A Note from the Senior Warden on Next Steps

Dear St. Timothy’s family,
 
Rev. Liz Meade, our soon-to-be Interim Pastor was in town this week looking for housing.  Good news!  She found a house to rent that she loves in Ballwin. Mark Scholtz took her around, and the second house they visited was a winner.  What a relief!  Thank you, Mark.  Mother Liz will return to St. Louis in mid-August with her dog, Scrabble, and begin working with us September 1.
 
Thank you to the many, many people who returned the reopening survey.  Yes, we are being cautious about the reopening process; we all want to be safe and have all our parishioners, staff, and visitors be safe.  It’s definitely a time to take care of each other as well as take care of ourselves.
 
I will send you regular updates along the way.  We are entering Phase 2 now.  We will have one Sunday service at 10:45 that will be live streamed, meaning that instead of being prerecorded in various locations, this service will be shown as it happens—live with no retakes!  The plan for this week is for Mother Camie, Mark Scholtz, and musicians to be in the sanctuary.  The Reverend Jim Purdy will join them next week.  This Sunday we will view our first holy communion service.
 
What about our next steps?  First of all, the live streaming will continue and is in our “every Sunday plan” for the future.  We believe the science and will follow the requirements from the Bishop’s office for masking, distancing, and sanitizing.  In August we hope to be ready for parishioners who are ready to return as a small congregation, depending on the St. Louis County coronavirus numbers at the time.  Stay tuned…
 
Joy Rouse