I.   Before You Come…
Should I Attend?

If you have symptoms of COVID-19 (fever, chills, cough, trouble breathing, sore throat, trouble swallowing, runny or stuff nose, decrease or loss of taste or smell, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, pink eye, headache, very tired, sore muscles or joints); if someone in your household have one or more of the above symptoms and/or are waiting for test result after experiencing symptoms; if you have been notified as a close contact of someone with COVID-19 or been told to stay home and self-isolate; travelled internationally in the last 14 days, please join our online worship and seek medical help as needed.

Capacity and Registration

In order to help us adhere to the capacity limit and maintaining the 6 feet distancing requirement, you will need to register online ahead of the event.

Before You Leave Home

Remember
- To conduct a self assessment. If you have above symptoms of COVID-19, travelled internationally in the last 14 days, or close contact with someone diagnosed with COVID-19, please stay home and join our worship online. Please seek medical help as needed.
- To bring your face covering. Anyone who attends worship at SCAC will be required to wear face covering.
- To bring your ticket or a small paper with your name and ticket number, for contact tracing in case Toronto Public Health requires.
- To visit washroom before leaving home. With social distancing, the washroom useable facilities are reduced. It is no fun to line up for the washroom.

Early Arrival
As we will likely need a bit more time to enter the building, please arrive 20 minutes earlier.

 

II.   When You Get Here…
Parking

With reduced seating capacity, our parking lot will be far less full. Please leave one full space in between your vehicle and the next vehicle, to help us maintain social distancing in the parking lot as we arrive and leave.

Entering

Please put on face covering prior to exiting your vehicle and proceed to the Main Entrance. The use of a single entrance allows us to check in all those who enter the building. Outside the building, people may start lining up to enter. Please adhere to social distancing guidelines and remain at least 6 feet from others wherever possible. Our Welcome Team will give you a quick squirt of hand sanitizer. If you have skin sensitivities, please bring you own sanitizing product. You will then be asked to drop off your ticket or the small paper with your name and ticket number in a designated box. We will check your temperature while you proceed to the foyer area.

 

III.   Once You Finish Checking In…
Entering the Sanctuary

Once you are in the foyer, ushers will direct you to the available entrances to the sanctuary and available seats. We will seat from the front of the sanctuary towards the back as people come in. We have marked off every other row to maintain distance between each worshipper. Inside the row itself, feel free to sit with your family but leave 3 seats between you and the next family or worshipper.

Corporate Worship

You are welcomed to sing or hum along, as Public Health has given us permission to sing in worship with face covering on and social distancing. Pastor will be preaching behind clear plastic shields and will not be wearing masks. On the day of Holy Communion, church elders will give out individual set upon entering the sanctuary. We will no longer pass offering bags during the service. Please give your offering by mail or e-Transfer. Secure offering boxes will also be available for you to use on your way entering the sanctuary (main campus only).

Personal Hygiene and Sanitizing Practices

We have been working hard to sanitize washroom and all high touch areas. There will be hand sanitization stations across our building so that you can sanitize your hands regularly. After service, we will have a cleaning team to sanitize the sanctuary, meeting place and public areas.

 

IV.   When you leave…
To maintain social distancing, we will have a new protocol for leaving the sanctuary. The sanctuary is divided into zones. Specific exit is assigned for each zone. The Chairperson will provide instructions at the end of the service and our ushers will be there to facilitate a socially distant exit.

 

V.   FAQs
What if someone takes off their face coverings or isn’t following social distancing protocols?

Kindly ask them to put their face covering back on or maintain proper distance. If they refuse to do so, please request assistance from our ushers or pastoral staff.

Are you sure I’ll be safe?

We can’t guarantee that you’ll be safe. We can only guarantee that we have done more than what the government requires to keep you safe. Additionally, we will continue to provide online worship services for those who are not yet comfortable gathering in person.

What if you find out that someone who has attended a service has contracted COVID-19?

We will be transparent. For privacy reasons, we would not disclose the name of the individual(s) who has been diagnosed, but we will inform you that someone has tested positive. The information collected during the registration will allow us to directly contact every person/family that attended the service the COVID-19 patient attended.