Illinois | Illinois Baptist Disaster Relief will provide disinfectant cleaning solution to churches and other facilities preparing to reopen as the state loosens COVID-19 restrictions. Churches, church school, day cares, senior living facilities, nursing homes, and families can pick up the cleaning product at one of 16 locations across the state. The bleach solution will […]
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Pritzker seeks to extends emergency powers 150 days
A legislative committee meeting Wednesday will decide whether Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker can extend his authority to shut down non-essential businesses—including churches—for an additional 150 days. Late in the day Friday, May 15, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker issued a new emergency rule by executive order allowing him to continue the forced closure of non-essential […]
Remaining summer camps cancelled
As IBSA facilities plan phased reopening Springfield | IBSA camps are following the guidelines presented in the “Reopen Illinois” plan. When regions 2 and 5 are allowed to enter phase 3 (presumably in June), the camps will be opened to groups no more than 10 with special restrictions, though larger June camps have already been […]
Most churches plan for slow reopening
Six pastors shared their congregations’ plans to reopen after the COVID-19 pandemic, acknowledging the road back to church will be a long one for most churchgoers. The Illinois Baptist State Association assembled the pastors for a virtual town hall meeting May 14 on how churches are preparing to return amid Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s “Restore Illinois” […]
Disaster Relief adapts ministry amid pandemic
Springfield | Disaster Relief volunteers are used to running toward danger or its direct aftermath. “With this COVID-19 response, it’s very difficult to find ways that we can run to that danger,” said Butch Porter, state director for Illinois Baptist Disaster Relief (IBDR). This season traditionally finds volunteers on the road, traveling throughout the state […]
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