Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Connecting during social distancing: This week's resources for Lent and navigating COVID-19

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COVID-19 news & resources
Friends,

We continue to hold you in prayer, giving thanks for all of the ministry you are doing for so many. You are bringing good news in countless needed ways. We are grateful to be walking on this challenging journey with you, knowing the Spirit is with us, Christ prays for us and God is right now, even now, especially now, doing a new thing.

As many of us practice social distancing and gatherings are canceled, we at the Presbyterian Outlook are seeking to provide resources for our Lenten journey and ways to stay connected to each other during this challenging season.

To that end, we are creating a weekly video devotion, worship liturgies that you are welcome to use and share no matter what your worship looks like these weeks, and lessons and guides for child-friendly family worship and education. We also invite you to use our weekly lectionary reflections, "Looking into the lectionary" for weekly worship, Bible study or devotions. We will be posting information and resources frequently for as long as we are homebound. Please check our website or follow us on social media for the most up-to-date materials. You can find all of the Outlook's COVID-19 stories with this link.

How can we support you? Are there other resources that would be helpful? Let us know. And if these free materials are helpful to you, please consider making a donation to help us keep providing theologically sound content for the church.

Grace and peace,
Jill Duffield

Worship resources
By Carolyn Winfrey Gillette
What do shoes have to do with faith? As people of the Way we are always on a journey — a journey to follow Jesus, a journey to go where God sends us, always seeking to be the hands of feet of Christ wherever we go.

News & Ministry Aids
We pray for the senior class of 2020. May your grace be sufficient during these strange and chaotic days. We pray for students who did not realize that an ordinary school day just like any other might be their only closure to a lifetime of education when they waved goodbye to each other when the bell rang. Be and abide with the class of 2020.
The Office of the General Assembly has released a new advisory opinion about how congregations can celebrate communion in an emergency or pandemic.
The PC(USA) is recalling many of its overseas mission co-workers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sara Lisherness, interim director for world mission, spoke with the Presbyterian Outlook March 25 about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the PC(USA)’s international work.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced this week an order to convert the Baltimore Convention Center, where the General Assembly is scheduled to meet, into a field hospital for COVID-19 patients.
Here's some of the ways PC(USA) leaders are working to provide support for congregations, mid councils and pastors — including an Easter worship video and Presbyterian Disaster Assistance grants
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