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CONNECT with HANDS-FREE VIRTUAL ZOOM WORSHIP

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Meanwhile, all church-based gatherings in the church and old red library have been suspended. Instead, we’re offering:

  • LIVE STREAMING
  • ZOOM WORSHIP for participatory experiences!
    • If using a computer, tablet, pad or phone with a camera and microphone, download the Zoom app (free). Allow time BEFORE worship to download the software if you want to participate via computer. Link to download free software: https://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting
    • If using your phone without the Zoom app, simply dial the phone numbers provided below. You’ll have sound (audio-only).

ZOOM: 8am INTERFAITH GATHERINGS on Sunday!

  • Join Zoom Meeting from your computer or pad or phone using Zoom application:
  • Join Zoom meeting by phone:
    • One tap mobile
      +19294362866,,827449013 (press #)
    • Dial: 929.436.2866
      Meeting ID: 827 449 013 (press #)

ZOOM: 10:30am WORSHIP on Sunday!

  • Join Zoom Meeting from your computer or pad or phone using Zoom application:
  • Join Zoom meeting by phone:
    • One tap mobile
    • +19294362866,,142985761#
    • Dial: 929.436.2866
    • Meeting ID: 142 985 761 (press #)

How we’re caring for each other. Changes to worship (sanctuary open, in-person gatherings suspended, introducing remote worship & gathering plans). Community support. Spiritual resources, and Jackson eNews list of ‘to do’ ideas!

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Whitney Community Center loaned JCC their sandwich board. One church family is posting hopeful and thankful messages every day! Send us your hopeful quotes & thanks to add to the board! Email them to jcchurch@jacksoncommunitychurch.org

SANCTUARY OPEN & WORSHIPING in NEW (REMOTE) WAYS!

24/7 Place to Pray
Our doors to our sanctuary remain open 24/7 for personal prayer and individual worship. Please use hand sanitizers as you come and go, and wipe down door knobs in your coming and going.

New Ways to Worship
Meanwhile, all church-based gatherings in the church and old red library have been suspended. Instead, we’re offering:

  • LIVE STREAMING
  • EDITED VIDEOS of those worship events
    • Posted to website and Facebook page afterward.
  • ZOOM WORSHIP for participatory experiences!
    • **We encourage you to choose this option if you have internet access via computer or a phone, so you can join us live during worship, either by video or audio-only on phone.**
    • If using a computer, download the Zoom app (free). Allow time BEFORE worship to download the software if you want to participate via computer. Link to download free software: https://zoom.us/download#client_4meeting
    • If using your phone, dial the phone numbers provided below.

ZOOM: 8am INTERFAITH GATHERINGS on Sunday!

  • Join Zoom Meeting from your computer using Zoom application:
  • Join Zoom meeting by phone:
    • One tap mobile
      +19294362866,,827449013#
    • Dial by location:
      • US (NY)
        +13126266799,,827449013#
      • Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/adFBEMZBc
    • Meeting ID: 827 449 013

ZOOM: 10:30am WORSHIP on Sunday!

  • Join Zoom Meeting from your computer using Zoom application:
  • Join Zoom meeting by phone:
    • One tap mobile
    • +19294362866,,142985761#
    • Dial by location:
      • US (NY)
        +13126266799,,142985761#
      • Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/adFBEMZBcP
    • Meeting ID: 142 985 761

Perks of this kind of worship:

  • Bring your breakfast and favorite hot beverage to your own personal worship space.
  • Stay cozy! Stay casual!
  • Light a candle or set out flowers to make your “personal worship space” special if you’d like.
  • Place a glass or small vase in the area where you’re participate and plan to put your offering in it during worship, then leave it out during this time, to remind you to continue giving. Alternately, Consider online giving as a great option: we have a DONATE button on our site.
  • Be prepared to share a symbol of hope and renewal with each other, if you’d like to do so!
  • Bring your prayer requests, or send them in advance to Rev Gail.

We anticipate adding other creative Zoom offerings, from hymn sings to meditations in the next few days.

CIRCLE of CARING and OTHER SAFETY NETS

JCC’s CIRCLE of CARING

Volunteers from around the community are helping. We make friendly check-ins with vulnerable friends and neighbors. Mostly, we call and say hello. Weask if people have any other needs that require additional help. If more help than a friendly call is required, and it’s outside the buddy’s role, referrals may go through Rev Gail to make other safety and helping connections as needed. So far, we have conducted visits (before the virus kept us apart), made phone calls, grocery runs, mail pickups, delivered meals and flowers delivered!

People not already connected with a ‘buddy’ are being connected to more Jackson and Bartlett neighbors anxious to help each other.  Please alert us if you know of anyone who needs check-in to take care of basic needs like mail or groceries, or simply a regular HELLO by phone! If you’d like to be a ‘buddy’ for a neighbor, and make some calls to keep them cheered and connected, let us know!

Church leaders will also be calling all of our friends and members just to check on everyone!

Other safety nets:

  • JACKSON BRIDGE is a community helpers list and connector service. In their own words: “We are proud to offer a new community listserv, we have named, Jackson Bridge, designed to help unite helpful people with neighbors needing a boost. A listserv is an electronic mailing list to which you can subscribe and then any message that is sent to it gets distributed to everyone else who is subscribed. We encourage anyone in our Jackson Community, who is willing to help another or who needs some help to sign up. More information, including some guidelines for usage on our the library’s new Jackson Bridge webpage.
  • GOOD MORNING PROJECT with SHERIFF & POLICE
    (Available in Conway, Bartlett & Jackson). The program is in place to assist senior citizens of the community, who live alone, to continue living an independent lifestyle through daily check-ins. To participate in the program one must:
    • Must reside within the Conway/North Conway, Bartlett or Jackson
    • Live alone, or if you live with another person, that person is unable to render you assistance in an emergency.
    • Be able to call the Conway Police Department every day before  10 a.m.
    • Must notify the Conway Police Department if you will be away or unable to call in. (For example: you are going away with relatives for a few days, or you will be gone during the normal check-in time for an appointment or a day trip)
    1. In the event Police dispatchers do not hear from you by 10 a.m., they will  attempt to call.
    2. When contact cannot be made by telephone, a patrol unit responds to the resident to check on the welfare of the member.

      If you are interested in participating in this program or know of someone who may be interested in being a part of it, call Project Good Morning 356-5785 or 356-5786

      If you live in any other town in Carroll County to contact the Carroll County  Sheriff’s office at 603-539-2284.  for the programs available in your town.
  • Granite United Way COVID19 RELIEF FUND
    Go to  www.graniteuw.org or text GUWHELPS to 41444 to make a gift or to learn more about this fund. 100% of all donations go directly to individuals and families in need due to COVID19.

SPIRITUAL RESOURCES

ILLUSTRATED MINISTRY:

GATHR:

SALT PROJECT

  • Progressive Christian blog with inspiration poetry, meditations, commentaries and more

ON BEING with KRISTA TIPPETT

CENTER for CONTEMPLATION & ACTION

  • Podcasts, daily meditations and online learning As founder with Fr. Richard Rohr’s and core faculty including Cynthia Bourgeault, James Finley, Barbara Holmes, and Brian McLaren.

PLUM VILLAGE

  • Mindfulness through a community founded by Bhuddist leader Thich Nhat Hanh. Dharma talks. Meditation apps. More.

Ideas of things to do, collected by and shared in the Jackson enews:

  • Free online courses offered by Ivy League colleges:
    https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/ivy-league-free-online-courses-a0d7ae675869/?fbclid=IwAR0czwtDOcaRXk83n-l3B6Bi3g4rVLdlXm-SeOKBPI0efVdRcfKhhxyc7ng
  • Take a virtual museum tour with  Google Arts and Culture. The online platform provides digital tours of more than 2,500 museums and galleries around the world. 
  • Stream a live performance or concert
    • New York City’s Metropolitan Opera announced that it would stream a performance from its archives for every night through the duration of the closure, starting Monday, March 16. The Nightly Met Opera Streams, which start at 7:30 p.m. (EST), pull from the renowned opera house’s award-winning Live in HD series, which includes encore presentations such as 19th-century French composer Georges Bizet’s Carmen. The recordings be available to view for free on the Met Opera homepage for 20 hours after they’re streamed.
    • 92Y, has made its online archives—which contain hundreds of recordings of readings, concerts, and educational talks—free to the public during this time.
    • The Berlin Philharmonic is dropping the subscription fee to its online video streaming service, known as its Digital Concert Hall, and will offer archival performances to home audiences for free during the closure. 
    • Other major opera houses and concert halls around the world have similar plans to stream free archival performances over the coming weeks, among them: London’s Wigmore Hall, Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, the Vienna State Opera, and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
    • John Legend hosted a free concert on Instagram Live as part of “Together, at Home,” a new series of online concerts presented by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Global Citizen.
  • Daily Instagram Live dance party hosted by Lady Gaga’s former backup dancer (follow him at @mkik808), or try a free virtual workout class (yoga, HIIT, and Barre) offered through April 1 on the Down Dog iOS and Android app. 
  • Educational courses for at-home kids – Scholastic’s  “Learn at Home” website.

HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE

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  • April 5, PALM SUNDAY
    • 8am interfaith gathering (outdoors if possible)
    • 10:30am worship
  • April 7, TUESDAY
    • Final meeting of the Lenten ecumenical study group that’s reading Max Lucado’s Jesus, and meets weekly at Conway Public Library (6-7:30pm), unless public libraries decide to close or cancel public gatherings for safety. If cancelled, we may offer it as a Zoom meeting for those who wish to continue. 
  • April 9, MAUNDY THURSDAY
    • JCC joins the MWV Chavurah for a Passover Seder to be hosted at Gibson Senior Center. RSVPs to JCC by March 24 so we can provide a comprehensive RSVP from our faith community to MWV Chavurah. Cost is $40/pp for full meal (please let us know if you need financial help to attend, scholarships can be made available). Expect worship at tables in groups. MWV Chavurah leaders are deciding (relatively soon) whether to go forward with this event, but they do want RSVPs.
  • April 10, HOLY FRIDAY
    • 12-3pm – “Stations of the cross”. It may be held outside if it’s unsafe to hold it indoors.
    • 6:30pm – Ecumenical Holy Friday service scheduled at First Church of Christ, UCC in North Conway. (Choir rehearsal for the Holy Friday evening ecumenical service would take place earlier, probably 5pm.) This service may be adapted to follow safety precautions for large gatherings during this public health crisis with COVID19.
  • April 12, EASTER SUNDAY
    • 6:15am Sunrise Service (outdoors at gazebo by Historical Society)
    • 8am outdoor services
    • 10:30am service indoors with flowering of the cross, harp music, flute duet, and choir performance plus sacred dance followed by egg hunt.

NOTE:

If we cannot worship together inside, it is likely we’ll go forward with outdoor worship and adapt as possible. Continue to check jacksoncommunitychurch.org website or Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/jacksoncommunitychurch for updates.

Live-streaming will be an option for worship if we cannot gather indoors. Or for those who need to stay home for their own safety.

Response and resources due to ongoing concern over Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) .

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Resources to learn more about the Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) and precautions to help slow its spread.

CHANGES WE CAN MAKE

Below are some practical ways that friends and members of our church can help reduce risk. We will adapt worship and socialization until precautions are lifted.

The following guidelines have been created under review by our minister, deacons, hospitality providers with input from local safety experts and use of recommendations by CDC/NH DHHS. We will continue to adapt as needed, and welcome your ideas about best practices.
  • Use ‘social distancing’ to greet each other. Share peace signs or “I love you” hand signs from a distance. Avoid handshakes and hugs. Elbow bumps are okay, but minimize touching. This includes during passing of peace.
  • Use alcohol-based hand sanitizer available in each pew as often as necessary! Especially when you arrive and before you leave.
  • Use tissues available in each pew and discard into trash.Cough or sneeze into elbows & tissues and sanitize hands immediately.Preferably, stay home if you’re feeling under the weather, running a fever, coughing and sneezing, or if you’re particularly vulnerable to contracting an illness.
  • Alert us if you need help! Contact Rev Gail 978*273*0308 or alert us if you need help!
  • Bring your favorite hot or cold beverage to church!Enjoy it during worship. We won’t offer any beverages or food for a few weeks, as we follow advisories and decide on safest next steps to protect our vulnerable friends and members. Although it hurts to say so, food-based fellowship after church is currently suspended. We won’t offer coffee & tea, beverages or food after worship. We’ll re-evaluate over the next few weeks.
  • Offering (financial donations) will be collected at the beginning and end of service through use of donation baskets placed at each entrance to the sanctuary, rather than passing plates and common handling of money and checks. 
  • Consider online giving as a great option: we have a DONATE button online to allow this choice.
  • Communion options will be re-evaluated to offer the most safe options and continue to provide you with the sacrament.
  • Use our password-protected live-streaming option to enjoy worship safely from home if you are immuno-compromised, ill or simply cannot join us! Here is the live link. Use the password “together” to watch. The room and video image will be empty except during times of program use.
  • Meet outside as weather permits.

CIRCLE of CARING

We will continue the launch of our Circle of Caring check-ins with vulnerable friends and neighbors, as this is more important than ever. We will, however, honor the decisions of Circle of Caring ‘buddies’ to do check-ins in ways that they deem safe.

Also, we may not be able to visit some people in rehab and medical settings, due to patient safety. As of now, we’re permitted, but this has been changing in local facilities.

Please alert us if you know of anyone who needs a safety check or simply a wellness visit to mitigate isolation, loneliness and vulnerability!

PRAYER

First is all, let us pray to our healing God for those affected, and those at risk. Then let us live out our prayers by being responsible partners in slowing the spread of this illness.

Below is a blessing from Jan Richardson.

And All Be Made Well
A Healing Blessing — Jan Richardson

That each ill
be released from you
and each sorrow
be shed from you
and each pain
be made comfort for you
and each wound
be made whole in you

that joy will
arise in you
and strength will
take hold of you
and hope will
take wing for you
and all be made well.

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