CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE
Please check this page regularly as it will be updated as decisions are made based on recommendations and mandates by Local and Federal Government.
3/21/2020
3/19/2020 Message from our Senior Pastor
Due to the restriction of no more than 10 people at a gathering, we regretfully must not hold Bible study or worship services in our buildings. We are working on a plan to move to online and phone-based delivery of study and worship opportunities. We will be in touch with church members via deacons, church-wide email, and texts. This page will be updated with more information about how we will proceed. We will NOT close with no resources to worship and study the Word of God.
3/18/2020 Message for Bible Study Teachers
BIBLE STUDY TEACHERS ONLY: Please put Sunday afternoon on your calendar. We need to meet and talk about Bible study and worship going forward as we navigate this temporary new normal. If you come to the building, we will gather in the Worship Center following the 10:30 service. If not, please call our phone conference number so that you can listen in. Please email youth@cresthill.org for the phone number if you are a teacher and didn’t get the email that was sent today.
3/16/2020 Message from our Senior Pastor and Church Staff (evening)
Until further notice, all Wednesday night activities have been canceled. However…
If you are able and healthy, come this Wednesday night (March 18) 6-8 to a “Kill the Coronavirus Party” to help sanitize the church. Cleaning materials and gloves will be provided. You might want to bring safety goggles/glasses. Soda and pizza will be provided for those who show up to help.
PB&J Ministry has been canceled until further notice. (So Others Might Eat have had to temporarily close down operations because of the virus.)
Christian Women’s Fellowship meeting on Saturday morning the 21st has been canceled.
Building Hope Ministries’ Prayer and Praise Service scheduled for the 21st has also been canceled.
BCMD has canceled the Special Needs conference for March 28th.
Please consider giving online at this link, so that we may honor our Biblical responsibility to tithe. Otherwise, you may send in your tithes and offerings to the church through your bank or by mail.
3/16/2020 Message from our Senior Pastor (morning)
All Wednesday night activities at the church have been postponed until further notice. We will keep you updated as to any changes.
3/13/2020 Message from our Senior Pastor:
Steps have been and continue to be taken to sanitize our facilities in accordance with CDC recommendations. Outside groups have canceled their activities in our buildings, helping to minimize exposure.
Anyone who is in a compromised health situation or who is sick should stay home. Elements of our worship have been adjusted to minimize exposure, such as changing or limiting our physical contact as we greet one another, moving communion from a corporate worship experience to a home experience, which I will provide instructions on at another time, that if one prefers to do so, you can worship from home via our public live-streaming on
Facebook, and/or
recorded messages here on our site. No, it is not church as usual-it is the Church being the Church during this dark and difficult time, reflecting the light of Jesus to a button, worried world.
This is our current course of action. If the spread of the contagion increases in our communities we will certainly take the appropriate steps related to canceling our services, while providing opportunities for worship through the aforementioned sites.
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3/9/2020
We too are monitoring the situation, and encourage you to first let your faith be bigger than your fear. We encourage you to use precautionary measures, and are partnering with you to that end as you come to worship. We also are streaming the sermon live at the 10:30 service on our Facebook page. This link is public, and doesn’t require a Facebook account. You can link to it from here:
https://www.facebook.com/cresthillchurch
