Worship during COVID-19
Most Sundays we celebrate Holy Eucharist, our great feast of Thanksgiving. Some Sundays we celebrate Morning Prayer, an ancient Christian prayer form that connects us to Christians across time and space to ensure that we, the Church, pray always. Our liturgy comes from the Book of Common Prayer with occasional prayers from Enriching our Worship and the New Zealand Prayer Book.
In March of 2020 our worship quickly moved online to Zoom. In March of 2021 we began to explore hybrid worship; that is gathering as one worshipping community that is both online and in-person. Now, you will be able to choose the path of worship that best fulfills your spiritual needs and matches your comfort level for personal Covid risks. From the start of this viral pandemic, we have acted with love of neighbor guided by science. We know that we are not all vaccinated and therefore continue to act with concern for those who need the most protection. Our safety procedures will continue to develop. We have already made adjustments to our hybrid worship; from our parking lot, to a split congregation, to our beloved Courtyard.
Returning to in-person worship will not be a return to the way things were before Covid. We know we are all changed by the struggles of 2020 and 2021, and we will see that when we return to the building. While some of these changes my feel like losses, yet we gather together in full hope that our joys in gathering will outweigh the losses.
Changes due to Covid 19:
- We will wear masks over the mouth and nose.
- When we sing as a congregation, we still do so with masks on.
- We will worship outdoors
- Those who physically receive Communion will receive in one kind only. We believe that when we receive Jesus in one kind, we receive the entirety of Jesus’ Body and Blood (we call this Concomitance).
The Joys we encounter:
- We will be physically together
- We will enjoy the beauty of God's creation our and Courtyard.
- We still will have flexibility in the way we worship: those who are safer at home, may continue to worship online.
Covid-19 Protocols:
Just as we are excited to “return to normal” we recognize that we are not returning to the way things were before Covid-19. Instead, we are learning
how to live with this virus in a new way.
From the start of the pandemic, we at Christ Church have always been guided by love of neighbor. We continue to be so guided as we move into this new phase. We know that not everyone has been vaccinated. That is why we gather both online and outdoors.
It will look a little different than how we used to gather.
Full protocol for Courtyard worship and Rain Day worship may be found 
here (you are encouraged to join online when it rains).
Worship always available online
Throughout the Coronavirus pandemic we have learned how to be one community gathered in many physical locations. Each Sunday at 9 am we gather together on Zoom and livestream our worship via YouTube and Facebook (or post recordings later). If you would like to join our Zoom gatherings, please fill out the Contact Us form explaining that you would like to be included in our email list.
Worshiping In-Church during Covidtide is sure to be different from the ways we have done it before. In many ways we will all be newcomers to the church.
Previous worship services can be found on our YouTube channel:
