Christmas Eve Outside Candle Light Service

Bonny Doon Church will continue their tradition of a candle light service on Christmas Eve.   We have moved it up a few hours to 5pm so since it will be fully outside this year.   We will sing Christmas Carols and receive a short message from our pastor Edd.  Please bring lawn chairs to sit with your families socially distanced from other families groups.  If you want to observe from your car, there will be a couple of places to park near the service.

We will also share the Christmas Eve Service over Zoom (message ID 5013145479) as well for people who are staying home to shelter-in-place. 

                                    https://zoom.us/j/5013145479. 

As a form of a "drive-by-pickup", there are candles in a box beside the sanctuary doors for people to take home if they would like to have a candle to light at home during the service.   

Higher Grounds closed until the New Year due to "Stay at Home" order

December 3, 2020, the state of California issued an new "Stay At Home" order requiring restrictions when ICU capacities drop below 15% availability.   

Unfortunately, our church prematurely made the decision to stop hosting Higher Grounds based on an email we received from the Santa Cruz Small Business Development Development Center with the subject "UPDATE - New Stay At Home Order for Santa Cruz County".   In this email, we were informed that Santa Cruz County is considered to be part of the Bay Area and would be required to comply with the order when ICU beds throughout the Bay Area dipped down below 15% capacity.  The Bay Area ICU capacity is currently at 25% and is anticipated to drop below 15% in mid-December.  As of December 3rd, Santa Cruz County was at 51.3% ICU capacity. 

We have continued to meet outside for outside church with the one exception of the night before when it rained.  About a week before Santa Cruz closed down outdoor dining, we could have opened for a week but knew that it would be short lived and confusing to open then close again in a few days so we remained closed.  Our hope is that we will reopen in the New Year.