Celebration Sunday is Coming!
Lakeside’s “Better Together” Indoor Worship Service
Sunday, May 31, 2020

The Coronavirus Pandemic has indeed been a fluid situation! Here at Lakeside we have had to constantly change our calendars and start-up plans. Our Governor has now extended the “Stay at Home” order to May 28, meaning it will have been 11 weeks since the Lakeside Family has been together in an indoor Worship Service. However, if the present “Stay at Home” order (as of May 7, 2020) remains in place, we are planning to celebrate Lakeside’s first indoor worship service with Holy Communion, on Sunday, May 31! Beginning May 31, Lakeside will implement a “Slow Start-Up Strategy” for services and ministries by erring on the side of caution for your health and safety. Limited abbreviated services and ministries will gradually start-up, practicing social distancing and instituting preventative health measures. All of the following plans and dates are dependent upon the current status of the present “stay at home” order, if it changes again, Lakeside’s calendar will need to be adjusted again.

Lakeside’s May-June Start Up Strategy for Sunday Services & Ministries
Sunday, May 31, 10 a.m., Lakeside’s “Better Together” Indoor Service 
  • Our first indoor service will be within our Main Worship Center. Parking will be provided only in the East & West lots. Attenders upon entering the building will be asked to go straight to the Main Worship Center seating. Families are to sit together, with others practicing social distancing with designated seating spread out in the Worship Center. Face masks are welcome! If Government recommendations limit us to (i.e. 50, 100, or 250) a certain attendance in one space, we can live stream to the Chapel and the Youth Center concurrently. More detailed indoor Worship protocol plans are forthcoming and will be communicated. No Nursery or Children’s Ministries will be provided until Sunday, June 21. Babies and Children are welcome in these services!

Beginning Sunday, June 21, Solid Rock Café & Children’s Ministries Return
  • Solid Rock Café is a coffee house type Worship & Word service featuring coffee, juice, bagels, donuts, etc., enjoyed at your own table. The style is casual and the atmosphere is warm and friendly. For Solid Rock Café please park only in the East & West lots. 

  • On Sunday, June 21, we will also begin slowly opening up Children’s Ministries. Only the Nursery and Kids Church ministries will begin to operate with preventative health measures in place. Pastor Randy and Becky Krist will communicate the new protocols that will be implemented.

Lakeside’s June Start Up Strategy for Wednesday Services & Ministries

Beginning Wednesday, June 3, 7 p.m., Lakeside will offer two types of Wednesday Night Live Services - Indoor and Live Streamed Online.
  • For Wednesdays, June 3 - 17, WNL will be for all ages. Families are to sit together, with others spread out in the Main Worship Center practicing social distancing. The focus will be Praise & Worship, however we plan to include an interactive service with a panel of youth and young adults asking Pastor questions.

Wednesday, June 24, 7:00 p.m., Lakeside’s Youth Service return!
  • This dynamic service for youth and young adults featuring powerful praise and a youth oriented word will begin on Wednesday, June 24, at 7:00 p.m. in Lakeside’s new Youth Center. Detailed preventative health measures will be communicated in advance of this first service.

The Return of Choir Ministry - To be reviewed August 3, 2020
  • Due to the very nature of choir ministry, Lakeside's Choir Ministry will not be starting up again until it's health and safety is reviewed at the beginning of August. Upon announcing Choir's return, Dawn Waage will communicate all the new preventative health measures which will be undertaken. 
  • Worship & Creative Arts is presently working on a short Patriotic Musical we are hoping to perform for Sunday, July 5, both indoors and at the Drive-In Service with soloists.


Lakeside’s Present Service Schedule and Start-Up Strategy 

MAY- WORSHIP & WORD SERVICES

SUNDAYS
  • Sunday, May 17,
- 10 a.m. - Lakeside Live - Lakeside’s Online Worship & Word Service
- 11 a.m. - Lakeside’s Drive-In Church and Community Food Outreach
  • Sunday, May 24,
- 10 a.m. - Lakeside Live - Lakeside’s Online Worship & Word Service
- 11 a.m. - Lakeside’s Drive-In Church
  • Sunday, May 31,
- 10 a.m. - Main Worship Service (Parking only in the East & West lots) 
- 10 a.m. - Lakeside Live - Main Worship Service Live Streamed Online
- 11 a.m. - Lakeside’s Drive-In Church with Communion

WEDNESDAYS
  • Wed., May 13, A Special Live Streamed “Praise Fest” with Dawn Waage, The Lakeside Praise Team & Pastor Phil
  • Wed., May 20, “Like a Rock” Marriage & Family Presentation featuring Pastor Randy Neary (Family Life Pastor & Counselor)
  • Wed., May 27, “Like a Rock” Presentation with Pastor & Becky Krist


JUNE- WORSHIP & WORD SERVICES

SUNDAYS
  • Sunday, June 7,
- 10 a.m. - Main Worship Service (Parking only in the East & West lots) 
- 10 a.m. - Lakeside Live - Main Worship Service Live Streamed Online
- 11 a.m. - Lakeside’s Drive-In Church 

  • Sunday, June 14,
- 10 a.m. - Main Worship Service (Parking only in the East & West lots) 
- 10 a.m. - Lakeside Live - Main Worship Service Live Streamed Online
- 11 a.m. - Lakeside’s Drive-In Church 

  • Sunday, June 21, Father’s Day (Solid Rock Café Service Returns!)
- 9 a.m. - Solid Rock Café (Parking only in the East & West lots) 
- 10 a.m. - Main Worship Service (Parking only in the East & West lots) 
- 10 a.m. - Lakeside Live - Main Worship Service Live Streamed Online
- 11 a.m. - Lakeside’s Drive-In Church 

  • Sunday, June 28,
- 9 a.m. - Solid Rock Café (Parking only in the East & West lots) 
- 10 a.m. - Main Worship Service (Parking only in the East & West lots) 
- 10 a.m. - Lakeside Live - Main Worship Service Live Streamed Online
- 11 a.m. - Lakeside’s Drive-In Church 

WEDNESDAYS
  • Wed., June 3, 7 pm - Wednesday Night Live (1st Indoor WNL Service)
- “Experiencing His Presence” with the Praise Team & Pastor Phil
  • Wed., June 10, 7 pm - Wednesday Night Live with Youth Panel & Pastor Phil
  • Wed., June 17, 7 pm - Wednesday Night with Youth Panel & Pastor Phil
  • Wed. June 24, 7 pm
- Youth Service (1st Indoor Youth Service in Youth Center)
- Church Business Meeting considering Constitution & By-Law
Revisions

Please feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns about Lakeside’s May-June schedule or Start-Up Strategy. We are trying to be sensitive to the different levels our Lakeside Family members are at. While some are ready to open up all of Lakeside’s regular services and ministries now, others are extremely concerned about contracting the novel coronavirus and developing COVID-19. Therefore we have especially developed a Sunday morning service plan with options for all. Service times and options will be adjusted according to the Lakeside Family’s needs and attendances.

Jesus proclaimed, “Upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it.” Together, let’s keep our eyes fixed upon our Lord who will never fail us and remember, we’re “better together!”

I desperately love and miss you all!

Pastor Phil Krist