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“Dear ward. Bilkjørende ward. Grace be with you, and peace from God our father and the Lord Jesus Christ.”
Then the dean Olav Rune Ertzeid, in the Nord-Helgeland to preach about Jesus ‘ entry on a donkey, palm Sunday, was the front of a motorised crowd than usual.
although the church in Alstahaug church on the coast of Helgeland was empty in kirketiden Sunday, was the parking lot filled up.
Since they can’t have service inside the church, the dean and his colleagues on the Helgeland had to think new and creatively.
When they landed on the drive-in-church services.
– Then there will be a kind of community – in the parking lot – and it is something people today are missing so it is precisely the experience of the community, to be together, ” says dean to the NRK.
Tripled the number of visitors
At a regular worship service palm Sunday there tends to be between 70 and 100 in the church, ” he says.
– And now it’s probably at least double and perhaps triple.
When one is in the close family, one can be up to five pieces in each car, ” says the priest.
They have also clarified the distance there should be between cars with kommunelegen.
– It’s fun to do something that is different, he points out.
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How is this accepted by people?
– I’ve only heard exclusively positive reactions, ” says dean.
With the organist pushed behind a keyboard in a kassebil, held the church, namely, full service.
So living rooms the organist when the church moved out in the parking lot.
Photo: Ole Christian Olsen / NRK
I thought “when they get it to in the south as we get it at least to here”, tells Ertzeid
Popular in several places
director of Communications, Ingeborg Dybvig in The Norwegian church has no official count of how many that offer services of this kind, but says that they were early in Skien.
director of Communications, Sarah Byvig says church initiative is popular in car parks throughout the country.
Photo: Consistory
She think many have gotten the idea from there, and says the initiative has taken place in Haugesund and saint paul also.
– In Tønsberg was the entire town square chock full of cars yesterday. We know that the response has been good and that it is a popular measure, ” she says.
Stortingspolitiker Jonny Finstad had to follow their father’s funeral through the PC-screen Feast to the drive-in
According to her, there are still some places where the church is open. Not for worship, but for that people should be able to sit down and light candles or the like.
She emphasizes that they are open according to the authorities ‘ restrictions.
Dybvig think people have a need to get out of the house, and think drive-in service is safe in that way.
– You’re sitting in your car and get into the church.
– Can easter be the feast for drive-in?
– Yes, there may be good opportunities for it.
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