Churches like Arkansas s Pleasant Valley Church of Christ have also been forced to color outside the lines, inviting visitors to participate in an outdoor candlelight service at the 18,000-seat War Memorial Stadium at the University of Arkansas.
At the nearby North Little Rock First United Methodist, Christmas Eve services will be held in a parking lot and broadcast on an FM radio station. Jonathan and Alesha Vaughn, and their children, Addison, 5, left, and Ann Marie, 7, pray during services in the Worship Center at Highland Colony Baptist Church in Ridgeland, Miss., Nov. 29, 2020. (Associated Press)
Lynchburg s Peakland Baptist Church will prerecord its services.
Churches adapt Christmas celebrations amid COVID concerns
Churches in Denver are changing their Christmas celebrations to adhere to COVID concerns and social distancing guidelines.
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DENVER â Christmas looks different this year. Many churches across Denver, though they will be celebrating the holiday, will have smaller, more refined celebrations instead of the large gatherings of tradition. We are not going to bring people together and risk sharing the virus with others, especially when we can connect and share virtually, said Rev. Bradley Laurvick of the Highlands United Methodist Church. Our traditional service couldn t be in the building, so we got out of the building.
Churches across Colorado will celebrate Christmas Eve and Christmas Day differently this year.
This holiday season the coronavirus pandemic is forcing some people of faith to celebrate in ways they may not have ever experienced before, as some houses of worship move their Christmas services online, outside or into their worshippers’ cars.
“People have had to kind of pivot and be more creative than ever before,” said Rev. Tamara Boynton, interim executive director of the Interfaith Alliance. “In some ways, they ve been able to let go of some of those traditions because they ve been taken from us and in their place, we and communities have been able to create new traditions.”