On Easter morning, we attended sunrise service at Little Church on the Lane. This is a Moravian Church. Winston-Salem is a well known population center for Moravian Christians. Moravians are a people that hail from a section of the modern day Czech Republic. While the Moravian spiritual lineage is alive and well, most Moravian congregants are not people with Czech ancestry.
Here are some pictures of Little Church on the Lane, including the interior of the church, which we never saw.
This was as socially distanced an experience as we have had in the last year. Ever other parking space was blocked out and people were asked to stay in their vehicles. Despite the fact that we were wearing our Easter Best outfits, we never left our car. We were invited into the parking lot of the church and given some materials so that we could follow the worship. It included a radio station to tune into so we could hear the worship that was about twenty yards away.
There was a small brass quintet performing in the parking lot as the bow tie-adorned Minister read the responsive readings across the radio stream. We participated as the sun arose.
Was this an over-abundance of caution? I do think so, but I acknowledge fully this church's freedom to conduct whatever kind of service that they deem appropriate for themselves and their visitors.
I hope someday in the future that we will have a chance to see the interior of this place.
As we drove away, even Myers Park Methodist was holding an outdoor service with more than one hundred people standing outside.
And below are my girls wearing their Sunday Best, which includes phases one and two of this Easter Morning (Freedom House awaits!).
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