COVID-19 Resources
Government Guidance, Tools, and Resources
- Florida’s COVID-19 Data and Surveillance Dashboard
- What You Need to Know Now About COVID-19 in Florida including daily county-by-county information.
- The Centers for Disease Control: Considerations for Communities of Faith
- CDC’s FAQs for Administrators and Leaders at Community- and Faith-Based Organizations
- CDC’s Considerations for Wearing Cloth Face Coverings
- CDC’s Guidance for Community and Faith Based Organizations
- CDC’s Social Media Toolkit
Denominational Resources
- https://www.pcusa.org/covid19/ – The PC(USA) has an aggregated list of a wide variety of articles and tools that cover the following topics: Worship, Pastoral & Governance Resources, Stewardship & Financial Resources, and Government & Legal Resources.
- Presbyterian Disaster Assistance releases pandemic preparedness guide.
Re-entry to In-Person Gatherings
- Beginning Conversations for Re-Entry – May 4, 2020
- Returning to Public Worship: Theological and Practical Considerations – May 4, 2020
- Remote Faith Formation…For the Long Haul with Guidelines for Re-Entry
- Reopening the Church: Includes a wide variety of manuals, checklists, decision trees, and webinars.
- Returning to Church from the Wisconsin Council of Churches
- What Now? A creative tool to help congregations make decisions in the age of COVID-19
Re-Entry Plans Shared by Churches in Our Presbytery
These plans have not been formally endorsed or approved by the Presbytery, but are links shared so that others may be informed of the plans of some of our churches.
- Lutz Community Church
- Trinity Clearwater
- First, Winter Haven
- First, Brandon (PDF of their congregational survey)
Information on the Commission on Church Vitality COVID Relief Grants
Ministry in a Pandemic
- Tips for Zoom Bible Studies
- Tips for Online Worship
- Tips for Including Children in Worship
- Things to Check on Your Website
- Innovative way to ordain or install new elders
- Church Music in the Age of COVID-19
- Tips for Reaching a Technology Averse or Bandwidth Challenged Church Members
- 4 Reasons for Churches to Keep Livestreaming Post-Pandemic
- 5 Things to Take Out of Quarantine
Articles of Interest
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