Your Church's vaccine stance?

[Carbon]

Does or did your denomination have a stance on the covid vaccine?

Did your church shut down during the covid situation or did they remain open?

 

[Musician]

Getting vaccinated is/was optional, and they closed down for a while during the bad part of the pandemic. We did have a great production staff and production gear to put good services online.

 

[civic]

We stayed open and practiced safe distance - every other row and 6 feet between people

 

[EarlyActs]

Does or did your denomination have a stance on the covid vaccine?

Did your church shut down during the covid situation or did they remain open?

I was at one then that had all three approaches: in person, in person distanced and online. It was individual choice on the vax.

 

[Carbon]

We never closed the doors but did have sections for choice. Also had it on Youtube for those who did not want to attend.

Also individual choice for the vax.

 

[CrazyCalvinistUncle]

Getting vaccinated is/was optional, and they closed down for a while during the bad part of the pandemic. We did have a great production staff and production gear to put good services online.

Much the same in mine. I didn't agree with shutting down but it wasn't my call.

 

[CrazyCalvinistUncle]

Ours disappointed us and shut down and went streaming for awhile. Then they did the mask thing but it wasn't mandated. What happened to the flu during the china virus? It disappeared around here.

Well...the flu was holding off because it just wouldn't be fair to compete with a manufactured variant. Everyone gets their turn.

 

[Sereni-tea]

Does or did your denomination have a stance on the covid vaccine?

Did your church shut down during the covid situation or did they remain open?

My church does not have a stance on the vaccine - it is up to the individual. We closed down when required by law to do so, but then opened up again as soon as possible afterwards. We did pre-recorded videos while in lock-down and then moved to live-streaming. We continue to live-stream 2 of our weekly services.

 

[John Bauer]

Did or does your denomination have a stance on the Covid-19 vaccine?

My denomination is congregationalist, so it is left up to each congregation to decide for itself.

My local church doesn't have an official stance, but I know from talking to various members that a few are opposed to Covid-19 vaccines—and some quite strongly. I'm not aware of any anti-vaxxers in our congregation, but we have some members who are opposed to all Covid-19 vaccines and others who are opposed only to the ones that use the synthetic mRNA platform technology (i.e., they are comfortable with traditional, time-tested platforms like protein subunit or inactivated whole virus). I was in the latter camp and quite vocal about beliefs.

My church also didn't have any policies regarding vaccination, nor did they ever ask anyone about their vaccination status.

And our congregation is fairly young demographically—maybe about 35 percent are Boomers or older, the rest are Gen X and Millennials with young families—so we weathered the disease pretty easily. I got infected in late 2021 with the delta variant and it was incredibly mild, and I fully recovered within five days. I literally thought to myself, "Wait, that's it? Really?" Honestly, I've had colds that hit me worse than that.

Did your church shut down during the covid situation or did they remain open?

A little of both? We kind of shut down but basically remained open. We held our worship service in the parking lot, broadcasting the service on the FM band. Kind of like a drive-in.

 

[juxtaposeraphim]

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in the thinking of government officials, i wonder if they were shutting down Churches and preventing the gathering of populations in religious situations so that the Churches would not develop a stance on vaccines ?

thus religion would not interfere with their vaccinating of as many people as possible .

were they allowing bars and clubs and other business to open before the Churches ?

 

[Rockerduck]

They tried to scare as many as possible in the world. There has never been a vaccine for a virus, otherwise the common cold would have a vaccine. So the flu virus that governments were experimenting with, was renamed covid. Even the Flu vaccine was never effective and the CDC admits that. The democratic governors pushed the limits to control actions of people and church's. I quit my church where I was a music minister when I saw how they reacted to the virus. I asked them why they were so scared. Apparently they said they were Christian's, but were not, and afraid.