Due to rising cases in the county and Hopkins alongside the concern for the new variant(s), we are going to return to some safety measures to keep our community as safe as we can. Some of these precautions have not been necessary for vaccinated people, but we ask that all do their best to follow them despite vaccination status. Our children are the most vulnerable as those who cannot be vaccinated yet. As part of our commitment to creating a safe and welcoming environment for our children, we are returning to these restrictions as a community. 

1) While inside the church building, we will be requiring all people to wear masks. 

 -- Wearing masks allows to us continue singing safely. 

2) Please socially distance from other people/groups while sitting in the pews. 

 -- According to the CDC, a true exposure to someone who has COVID is being within 6ft of them for a total of 15 min. Socially distancing limits the chance of exposure. 

3) We will be running air purifiers in the nursery and Sunday School spaces in the basement. 

4) We will continue to have bulletins, offering, and anything else for you to pick up at the welcome table. 

SUNDAY - September 26 - South Monterey UMC at 9:30am, Hopkins UMC at 11am

WEDNESDAY - Sept 29 - Evening Worship at 6:30pm at Hopkins UMC & Zoom

SUNDAY - October 3 - South Monterey UMC at 9:30am, Hopkins UMC at 11am

WEDNESDAY - October 6 - Evening Worship at 6:30pm at Hopkins UMC & Zoom

SUNDAY - October 10 - South Monterey UMC at 9:30am, Hopkins UMC at 11am

WEDNESDAY - October 13 - Evening Worship at 6:30pm at Hopkins UMC & Zoom

Oct 12 - Mentoring Meeting at 10am, HUM Hall

 

Nov 8 - Church Charge Conference on Zoom at 1:45pm

It has become apparent that we have too many ways to communicate church news. We’re finding that when information goes out, it is easy for some platforms to be forgotten or ignored. That is causing people to miss announcements about events and/or changes in the church schedule.

With that in mind, we are making some changes and we will have a survey at worship for the month of September to make sure everyone is connected. If you don't make it in for worship, email Pastor Kelsey or Mitzi to receive the survey digitally. 

You can read about the changes below. If you have any questions or confusions, please contact Pastor Kelsey. 

We will no longer use the “Women of the UMC” chat for any official church business. It will still exist, but the church office will not be using it. We will be relying on Flocknote for church announcements and the new options below for the rest. 

For those that are looking for ways to be more closely connected to our church family, Pastor Kelsey is facilitating creating small facebook group chats (3-5 people) that will function like an online “small group.” These covenant groups will be a space to better build community and deepen relationships, as all are able to fully share prayer requests and support one another in whatever is going on in life. 

We are creating email groups for UMW and Ad Board communications. These email groups will be a space for church leaders to easily share information and a space for whole group discussion and voting on ministry opportunities.  

Flocknote: We are still relying on Flocknote for our normal communication (weekly E-news, text blasts, etc). If you are not part of Flocknote, please join. text HopkinsUMC to 84576 or flocknote.com/HopkinsUMC

Phone tree: We are restarting our phone tree. If you know of someone who cannot rely on email, ask them if they would like to be on the phone tree.