THE phrase ‘getting back to normal’ has become extremely familiar to us over the last 18 months. Yet the process of ‘getting back to normal’ seems to be neverending. Even now, more than two years after the pandemic began, there are things we’re doing again for the first time: attending graduations, weddings, baptisms, going on holidays and also resuming parts of church life.
In Newton Mearns Parish Church, like many churches, worship was carried out via livestream for most of 2020, and although worship has been back in-person for some time now, some aspects of church life are only just beginning to recommence.