COVID-19 Resources for Faith Communities: Congregational Care
Congregational Care
Guide for Christian Funerals During COVID19
This tip sheet offers practical suggestions and support for ways to modify funeral rituals to encourage safety.
Guidance for Rituals for Priests in the Archdiocese of New York
This document provides guidance from the Archdiocese to priests in congregational service for cancelling services or for modifying them under strictly determined circumstances.
Prayer Resources for When You Can’t Get to Church
The booklet provides instruction for cultivating individual practices of prayer and meditation
Community Prayer Beyond Distance and Quarantine
This meditation by a local religious leader, Reverend Gretchen Sausville, leads an individual through a virtual trip into their local community to remember important institutions and individuals during this time of distancing.
Spiritual Practices for Times of Crisis
“The greatest gift we can give our world is our presence, awake and attentive. What can help us do that? Here, drawn from ancient religions and wisdom traditions, are a handful of practices.”
Resources for Community and Faith-based Leaders
A web platform from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that offers guidance to faith communities for outbreak prevention and mitigation.
Resources for Clergy on COVID-19
An extensive blog by a clergy person in metropolitan Seattle, offering first-hand advice on precautions, worship models, pastoral care, and self-care from a congregation in a community with a high incidence of infection.
Online Faith Collective
This website provides a centralized platform for recorded and archived worship services from a variety of faith traditions.
How to adapt worship for streaming
Podcast on March 19 (to be archived) with tips and strategies for adapting worship to online platforms
Doing ministry in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak
This podcast includes interviews with two Seattle-area pastors about their experiences leading faith communities as the first community outbreak of COVID-19 occurred.
COVID-19 Updates
This church-based website offers various resources, including linkage to a daily video devotional developed by the church’s ministers and available on the congregation’s facebook page.
Counting the Quarantine
This resource offers a ritual for marking the 17-day period of quarantine and to frame it as a time for spiritual reflection with daily rituals to mark the passage of the quarantine
Coronavirus Resources for the Church
A platform with a variety of resources including webinars and planning manuals.
Congregational Resources in Response to COVID 19
This website offers a variety of resources gathered by Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School. Topics include: worship resources; talking with children; prayers, litanies, poems, and music; addressing anxiety and fear; links for infection control; and denominational resources
Church and the coronavirus: practicing compassion and care even as we take precautions
An opinion piece by a local Christian pastor describing his congregation’s responses to the outbreak and offering perspectives on caring for those who are most vulnerable, challenging fear and xenophobia, and offering support for those who feel isolated and lonely.
Chaplaincy Innovation Lab shares resources for chaplains encountering coronavirus
This website offers a variety of resources for chaplains and pastoral educators. The organization that sponsors is also offering a weekly webinar (on Tuesdays from 12 noon-1 pm) to provide information and support to chaplains responding to the outbreak. See the website for further information and instructions for signing up.
Briefing for Imams, Mosques, and Madrasas for the Coronavirus Pandemic
This website provides information to imams and local masajid on outbreak prevention and mitigation. The site also discusses theological, ethical, and moral principles.
Being Jewish in the Time of Coronavirus
Synagogues and Jewish institutions discuss how to take community precautions as COVID-19 spreads globally.
Coronavirus: A Prayer for Medical Scientists
A prayer for researchers and public health officials working to fight the coronavirus
A Blessing for Handwashing During a Pandemic
This prayer is recited over the course of about 30 seconds, offering the one offering the prayer a chance to quiet their mind and reflect while ensuring that they provide sufficient time for optimal handwashing effectiveness.
10 guidelines for pastoral care during the coronavirus outbreak
Helpful suggestions for clergy and pastoral providers to support people in the midst of their anxiety and fear.
5 Tips for Online Pastoral Care
Tips and suggestions for offering pastoral care through online platforms from a local church pastor.
Spiritual Support During COVID-19
This document provides a list of things that one might do to lift their spirit.
Faith Resource Alert for Facebook Live
This Facebook post offers support from Facebook so that local faith communities can stream services using Facebook Live
Disaster Spiritual Care
This essential resource for clergy and caregivers integrates the classic foundations of pastoral care with the unique challenges of disaster response on community, regional and national levels.
Congregational Planning Checklist for a Pandemic
The goal of this checklist is to give you a handle on what might occur during a pandemic outbreak and how to keep your congregation running if such a disaster occurs.
Congregational Disaster Preparedness Guidebook
The purpose of this guidebook is to help congregations take some basic and important steps toward resiliency and intentionality in response to disaster so that they will be better able to serve their communities when disasters strike.”
Pandemic Hope: A Family Devotion Guide for Life During COVID-19
An 8-week devotional with activities and prayers for families to use
How to Stream Services (Or Anything Else): A Guide for Jewish Communities
This resource is designed to focus on the “how” of streaming as a resource for congregations streaming for the first time or as a short-term consideration.
Digital Pastoral Care for Grief: Individual and Collective
Gather and give pastoral care digitally. Provide resources from those of us deeply familiar
with digital platforms and uses. Provide thoughts for collective & individual grief.”