Sunday, March 15, 2020

Good afternoon!

As a reminder, Asbury's building is closed and all business closed through March 28. However, as we do our part to maintain "social distancing" to limit the spread of this dangerous virus, our staff is committed to continuing to resource the congregation with opportunities for spiritual growth.

During the time that Asbury is closed due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), we'll be sending a daily email update with opportunities to stay spiritually connected - to remain a Church, a body connected in the name of Christ, despite not physically gathering together. Our plan is to include resources designed for adults, parents, children, and youth; as well as prayers you can use. If there are additional worship, program, or facility updates to share, we'll share those as well. Content will vary from day-to-day, but our prayer is that this is a way for you to continue to feel connected to Asbury.

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Replay of Today's Worship Service

Thank you to all who joined us to worship online this morning! We had 240 unique connections; and we know that many of those connections had more than one person watching. What a blessing to be able to "gather" even when we couldn't be in the same room!

We're aware there were a number of streaming issues from this morning. As you can imagine, the number of churches around the world who were streaming services online - and the people who were watching those streams rather than gathering physically - was multitudes more than normal; and because of that, our streaming provider - even with the extra efforts they made - still had trouble handling the increase in traffic as churches streamed from around the globe. It's easy to want to grumble about that; but instead let's give thanks to God that we live in an era when we can be connected even while separated and that there were so many people worldwide who worshiped this morning!

We'll monitor the steps the streaming provider takes over the next week and consider what the best option is to deliver worship next Sunday.

All that being said, here's the replay from today's service. The entire service - music and all - will be available for a week. After that time, only the message will be available.

Special thanks to all who made this morning's stream possible!

A reminder that all updates regarding Asbury's response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) will be shared via email blast, via social media ( Facebook and Twitter) and at asburylv.org/coronavirus.