'COVID-19' Tagged Posts
Omicron Pivot
Like all of you, the Leadership Team (LT) and Pastoral Team (PT) of Roots are beyond weary of this pandemic and can’t wait until the day when we can gather together in person without COVID-19 looming over us. However, we also can’t in good conscience put any of you, our church family, at additional and unnecessary risk. The Omicron variant appears to be spreading rapidly and seems to be far more easily contracted than previous strains. The case numbers here…
Lament for COVID-19, Immigrant Detainees, and Breonna Taylor
Unless you’ve managed to complete tune out of what’s going on in the world today, you are probably experiencing some level of stress right now. To many of us, it feels like the world’s violence, injustice, brokenness, and division has been on full display lately and it’s honestly scary. Just for starters, the world is very close to 1 million deaths due to the COVID-19 virus, and the United States has more than 20% of those deaths, surpassing 200,000 deaths.…
Lament Over Violence and Discrimination Against Asian Americans
On Palm Sunday, Pastor Der led us in a lament over violence and discrimination that has been perpetrated against Asian Americans due to association with COVID-19. Lament with us.
On Worship & Physical Distancing
Since the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, the gathering together of Jesus’s disciples for fellowship and worship has been an essential aspect of what it means to be the church. They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. They sold property and possessions…