Reopening Plans

After months of planning, preparation, and prayer, the Session is happy to announce plans to return to in-person worship on April 11, 2021. As we make final preparations, we need some help from you!

#1 - Please review the Reopening Documents here. They will answer most, if not all, of the questions you may have about what to expect.

Reopening FAQ - Updated 2.23.21.pdf

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Reopening Plan Details - updated 2.23.21

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HUPC Mask Policy.pdf

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Covid Waiver HUPC.pdf

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#2 - Complete this short survey to let us know your initial plans for returning to worship.

#3 - Encourage others to read this information and complete the survey.

Trunk-or-Treat at Highlands

Join us for a spooktacular evening of fun and treats this Halloween!

We know that Halloween has new challenges this year and we hope to provide a safe, fun alternative or addition to traditional trick-or-treating.

Here are some ways that we plan to create as safe an environment as possible:

• families are asked to sign up for a time slot to ensure parking & help with social distancing

• Everyone on campus (age 2+) is asked to wear a face mask

• Treat stations will be spaced safely

• Direct contact will be minimized when passing out candy

This is a free event.

However, each trunk-or-treater is strongly encouraged to bring non-perishable food to donate to Arlington Community Services (our local food bank) as “admission.”

Sign Ups are now Closed.

Back to School Micah's Backpack Update

In spite of the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions, Micah’s Backpack had a very successful year and the schools and Micah’s volunteers are gearing up for school year 2020-2021.

When the schools were closed in March and shopping for food was a challenge, a new division of TEAM MICAH was formed. A team of young volunteers, the SUPER SHOPPERS, appeared when the need was greatest and did all the shopping to keep our inventory where it needed to be. Thank you to all of you who gave your time and heart to buy food for hungry kids.

Then, to keep all the volunteers safe, we quickly moved to mini-packing teams and East Arlington Rotary stepped in to deliver the bags to the schools. As a result of the resourcefulness and of so many willingness to help, Micah’s Backpack delivered 1,070 bags (~7,500# of food) to children and families in need from the middle of March to the close of school in June.

And now, Micah’s Backpack is ready to begin its 6th year of helping chronically hungry children and the need couldn’t be greater. Schools have been contacted and informed that we can begin the year helping 160 children. Our goal is still to HELP FEED 200 KIDS (each week) IN 2020. Fundraisers and food drives have been in progress in the community all summer to make sure that will happen.

The goal, as always, is to feed the kids. Now it is also crucial to protect the volunteers, the kids and their families and the school faculty/staff. To do that we will use an on-line volunteer sign-in sheet and have ‘mini-teams’ for packing, delivering, shopping and restocking. We will have mini-teams pack for each school at separate times and our first packings and deliveries will be the first week of September. To sign up visit, https://signup.com/go/EQJtFCA.

It is anticipated that there will be a lot of bumps along the way as this school year gets started and even more as we go forward. In spite of that, with God’s blessing and the help and the devotion of so many to feed the hungry, we will meet our goal to FEED 200 KIDS IN 2020.

Thank you, thank you to everyone for your support. Together, we ARE feeding the future, one child at a time.