As per blessing from His Beatitude Metropolitan Tikhon, we are opened.The following safety precautions will be observed

1) Sign-in Sheet – the date and type of service and a list of persons attending (including children over the age of 5) will kept on file in the parish office for each time the church is opened for services. Each household shall provide a telephone number to facilitate contact tracing if necessary.

2) Those coming to church should take their temperature at home that day. Those with a temperature of 100.4 or above should not enter. We have a no contact infrared thermometer available at church to use before entering for those who did not have a thermometer at home.

3) Choir – we have a designated area for the choir which can accommodate 5 stands keeping social distance rules.

4) Collection plate – a box for offerings was placed by the doors of the church.

5) Candles shall not be handled by worshippers. Instead, we have an appointed person that lights candles for those present in the church to prevent contamination.

6) Those who are symptomatic or ill will not be allowed to attend.

7) If it is discovered someone who is ill with the coronavirus has been in church, services may not be held in the church for at least two weeks.