The following guidelines should be considered as best practices for outdoor worship based on current knowledge:
- Pre-screening questionnaire; Are you ill? Have you been ill within the last 14 days? Have you been with anyone who has been ill? Consider not allowing entry if there is a positive response to any of these questions..
- Register names of participants.
- Recommended the elderly 65+ not attend
- Masks are mandatory
- Bring your own chair, towel or blanket to sit upon
- Monitor and direct participants from the parking area to the worship area keeping distances
- In the worship area keep 6 feet of distance from each other or family group. Mark out the area before hand.
- No choirs or group singing – Preferred soloist or duet or musical instrument – all 25 feet back from front row
- Minister and Reader – both 25 feet back from front row
- Readers should bring their own copy of text or bible
- Only one person should use microphone
- Offering box or basket located near arrival point
- No communion or food and beverage service
- Exit in an orderly fashion