St.John's-St.Margaret's Church

Updated 3 Apr 2020:

Please note the following which are currently in effect:

Suspension of services until 30 Apr

Suspension of services are now extended to 30 April, which also includes Holy Week services.

Live Streaming of Services

Most services will be streamed on sjsm.online.church. Please refer to www.sjsm.org.sg/online for more details.

We will also continue to stream Saturday Evening Services (SES at 5pm) on Facebook Live. Do join our livestream via our Facebook page - www.facebook.com/SJSMchurch.

Cells and other activities

• Physical gatherings must keep to the maximum of 10 persons per meeting space (incl. fellowship time). Precautionary measures must continue.
• Cell meetings held on Zoom work best when all participate individually from separate locations.
• The elderly and those with health vulnerabilities should stay home and limit their contact with others. Visits to them must be made with precautions in place.
• Be mindful of reducing your transmission of mucosal droplets from coughing, sneezing, talking and laughing. (i.e. cover your nose/mouth, practise safe-distancing, refrain from talking in small enclosed spaces, etc.)

Cell Groups -  Three arrangements while we are on Dorscon Orange: No cell meetings (for a few cells with mostly senior members), Full Cell meetings (with necessary precautions) or Partial Cell meetings (with some gathering while others connect through Zoom video call). Zone pastors and Cell Pastors will offer whatever assistance they can to Cell Leaders, and Cell Leaders are to decide what works best for the Cell. We remind all those of you with family or close contacts returning from overseas recently, or who have yourselves just returned to Singapore, to connect to cell meetings via Zoom even if you feel well.

Screenings Before Entering Church Premises

More rigorous screening of visitors and members prior to allowing entry to church grounds will be conducted to facilitate contact tracing should the need arise. Designated screening stations will be set up for health declarations and temperature checks at the covered car park. Entry to church grounds will be via East Gate (Dover Crescent) only. Please note that the Chapel Gate will no longer be opened during the week or weekends until further notice. The opening times are:

Event / Activity Cancellations

Please note that the following programmes have been suspended until further notice:

• Kopistop on Saturdays and Kopistop outings

• BASC ice cream truck event in March

• Art & Craft on Thursdays

• Befrienders visitations on Sunday

• Basic English conversational classes (Mar-May)

• Kampung Gathering (29 Feb)

• Alpha Course (Feb - Apr)

• Dance Delight (at Hospitality Lounge)

• C3 Senior Citizen Service/Fellowship on Wednesday

• Know the Word classes on Ezra-Nehemiah

• 11 Apr Easter memorial services

• Thursday Healing Prayer Session

• men4men men's fellowship, for the remaining of first half of 2020

• Women@the Well. Meetings will resume once government advisories permit such gatherings.

AGM

SJSM’s AGM that was scheduled for 19 April will be suspended until further notice as advised by the Diocese. In the interim, the current office bearers on PCC will continue with their posts and the PCC will continue with their functions in accordance with our parish constitution.  A separate Diocesan Taskforce is being formed to look into alternative ways to hold AGMs and the May 2020 Synod will also be deferred.