{"id":6521,"date":"2023-12-04T11:01:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T16:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=6521"},"modified":"2023-12-04T11:04:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T16:04:16","slug":"meetinghouse-use-guidelines-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=6521","title":{"rendered":"Meetinghouse Use Guidelines, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Durham Friends Meeting continues to monitor the health risks associated with COVID and other infectious diseases, and adjusts these guidelines for Meetinghouse use from time to time.&nbsp; <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We hold worship services at our Meetinghouse every Sunday.&nbsp; On the 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 2<sup>nd<\/sup> and 3d Sundays (First Days) of each month, we also provide the opportunity to participate via ZOOM.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We use air purifiers&nbsp; in the worship room. Please use them for all meetings and events. You may temporarily move an air purifier from the worship room to another room that you are using for a smaller meeting.&nbsp;Please return it to the Meeting room after your event.&nbsp; We also ask that you turn on overhead fans when using the worship room<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Masks are no longer required in the Meetinghouse. For the safety of those choosing to continue wearing a mask, there is a section of the Meeting room where we ask that no one without a mask should sit. We have a supply of masks available at the entrances to the meetinghouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We ask that those who feel If you feel even the&nbsp;slightest bit&nbsp;unwell, please stay home and join us on Zoom.&nbsp; If you come down with Covid within 3 days of attending a meeting at the meetinghouse, please contact us so that we may let others know.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fellowship&nbsp;before and after meetings is encouraged. We are continuing to be cautious about serving food, but coffee and tea are available after Meeting for Worship.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>COMMITTEE AND OTHER MEETINGS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meetings and events should be scheduled on the Durham Friends Meeting calendar. Committee clerks can schedule meetings; others need to contact our Trustees for scheduling events. At present the trustee to contact is Sarah Sprogell. There is a link to the calendar on the Durham Monthly Meeting of Friends website. Note if it is a Zoom meeting, in person, or hybrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These guidelines apply to all members and attenders, as well as families or any group seeking to hold memorial services or similar events.<strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durham Friends Meeting continues to monitor the health risks associated with COVID and other infectious diseases, and adjusts these guidelines for Meetinghouse use from time to time.&nbsp; We hold worship services at our Meetinghouse every Sunday.&nbsp; On the 1st, 2nd &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/?p=6521\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcement","category-community-care"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9rLvf-1Hb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6522,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6521\/revisions\/6522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.durhamfriendsmeeting.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}