Welcome to Rectortown UMC

The Healthy Church Team (HCT) presented a recommendation to the Administrative Council at the October 1, 2020.  After reviewing the actions required by the Virginia UMC Technical Assistance Manual (TAM) the HCT recommended to (1) begin planning for In-Person worship on 1 December 2020, that (2) the In-Person Worship Plan should be finalized and that (3) Committees responsible for volunteers to staff the required positions needed to implement TAM guidelines, be approved.  The Council agreed that this must be a "total church" commitment, as although most of the required positions have been in place for years, there will specific training required to ensure all understand the new roles to be performed.  The HCT plans to have the plan ready to be sent to the District Superintendent by 25 October 2020.  The District Superintendent requires 10 days to review and approve the plan.

After months of joint live streaming Sunday morning worship services, both Rectortown and Middleburg have plans to transition to In-Person Sunday morning services.  Middleburg has had their plan approved by the District Superintendent, and are working to be ready for a 1 November 2020 start date.  Rectortown will submit its plan by 25 October 2020, with it's first In-Person worship service, scheduled for 1 December 2020.  Live streaming will continue at RUMC, as there are still many folks that are not ready to attend In-Person yet.  To make this happen, starting 1 November, the Live Streaming from RUMC will begin at 9:50 AM, and Middleburg will start their In-Person at 11:30 AM.  Then, on 1 December 2020, Rectortown will add In-Person, at 10:00 AM, to the Live Streaming (RUMC will continue live streaming indefinitely to serve those that prefer not to partake in In-Person services).  Much planning and action still needs to happen, and it will take our entire church family to complete the plan. 

The Healthy Church Team (HCT) is a new team that has been implemented across the Virginia UMC Conference to track, plan and recommend implementation guidance published in the Technical Assistance Manual (TAM) for all churches.  After months of meeting every other week, preparing and presenting recommendations to the Admin Council, the HCT deemed it time to recommend finalizing the plan and set a date for In-Person worship.  Although plans are normally presented in writing to the District Superintendent, the RUMC plan will be a video, demonstrating the correct/incorrect ways things will be done, from parking to greeting to seating. The video plan will also be used by the Nominations and Leadership Development team to complete train for all those that volunteer and responsible Committees.  The HCT will also assist with the training.  Please watch for more information on In-Person Worship.

The In-Person Worship services will be held at 10:00 AM, beginning at 1 December 2020.  Many of you have served as Greeter, Usher, Reader and other roles to support the worship service.  All of those positions will be need as we move forward, with several new positions added.  The important part of this action is that as we start in-Person worship, we will need to change what some of the positions will do. And, we will be doing live streaming at the same time.  So, training is being prepared for all volunteers and below you will find the In-Person Worship Service Servant List.  You will see some names already listed, as an example, and you will see that specific Committee Chair's are responsible to arrange for volunteers to fill the positions.  The difference in In-Person Worship starting 1 December is that we need alternates for each position, to ensure that all COVID - 19 guidelines are met, for inside/outside, before/during /after the service.  The Nominations and Leadership Development Committee is planning training on the new requirements, please watch for the dates/times.  Committee Chairs will be contacting you for your support.   Please prayerfully consider your ability, willingness and availability to sign up.