Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) Procedures for Worship

Antioch Fellowship Baptist Church will begin in-person worship services on Sunday, October 4, 2020. There will be two one-hour worship services with a maximum capacity of 50 worshippers each. Our first worship service will begin at 8:30 a.m and end at 9:30 a.m. Our second worship service will begin at 10:30 a.m. and end at 11:30 a.m.

We welcome you to Antioch Fellowship Baptist Church. We hope you will be blessed by your experience with us. In order to protect you and others while worshipping, you are requested to strictly follow the procedures for worship. Our security team, health ministry and ushers will assist you in worshipping in a healthy, safe and comfortable environment. Please comply with their directions for worship.

The Antioch Fellowship Baptist Church COVID-19 Response Team has prayerfully and thoughtfully developed procedures to protect you and other worshippers during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Therefore, we ask that you seriously and carefully adhere to the following procedures:

·        ALL worshippers are required to be screened before entering the building by having their temperatures taken and answering a health screening questionnaire.

 ·      Six-foot social distancing MUST be practiced by ALL worshippers and at ALL times during worship service. There are signs and markers on the walls and floors to assist you in maintaining the CDC recommended social distancing guideline.  Therefore, we ask that you not congregate or socialize in the narthex, classrooms, hallways, offices, restrooms, etc. Instead, please enter and exit the building under the direction of the worship leader, ushers, and security team. We realize this requires a major change in our worship culture, but we solicit your cooperation in implementing this change.

·       ALL worshippers are required to wear a face mask when entering the building, during the worship service, and when exiting the building. If you do not have a face mask, one will be provided for you prior to entering the building.

·       Church bulletins, hymnals and bibles will not be distributed. Please feel free to bring your personal bible. Our order of worship service will be provided by announcement or visual projection.

·         Please place your tithes and offerings in the designated Offering Boxes available at the entrance and exit doors.

·         Disposable gloves may be used by worshippers. If needed, they will be provided for you.

·         On the first Sunday of each month The Holy Communion sacraments will be distributed upon entrance into the building.

Our team strongly urges members who consider themselves in the most vulnerable populations for coronavirus, or who have COVID-19 symptoms to remain safe at home and participate in our streamed services on the church’s Facebook Live.

Thank you for joining us in worship and please come again!

⁶ “‘Nevertheless, I will bring health and healing to it; I will heal my people and will let them enjoy abundant peace and security.

Jeremiah 33:6 (NIV)