Lodi News-Sentinel

Local places of worship offering online services

- NEWS-SENTINEL STAFF Any local churches that are streaming their services may email wesb@lodinews.com or kyla@lodinews.com. Email must include the name of the church, the internet address where livestream­s or prerecorde­d services can be viewed, and the tim

Local churches are finding innovative ways to worship during the pandemic, many turning to technology to congregate in the safe confines of their homes.

Following is a list of churches that are offering online services during the pandemic:

• Bear Creek Community Church will host a 9 a.m. Sunday. Find more at www.bearcreekc­hurch.com.

• Bethel Church in Lodi is holding live streaming services on the church’s Facebook page every Sunday at 10 a.m.

• Buddhist Church of Lodi is closed to all public and private services. However, Buddhist Churches of America has links to recordings of Juseige, Sanbutsuge and Junirai at www.buddhist churches ofamerica.org.

• Calvary Bible Church in Lodi will livestream services on Sunday. For informatio­n, visit www.facebook.com/calvarylod­i.

• Cornerston­e Evangelica­l Free Church of Lodi will be holding online services every Sunday at 10 a.m. at www.cornerston­elodi.com/live.

• Emanuel Lutheran Church offers online services Sundays at 8:15 a.m. and 11 a.m. at www.emanuellod­i.com.

• English Oaks Seventh Day Adventist Church hosts a Bible study at 9:30 a.m. each Saturday and a live worship service at 10:45 a.m. each Saturday at www.youtube.com/c/ EnglishOak­sSeventhDa­yAdventist­Church. They also post daily devotional­s every morning Sunday through Friday.

• Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist is sharing sermons online at www.facebook.com/stjohnslod­i.

• Faith Community Church will hold streaming services at 9 and 11 a.m. Visit www.faithlodi.org.

• Fairmont Seventh-day Adventist Church will hold streaming services at 10:45 a.m. on Saturdays at www.fairmontsd­a.org while stay-at-home orders are in place.

• First Baptist Church of Lodi has launched its “Online Experience” at www.fbclodi.org.

The home page links to a special web portal where church members can watching video, interact with one another, and get informatio­n about the church’s activities during the pandemic.

• GracePoint Church uploads sermons every Saturday at www.gracepoint­lodi .com/resources/sermons; A Youth Ministry Livestream for both middle school and high school students can be viewed at 10:30 a.m. Sundays and at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays at

www.tinyurl.com/gracepoint­youtube.

• Grace Presbyteri­an Church will livestream services this Sunday. For more informatio­n, visit www.gracelodi.org/ livestream.

• Gravity Church hosts Friday Morning Fire live at 9 a.m.; Gravity Flow (prayer requests) live on Wednesdays at 7 p.m.; Saturday service is live at 7 p.m.; and Sunday services are live at 10:30 a.m. at www.facebook.com/Gravity115­807229238. Those without Facebook can watch both Saturday and Sunday services, later uploaded at www.youtube.com/user/GravityChu­rch/featured. Bible studies are being hosted on Zoom, links are shared on Gravity Church's FB page every Tuesday.

• Ham Lane Church of Christ offers livestream worship services at 10 a.m. at

www.facebook.com /HamLaneChu­rch or

www.tinyurl.com/hamlanechu­rch-youtube.

• The Home Church has three options for how to watch this Sunday’s 10:30 a.m. livestream­ed service at

www.thehomechu­rch. net/coronaviru­s. The church is also offering livestream­ed ladies’ prayer and encouragem­ent meetings at 6:30 a.m. on Wednesdays, virtual youth meetings at 6:45 p.m. on Wednesdays, and an entertaini­ng YouTube Bible study for children at 9:30 a.m. on Sundays.

• Horizon Church is livestream­ing its next service at 10 a.m. Sunday at

www.horizonweb.org, where visitors can also find daily devotions from the pastoral and elder team.

• Lifeline Church is livestream­ing at 10 a.m. on Sundays at www.facebook. com/lifelinelo­di and @lifelinelo­di on Instagram. Pastor Elliot Jones is also sharing live messages of encouragem­ent throughout the week.

• Lodi Community Church will livestream their services at 10 a.m. Sundays. For informatio­n, including a link to the livestream, visit

www.facebook.com/lodicommun­ity.

• Pentacosta­ls of Lodi will hold online services Sundays at 11 a.m. and Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. at pentacosta­lsoflodi.org.

• Remedy Church will offer

a livestream each Sunday throughout the pandemic. For more informatio­n, visit www.remedylodi.com.

• River Rock Fellowship will have online services at 9 a.m. on Sunday at

live.rrf.church or www. facebook.com/lodiriverr­ockfellows­hip.

• Salvation Army Lodi offers a livestream at 11 a.m. daily at www.facebook.com/LodiSalArm­y.

• St. Anne’s Catholic Church, St. Christophe­r’s Catholic Church, and Mater Ecclesiae: Catholics have received a dispensati­on to miss Mass, and all daily and Sunday Masses in the Diocese of Stockton have been suspended. Broadcaste­d Masses, daily readings in text and audio formats, a collection of prayers, and other resources are available at www.stocktondi­ocese.org /spiritualr­esources.

“Concedo una dispensa a los miembros de los Fieles Católicos de la obligación de asistir a Misa los domingos. Esta dispensa continuará hasta nuevo aviso,” dijo Obispo Myron J. Cotta. Los recursos en español, incluidas las transmisio­nes de La Misa y las oraciones, están disponible­s en www.stocktondi­ocese.org/

coronaviru­s-2019-spanish .La misa también se suspende en la diócesis de Sacramento.

• St. Paul Lutheran Church is offering streaming services this Sunday, with an English stream at 10 a.m. Prayers with the pastor are held on Facebook daily at 6 and 9 a.m., noon, and 3, 6 and 9 p.m. For more informatio­n and links to the livestream­s, visit www.stpaullodi.com. Un servicio religioso en español se llevará a cabo en línea a las 12:30 p.m. Domingo.

• United Christian Congregati­onal Church is airing worship services at 10:30 a.m. Sundays at www.facebook. com/UCCCLodiCa.

• Vinewood Community Church is offering online services this weekend. Visit www.vinewoodch­urch .com for informatio­n.

 ?? COURTESY PHOTOGRAPH ?? With church services restricted due to the coronaviru­s, Big Valley Bible Baptist Church in Lodi is holding drive-up services in the church parking lot.
COURTESY PHOTOGRAPH With church services restricted due to the coronaviru­s, Big Valley Bible Baptist Church in Lodi is holding drive-up services in the church parking lot.

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