While Easter is normally the busiest time of year for worshipers, this year church doors across Orange will be shut as services move to pre-recorded online sermons
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Presbyterian Church Reverend Angus Gibb said the parish is adapting to new ways of connecting with members of the congregation.
"With the rise of COVID-19 social distancing measures, the church is continuing efforts to keep in contact with our members through pre-recorded sermons uploaded to Youtube and live weekly zoom meetings," Rev Gibb said.
"We're contacting members who don't have access to the internet by phone to keep them regularly updated about what is happening with the church and connecting with them spiritually, especially in the lead up to Easter."
The Anglican Diocese of Bathurst has also adapted to online sermons and has noticed people who previously didn't attend church are now doing so.
"It's sad that we can't come together physically as a congregation because of the social distancing restrictions and for those self isolating," Bishop Mark Calder said.
"But I've observed there are people in the local community that are wanting to connect and are asking existential questions about what is going on."
Bishop Calder has organised traditional and contemporary online services to reach different audiences.
"Our congregation reaches out to thousands of people and I wanted to be able to reach out to different types of community members," he said.
"We're also producing DVDs of our services to send it out to those who don't know how to use the internet but are still able to connect and watch it."
Member of the leadership team at Colour City Church, Mark Gilmour has been getting his family involved with their online sermons.
"Our sermons have been quite considerably shortened since we started practicing social distancing," he said.
"But I'm thankful that my wife has been able to get involved and help out with a kids spot to make them feel engaged with the service."
Mr Gilmour said he's blessed that services are still able to continue in an online capacity.
"We've been blessed that other members who are tech-savvy have stepped up to help out with live streaming," he said.
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