Although COVID-19 precautions have restricted public gatherings, St. John’s United Church of Christ, Laurys Station, has decided to offer Vacation Bible School to children through Zoom.

Church leaders are working to have everything ready to go for virtual transmission of VBS 10 a.m. to noon. June 15-19.

Activities and stories will then be available anytime on the church website.

The program, “Rocky Railway - Jesus’ Power Pulls Us Through, will bring fun-filled Zoom meetings to children of all ages.

To participate, call the church office at 610-262-8061 for the Zoom login information.

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Pastor Gordon Camp of Union Lutheran Church, Schnecksville, offered thoughts on the COVID-19 situation in a newsletter message to the congregation.

“These times are certainly full of things that none of us as individuals have experienced before,” the pastor explained. “Even if widespread contagion is not at all new to our world, it is at least new to us.

“One thing that I’ve seen, even as we’ve had to isolate ourselves, is the world coming together in some beautiful new ways.

“It is an age in which we are learning much about what it is to be human, what it is to live in one big community that spreads across not just rivers, but oceans, and borders, and time zones, and the divides of language, and culture, and religion.

“Suddenly we’re in touch with neighbors and friends and relatives from whom we rarely used to hear. Everyone just wants everyone else to be OK.”

The pastor also looked ahead.

“In the future, let’s recall how the world came together even as we were forced into isolation,” Camp said.

He reminded everyone the church is not gone even if the doors have been locked at the facility.

“We’re always here,” Camp said. “We’re grateful for your virtual presence with us in these unprecedented, unwieldy, unfamiliar, and uniquely blessed times.”