Updated Service Information and Guidelines - November 19, 2020

As of Monday, November 16th, Orange County has been placed back into the more restrictive Purple tier. https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/COVID19CountyMonitoringOverview.aspx.  This change carries with it greater restrictions for many activities, one of which is indoor worship services.  This change will affect Christ Reformed Church in several ways as detailed below:

Wednesday night Bible Study will not be meeting. 

Lord’s Day worship services will be conducted outside again. The guidelines and logistics will be the same as they were during the summer months.  Our service times will remain the same and we request that you utilize the save-a-seat reservation system to let us know what service you will attend.  This greatly aids the deacons as they set up chairs for each service (a task they did not have to contend with when we were indoors). 

Catechism Service will be remote only with the readings and teachings posted online each week.  Our Mandarin speaking congregation will be utilizing the outdoor area to conduct their worship service after our services, so it will not be workable for us to conduct this service in person.  We encourage you view this service with your family at the close of the Lord’s Day.  Over the years the second service provided a bookend to the morning service that aided Gods people in maintaining the Lord’s Day as a day set aside for rest and worship.  Without it we often leave the church grounds after morning worship and the day becomes like any other day.  Please consider utilizing this service with your family to close out the Lord’s Day.

Thanksgiving Service will not be held.  We encourage you to use this morning to spend time with your family and recount God’s faithfulness to us in our lives and most of all, in the finished work of Christ on our behalf. 

Lessons and Carols – we ARE planning a Service of Lessons and Carols for Christmas Eve, December 24th at 7:00 PM. The service will be conducted indoors if possible, outdoors if necessary.  Stay tuned to our website as we get closer to the date for details.  

Unfortunately, these conditions may be with us for the foreseeable future and admittedly, our foresight is extremely dim at this point.  We have a lot to be thankful for regarding the limited impact the pandemic has had on our congregation but we still long for a return to the normalcy that existed before.  This we can pray for.

In Christ, 

Elder Szucs

for Consistory