloved people within it, on each new day that we\u2019re given.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Take care, and be well,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rev. Lee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear WellSprings, You may know that over the past week, daily case counts for Covid-19 have been rising in our area. As of Thursday afternoon, the transmission risk for Chester County had moved up into the “Very High” category, as measured by the website CovidActNow. 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