Hi Mt. Zion. Community,
I’m writing to provide you an update regarding the COVID-19 guidelines our church is choosing to follow. For the following reasons, worship will occur online only this Sunday.
The NC Department of Health and Human Services has produced a helpful tool called the COVID-19 County Alert System, which categorizes each county according to how serious a threat COVID-19 poses to it. Rockingham and Guilford are both in the red category indicating the most severe situation. To meet the threshold for red, either over 10% of all COVID tests must be positive or the virus must have a HIGH IMPACT on hospitals.
Our conference’s Bishop and cabinet have advised worship to occur online only in all red counties. Our primary mission is to love god and neighbor, and I believe holding worship online is the best way to do that. Next week, we’ll see if we are out of the red, and go week-by-week.
The relevant links providing this information are below.
I encourage you to participate online (YouTube or Facebook) if you’re able, and I encourage you to give as if we were in person, because we still face expenses whether we’re inside or not. Thank you and god bless all of you.
In Christ,
Pastor Phil


Message from our Bishop and Cabinet:
https://www.wnccumc.org/newsdetail/covid-19-update-for-local-churches-14439609


COVID alert system produced by the NC Dept of Health and Human Services, which labels Rockingham and Guilford counties red:
https://files.nc.gov/covid/documents/dashboard/COVID-19-County-Alert-System-Report.pdf

Stay safe and God bless!

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