Where are you meeting?
Straw Polls on Facebook
After seeing another minister ask what other congregations were doing for Sunday services, I was inspired to ask my colleagues more broadly through a few simple polls on Facebook groups of which I'm a member.
Each of these groups is exclusively or predominantly younger people involved in ministry (two are strictly limited to people under the age of 40). The UCC and PCUSA groups are limited to members of those denominations, and the UCC group is limited to ordained clergy, while the PCUSA group is limited to teaching elders [pastors], ruling elders, and other church staff. The "Stuff You Can Use: A Youth Ministry Community" group is much more broad (and larger too: 30k members compared to 1.8k for PCUSA and just 382 for UCC), intended for people doing youth ministry, but not limited to professionals, and including a broad spectrum of denominations, including substantial mainline as well as evangelical contingents. Finally, I'll note that a few in both the UCC and the PCUSA groups noted that they meeting virtually only but were resuming in-person Sunday services within the next month, and many in each group were careful to point out that they were still streaming services while meeting in person, and that they were practicing precautions, such as requiring masks, social distancing, and limiting capacity (a few even mentioned taking temperatures at the door). Total number of respondents were UCC: 66, PCUSA: 159, Youth Ministry: 393.
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