EPC News Desk

After a long meeting with Session Tuesday night, Elder Larry Russell has announced that EPC's plans to re-open in-person worship services have been postponed till at least December 6, due to a recent spike in COVID-19 cases in Colorado and in Elbert County.   In the meantime, we will be live streaming services from the sanctuary starting at 8:30 a.m. this Sunday, November 1st.   "We will be doing everything we can to make this as normal as possible for folks viewing from home," Larry said. "We'll have the praise team in the sanctuary to lead us in song, we'll have a liturgist leading us through all the elements of the service as much as possible like it would be on a normal Sunday morning. And people you know and love will be bringing the message. We just won't be able to have you sitting right there with us."   On Saturday night you will receive everything you need to join us online.   As has been the case since we started doing onl...

  As we transition to in-house worship, EPC will also be live streaming the service each Sunday. We really need your help so please consider volunteering to help Dan McGrath run the soundboard and help with the live streaming each week. Dan’s goal is to establish a rotation schedule so volunteers would not have to commit to helping every Sunday.   We need at least 8 volunteers that want to help EPC with this exciting effort. Don’t worry about not being technically inclined. If you just want to help EPC and are willing to be trained on the process, please contact Dan McGrath as soon as possible at d.mcgrath42@yahoo.com .

Congregation members longing to worship in person with their EPC family, will have that opportunity once again beginning Sunday, November 1 at 8:30 a.m. Following published state guidelines and mandates for group meetings, significant precautions are being put into place to protect the health of those who come. Masks and social distancing will be required during the entire time people are inside the building. The pews will be marked off, with seating available only in every other pew. Speakers will address the congregation from behind a plexiglass barrier. Volunteers will be making sure restrooms and all surfaces are sanitized each week. Elders are confident these measures will provide a high degree of safety, however it is recognized that people in high-risk groups may still want to stay home. Therefore, the worship service will also be live streamed, so that everyone can participate at least to some degree in the live worship service. Services will also be recorded so they can be vie...

Discover the joy of sharing God's love with children around the world by preparing a precious shoebox package for shipment. The collection drive will be handled a bit differently this year due to Covid 19-related changes at EPC. EPW will be delivering filled shoeboxes to Creekside Community Church on Monday, November 16. In the meantime, please consider shopping and preparing a box for the children. If you need a brochure or shoeboxes to fill, you can pick them up at Lola Huston's home -  34012 CR 13, Elizabeth. Please contact Lola to coordinate a time for your pickup. She can be reached at 303-646-4895 or 303-669-4825.  On Monday, November 16, bring your filled shoeboxes to the EPC parking lot between 10 & 10:30 am and Margie Musgrave will transport everyone's shoeboxes to Creekside Commuity Church on behalf of  EPC.

  The summer hiatus has ended. The men are meeting via Zoom again and continuing their study of "The New Testament You Never Knew," by N.T. Wright, from 8 - 9 a.m. every Saturday morning. If you would like to join the study, click here to contact Phil Wood and receive your zoom invitation.

The men's Bible study group, which has been meeting by Zoom every Saturday morning since coronavirus measures went into effect, has decided to take a break for the Summer. The group will not meet during the months of June and July. The study, The New Testament You Never Knew , will resume in August, hopefully with face-to-face meetings. The date for resuming the study will be announced in late July. For information, contact Phil Wood .

Meeting by Zoom on June 2, the elders of EPC after praying and considering guidance from both governmental and denominational sources, decided it is safer for all and generally more prudent not to hold worship services in the church at least through the end of July.  A plan was created for groups of 10 or fewer to meet at the church or in homes for church sponsored activities. Those groups should contact the pastor for more details before planning those kinds of meetings. In the meantime, the current program of online worship, Zoom fellowship, daily devotionals and other forms of online communication and telephone contact will be continued. In a letter to the congregation, the elders stated, "We appreciate the ways you have adapted to the unusual circumstances of this pandemic and rejoice that we remain strong as a church and in many ways are drawing even closer to one another as friends and followers of Jesus." The elders are now meeting twice a month to over...