Month: March 2020

 

As we mentioned yesterday, we will be suspending our public gatherings but we are not suspending church. We are as committed as ever to gather together as a community.

Each gathering will be streamed live from the Campus Facebook page. The gatherings will be streamed from one of the following Facebook pages:

Soul Revival Church Kirrawee
Soul Revival Church Wooloware
Soul Revival Church Yarrawarrah

We understand that all this might be difficult to navigate if you are unfamiliar with live streaming. As a staff, we have also faced the challenges of how to best deliver our gatherings so that all Soul Revival members could access them. This has been particularly challenging given the limited time. Over the coming weeks we hope this process will become clearer and simpler.

If you are not already connected with the Campus Facebook page, follow the steps below prior to the gathering commencing:

1. Login or join Facebook
2. Search for the relevant Soul Revival Page in the search bar
3. Scroll down the displayed options until you find a post  related to the campus you are interested in e.g. Soul Revival Church Kirrawee
4. Click on the “Like” icon so that you will be notified when a live stream is in progress

Please visit the relevant Facebook page to watch the live stream. You can click into the post in the comment field so you can comment throughout the broadcast.

Here is the schedule of our live broadcasts this weekend:

Soul Revival Kirrawee: Friday 20th March @ 6.30pm
Soul Revival Kirrawee: Saturday 21st March @ 5.30pm
Soul Revival Yarrawarrah: Sunday 22nd March @ 9am
Soul Revival Kirrawee: Sunday 22nd March @ 9.30am
Soul Revival Kirrawee: Sunday 22nd March @ 5pm
Soul Revival Woolooware: Sunday 22nd March @ 5pm

 

New Sermon Podcast

We have also launched a new podcast that will contain recordings of some of our sermons. It is called Soul Revival Podcast
Sermons will be uploaded regularly to this podcast. To get started we have uploaded a number of recent sermons. The podcast is available from where you normally listen to your podcasts.

Here is one option for you:LISTEN ON SPOTIFY

If you are unable to access any of these options, please don’t hesitate to contact us on the numbers below:

Stuart Crawshaw: 0418 960 226

Jai McMordie: 0425 279 721

Paul Tait: 0435 358 959

Karen Sell: 0431 139 306

We just want to take a moment to update you on the COVID-19 situation, which we are sure you are well aware is changing daily. On Wednesday 18th March the Prime Minister announced that there will be no indoor gatherings of more than 100 people. The Archbishop has decided that the Anglican Church in Sydney should suspend all public church gatherings until further notice.

To love others and protect those who are most vulnerable we will be suspending our public gatherings but we are not suspending church. We are as committed as ever to gathering together as a community. This situation provides us with a new and unique opportunity to gather together in a different and creative context. While we have been gathering in physical places, as best we can we will now meet together in virtual spaces until the time when we can start meeting together again in physical spaces. To this end we are going to try and keep three things in mind.

1. Jesus Changes Everything. So we still will continue to trust in Jesus and proclaim the message of the Gospel.

2. We will continue to share the truth and love of Jesus, person to person, generation to generation, culture to culture and place to place. And now we will add space to space. We will attempt to replicate our current places with new spaces online. Where possible we will look into meeting together in small groups until advised otherwise.

3. We will continue to disciple each other and be on mission together. We will make every effort to care for our church community and the wider public, especially those who are isolated and vulnerable.

so what are we doing?

postponing all gatherings

We will be postponing all our physical gatherings including FUSE and YOUTH until further notice but we will be live streaming all of our 6 weekly services this weekend on Facebook Live. To enable this we have launched Facebook pages for each campus so we can live stream each gathering at their usual time. You are invited to join us at Soul Revival Church at one or all of the following pages: Soul Revival Church Kirrawee; Soul Revival Church Woolooware, Soul Revival Church Yarrawarrah. We will also post a recording of our weekly sermons on our Pulse app. The Kids and Youth and Young Adults teams are also exploring ways to continue to connect online.

updating our website

We have updated our website with this News section. We will post all updates on this page and will also be using Pulse News, emails, SMS and social media to keep you updated.

missional community groups

We also meet together each week in Missional Community Groups. These groups are crucial for our community. These groups will be continuing to meet. Some groups may decide to continue to meet physically, while others will want to gather virtually.

postponing other events and groups

We will also be postponing some of our other groups and events. This includes postponing our choir, our youth camp and the AGM.

exploring new opportunities

Over the coming weeks we will be exploring ways to embrace new ways of connecting with each other using virtual technologies. We will communicate more about these opportunities as we work out the details.

We understand that at this moment, many of us may experience a sense of loneliness, fear and uncertainty. We want to support our Soul Revival Community as we all seek to share the truth and love of Jesus person to person, generation to generation, culture to culture, place to place and space to space. With this in mind, if you are experiencing any anxiety or you need to be in isolation, or if you get sick or know someone who needs help please contact us.

A much loved verse of Soul Revival is Matthew 22: 37-40 “Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

We are Soul Revival and we will continue to partner with Jesus as he builds his church. In a time of anxiety and fear, we continue to believe that Jesus changes everything and we will be praying for the strength to love God and love others. We invite you to join with us in praying for the sick and others who are impacted by COVID-19.

Our aim as a community at Soul Revival is to provide a safe and healthy environment for us all. As a result of the concerns surrounding Coronavirus (COVID-19) Soul Revival Church is taking the following steps as sensible safeguards.

We have developed a plan to monitor and manage our response to the impact of COVID-19. We will continue to take the advice of health authorities, government agencies and the Anglican Church and will adjust our safeguards as needed.

Here are a few things that we can do together as a community.

Make sure you stay home if you are sick. If you or your kids have flu like symptoms please consider staying at home. As much as we would love for you to be here and we will miss you dearly, as a community this is an important safeguard.
Cover your nose and mouth when coughing and sneezing into a tissue or a flexed elbow.

Hand washing

Hand washing is an incredibly important measure to reduce the spread of infection, soap and water are an excellent equivalent substitute to sanitiser, you should wash your hands for 20 seconds. We will provide hand sanitiser as often as we can depending on availability.

Our Hospitality Core Team will be overseeing the safe preparation and handling of food. Each gathering has a Hospitality Coordinator who will oversee the food service.

Food Preparation

All people preparing food must wash their hands thoroughly, prior to preparing food

Food Service

Please do not serve food if unwell. Ensure that all food is served by the hospitality team, there will be no self service of food. Food servers will wear gloves and use tongs to serve food. Minimise the use of open platters of food.

Set up and Pack Up

When using crockery and cutlery, ensure people wear gloves when handling plates and cutlery during set up and clean up. We will continue to use disposable plates and cutlery at our Woolooware and Yarrawarrah Campuses.

Cleaning cooking utensils and crockery

No hand washing of any equipment, use the dish washer for all cleaning.

Soul Revival Kids

Food preparation and handling should use the same measures as above. Kids leaders please follow the surface cleaning measures outlined below.

Surface cleanliness

We have an extraordinary group of volunteer cleaners and we will increase our efforts to clean and wipe surfaces especially in areas like the kids rooms, kitchen and coffee areas where people are standing around and having a chat.

Welcoming

Please consider welcoming each other with a smile rather than a handshake or a kiss. This is important to help minimise the spread of the illness and protect those who are most vulnerable among us.

Pray for those who are ill

For our Commonwealth and State governments as they address the crisis and for the health and safety of our communities

Support each other

If you become unwell our Life Support teams are here to assist. Please contact Paul Tait who is our Pastor for Life Support and Hospitality. (paul@soulrevivalchurch.com or 0435 358 959)

If you would like to know more NSW Health continues to update their Frequently Asked Questions page for COVID-19 which is available here: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/alerts/Pa