(RNS) — Caleb Borchers planned to preach on the second chapter of the biblical Book of Haggai as he met with his five-year-old church in Asa Messer Elementary School in Providence, Rhode Island.
In the end, the sermon on Sunday (March 15) was one of the few things that turned out the way Borchers thought it would.
Along with other schools in the Ocean State — and a total of 45 states across the country — the public school where the church meets was swiftly closed due to concerns about the coronavirus. Those decisions affected not only schoolchildren, staff and their families but also the churches that had been meeting in those buildings on weekends.
“I was hoping that we’d get one more service in on the 15th,” said Borchers, pastor of The Feast Church, a congregation affiliated with the Churches of Christ. “So it wasn’t until about noontime on the 13th that we knew that the 15th we’d be going to digital church.”
Church plants — relatively new congregations that often start without their own physical place to meet — are facing some of the same logistical challenges as other congregations adjusting to worship outside their usual locations. But these fledgling churches are, in some ways, more nimble and more vulnerable.
Borchers, 36, had previous podcasting experience with live broadcasting via social media. So he already had a green screen and lights in his…
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