In Person Worship Update
Message from the Guiding Board to the Members of RRCC:
The Guiding Board met together last Monday night, January 17, 2022, for our regularly scheduled monthly meeting. The Board felt it was important to discuss the current status of Covid and the affects it could have on our congregation. We all know the recent increase of those who have contracted Covid. The RRCC Reopening Task force spent many hours over the past two years researching and studying safety measures regarding this disease, as to help guide us forward in the safest way possible. It is the belief of the Task Force and the Guiding Board that if those who choose to worship in person fit the following criteria:
• have been vaccinated and boosted (after the suggested post-vaccination waiting period)
• wear masks
• social distance
• free of any/all symptoms
...that we should be fine worshipping together in person. We recognize those of our members who struggle with compromised immune systems; therefore, worshipping in an enclosed building with others is not in their best interest. For this reason, those members are choosing to worship on-line with us via Zoom. It is the responsibility of each of us to be as careful as possible to keep each other safe.
The recommendations of the Williamson County Health Department, based on the newest CDC guidelines, are: upon exposure, exhibiting any symptoms or, positive testing, adults should quarantine for a minimum of 5 days. When symptom-free without medication for 24 hours after the fifth day of quarantine, individuals who are fully vaccinated with a booster (if needed) must wear a well-fitted mask for an additional 5 days when in public. Children under 5 years of age, who cannot get vaccinated or cannot wear a well-fitted mask 100% of the time in public, should quarantine for 10 days. If someone in your home tests positive and cannot stay isolated from the other household members, the exposed individuals must start their 5-day quarantine on the 5th day after the date which the illness began in the Covid-positive.
Symptoms of which to be on the lookout include:
Cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, loss of taste or smell, diarrhea, feeling feverish, a measured temperature greater than or equal to 100.0 degrees
If you have any reason to believe that you have been exposed or are experiencing symptoms, we ask you to please stay home, joining us on Zoom for worship. By us all working together, we feel confident our decision to continue worshipping together will be the right one.
If you have any questions, please reach out to the Guiding Board by emailing Tasha at tashayork@yahoo.com and we will do our best to provide you with answers.
Thank you,
Tasha York
Guiding Board Moderator
The Guiding Board met together last Monday night, January 17, 2022, for our regularly scheduled monthly meeting. The Board felt it was important to discuss the current status of Covid and the affects it could have on our congregation. We all know the recent increase of those who have contracted Covid. The RRCC Reopening Task force spent many hours over the past two years researching and studying safety measures regarding this disease, as to help guide us forward in the safest way possible. It is the belief of the Task Force and the Guiding Board that if those who choose to worship in person fit the following criteria:
• have been vaccinated and boosted (after the suggested post-vaccination waiting period)
• wear masks
• social distance
• free of any/all symptoms
...that we should be fine worshipping together in person. We recognize those of our members who struggle with compromised immune systems; therefore, worshipping in an enclosed building with others is not in their best interest. For this reason, those members are choosing to worship on-line with us via Zoom. It is the responsibility of each of us to be as careful as possible to keep each other safe.
The recommendations of the Williamson County Health Department, based on the newest CDC guidelines, are: upon exposure, exhibiting any symptoms or, positive testing, adults should quarantine for a minimum of 5 days. When symptom-free without medication for 24 hours after the fifth day of quarantine, individuals who are fully vaccinated with a booster (if needed) must wear a well-fitted mask for an additional 5 days when in public. Children under 5 years of age, who cannot get vaccinated or cannot wear a well-fitted mask 100% of the time in public, should quarantine for 10 days. If someone in your home tests positive and cannot stay isolated from the other household members, the exposed individuals must start their 5-day quarantine on the 5th day after the date which the illness began in the Covid-positive.
Symptoms of which to be on the lookout include:
Cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, loss of taste or smell, diarrhea, feeling feverish, a measured temperature greater than or equal to 100.0 degrees
If you have any reason to believe that you have been exposed or are experiencing symptoms, we ask you to please stay home, joining us on Zoom for worship. By us all working together, we feel confident our decision to continue worshipping together will be the right one.
If you have any questions, please reach out to the Guiding Board by emailing Tasha at tashayork@yahoo.com and we will do our best to provide you with answers.
Thank you,
Tasha York
Guiding Board Moderator