Coronavirus Preparations

 (March 18th, updated March 31st)

Roseville Worship Online Starting This Sunday: Please join us 

No in-person worship through May 10: Join us for Holy Week worship Online

 

Dear Centennial Roseville Campus Worshipers,

We will be starting online-only "recorded live" worship starting this Sunday March 22nd and also on Sunday March 29th as we seek to do our part to slow and halt the spread of COVID-19 that our nation and world is facing. We will be recording the service on Saturday afternoon, and after some editing and processing, it will be available to you in two easy ways:

• You will receive a congregational email Saturday evening or early Sunday morning with a bulletin for the service. You will find a link there. Just click on the link for the video.

• Or you can go to our website at www.centennialumc.org and click on the button on the homepage. 

• Both of these avenues will also get you to the Saint Anthony Park "recorded live" service as well.

 

Be watching for the Centennial News coming to you online this weekend as well! It will have important new initiatives so that our members & friends can use request help with many things during this coronavirus situation--for instance, help getting groceries--and ways that you can sign up to help out in many practical ways! We are the body of Christ in such a time as this--let's be there for each other and for our neighbors. 

 

Please also note that starting tomorrow we will be closing the church buildings so that the only persons who are allowed to enter will be staff, first responders, critical repair technicians & delivery people, persons preparing for worship, and persons with pastoral care appointments. We are implementing this in order to carry out as much social distancing for our staff as possible as we seek to stay healthy and still serve our two campuses and community. 

 

We are also asking that all meetings and classes be held via phone, email, or an online platform such as Zoom. We have two accounts for Zoom--contact Dennis Webster at dwebster [AT] centennialumc [DOT] org if you would like to use it for your group or class.

 

Please be checking in on each other, especially with those in higher-risk groups. Let love be genuine, we read in Romans 12. This is our chance--especially now. And remember these words from Isaiah 43 that I shared in my sermon on Sunday, words that are really baptismal promises from God: But now thus says the Lord, the One who created you, O Jacob, the One who formed you, O Israel: Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you.

 

Peace and grace--and keep practicing social distancing!

 

Pastor Brian