{"id":5092,"date":"2021-03-02T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/institucional.adventistas.org\/en\/?post_type=documentos&p=5092"},"modified":"2024-08-15T17:05:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T20:05:05","slug":"guidelines-for-virtual-and-in-person-meetings","status":"publish","type":"documentos","link":"https:\/\/institucional.adventistas.org\/en\/documentos\/guidelines-for-virtual-and-in-person-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Guidelines for virtual and in-person meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The challenges of the pandemic have lasted for at least a year and have caused suffering to many people. The Seventh-day Adventist Church remains attentive to this situation and emphasizes the need to enhance care in the conduct of worship services and programs. It is important that in-person or virtual meetings be evaluated by local leaders through careful risk assessment, scenarios, and social impact. Meetings should only occur with the support of the respective Associations\/Missions administration and as long as they do not conflict with local health regulations and conditions. The following recommendations should be considered:<\/p>\n\n\n

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  1. Worship, Meetings, and Digital Attention<\/strong>\n
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    1. Emphasize the practice of health measures such as mask-wearing, social distancing, hand hygiene, and temperature checks.<\/li>\n\n\n
    2. Prioritize the use of Zoom (or similar resources) for meetings to foster interaction and engagement among participants.<\/li>\n\n\n
    3. Regularly assess safety conditions for in-person worship services and the need for virtual meetings.<\/li>\n\n\n
    4. Enhance worship and Sabbath School programs to cater to the virtual audience.<\/li>\n\n\n
    5. Guide those in high-risk groups, showing flu or COVID-19 symptoms, or who have been in contact with infected individuals to participate in meetings virtually.<\/li>\n\n\n
    6. Assist interested individuals through the church\u2019s communication channels.<\/li>\n\n\n
    7. Conduct in-person activities with children and adolescents only when authorization for in-person classes is granted in local schools.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n
    8. Church Buildings<\/strong>\n
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      1. Respect social distancing in all meetings, avoiding gatherings.<\/li>\n\n\n
      2. Adopt health measures in all areas of the church building.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n
      3. Pastors<\/strong>\n
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        1. Lead by example in health precautions and use of PPEs.<\/li>\n\n\n
        2. Mobilize the church for a strong movement of prayer and Bible study.<\/li>\n\n\n
        3. Organize a plan to care for members and interested parties.<\/li>\n\n\n
        4. Strengthen the church’s mission engagement in the digital environment.<\/li>\n\n\n
        5. Intensify care for families in vulnerable situations.<\/li>\n\n\n
        6. Emphasize daily family worship.<\/li>\n\n\n
        7. Organize teams of healthcare professionals in local churches to assist and guide members on health precautions.<\/li>\n\n\n
        8. Respect health regulations when performing baptisms and Communion.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n
        9. Associations and Missions<\/strong>\n
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          1. Prioritize activities related to the local church.<\/li>\n\n\n
          2. Conduct meetings and training virtually when there is an increase in risks associated with in-person formats.<\/li>\n\n\n
          3. Reinforce strategic emphases virtually or in-person:\n
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            • Visitation.<\/strong> Reaffirm the importance of pastoral care.<\/li>\n\n\n
            • Worship.<\/strong> Conduct worship services adapted to the digital reality, strengthening biblical preaching.<\/li>\n\n\n
            • Mobilization.<\/strong> Reinforce the concept of discipleship (Fellowship, Relationship, and Mission) through small groups and action units.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8644,"template":"","class_list":["post-5092","documentos","type-documentos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/institucional.adventistas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documentos\/5092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/institucional.adventistas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documentos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/institucional.adventistas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/documentos"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/institucional.adventistas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documentos\/5092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9133,"href":"https:\/\/institucional.adventistas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/documentos\/5092\/revisions\/9133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/institucional.adventistas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/institucional.adventistas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}