What we’re doing about COVID-19 (Updated March 20th, 2020)

Journey family,

Well, it’s been a crazy week. We had our first (primarily) online worship service on Sunday and many of us have been connecting throughout the week on our new private Facebook Group. (If you want to join in, go here!)

The number of cases have risen now that testing is becoming more available and our governing officials have requested that no gatherings be conducted in person that has more than 10 people in it. Perhaps most importantly for us, God is still God. He is still on His throne and He is still working on our behalf.

Many of you have felt the pain of “Social Distancing” through isolation, loss of work and an inability to escape your children (oh, how we appreciate our teachers!) Through it all, community is still vitally important so here are a few updates of what Journey is going to look like over the next 2 weeks, at least. As we mentioned last weekend, this will be evaluated on a week to week basis.

1. Online Worship – We are planning for another special online service where we continue our Genesis series. We will be talking about the birth of nations and Nimrod. Read Genesis 10 & 11 to be prepared. Please attend online. We will be monitoring comments so we can continue to interact with each other. Natalya is also putting together some activities that you can download and interact with your kids.

2. Weekdays – Pastor Mark is going to begin hosting devotions and a time for prayer either through Facebook Live or Zoom and (if there is interest) an online Bible Study. We will send instructions on how to login. David and Stephanie will also begin hosting times for students to get together to talk and continue studying through Zoom as well. We will share more information about this as well.

3. Seniors – We want to care for our more “experienced” members of Journey to the best of our abilities. We don’t have many attenders over 60 but we do have a few and we want to make sure they are loved, contacted and cared for. If you would like to be part of this team, please let Pastor Mark know by contacting him at mark@journeychattanooga.com.

4. Prayer – Prayer is such an important part of all of this. Please submit any specific prayer requests to JourneyChattanooga.com/pray. You can let us know if you would like your request shared or kept private.

5. Giving – If you are able to give, please utilize online giving at JourneyChattanooga.com/give.

We are still figuring all of this out and there’s a part of me that is pretty excited about the increased opportunity to connect with each other during this time. If you have any questions or suggestions, please let us know.

Love you all,
Pastor Mark