1. We believe its fair to say with the advent of the March 2020 COVID-19 shutdowns remote interaction gained widening usage.

2. This said, social distance interaction became widespread if not mandatory in business, government, education, religion, society generally etc.

3. Accordingly, videoconferencing and teleconferencing emerged as the new normal as people sort social distance meeting as a way of doing business either formally or informally.

4. By the fall 0r 2020 then, we adopted the telephone conference call as a user friendly means of convening our local Church worship service.

5. Overtime we conceptualized a primarily teleconference Church ministry although open to doing hybrid Church gatherings.

6. However, our ministry remains primarily a telc-conference service.

7. Moreover, according to many experts, the return to office work as we once new it is a past practice.

8. Remote interaction such as our local Church tele-conference, as ministry, is here to stay.

Rev. Joel Washington {Khunanpu Sangoma}, Pastor, 2-27-25