Since this fall there have been a handful of Sundays where I have gotten to be in the Trinity sanctuary with other folks. It has been so lovely to have baby Leah playing in the background on her baptism Sunday, to be able to send Dan to investigate a stranger in the building on the day their family lit advent candles, to make a joke and to have Tim and Caley laugh. I have gotten used to leading worship all alone in a room, and yet I still miss what it means to be worshiping in shared space.
Beginning in April, as long as the Covid-19 numbers continue to decline, we will begin to slowly reopen worship to in-person attendance. I’m so looking forward to being able to worship with those who have not been able to join in due to lack of internet access. We’ll be wearing masks, sitting far apart, and not able to sing together, so things will not be the same as before, and yet I know that being together will infuse our worship with new life.
At the same time we will still be broadcasting worship, in fact we’ll be broadcasting our worship from now on! We’ve had folks join us from all over the country. People who used to attend Trinity for worship, but who have moved are able to join us. Friends and family of members and staff have been able to share in worship in a way that wasn’t possible before. We just purchased a new laptop to make broadcasting in-person worship a bit easier. Lacey has helped us get a great deal on faster wifi and Elaina is our tech wizard, helping to improve sound quality and more!
Things may never be how they were before for us in worship. As someone who believes in a God of resurrection and new life what I see before us is a new way of worshiping here and apart, of sharing in joy and love in many ways, and in celebrating as a community with the resources available to us, just as the faithful have done for millennia!
It is so fitting that as we begin spring and turn our minds towards Easter we will be plotting and preparing for this next phase of our new life as a community.
-Eilidh
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