{"id":29078,"date":"2020-05-17T07:38:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T11:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/?p=29078"},"modified":"2020-05-17T23:13:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T03:13:51","slug":"covid-19-ontario-allows-drive-in-worship-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/legal\/2020\/05\/covid-19-ontario-allows-drive-in-worship-services\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Ontario Allows Drive-in Worship Services"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 28 of 45 in the series COVID-19<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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On May 16, Ontario amended its emergency order to allow drive-in worship services<\/a>. This brings Ontario in line with other provinces, including Saskatchewan<\/a> and Nova Scotia<\/a> which both already permit drive-in services. New Brunswick<\/a> has guidelines for outdoor religious services and British Columbia<\/a> has never prohibited worship services, but has had guidance in place since late March for religious gatherings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rules in Ontario are as follows, paraphrased:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Those attending must remain in their vehicle.<\/li>
  2. Only one household per vehicle.<\/li>
  3. Two metre distancing between vehicles.<\/li>
  4. No more than five people conduct the service, social distancing from each other and vehicles.<\/li>
  5. The building remains closed, except for reasonable access by those conducting the service.<\/li>
  6. No materials can be exchanged between vehicles and\/or between those conducting the service and vehicles (i.e. communion, offering).<\/li>
  7. The same rules apply, with necessary modification, to those who use non-motorized vehicles because of their religious beliefs.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    For more on what is open in provinces and territories across Canada, and for any church-specific guidance, see our blog post on COVID-19: Re-Opening Plans Across Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Church and charity leaders are invited to share how they are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic within their organization in our online community forum <\/em>The Green: COVID-19 Response Room<\/em><\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Posted May 17 @ 7:30am<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This entry is part 28 of 45 in the series COVID-19<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

    On May 16, Ontario amended its emergency order to allow drive-in worship services. This brings Ontario in line with other provinces, including Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia which both already permit drive-in services. New Brunswick has guidelines for outdoor religious services and British Columbia has never prohibited worship services, but has… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ts_fic_featured_image_caption":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[212,11,435,467,473,207,469],"series":[440],"class_list":["post-29078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","tag-british-columbia","tag-church","tag-covid-19","tag-new-brunswick","tag-nova-scotia","tag-ontario","tag-saskatchewan","series-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29078"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cccc.org\/news_blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=29078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}