Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Here's How We'll Church (Reopen Northshore Friends Church)



REOPEN

NORTHSHORE FRIENDS CHURCH


Northshore Friends Church is putting the following policies and procedures in place in conjunction with Governor Abbott’s Open Texas Plan.  These policies and procedures are designed to maximize yours and your fellow worshipers safety.


  • Anyone who feels anxious or “at risk” is encouraged to stay home.  

  • Services will be broadcast live at go.northshorefriends.org/live starting between 10:10 and 10:20 AM on Sundays

  • Please stay home if you or anyone in your household is feeling ill or has a fever.

  • Masks are recommended, but not required


ENTRY PROCEDURE

  • Everyone will enter through the main doors - be respectful of social distance guidelines

  • Hand sanitizer and soap and water will be available.

  • You are encouraged to bring your own chairs OR pick up one of the white plastic chairs and place it away from other groups (social distancing).  

  • Please sit as a family group (defined by address) 

  • Please keep your children within your family group

  • Please do not bring ANY food other than single use capped water bottles into the sanctuary

  • Activities are limited to sanctuary area.


WORSHIP 

  • There will be a “no touch” offering plate available.

  • Words to songs will be projected

  • Worship after the manner of Friends will take place early in the service BEFORE the service streams live.


EXIT PROCEDURE

  • After the announcements following the service please remain in your seat until you are dismissed by row.

  • Leave your seat in place if you are using a white plastic chair. 

  • Upon dismissal please do not stop in the center aisle.  

  • Please do not stop on the entryway or porch.  

  • If you wish to congregate please do so in the side yards or parking lot.



These procedures will be in place until further notice. 


Monday, June 1, 2020

Reopening for Worship - Staff/Volunteer procedures

Northshore Friend's Church planned reopen is June 7, 2020 for 10:00 Worship


NORTHSHORE STAFF/VOLUNTEER COVID PROCEDURES


Pursuant to Governor Abbott’s Open Texas Plan the following procedures will be used by all staff and volunteers of Northshore Friends Church until further notice. 


  • Before leaving home all staff/volunteers will take their temperature.  If it is not within normal parameters they will not attend worship services.  


  • Upon arrival at Northshore Friends Church all staff/volunteers will wash or disinfect their hands.


  • Each staff/volunteer will record their temperature (taken at home) in the provided log and certify it is correct and accurate.

Saturday, March 21, 2020

Monday, February 3, 2020

Lock In at Leeroy's

Register here
Lock in at Leeroy's Esports
Join us at Leeroy's Esports and fellowship with our friends from Friendswood Friends Church and from Friends Community Angelton.

More Details to come Please let us know what games you want to play when you sign up.

Leeroy's is located at 221 Parking Way suite b, Lake Jackson, TX 77566

Here are some things about the venue (Leeroy’s) that you might find helpful in helping you determine what you want to bring:



  • We have three “stations” with Switch consoles hooked to 55” TVs. We don’t have a lot of switch games, but we do have some of your typical party games for switch. We have the latest Jack Box games (supports a bunch of people playing using their phones). We have a bomb defusing game called “Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes”, and a few other games that support lots of players. We have Smash Ultimate and Mario Kart for all three stations (we also have the adapters for hooking up old Gamecube controllers for those crazy smash people). These stations are in the main gaming area and could be easily reconfigured to hook up different consoles if you guys wanted to bring some of your own stuff.
  • We have a long table with 10 Xboxes. All of the Xboxes have Game Pass. At the moment we’ve got about 50 games installed on each Xbox. If you guys can, browse the titles at that link and let me know of any that you would like to play. I’ll get the word out to the staff and they can have everything ready to go. The Xbox stations are designed to be played by one person per station. They each have their own 27” monitor. But if two people wanted to gang up and screen share or something, that’s possible.
  • We have 30 PCs that all have quite a few different games installed on them. We use license pools for most of the popular games. We generally have somewhere around 5 licenses (that we own) that can be pulled from the pool and used by people who don’t have their own licenses. People that have their own licenses can login with their own information and leave our licenses for the people that don’t have their own. Having said that, it we wanted to have a big Modern Warfare or Siege (or whatever) tournament, we’d need a good portion of the people playing to have their own accounts (licenses) since we only have a few of our own. This is only a limitation on the PCs, the Xboxes we could play all 10 on the same game at the same time.
  • The party room isn’t huge, but it’s definitely got enough room to setup some tables for food and drinks and seating for 10 or 15 people. It’s a somewhat separate from the main gaming area and more brightly lit, so it could be used for setting up table games or for socializing, etc. It has a TV on the wall that can be used for just about anything. We could hook a computer up to it and let people watch Netflix or live TV or whatever.
  • We have a small room setup as a streaming studio. It has a nice camera and microphones for two people. It has a green screen and a computer setup with OBS. So, if we had some enterprising young people that wanted to live stream some of the action to twitch (or whatever) that is doable.
  • The main gaming area has a sound system with two wireless mics. We also have a 4K projector that can be used to broadcast just about anything. We’ve never actually tried karaoke, but I’m pretty sure these things could be setup for it with minimal effort.


This place is a gamer’s paradise, HOWEVER, there’s not a ton of room inside to spread out and do things that aren’t gaming related.