Covid-19 Update
Effective March 23, the Provincial Health Office and Bishop John Stephens are authorizing outdoor, in-person worship services.
The following restrictions are in place to help ensure the health and safety of everyone:
- Maximum of 50 people in attendance (but there can also be people in 50 cars attending but they must stay in their cars)
- Those at a higher risk are encouraged not to attend this in-person worship
- Contact tracing protocol must be in place
- All in attendance must have performed a health check and show no signs of COVID-19
- COVID protocols must be in place (hand sanitizer, masks, physical distancing, etc.) and must be enforced
- Clergy and lay leaders must wear a mask unless they are speaking (and when speaking they should be at least 3 metres from anyone else)
- No singing except by one cantor/soloist (they must be 3 metres from anyone else)
- There can be musicians (up to five) but only the cantor/soloist can sing. The musicians must be masked (unless they must remove their mask to play their instrument and then they must be 3 metres from anyone else)
- No gathering before or after worship. All participants must remain 2 metres apart at all times
The full order by the Provincial Health Office is avaliable by clicking this link and the full statement from Bishop Stepehens may be viewed on the Diocese website.
We will continue to live stream services every Sunday at 10:00 a.m. and those services may be viewed on St. Mary's Facebook page at facebook.com/stmarysapperton/videos/.
