Vacation Bible School

Weaverville Church of the Nazarene

Plan for Reopening

May 28, 2020

We have a sanctuary that has an occupancy limit of 298. If we seat 25% of this, we can have 73 chairs out. We have removed all of the chairs from our sanctuary with the exception of these 73 as of 5/27/2020.

The pastor met with church leaders that will be volunteering on 5/27/2020 to go over our COVID-19 Prevention Plan. They were trained to prevent the spreading of COVID-19, to implement the church plan, and to evaluate the building for further compliance.

We have signs inside and outside of the building in compliance with the COVID-19 Business plan that was completed on May 7th and submitted to www.TrinityCounty.org.

We will have volunteers meet people in the parking lot to see them to the door and the outside signage provided from the information in the Trinity County Business Plan application. We have lines that are six feet apart outside, in case a line is needed. These lines continue into the building with directional arrows into the building.

Everyone will enter through the main doors and exit a door in the front of the sanctuary on the north side. When people come to the door, they will be greeted with first class service. We have a temperature check station outside of the main door. Only people who are well should enter. Continuing inside to our information desk, we have another attendant who will be offering face masks, hand sanitizer, and water bottles to each person. Our drinking fountain has been closed.

We have a number of ushers who will take each family group / couple to their seats. The chairs inside our sanctuary have been spread out in groups with clearly marked aisles and directional arrows. The user will direct people to their seats for the service at 10:30am. At 11am we will begin streaming our sermon keeping up with what we have been doing throughout this shelter in place order. We are streaming to Facebook Live.

Below are point by point explanations of how we are addressing the county guidelines.

County Guidelines:

Establish and implement a COVID-19 prevention plan for every location, train staff on the plan, and regularly evaluate workplaces for compliance.

Church addressed: This occurred on 5/27/2020

County Guidelines:

Train employees and volunteers on COVID-19, including how to prevent it from spreading and which underlying health conditions may make individuals more susceptible to contracting the virus.

Church addressed: This was part of our training on 5/27/2020

County Guidelines:

Implement cleaning and disinfecting protocols.

Church addressed: We have a custodian who takes care of this regularly. In addition, we have another volunteer who will be disinfecting door knobs, handles, main surfaces, and the like before, after, and during the Sunday morning service.

County Guidelines:

Set physical distancing guidelines.

Church addressed: All of our chairs have been spaced in groups that are six feet apart. We plan to move chairs around on Sunday morning with the help of trained ushers to keep family units together and at least six feet from other family units during the service.

County Guidelines:

Recommend that staff and guests wear cloth face coverings, and screen staff for temperature and symptoms at the beginning of their shifts.

Church addressed: We are recommending that face coverings be worn. We have them available if someone doesn’t have one and would like one. We also have lots of hand sanitizer. We will also be providing water bottles for each person as we are closing our drinking fountains.

Church addressed: We will have a temperature station for people as they enter the sanctuary. Staff will be checked before the beginning of the service. The ushers and greeters that will be helping people to their seats will be gloved and masked.