{"id":27837,"date":"2021-06-04T14:19:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T18:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=27837"},"modified":"2021-06-04T15:03:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T19:03:29","slug":"the-building-is-open-6-5-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=27837","title":{"rendered":"The Building is Open! (6\/5\/21)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in March of 2020, the pandemic was raging and we were forced to do the unthinkable:\u00a0 Close our church building!\u00a0 Worship was restricted to our Live Stream, committee meetings moved to Zoom, and the community groups that use our building were left out in the cold.\u00a0 The social distancing kept people safe and it dampened the spread of this deadly virus.\u00a0 But now, thanks to the vaccines and to our hard efforts, the pandemic is weakening and it is now safe to meet indoors.\u00a0 Effective Saturday June 5, our church building is now open!<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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The church office issued the following announcement:<\/p>\n

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Beginning June 5, the building and grounds of Pitman United Methodist Church will be open for all groups, meetings, events, and activities.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Any group wishing to resume (or start) coming to PUMC, will need to complete a Building Use Form. The form is available below or by contacting the church office (email Office@PitmanUMC.org<\/a>).<\/span><\/p>\n

PUMC is looking forward to opening its doors for use by the congregation and the community.<\/span><\/p>\n

Welcome back!!!<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n

How long have we waited for this announcement!\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Here is a statement from our Trustees:<\/p>\n

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Great news!\u00a0 In light of the State’s changes on COVID, the Trustees have voted to allow PUMC simply to follow the State, Conference, and CDC guidelines effective immediately!\u00a0 All prior policies are superseded. <\/span><\/p>\n

Signs regarding masks may be removed. Attendance lists\u00a0are not required.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

If anything changes from the State, Conference, or CDC, we will address it, accordingly.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n

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Welcome Back to Sunday Morning’s Congregation!<\/span><\/h3>\n

These general guidelines apply to any use of the building.\u00a0\u00a0 For specific details on how to participate in our Sunday Morning Worship services, visit this page:<\/p>\nCovid Safety for Worship<\/span><\/span><\/a>\n

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Welcome Back Groups!<\/span><\/h3>\n

A big part of our Church’s ministry is to offer the use of our church building to “outside” community groups.\u00a0 During the pandemic, that ministry has been curtailed, but we now welcome our “outside groups” back with open arms!\u00a0<\/p>\n

For the Building Use Form and for other details on the community resource of our building, click this button:<\/p>\nBuilding Use – Community Resources<\/span><\/span><\/a>\n

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The pandemic has weakened to the point where we can now re-open our building! We’re taking all of the necessary precautions, but the building and campus of Pitman United Methodist Church is now open to all groups and activities!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church","category-evann"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27837"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27848,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27837\/revisions\/27848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}