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To br like?An Easter with decline to follow?Steady upturn?Any predictions

A raucous celebration.Our church is glad to be loving our neighbors through the suspension of our public gatherings, but on Facebook and in online community group meetings there is such a growing hunger for the physical gathering and fellowship of the saints. It is something you take for granted when you have open-ended access to it.

This is a great, forward-thinking question! Thanks for asking it.Along these same lines, I can imagine an end to the stay at home orders, safer at home policies, and curfews causing the country's many extraverts to just spend as much time as possible around people for a while. If I was a pastor, I think I would assume that the first day of the end of quarantine will not be on a Sunday. If that is the case, I would be planning now with the church staff to have a time of fellowship, celebration, and thanksgiving before the first Sunday back.For the sake of discussion, let's assume that quarantine ends for sections of the country on April 30. (I do not think this is realistic, but it's how long the federal guidelines are suggesting for now.) I would be planning now to announce a two or three hour time of fellowship at church on Saturday, May 2. The focus would be purely celebrational and would include a prayer of thanksgiving but not a sermon. This lets the extraverts get their wiggles out before Sunday morning. Not everyone will choose to come, but I think those who God has created to

My guess is there will be a trickle back

Living in Florida...

I am ALL for doing Facebook church during the torrid summers. Or, if not that, then move to Canada for the summer.