Building Use

Current status: Building is open to use by groups!

(Emergency Brake: This plan is subject to change if CDC and MDH guidance changes).

SEPTEMBER:

The building remains OPEN for use by all groups.
Group size limits vary by room.
Each group will need to submit 1- signed pandemic building use agreement and 2- room use agreement and 3- plan for COVID screening and contact tracing (See documents and samples of these below)
Masks are required in ALL SPACES.
Speakers/performers may speak/perform unmasked with distance between the stage/podium and the audience/crowd.
It is expected that groups will follow current CDC guidelines.
ROOM REQUIREMENTS: Gathering Room & Chapel: maximum 25 people, windows open (weather depending), filter on. Nokomis Hall: maximum 50 people, windows open, filter on.
Groups may set own perimeters regarding requiring vaccines or testing for events.

What We Expect:

Our building is shared by many groups of different sizes that often overlap in the space. Among us are young children and people who are immunocompromised. We now house a community preschool on the bottom floor, whose teachers are vaccinated, but children are not yet eligible to be vaccinated. While we have installed filters in various rooms, it is an old building with less than ideal ventilation. We ask that you keep these things in mind as you gather, defaulting to an ethic of care for the other with mask use and spacing. Mask use is required.

We encourage all who are able to get vaccinated.

Your Participation in Hospitality:

One of our core values is hospitality. In a culture of increasing isolation and wariness, we seek to live guided by the awareness that we are all recipients of, and participants in, God’s love and kindness. This mission of hospitality extends to use of our building: It is deeply important to us that our building be a shared space of welcome and mutual respect, where we are all hosts and guests of one another. Groups using the building are not responsible for overseeing or checking on any other groups or individuals, but please extend warmth and welcome to one another. By sharing our space, you also share in our mission of hospitality, so we request that your group join us in seeking to embody this spirit of hospitality.