Parish Staff is mostly remote at this time.
Please contact by phone or email if any need arises for you or someone else

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Parents and families:
​SUNDAY SCHOOL AND YOUTH GROUP WILL BE ONLINE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
Look for information from Kate for ideas and plans to connect with one another and with God as we are away from each other these next weeks in the newsletter.

Outreach:
We will continue working with our outreach committee to create a plan to care for our members and community during this time.  Continue checking our communications for updated information.  Please contact Gracia or Kate if you would like to help.
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Communications & Resources

Bishop Barker's March 20 Letter (Worship Online Instead of In Person Extended)
Fr. Ben's March 16 Letter (Updates and Formation)
Fr. Ben's March 15 Letter (Online Worship)
Fr. Ben's March 14 Letter (Suspension of public worship)
Bishop Barker’s March 13 letter (Suspension of public worship)
Bishop Barker’s March 11 letter
Diocese of Nebraska COVID-19 Messages & Resources
Messages & Resources from The Episcopal Church
Episcopal Relief & Development
U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Douglas County Health Department Recommendations and Exposures

Steps we are taking

Continue to check back here as we make plans in the coming days. We will update this website regularly. 

We will be adapting our activities to practice "Social Distancing" guidelines for the time being.  

• Our ministries are shifting to electronic gatherings, including:
• EfM
• The Elaine Randall Book Club
• Committee Meetings
• Vestry
• Your ministry leader should be in touch about these; please contact them, or Kate or Fr Ben, if you have questions!

The staff will continue to hold remote office hours and manage various projects and concerns, and we will be updating the parish regularly about our schedule and activities.

If you need to be in contact with Fr. Ben or Kate outside of regular office hours, please use their cell phone numbers located in the directory.  If you do not have a directory, please email them or the parish office if you need their information.  

Worship

• Join us on Sunday mornings, at 10:30 am, for a short prayer service via Facebook live. You do not need to be a Facebook user to join us. Anyone can access it at https://www.facebook.com/st.augustine.omaha/​

Pastoral Care

• Check on your neighbors and parish members who may be in need of help in any way. Some will need help getting to food, some to essential items like groceries, medicine, and more.
• Consider making a phone call, writing a letter, sending flowers, making a card, or more especially to anyone who may be especially vulnerable and unable to leave home to spread joy and care during this time.

Resources for prayer and worship at home​
Morning Prayer
Compline
Additional resources from the Diocese of Nebraska

Thoughts from Bishop Curry

“In this time when we are all affected by the coronavirus, whether directly or indirectly, whether physically, biologically, psychologically, spiritually, and for many economically, it may be helpful to remember that we're in this together.
Jesus came among us in the first place, to show us the way to be right and reconcile with the God who is the creator of us all, and right and reconciled with each other as children of this one God who has created us all, and therefore as sisters, brothers, and siblings, one of another. 
Jesus came to show us how to be in a relationship with God and in relationship with each other, came to show us how to live not simply as collections of individual self-interest, but how to live as the human family of God. That's why he said love the Lord your God, love your neighbor as yourself. Because in that is hope for all of us to be the human family of God.
So look out for your neighbors, look out for each other. Look out for yourselves. Listen to those who have knowledge that can help to guide us medically and help to guide us socially. Do everything that we can to do this together, to respond to each other's needs and to respond to our own needs.” ~ Bishop Curry

Bishop Curry's full statement is available here.