Corona Virus Impact upon Public Ministry

In response to the recent guidance from the Centers for Disease Control:

The CDC, in accordance with its guidance for large events and mass gatherings, recommends that for the next 8 weeks, organizers (whether groups or individuals) cancel or postpone in-person events that consist of 50 people or more throughout the United States.

Events of any size should only be continued if they can be carried out with adherence to guidelines for protecting vulnerable populations, hand hygiene, and social distancing.

1.The Goldsboro Church will suspend all weekly "in house" activities for at least through March:

      --No Sunday Worship Service or Sunday School

      --No weekly meetings:  Tuesdays for Teens, Bible Study, Man Cave

2.  The Goldsboro Community Easter Egg hunt on April 4 is CANCELLED.

3.  As someone has said:  "Do not be troubled by trouble." This crisis will pass.

      --"Trust in the LORD with all your heart. Lean not on your own understanding. In ALL your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your path straight."  (Proverbs 3:5-6)

      --"God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea...The Lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress." (Psalm 46:1-2a, 11)

By Charlie Yost

After graduating from Red Land high school and Indiana University of Pennsylvania, I worked several years at Ships Parts Control Center. Jeanne came into my life simultaneous to my sense of a calling for additional training. We moved to Findlay, OH and finished my M. Div. through Winebrenner Theological Seminary. I was ordained by the Churches of God, General Conference and served pastorates in Cumberland, Allegheny and Westmoreland Counties. Desert Storm arose during the mid-point of those assignments and again I sensed a calling and was commissioned as a Chaplain in the US Army Reserves. Three overseas deployments and 24 years later, I retired from the military and have returned to my boyhood home in Etters. Married to Jeanne for four decades now (seems like yesterday), God blessed us with a daughter Sarah and son Zachary, who in turn are both married to great people and have provided five grandsons and one beautiful granddaughter between them! We are so proud of our children and our grandchildren! I am very excited to be part of the Goldsboro Church and to have the opportunity to serve alongside these good folks as we let the light of Jesus be reflected into the lives and fabric of our community.

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