WRDE Coast TV News aired an interview with Rev. Dr. Bo Gordy-Stith during their 6 pm newscast on Wednesday, January 17 (the segment begins at 2:30). Reporter Eleisa Weber asked our Pastor of Community and Communications to reflect on the lessons we learned during a quarantine initially imposed on us by Governor John Carney. You can see that the quote they were looking for involved the importance of keeping people safe. The full text of the Presentation to the Laity Session of our 2021 Annual Conference to which Pastor Bo was referring in the interview can be found here. (What has the Quarantine Taught Us About Worship?)
Those comments seem even more apt nearly four years after the quarantine began, when we are struggling to know what hybrid in-person and online community means in our worship, meetings, missions, and fellowship. Please consider reading What has the Quarantine Taught Us About Worship? and sharing your perspective below.
The three lessons learned at Epworth through Covid are a sacred call to action for each of us to find “new life in Christ” —by sharing our unique talents, so together we are a Sanctuary for faith, peace and justice.
“Lord prepare me to be a sanctuary……..”