We planned Sunday worship services at two levels, depending on the prevalence of the coronavirus.
1) Current situation - Hybrid worship (Sunday Worship service in a church building and Online Sunday Worship service)
2) Crisis situation equivalent to lockdown: Completely Online Sunday Worship service
Please let me explain the current situation (1) above in the following bullet points.
Basically, we recommend that you attend Online Sunday Worship services, considering our safety and occupancy rate.
However, the Sunday Worship services in the church building is open for those who want to attend.
We will fully open the window. Please take measures against the cold.
You can move and put away the chairs with a safe spacing by yourself.
One-body (Japanese, English, bilingual) worship services will be temporarily suspended.
During worship music, please do not vocalize, but sing the worship songs in your heart along with the music.
There is no Hallelujah Kids (Sunday School) inside the church building. Children who come to worship may stay in the main hall or move to the children's room at the discretion of their parent(s). Children need to be accompanied by a parent when they go to the children's room.
There is going to be online Hallelujah Kids (Sunday School) using ZOOM. You will receive a ZOOM invitation email from the Hallelujah Kids teacher. If you are a parent who is joining ZOOM for the first time for your children, please contact me.
Announcements after the service will be skipped from now on. We will send you an announcement-link by email. The important announcements in the email will be presented at the entrance. Also please use the church website.
It is OK to have free conversations and chats before and after worship as long as you keep wearing a mask and a safe distance because of fully opened windows.
The English Cafe will be closed until March.
The activities of Little Step are under discussion.
The prayer meetings in the church building continue with ventilation and a safe distance.
Online gatherings and prayer meetings will continue as usual.
For community groups, please contact the leaders directly. If you don't know the contact information for the leaders, please contact me.
Some guests are expected to come to SIC (Saitama International Christian Church) because other churches are closed in the state of emergency. While considering the capacity of the church building on a weekly basis, we plan to treat them flexibly.
In this a state of emergency, let us help to reduce the burden on medical institutions, reduce the number of positive people, and save the lives of seriously ill people and those who may be vulnerable and your loved ones. So, we ask for your cooperation and measures to protect our neighbors. It is an opportunity to love God and practice loving his neighbor as he loves himself (Mark 12: 28-34). And it is an opportunity to make and grow disciples in Christ in various ways (Matthew 28: 16-20). And it is an opportunity to practice forming a diverse body of Christ and community in various ways (Acts 2: 42-47). At the same time, I would like to aim for the long-term continuation of Sunday Worship services in the building as much as possible while protecting everyone's health.
If you have any suggestions, questions, or opinions, please feel free to contact us.
Although it is a process of trial and error and correction of the trajectory, I and the core leaders would like to support you while considering various things.
We pray that each of your health and faith will be protected by the Lord and will be used for the glory of God in his sustaining grace (Jude 1: 24-25).