Yes,
we have been working over the last little
while with a
task team chaired by Archbishop ThaboMokoba of
the Anglican Church,
which included leaders of the Evangelical
Alliance, the charismatic churches,
grace by the church,
and leaders of the African IndependentChurches,
so that we have made sure that when we
look at this,
we've got all the various traditions thatare
able to say what would work.
for their environment.
We have therefore set those norms andstandards which
we will be publishing and all
our church leaders are distributing them
in their congregations so that
the people are trained and prepared formanaging that.
Every congregation must then be able to
ensure that there is a
COVID readiness.
But in the same way that schools have tohave a COVID readiness.
to saying that Texas should have a COVIDreadiness.
This is a tough team,
a COVID tough team that focuses on
ensuring that everything is managed as itshould.
We are proposing, for example,
that in order to keep the numbers
to 50,
you probably need to have some kind of a
rotation system that you know,
you either use the alphabet or use the
geographic areas to see that, Jim.
This group comes and people sign up aheadof time
who are going to come for the 50 for theday.
And we can have a number of services inthe course of the week,
as well as maybe three Sunday
services or so on Sunday.
And we can have Saturdays as well.
So it makes sure that at the same time
we are saying the elderly must
stay at home.
People with underlying health conditions.
We've got a lot of people with
diabetes.
TB, with HIV, with cancer,
with asthma and chest conditions,
and all these people are encouraged tostay at home.
There are others who are saying they canhave special
services for people under the age of
55 and just stay by themselves.
And there are all kinds of different waysof managing this,
but the key thing is
COVID compliance, COVID compliance,
COVID compliance.
We've got rural congregations that have...
a lot more challenges in being COVID
compliant.
And so the heads of churches have to take
special responsibility.
The key thing is that we want to be
known as agents of life,
not agents of death.
People must make sure that they don't usethe church
as a gateway to the grave.
Okay.
Bishop, I think that was enough.
You need to take your time.
Thank you.
Thank you so much.
Mm-hmm.