Soul Revival is cancelling all public services this Christmas weekend due to the ongoing Covid outbreaks across Sydney. We will have no public gatherings this Thursday (Christmas Eve), Friday (Christmas Day), Saturday (Boxing Day) and Sunday. These cancelled public gatherings will be replaced with Digital gatherings across the Christmas weekend.
The Premier spoke again this morning. While the case numbers are pleasingly lower than at the end of last week, the situation across Sydney remains unstable. The Wardens met and decided that it would be in the interest of the safety of our members and guests that we suspend services this Christmas weekend and replace them with digital gatherings. The Staff have agreed with this decision. We are very blessed to be led by our wise, careful and caring Wardens in these health decisions. While the Premier did not mandate the suspension of public gatherings, she did urge caution and mandated no congregational singing, strongly recommended mask wearing and the 4 square meter rule remains in place for worship services.
The numbers we set on our booking website a month ago were based on the previous 2 square meter rule. Almost all our services have been booked out. The new 4 square meter rule means we can only host half the number of people who have booked in. So now our services are over subscribed. Added to this, it is still uncertain how many cases will emerge in the Sutherland Shire over the weekend. The Wardens and Staff considered these 2 problems and decided today that it would be wise to suspend our public gatherings this weekend and replace them with digital gatherings.
Our digital services will be at the following times:
Christmas Eve Kids
Thursday Night at 5:30pm.
Streamed via:
our website: soulrevivalchurch.com
our Kirrawee Facebook Page: soulrevivalchurchkirrawee
Christmas Eve Celebration
Thursday Night at 7:30pm.
Streamed via:
our website: soulrevivalchurch.com
our Kirrawee Facebook Page: soulrevivalchurchkirrawee
Christmas Day
Friday Morning at 9:30am.
Streamed via:
our website: soulrevivalchurch.com
our Kirrawee Facebook Page: soulrevivalchurchkirrawee
Saturday Night (26th) at 5:30pm.
Streamed via:
our website: soulrevivalchurch.com
our Kirrawee Facebook Page: soulrevivalchurchkirrawee
Sunday Morning (27th) at 9.30am.
Streamed via:
our website: soulrevivalchurch.com
our Kirrawee Facebook Page: soulrevivalchurchkirrawee
There will be no Yarrawarrah or Woolooware Gatherings this Weekend
There will no online Kids Zoom this weekend.Our Children’s Minister Tim would like to encourage all the children to watch and participate in the Christmas services with their families online. And of course we will have a great online Christmas Eve kids gathering to watch on Thursday night.
January
We are hopeful at this stage that we will be able to return to public gatherings in January. We will inform you if this changes at any stage.
Thanks For Your Grace
We apologise for the disappointment and we ask you to join with us in prayer that this outbreak will be contained and that we will celebrate the birth of Christ this weekend in our homes. We would also recognise that our family Christmas plans have been disrupted over the weekend. But we pray that we will still be able to share the truth and love of Jesus this weekend. If you need support or encouragement over the Christmas weekend please contact Paul.
The Wardens and Staff would especially like to thank all the teams that have worked so hard to prepare for Carols gatherings last weekend and the Christmas gatherings this weekend. We also appreciate the effort that the Arts and Communications teams will put in to get our digital gatherings together at short notice. We are sorry for the inconvenience of calling off this weekend. We thank you for your grace and generosity.
We will contact all those who are serving with us in the gatherings this weekend to explain how we will record the digital gatherings. If you have any concerns contact Jai.
Jesus Changes Everything
We are excited that even though we can’t get together physically this weekend, we will be preaching the good news about the coming of Jesus at this Christmas time and we pray that people will be blessed and trust in Jesus as he Changes everything even during Covid.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact Stu.
