{"id":5951,"date":"2020-03-24T15:23:17","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T15:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burnheadchurch.ddns.net\/?p=5951"},"modified":"2020-03-24T15:23:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T15:23:17","slug":"advice-for-churches-covid-19-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burnheadchurch.com\/?p=5951","title":{"rendered":"Advice for Churches (COVID-19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"id_5e7a242e527f05e96240963\" class=\"text_exposed_root text_exposed\">\n<p>For those in any doubt, the church buildings are closed to the public until the measures announced by the Prime Minister are lifted. This is in line with the following directive:<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Advice for Churches: COVID-19 (Coronavirus): Updated 24 March 2020<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Church buildings can no longer be kept open as a place for people to come and pray following stringent new restrictions put in place by the Scottish and UK Governments on Monday evening (23 March). The measures reflect the need to slow down the spread of the virus, reduce the peak impact of it and\u00a0prevent the\u00a0NHS being overwhelmed. We encourage people to use alternative means to stay in touch as a church community whilst staying at home to reduce the spread of coronavirus. Instead, use\u00a0telephone, social media\u00a0or email contact.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Please stay at home, keep safe, pray for one another, help your neighbour in need and let me know if there is any way the Church can support you in these unprecedented times.<\/p>\n<p>Les (Minister) <span class=\"_5mfr\"><span class=\"_6qdm\" style=\"width: 16px; height: 16px; font-size: 16px; background-image: url('https:\/\/static.xx.fbcdn.net\/images\/emoji.php\/v9\/t80\/1\/16\/1f64f.png');\">\ud83d\ude4f<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those in any doubt, the church buildings are closed to the public until the measures announced by the Prime Minister are lifted. This is in line with the following directive: Advice for Churches: COVID-19 (Coronavirus): Updated 24 March 2020 Church buildings can no longer be kept open as a place for people to come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnheadchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5951"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnheadchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnheadchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnheadchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnheadchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/burnheadchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5953,"href":"https:\/\/burnheadchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5951\/revisions\/5953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnheadchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burnheadchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnheadchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burnheadchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}