![COVID-19 Update: Local Requirements and Summit’s Precautions]()
We want to be sure you’re made aware of how changes to local requirements and mandates related to COVID-19 will affect Summit worship services. As precautions change for in-person services, we recognize that there will continue to be a range in comfort levels in regards to attending services. Every week we have means for people to join together in worship that range from indoor, in-person services to gatherings that meet outdoors to our online service available for you to use in facilitating your own worship gathering and each of these environments represents good and right ways to gather in worship.
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![COVID-19 Update: 3 Factors that Inform Our Precautions]()
These three factors helped to inform our early gathering requirements and guidelines, and we will use these same factors to guide the loosening of requirements and guidelines in the months ahead. I don’t know when restrictions will start to lift, and I imagine there remains a wide swath of perspective on what should happen when. In the reality of circumstances continuing to change, I ask that we continue to show each other love, that we assume the best in each other, and that we honor the pace and posture we take as a whole church—even where it may not suit our individual preferences or perspectives.
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![Providing Care, Love, and Hope]()
2020 has not gone as planned for most. That is an understatement, I know, but for many of us, this year has left us uncomfortable, uncertain, and anxious. There are feelings and realities that we all share. Yet, for many in Central Florida, 2020 has led to catastrophe. Prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Orlando ranked last in median income in major cities in the United States. Into these difficult circumstances steps United Against Poverty (UP Orlando), this year’s Christmas Eve offering recipient. Every year, we choose a local or global organization to whom we give the entirety of giving collected at Christmas Eve services.
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![Update: Online Services, Reopening News, and Expressions of the Church]()
Last week, our staff leadership team spent two days meeting to pray about, discuss, and make decisions surrounding three things that are important in how we live out the vision both now and in the years ahead. The online service is here to stay, we are targeting the beginning of Advent (November 29th) for our reopening of on-campus worship services (including Children’s Ministry), and we can all continue to be the church now—where we are.
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