Important notice: this page is now archived.
Our updates have become infrequent enough that the newsfeed on this page is now archived. Please carefully check the date on any post that you view.
As always throughout this pandemic, we ask that you please refer first and always to provincial and federal sources, as well to your local government or band council and your Member of Parliament and provincial or territorial representative as needed. These sources shape our decision-making and responsibilities, and will guide responses from The United Church of Canada.
For all national United Church of Canada updates, keep visiting here. See also:
Health Canada Government of Saskatchewan
For resources on discerning and planning re-opening of your building, please click here. (January 2023)
Resources for Re-opening summer 2021: COVID considerations – Sept 2021 Step 3 Re-opening Plan Template (download)
For Vaccine Mandate – November 29, 2021 – Downloadable Sample Tenant Waiver
The newsfeed below includes Regional Council news about the COVID-19 pandemic, and some national updates.
Executive letter: COVID and the Charter
(Click here for a printable PDF of this letter.) To the clergy, lay leaders and members of Living Skies Region, As we mark the first anniversary of the arrival of COVID-19 on the world stage, I...
COVID Restrictions and Christmas Eve Worship
Greetings members of Living Skies Regional Council, We are quickly approaching Christmas Eve, and plans are well underway for both in-person and remote worships. I know there have been lots of...
Advent COVID update from your Regional Council Executive
Letter in PDF format Dear Members of Living Skies Regional Council, Advent greetings. I am reaching out to you as we live into the reality of the growing number of COVID infections in our province...
Further masking requirements update
(This note was sent out to all ministry personnel by Tracy Murton, Pastoral Relations Minister, It is a further update to this November 10 notice.) Once again, I am writing to all ministry...
New mask requirement in three cities
This notice is especially important for called or appointed ministers in a community of faith, pastoral charge supervisor, or anyone who offers provide pulpit supply (such as a retired minister or a...
Building re-opening plans from Living Skies communities of faith
This is an ongoing list of building/ in-person "re-opening" plans sent to the Regional Office by communities of faith in Living Skies Regional Council. If you'd like to add yours to help others,...
Reminder: be careful with photo copyright!
...Here are some tips Photos are vital to our websites, social media, worship PowerPoints and much more. They add a lot to our online ministry and in-person PowerPoints. And they’re sometimes a...
Pastoral letter on re-opening from the chair of the Regional Council
Living Skies Regional Council chair Rev. Tricia Gerhard offers some further perspectives and updates on the difficult discernment of re-opening our buildings or returning to in-person worship or...
New Visitor Guidelines for hospitals and care homes
Lorna King, South Saskatchewan United Church Hospital Chaplain has provide us with new guidelines for visiting hospitals and care homes. Updated Visitors Guidelines
Guidelines notice: New worship numbers
There are lots of questions regarding the newest changes to the maximum number of people at a worship service in the Re-Open Saskatchewan Guidelines. The updated guidelines state:
Delivering services virtually or through remote delivery such as drive-in service is recommended.
The total number of people participating in the services cannot exceed 30 per cent of seating capacity or 150 people, whichever is less.
To safely support larger groupings of individuals – and where seating area allows adequate physical distancing of two metres between individuals or family units – multiple groups of 30 are permitted. These groups must be separated by five metres.
