Updated October 6, 2020

Live Worship Returns!

You are invited to begin signing up for worship. Click below to sign up.

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As we will be worshipping in small groups of 50 people or fewer, and want to be able to do effective contact tracing should the need arise, we will take signups for each week’s services. We’ve expanded our service offerings to provide Eucharist each week at these (somewhat different!) times:

Sunday
7:45am
10:30am
10:45am  (in the Music Center)
5pm
Wednesday
6pm
Thursday
12pm

While it will be different than it was before, we will still be overjoyed to return. All of us will agree to a Covenant of Care that will help us love each other well when we’re sharing space:

THE SAINT BARNABAS COVENANT OF CARE

To love and serve my neighbor at Saint Barnabas, I will:

• Not attend when I am sick or showing potential Covid-19 symptoms (view below), or if I know I have been in the presence of someone who has tested positive for Covid-19 within the prior 14 days.
• Wear a face mask while on campus and during worship over both my mouth and nose (except briefly removed to receive communion in my pew).
• Sit only in designated seats.
• Adhere to social distancing, abstaining from any physical contact with others not in my “bubble.”
• Notify the church office immediately if any in my household are diagnosed with Covid-19. (Your privacy will be protected, but for contact tracing and to protect the health of others, we must notify others that someone in their service is infected.) 
• As seats are limited, I will remember the needs of others and cancel my reservation if my plans change; and/or consider attending one of the services with fewer attendees.

Symptoms List

cough 
muscle pain 
shortness of breath 
diarrhea 
rash 
vomiting 
abdominal pain 
fever 
red eye 
weakness 
bruising or bleeding 
new joint pain that is not going away 
severe headache 
lack of sense of smell/taste

Previous Communications Regarding
Pandemic Protocols/Planning

Our Saint Barnabas Taskforce for Re-Gathering submitted our plan to the Diocese and received approval on July 2, 2020.

You can read our plan here:

Saint Barnabas Gathering for Abundant Life Plan

The Bishop’s Taskforce for Re-Gathering published this document to the Diocese in May:

Gathering for Abundant Life Plan

You can view the statistics guiding us here at the
AZ Dept. of Health Services website.

The bishop released an update about all of this on July 28. Read it HERE.

The bishop released this video update on August 12.

Here is the Bishop’s May 2020 video summary of the Gathering for Abundant Life document:

Please offer your thanks to the committee members who worked hard to create this, and are continuing their work to develop the execution plan to make all of this happen!

Jim Rector, Chair
Lee Kolstad
Judee Morrison
Taylor Bell
Jennifer Collier
Kevin Merritt
John Farley

Staff consultants:
Ann Hott
Kate Fimbres
Sarah Getts
Erika von Haaren