Humanitarian Disaster Institute in partnership with National Association of Evangelicals Summit – March 2020. It will be live until Easter:
COVID-19 Church Online Summit
Here’s the press release: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/online-summit-to-help-churches-face-covid-19-outbreak-starts-thursday-301030042.html
As well as a write-up by RNS: https://religionnews.com/2020/03/26/surgeon-general-disaster-experts-advise-church-leaders-in-covid-19-online-summit/
Register at https://www.covid19churchsummit.com/
If you’d like to share via social media, here’s a social media toolkit with graphics and suggested posts: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qjKgTo68iSRYcWLJS7qN0W5yOkqOMmMO?usp=sharing
Resource Page
The resource webpage features recent HDI articles and media outreach to help equip churches for the coronavirus. https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/academic-centers/humanitarian-disaster-institute/covid-19/
Preparedness Manual and Planning Template
We also just published two new resources on the resource page: (1) “Preparing Your Church for Coronavirus (COVID-19): A Step-by-Step, Research-Informed and Faith-Based Planning Manual” and “Coronavirus Church Planning Template.” One of the unique features about this manual and template is that pastors and church leaders can download, complete, and save their plan digitally.
Webinar Series
Beginning on Friday, March 13th (noon CST) we started a new time-limited webinar series on church preparedness and response to COVID-19. We plan to continue to offer a new webinar each week on the same day and time as needed to help churches adapt to the potential changing needs and challenges ahead.
All these materials are free and without cost to users and can be found at:https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/academic-centers/humanitarian-disaster-institute/covid-19/