All Mill City Activities Cancelled Through March 31, 2020
Due to the recommendations given by the President and the CDC, we will be canceling all meetings through the end of March.
We are asking our Community Groups to not meet during this time as well. Not meeting in person is a short term response to our current situation. The church is a family, and we are meant to be around one another. While this is true, we wish to avoid causing an increased risk to one another and those in our community.
Those who study these types of diseases advise that we can currently fight the spread by avoiding one another. This will keep the strain from increasing exponentially for hospital staff, and we believe that to do this, we ought to comply with these current safety recommendations. The coronavirus has been spreading exponentially and experts are advising that social distancing is one of the best ways to combat its continued advance. Christ calls us to love others as we love ourselves. One of the ways we can accomplish this currently is by simply staying home and avoiding contact with others.
To some this may seem like a response from fear. I can assure it is not. We are the recipients of eternal life and hope in Christ. There is nothing to fear, for ultimately nothing can harm us.
To others it may feel like overreaction. We hope you are right. Our goal is to love our neighbors well as good missionaries. As we move forward, this same call will continually be put in front of Christ's Church - to love our neighbors and be good missionaries. For now it means stay home, avoid contact with others, but in a few weeks or months this same call may mean that we step out into risky, potentially contagious situations to love and serve others and share the hope of the gospel with them.
We have always said that Church is not a meeting or a building, but a people. This is true. We are still the Church even in this season where we cannot gather together. So as we are unable to meet together in person, we encourage you to keep in contact with one another by the means you have available. Stay connected with one another - call, text, Facetime, and use GroupMe. Try to get your group together through a Zoom meeting or Google Hangout. We pray this season will not last long, but while we're in it, let's do what we can to stay connected.
During this time, I am reminded of something I heard often growing up in my home church. "We do not know what the future holds, but we do know who holds the future." Jesus is King. He is our King. Ultimately we serve him. May we do that lovingly, graciously, and courageously in the coming days.
