UUCFL Activities Affected by Local COVID-19 Response

Update about the COVID-19 Virus's impact on Services

Dear Members & Friends of Intercontinental Baptist Mission,

On behalf of your staff and leaders of our congregation, I wish to make you all aware of decisions that we have made regarding our response to the COVID-19 virus outbreak in our community. We hope that you will find these measures more of a relief than a worry. We know that you have much on your minds, and we wish to take a few decisions off your plate while we protect our largely vulnerable congregation.

WE ARE SUSPENDING ALL LARGE GATHERINGS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. Any small group of 10 members or less may meet at your own discretion. If you do meet, we encourage you to use all caution (minimize touch, sanitize your area, wash hands, do not share food, prop open doors, sit at a safe distance, have ill members stay home).

We will step up our online presence throughout this suspension of meetings to provide connections, inspiration, and updates. We will post frequent updates and blog posts from me and other leaders on our website and Facebook pages.

Life at church will go on during this period. There will still be cleaning, bookkeeping, yard work, electricity, insurance, and payroll even though you may not be personally going to the building. In some ways, we’ll all be working harder to bring new ways of connecting to you. PLEASE DO NOT FORGET TO FULFILL YOUR PLEDGES during this time. Mail it in; give via the PayPal link of our website home page. We’ll have a few extraordinary expenses if this goes on for more than a couple of weeks, so an extra gift would be appreciated. Freely having received, we freely give.

And speaking of giving, please remember the needs of your neighbors. Who should not be going out and needs a healthier neighbor to pick up items at the store? Could you call a few members for us and check on them? Every little bit helps.

I know that these are worrying times, but these are times that require the higher functioning parts of our minds to be leading rather than the more fearful primal centers. I hope that you are carefully vetting any health information that you are receiving and taking good care of yourself. Choose wisely for your own situation. We have managed these kinds of health crises in the past and will again. And you are not alone.

Pastor Raymond