COVID Update 8.4.2021

​Dear Plymouth Family,
 
Are you ready for another pivot? Neither am I, but it seems as though that is in the cards…though not such a hard pivot as we’ve taken in the past. Our Pandemic Team met yesterday afternoon to chart the course for our congregation as we navigate the Delta variant together. The CDC continues to provide new counsel about how we can best keep one another as safe as possible, and we are using that as guidance.
 
First, here are some changes in Sunday worship:

• You may know that we have a new professional livestream system in the sanctuary just last week! You are welcome to worship from home at 10:00 a.m. (or watch our recorded evening service on digital delay). Go to plymouthucc.org/streaming for links or look in your Saturday evening worship email.
• Masks are required for everyone in worship…we have extras at each door.
• Pews on both sides of the sanctuary will be open during worship, and every other pew will be blocked off. (You may sit on left or right.) We are now using social distancing.
• Prayers of the People will no longer be a “contact sport,” so try a gentle Japanese-style bow or wave the peace sign at your fellow worshippers.
• Families with kids: We know some of you are staying away until your kids can be vaccinated, and we affirm your choice. If you choose to worship in person, we have set aside the Fellowship Hall with socially distanced seating and individual activity tables for kids, so feel free to use them. The nursery is currently open for infants, and precautions are in place.
• Communion will be available at 6:00 with precautions.
• Outdoor Coffee Hour returns this Sunday! On both the sanctuary lawn and the Lake Street patio, Coffee will be poured for you in compostable paper cups. Individually wrapped sweetener and half-and-half will be available. Please do not congregate in the Fellowship Hall after worship…we’re trying to keep you safe!
• Jon our Outdoor Service at Rolland Moore Park at 10:00 on August 15. Feel free to mask and use social distance there. We will be serving individually wrapped ice cream and popsicles after the service. (There is no 6:00 service on that day.)

 
More pivots:

• Staff and volunteers will be masked indoors during the week, unless working alone in an enclosed office.
• Outside groups will still need to fill out vaccination affidavits (available from Barb Gregory) and those attending must also wear masks indoors at all times.

Thank you not only for your patience and cooperation, but for your encouragement and participation as we move through this together. Working to prevent the spread of the virus is not so much about “me and mine” as it is about “us and ours.” Thanks for caring for your neighbor and for yourself!
 
Be well,