PLYMOUTH UCC CHURCH
  • Welcome!
    • I'm New Here
    • I'm a CSU Student
    • LGBTQ+
    • How Do I Join?
    • More Questions
  • Worship
    • What is Worship?
    • Faith Statements
    • Worship Online >
      • Streaming Worship
      • Download Bulletins
      • Digital Pew Card
    • Learn More >
      • Sermons
      • Music Program
      • Worship Sign-Ups
  • News & Events
    • Special Events
    • Calendars >
      • Today's Schedule
      • Full Calendar
      • Calendar Request Form
    • Church Blog
    • eNews
  • Living Our Faith
    • Christian Formation >
      • Children
      • Nursery Care >
        • Child Care Handbook
      • Youth
      • OWL (Our Whole Lives)
      • Adults
      • Visiting Scholar
    • Social Justice >
      • Outreach & Mission Board
      • Ending Gun Violence
      • Immigration
      • Grocery Cards
    • Labyrinth
  • Connect
    • Contact >
      • Contact Us Form
      • Clergy & Staff
      • Lay Leadership
      • Building Rental
    • Our Community >
      • Fellowship
      • Calling & Caring
      • Gallery
    • Online Connections >
      • Church App
      • Text Connection >
        • Fun Text Question
        • Text Responses
        • Wellness Check-In
  • Give
    • All About Giving
    • Share the Plate
    • Pledge Online
    • Other Ways to Give >
      • Text to Give
      • Evergreen Partners
      • Planned Giving
  • Member Info
    • New Members
    • Member Menu

3/3/2022

COVID Update 3.3.2022

Read Now
 
Picture
Click image for current dashboard
Dear Plymouth Family,
 
For many, many months, I have been waiting to write this letter containing joyous news from the Pandemic Team: We are taking another great step forward as a congregation in liberalizing pandemic restrictions! This takes effect tomorrow.
 
Covid numbers in Larimer County have fallen precipitously (see above), and the Pandemic Team feels that it is time for us to move to a mask-friendly (or mask optional) stance. CSU also lifted its mask mandate this week. At Plymouth, this means that if you feel comfortable coming to church in a mask, that’s great! If you are alright being unmasked, that’s great! The lovely blue tape that marked off every other pew will also be removed!
 
Many of the things we took for granted two years ago (singing from hymnals, passing friendship pads and offering plates, greeting the ministers after worship, standing within six feet of another human being, hearing our choir and seeing their faces, having potlucks and meals together, welcoming outside groups into the church) will all be resumed with immediate effect. (Note that we will not offer nursery care for the time being.)
 
What have you learned in the past two years not to take for granted? A hug with a dear friend? A glass of wine at FOG? A friendly word offered to a guest at Plymouth? Hearing an entire congregation sing a favorite hymn? Sitting in the pew that you think of as yours? Seeing another worshiper face to face? Receiving communion face to face from a minister and a deacon? Hearing the small voices of our youngest UCCers coming forward for Children’s Time? It's time to reacquaint yourself with those joys!
 
My invitation to you is to come on back! The science is with us, and if you wish to wear a mask, please do so! (The clergy will be masked when not speaking.) And if you really feel more comfortable continuing to livestream, know that we love you and respect that decision: that’s why it’s available!
 
On March 2, 2020, our Pandemic Team had its first meeting. At that time none of us would have guessed that it would be almost exactly two years before we would resume a sense of normalcy because of Covid. I am grateful for the expertise, patience, and wisdom of this group, which has guided us each step of the way. I am part of a CREDO group of four UCC clergy in Colorado, Connecticut, California, and Maryland. Our is the only one of those three churches not to have had members die from Covid-related causes, and our Pandemic Team is part of the reason. If you see any of them at church, a word of appreciation would not go amiss.
  • Melanie Huibregtse, chair
  • Barry Beaty
  • Claudia DeMarco
  • Greg Ebel
  • Bob Jeffrey
  • Judy Lane
  • Jim Medlock
  • Bruce Ronda
  • Nancy Sturtevant
  • George Theodore
  • Harmony Tucker
 
I give thanks to God for medical breakthroughs in the past two years.
…for the patience of our members and friends.
…for the faithfulness of volunteers who continued to go above and beyond.
…for staff colleagues who have been through hell together.
…for lay leaders who have been willing to make unpopular decisions.
…for your faith in God to see us through.
 
As the chancel choir anthem says, “God has work for us to do!” Let’s get at it!
 
See you in church!
Picture

Share


Comments are closed.
Details

    Archives

    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    December 2016

    Categories

    All
    2020
    Abundance
    Adult Formation
    Advent
    Alli Stubbs
    Alternative Giving Fair
    Ancient Future Church
    Animals
    Anxiety
    Apocalypse
    Art
    Ash Wednesday
    Bach
    Back To Church
    Back To School
    Bees
    Being Church
    Being The Body Of Christ
    Being The Church
    Beloved Community
    Beng Alive
    Better Angels
    Birthday
    Black History Month
    Black Lives Matter
    Blessings
    Book Studies
    Boulder
    Breath
    Brooklyn McBride
    Bruce Ronda
    Buffalo
    Calling & Caring
    Campus Ministry
    Celtic Christianity
    Change
    Children
    Choices
    Choir
    Chrismtas
    Christian Formation
    Christian Fornation For Children
    Christmas Blues
    Church
    Church Governance
    Claudia DeMarco
    Coffee
    Community
    Compassion Camp
    Consecration Sunday
    COVID 19
    COVID-19
    COVID Update
    Creed
    CSU
    DACA
    Darkness & Light
    Database
    David Bowie
    Deacons
    Devotional
    Discipleship
    Earth Day
    Easter
    Education For All
    Egg Hunt
    Election
    Farewell
    Fear
    Fences & Bridges
    Finance
    Fire
    Flexibility
    Flora Cash
    Flower Boxes
    Fort Collins
    Forum
    Forum Series
    Friends & Family Sunday
    Gareth Higgins
    Gender
    Generosity
    Getting Settled
    Giving
    Goals
    Go Deeper
    Godspell
    God Time
    Goodbye
    Gratitude
    Grief
    Guest Author
    Gun Violence
    Habitat For Humanity
    Halloween
    Healthy Congregations
    Heartbreak
    Hobbies
    Holy Week
    Hope
    Housing
    Impermanence
    Inauguration
    Independence Day
    Interim
    Interruptions
    Interterm
    Introduction
    Jazz
    John Philip Newell
    Joseph
    Joy
    Jubilee Sunday
    Kindred
    Known & Unknown
    Labyrinth
    La Foret
    Lament
    Laura Nelson
    LC Moderator
    Lent
    Letting Go
    LGBTQ
    Light
    Listening
    Liturgical Year
    Longest Night
    Love
    Magi
    Mark Heiskanen
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    Mass
    Masterpiece Cakeshop V. Colorado Civil Rights Comm.
    Matthew Shepard
    Ministerial Transitions
    Mission Trip
    Music
    Musical Diversity
    Music Director
    Music Program
    Nationalism
    Newness
    New Staff
    New Year
    ONA
    Online Worship
    Ordinary Time
    Organ
    Outdoor Worship
    Pandemic
    Parable Palooza
    Parking
    Pastoral Care
    Pastors
    Peace
    Pendemic
    Pentecost
    Phil Braudaway-Bowman
    Pilgrimage
    Plymouth Grounds
    Plymouth Reads
    Plymouth Text Connection
    Polarities
    Popular Culture
    Prayer Service
    Psalm 126
    Psalms
    Racism
    Rebirth
    Reformation Sunday
    Releasing
    Reopening
    Rep. Joe Neguse
    Reproductive Justice
    Retirement
    Rev. Carla Cain
    Rev. Hal Chorpenning
    Rev. Jake Miles Joseph
    Rev. Jane Anne Ferguson
    Rev. J.T. Smiedendorf
    Rev. Mandy Hall
    Rev. Mark Lee
    Rev. Ron Patterson
    Ring Lake Ranch
    Risk
    Rocky Mountain Conference
    Roe V Wade
    Rooted
    Rosebud Episcopal Mission
    Sabbath
    Sabbatical
    Search Process
    Share The Plate
    Signage
    Silence
    Singing
    Sleepout
    Solstice
    Soul
    Spiritual Growth
    Spiritual Practices
    Stephen Ministry
    Stewardship
    Stewardshp
    Stories
    St. Patrick
    Strategic Planning
    Students
    Suicide Prevention
    Summer
    Taize
    TARDIS
    Teacher Appreciation
    Thanks
    Thanksgiving
    The Church Organ
    The Magnificat
    Threshold
    Thrive
    Top Ten
    Transfiguration
    Transformation
    Trauma
    Tricia Medlock
    Trump
    Truth
    Tulips
    UCC
    Uncertainty
    Unexpected
    Values
    Vespers
    Video Reflection
    Visiting Scholar
    Voting
    Waiting
    Wanted
    Weird & Holy
    Wilderness
    Wisdom
    Work
    Worship
    Yendra Tencza
    Youth
    Youth Retreat
    Zoom For 7

    RSS Feed

916 West Prospect Road Fort Collins CO 80526

Sunday Worship

10 a.m. through 8/21

Contact Us

970-482-9212

​Members, log into F1Go here.

Subscribe

* indicates required
  • Welcome!
    • I'm New Here
    • I'm a CSU Student
    • LGBTQ+
    • How Do I Join?
    • More Questions
  • Worship
    • What is Worship?
    • Faith Statements
    • Worship Online >
      • Streaming Worship
      • Download Bulletins
      • Digital Pew Card
    • Learn More >
      • Sermons
      • Music Program
      • Worship Sign-Ups
  • News & Events
    • Special Events
    • Calendars >
      • Today's Schedule
      • Full Calendar
      • Calendar Request Form
    • Church Blog
    • eNews
  • Living Our Faith
    • Christian Formation >
      • Children
      • Nursery Care >
        • Child Care Handbook
      • Youth
      • OWL (Our Whole Lives)
      • Adults
      • Visiting Scholar
    • Social Justice >
      • Outreach & Mission Board
      • Ending Gun Violence
      • Immigration
      • Grocery Cards
    • Labyrinth
  • Connect
    • Contact >
      • Contact Us Form
      • Clergy & Staff
      • Lay Leadership
      • Building Rental
    • Our Community >
      • Fellowship
      • Calling & Caring
      • Gallery
    • Online Connections >
      • Church App
      • Text Connection >
        • Fun Text Question
        • Text Responses
        • Wellness Check-In
  • Give
    • All About Giving
    • Share the Plate
    • Pledge Online
    • Other Ways to Give >
      • Text to Give
      • Evergreen Partners
      • Planned Giving
  • Member Info
    • New Members
    • Member Menu