The current wave of virus infection is so widespread that we must take action out of concern for the safety of our church, our community, and especially those who are most vulnerable in our midst, the church s senior pastor, Steve Scoggins, and the Board of Deacons said in a statement on the First Baptist website. The covid thing hit us and has hit several churches in the community so we decided to take a pause for about 30 days and reevaluate at the end of the 30 days to see what steps we need to take if we come back in person, Robert Bridges, the chairman of the Board of Deacons, said in an interview. We did have a pageant, we had three services one Friday night, one Saturday afternoon and one Sunday night. We had pretty good attendance in each one of them.