March 15, 2020
Doors close
Shenandoah stops gathering physically.
March 15, 2020
Hybrid Worship
Phase II summary
- Thanks to low caseloads in Bexar county, Phase II began on April 28, 2022 and is still in place.
- Vaccination – There is no longer a vaccination requirement to enter the sanctuary.
- Masks – As of July 1, due to rising case counts, masks are once again required throughout the building at all times.
Hybrid worship details
- Services are now “hybrid” worship services, meaning they will physically take place in the building, but will also be livestreamed via Zoom.
- The Zoom service will be available for you to continue attending services safely.
- There is no pressure to attend in person, and you will most certainly be able to continue attending the services via Zoom as you are currently doing. It is your choice on any given Sunday.
- Online Sunday School classes are currently being held at alternate times – please see the homepage for details of timing, and use the same link to join them that you use for Sunday worship and Wednesday fellowship.
- Service participants can either be in the church building, in their homes, or wherever they are located.
- As new case rates in our local counties meet World Church requirements on a sustained basis, additional phases of the reopening plan will be prepared and implemented as applicable.
Detailed history of hybrid worship guidelines: May 23, 2021
“Longer than a month of Sundays”
March 15th, 2020 was 14 months ago.
62 Sundays ago.
At 62 weeks, it will have been exactly two months of Sundays since the building was used.
The Shenandoah Reopening Committee was formed to “provide the ability to safely gather back in the church building in a way which ‘protects the most vulnerable’ (Doctrine & Covenants 164), complies with local, state, national, World Church requirements, and offers a ministry which meets the needs of all in attendance.”
As a result of Bexar County’s new case levels, the committee submitted a Shenandoah Phase I Reopen Plan in which we would reopen the church building via a “Fully Vaccinated Congregation Hybrid Worship” approach.
This means that “Anyone wishing to physically attend a worship service in the church building would need to have completed the vaccination regimen and have waited the required 14 days after the last shot was administered.” That said, with the hybrid approach, online services will still be fully available as they are today.
Under this Phase I Plan, the Shenandoah Congregation reopened for physical gathering for those who are fully vaccinated starting Sunday, May 23.