COVID-19 Response Plan
Please see the message below from our Senior Pastor
Please see the message below from our Senior Pastor
Dear CBCM Family,
To follow up from my previous “Quick heads up” email, we want to provide you information regarding our plans with all our regular church functions and activities from this point forward. To comply by the State recommendations, for the safety of our church community and the communities around us, and to provide consistency, the church leadership have come to the decision to take the following actions effective immediately until further notice:
Worship services and all church groups and activities are suspended.
This includes but is not limited to*:
* Business meetings for various ministry teams can continue or move online
Live streaming of worship services will commence this Sunday.
Visit our church’s website (www.cbcm.org) to access the congregational worship you would like to join (RM, RC, RE, RCF) at their regular service times (9:45 AM, 11:20 AM).
For now, we will try to live stream most of our services from church, but we are also learning and exploring other options such as live stream from home. Musical worship details are still being sorted, but we’re exploring different options—live stream the band from the church stage, pre-record worship sets, or simply provide a list of songs with video links. Thank you for your patience as we work these matters out and try to provide you continual spiritual feeding and worship online.
Online giving is active and available.
On the church website (www.cbcm.org), click on “Online Giving” at the bottom right portion of our front page and follow the instructions. In using this new, online tool, we encourage you to still treat it as a worshipful experience.
I often pray before I give (before I write out the check, or drop the check into the offering bag, or click the button): “Lord, thank you for your provision for me and my family, thank you for giving me the privilege to give back to you a small portion of what you have given to me, and please use this offering to do the work of your kingdom.”
While we are not meeting in person during this time, I encourage you to stay in touch with your brothers and sisters in Christ via phone, text, or emails, etc. and be proactive about praying for one another (ask each other how you can pray for one another) and serving one another (Ask each other if there they have needs you can help meet during this time of crisis).
During this time of uncertainty, we are still called by Jesus to be salt and light for Him. There may be even greater opportunity to live missionally for Jesus, because people may be more open to the Gospel. Let us not be caught up with focusing only on self-protection in a self-absorbed manner. Let us proactively ask Jesus to show us how to live by faith and live in love in practical ways to serve those around us during this time. May Jesus help us to not let self-protection and fear overtake our faith, joy, hope, and sacrificial love. We know our God is still in control!
Psalm 27:1
“The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid?”
1st Thessalonians 1:2-3“We always thank God for all of you and continually mention you in our prayers. We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Romans 8:28, 38-39
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose… For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
For Him
Pastor Hugo, with church leadership
To follow up from my previous “Quick heads up” email, we want to provide you information regarding our plans with all our regular church functions and activities from this point forward. To comply by the State recommendations, for the safety of our church community and the communities around us, and to provide consistency, the church leadership have come to the decision to take the following actions effective immediately until further notice:
Worship services and all church groups and activities are suspended.
This includes but is not limited to*:
- Sunday worship services and Sunday school classes
- Friday meetings for adults, teens, and children
- All weekday ministries otherwise (e.g. prayer meetings, sports, etc.)
- Cell groups and fellowship groups
* Business meetings for various ministry teams can continue or move online
Live streaming of worship services will commence this Sunday.
Visit our church’s website (www.cbcm.org) to access the congregational worship you would like to join (RM, RC, RE, RCF) at their regular service times (9:45 AM, 11:20 AM).
For now, we will try to live stream most of our services from church, but we are also learning and exploring other options such as live stream from home. Musical worship details are still being sorted, but we’re exploring different options—live stream the band from the church stage, pre-record worship sets, or simply provide a list of songs with video links. Thank you for your patience as we work these matters out and try to provide you continual spiritual feeding and worship online.
Online giving is active and available.
On the church website (www.cbcm.org), click on “Online Giving” at the bottom right portion of our front page and follow the instructions. In using this new, online tool, we encourage you to still treat it as a worshipful experience.
I often pray before I give (before I write out the check, or drop the check into the offering bag, or click the button): “Lord, thank you for your provision for me and my family, thank you for giving me the privilege to give back to you a small portion of what you have given to me, and please use this offering to do the work of your kingdom.”
While we are not meeting in person during this time, I encourage you to stay in touch with your brothers and sisters in Christ via phone, text, or emails, etc. and be proactive about praying for one another (ask each other how you can pray for one another) and serving one another (Ask each other if there they have needs you can help meet during this time of crisis).
During this time of uncertainty, we are still called by Jesus to be salt and light for Him. There may be even greater opportunity to live missionally for Jesus, because people may be more open to the Gospel. Let us not be caught up with focusing only on self-protection in a self-absorbed manner. Let us proactively ask Jesus to show us how to live by faith and live in love in practical ways to serve those around us during this time. May Jesus help us to not let self-protection and fear overtake our faith, joy, hope, and sacrificial love. We know our God is still in control!
Psalm 27:1
“The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid?”
1st Thessalonians 1:2-3“We always thank God for all of you and continually mention you in our prayers. We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labor prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Romans 8:28, 38-39
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose… For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
For Him
Pastor Hugo, with church leadership