Friends in Faith,
Montana’s Governor, Greg Gianforte, declared that the face mask mandate across Montana will be removed starting on Friday, February 12th, 2021. In its place, the governor is calling upon all Montanans to keep taking personal responsibility in response to the pandemic as the novel coronavirus continues to infect people across Montana and across the United States. As we have done up to this point, Faith Lutheran Church will follow the governor’s guidance, even as it changes, and move from expecting all in-person worshippers to wear face masks to strongly recommending they be worn for in-person services, but now being optional. Dozens of our most vulnerable members have received at least one dose of the vaccine, and new infections across Lake County have decreased significantly over the past several weeks. Therefore, while we continue to strongly recommend that members and friends worshipping with us in person continue to wear face masks, we will leave it up to you all to take personal responsibility for your own health and your neighbor’s health at our in-person ministry activities. Remember, the safest way to keep from getting infected at church is to worship with us remotely. Take stock of your own well-being and limit your risks accordingly. It has been a long road dealing with this disease, but I am encouraged that there is light at the end of this long tunnel!
I expect that some people in our congregation will support the governor’s decision while others do not, just as some have supported our decision to follow the previous mask mandate while others did not. At this important juncture in our pandemic struggle, I feel compelled to remind us that while we disagree about many things in our world, we are one in Christ. We do not need to think one way, vote one way, or agree about everything under the sun in order to be joined together as a Christian community for it is God in Jesus Christ, working through the Holy Spirit, that truly unites us.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth and the Church Council
Montana’s Governor, Greg Gianforte, declared that the face mask mandate across Montana will be removed starting on Friday, February 12th, 2021. In its place, the governor is calling upon all Montanans to keep taking personal responsibility in response to the pandemic as the novel coronavirus continues to infect people across Montana and across the United States. As we have done up to this point, Faith Lutheran Church will follow the governor’s guidance, even as it changes, and move from expecting all in-person worshippers to wear face masks to strongly recommending they be worn for in-person services, but now being optional. Dozens of our most vulnerable members have received at least one dose of the vaccine, and new infections across Lake County have decreased significantly over the past several weeks. Therefore, while we continue to strongly recommend that members and friends worshipping with us in person continue to wear face masks, we will leave it up to you all to take personal responsibility for your own health and your neighbor’s health at our in-person ministry activities. Remember, the safest way to keep from getting infected at church is to worship with us remotely. Take stock of your own well-being and limit your risks accordingly. It has been a long road dealing with this disease, but I am encouraged that there is light at the end of this long tunnel!
I expect that some people in our congregation will support the governor’s decision while others do not, just as some have supported our decision to follow the previous mask mandate while others did not. At this important juncture in our pandemic struggle, I feel compelled to remind us that while we disagree about many things in our world, we are one in Christ. We do not need to think one way, vote one way, or agree about everything under the sun in order to be joined together as a Christian community for it is God in Jesus Christ, working through the Holy Spirit, that truly unites us.
In Christ,
Pastor Seth and the Church Council
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