Today, on the 31st, when the Protestant Union's representative association, the Korean Federation of Churches (Hankyo General Association) called for a day of worship service and urged the return of field worship, the churches in Seoul seemed to be focusing on the re-proliferation of Corona 19.

The Korean Federation of Churches held a campaign of 'Korean Church, Worship Restoration Day' to encourage members to participate in field worship today, but there have been many churches that have not participated in the campaign in view of the more serious Corona19 situation in the past week.

Also, the number of church attendees who participated in the campaign did not increase significantly compared to the previous week.

Yeouido Full Gospel Church, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, the largest Protestant church in the world, has virtually canceled participation in the Hankyoreh Campaign today and held Sunday worship service in the same way as the previous Sunday.

The church decided to cancel the operation of more than 100 Shinto transport buses planned today and donate it to the food bank in the community that was prepared for the attendees.

An official from Yeouido Full Gospel Church said, "The 31st, which is also the" Holy Spirit Advent Sunday, "tried to induce more than 50,000 believers to attend the worship service in the first place, but canceled it in consideration of the recent situation. "I will stay."

This church has been conducting online worship while maintaining 'putting away' by limiting the number of people who could enter the field worship service without inducing church members to worship on the occasion of the Corona 19 incident.

From an hour before the worship service began at 9 AM, there was a long line of waiting in front of the Yeouido Full Gospel Church square, and this line continued to lead outside the church.

More than 2,000 people attended the worship service at 7 am.

The Church's Daeseongjeon Hall, which has a maximum capacity of about 12,000, accommodates only 3,000 people to maintain the distance between Shinto.

Access to the Church's Grand Sanctuary was restricted to church members with a Shinto Registration, and church volunteers checked the fever or wearing a mask for the members entering the Grand Sanctuary early in the morning.

In other churches, things haven't changed much.

The Olive Church, a medium-sized church in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, held a first-day worship service with only 60 people sitting in a chapel that could accommodate about 200 people today.

The believers sat with masks and only one or two people on either end of a 3m long bench listened to the preacher's sermon.

An official of the Olive Church said, "I have been worshiping offline since the last 3rd. At that time, I did not prevent outsiders from entering, but I was limited to attending only registered members after Itaewon confirmed." I am not doing it. "

Some churches participated in the 'Worship Day' campaign, but the number of people attending the service was similar to that of the previous week.

On the 10th of this month, the first worship service was held at 9 am in the main hall of the Sarangui Church in Seocho-gu, Seoul, which resumed on-site worship.

The believers sang hymns while wearing masks, sitting one to two meters apart.

An official of the Church of Love said, "In the Korean Federation of Churches, we proclaimed 'day of worship and recovery' and our church also informed the church members. However, as a confirmer emerged from Itaewon, the members in the offline worship service did not seem to be as big as last week."

Previously, the Korean Federation of Churches decided to set today as the `` day of worship and recovery, '' and urged church members under 30 denominations to attend the field worship service in order to worship and restore faith within the scope of the quarantine guidelines.

The KCTU originally set the campaign goal as 'attend 80% of attendance attendees', but when the re-proliferation situation of Corona 19 was not serious, the target was not set, but the plan was reduced and adjusted to proceed with the campaign according to the individual church and local circumstances. .

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