The Lutheran Church Charities K-9 Dog Ministry Teams and Hearts of Mercy and Compassion will arrive in Surfside, FL on July 6. After the horrific partial collapse of the 12-story wing of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida.

The LCC K-9 Comfort Dogs were invited in by Rev. Dr. Gregory Walton, LCMS District President for the Florida-Georgia District, and Rev. Dennis Bartels, Pastor of Holy Cross Lutheran Church in North Miami. Pastor Bartels has served this community for 35 years and is well connected to the community where they will be serving.

Two FLGA District Comfort Dogs and five dogs from other Districts will be deployed to work with first responders and their families, as well as family members who have lost loved ones.

Dear Friends in Christ:

We will be offering online Worship Services this weekend as well as in-house services at Church, and will broadcast a worship service online, too.

If you are unable to watch at normal worship times, you may watch any time after. The link is the same for all recorded services.

THE LINK FOR WORSHIPING ONLINE WITH US IS:

 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXj4oNPdZIMLTNDwZfNdKJw

If you have trouble with the link, you can always go to YouTube.com and search for Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church, Sarasota FL and you will find our page.

• NO NEED TO REGISTER IF YOU PLAN TO WORSHIP IN OUR CHURCH

• If you think you may have one or more virus symptoms please do not come to worship, but consult with a medical professional.

Thank you for your thoughtful compliance with this request for the safety of all.  

Thank you. 

Thursday, May 13, 2021 9:05 AM

Subject: UPDATE TO CHURCH AND WORSHIP PROCEDURES RELATED TO THE COVID PANDEMIC

Dear Congregation Members:

The following are updates to church and worship procedures related to the COVID pandemic that the Church Council adopted at its meeting on May 11, 2021.  

As the national, state and local thinking evolves, we as a congregation need to do the same.  Members have been urging our making modest changes in line with available information in this area.  Numerous groups within the church have been looking at this in recent weeks including the Elders, Parish Health, Staff and leadership.  All these changes are voluntary.  We will continue to have online worship available as well as drive up communion. The current changes include:

1.    Access to pews will no longer be blocked with tape.

2.    Social distancing will continue to be encouraged.

3.    Wiping down of pews with disinfectant between services will cease unless some special circumstance arises.

4.    Wearing of masks while singing or attending church in general will be optional.

5.    Hand sanitizer will continue to be made available in the Narthex. 

6.    Bibles and hymnals will be returned to the pews.   

We thank God for his protection of members during the pandemic.  We also want to thank the congregation for all of its pandemic related efforts to keep people safe while attending church in the past.  We will continue to monitor the situation and make further updates as is prudent going forward.

Beautiful Savior Church Council

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May 22, 2020

Dear Friends in Christ:

Please read the Guidelines and Assumption of Risk statement carefully; (see below). Consider your personal situation along with state and federal virus information before making a decision about returning to worship at this time. We will be sending out an email asking you to sign-up for worship early next week. God bless you and Beautiful Savior.

    Pastor Leavitt     Pastor Kuehn     

    Mike Murphy      Dick Wilson

ASSUMPTION OF RISK relating to Coronavirus/COVID-19

The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has been declared a worldwide pandemic by the World Health Organization. COVID-19 is extremely contagious and is believed to spread mainly from person-to-person contact. As a result, federal, state, and local governments and federal and state health agencies recommend social distancing and isolation.

Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church (BSLC) has been defined as an essential service by the State of Florida and has put in place preventative measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19. However, BSLC cannot guarantee that you or your family will not become infected with COVID-19. Further, attendance could increase your risk of contracting COVID-19. By attending church services, you acknowledge the contagious nature of COVID-19 and voluntarily assume the risk that you may be exposed to or infected by COVID-19 by attending a service and that such exposure or infection may result in personal injury, illness, permanent disability, and death.

I understand that the risk of becoming exposed to or infected by COVID-19 may result from the actions, omissions, or negligence of myself and others. By attending services at BSLC, I voluntarily agree to assume all of the foregoing risks and accept sole responsibility for any injury or harm to my family or myself (including, but not limited to, personal injury, disability, and death), illness, damage, loss, claim, liability, or expense, of any kind.

If you do not feel well, have a cough, the flu, high temperature, have pre-existing conditions, a compromised immune system or any other condition that may cause you to be more susceptible to Coronavirus/COVID-19, you should stay home at this time.

Join us for ONLINE &/or on campus activities & worship.

• Here is the link you need to join us LIVE during your normal worship time this Sunday at 8 a.m..     It is our Beautiful Savior YouTube page, which we will be updating every Sunday.    
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXj4oNPdZIMLTNDwZfNdKJw