Churches Volunteering As Vaccination Sites

Two days ago we reported on famous evangelist Franklin Graham’s statements that if vaccines were available in Jesus’ day he would take them.

In that report, we noted that more and more preachers would begin to advocate taking a Covid-19 vaccine. This is all during the time that figures such as President Biden, former President Trump, Dr. Fauci, along with an ad campaign titled “It’s Up To You” urging Americans to take the vaccine.

In that report we also noted to be on the lookout for churches and other professing Christian organizations to become vaccination sites. A WinePress contributor sent in a handful of churches that are doing just that all across the country.

In Birmingham and Trussville, Alabama, pastors Gregory Clarke and Derrick Jordan have preached to their congregations the necessity and importance of getting a Covid-19 vaccine, according to WBRC.

They should realize we are going to have to do what the science says in order for us to eventually get control of this situation.

Gregory Clarke of New Hope Baptist Church

Based on the knowledge that I had on clinical trials, we just kind of took some of that information and share with people and put them at ease.

Derrick Jordan of Hope Everlasting Ministry

According to that report, The Alabama Department of Public Health has been reaching out to faith leaders around Alabama letting them know the vaccine is safe and to spread the word to their congregations. Clarke wants to see a vaccine site at his church for the west end which is predominantly African American.

We need to get into that community and into our community. And I want not just a pop-up site but a permanent spot in this western area to vaccinate people.

Derrick Clarke

In Florida a Catholic Vietnamese church has signed up to be a state-run vaccination site.

I actually worked the registration. I witnessed first-hand what it meant for the parishioners and the people of our church to be able to host this event.

Parishioner Vu Nguyen told Spectrum News 13

In Aurora, Colorado, an Ethiopian Orthodox church has signed on to be another verified vaccination site. 300 vaccines have been reserved for congregants and other immigrants and refugees.

I’m very happy. Many of us wouldn’t have this opportunity otherwise.

Mergersa Edeye. Longtime congregant who just received his vaccine

KUNC.org reports, The church partnered with Democratic state Rep. Naquetta Ricks and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to become an equity clinic — one of dozens taking place across the state. The pop-up vaccine distribution sites are designed to help quash racial disparities emerging in the rollout.

We educate everyone that the vaccine is important for them, just like masks. They all know that (they need to get vaccinated) if they want to come back to the church. If they don’t take the vaccine, they’ll have to stay home.

Girma Tilahun. Vice Chair of St. Mary’s Orthodox Church Board

The more members of particularly impacted communities that are not getting the vaccine that start to get it … the more that we can have testimonials of people who have gotten the vaccine that talk with their friends and their family members and tell them, ‘Hey, I’ve gotten the vaccine’… that will start to break down some of those barriers. So, yeah, I think it’s a good step in the right direction.

State Rep. Naquetta Ricks

Traveling back eastward, a Philadelphia church has also become an official vaccination hosting location. The African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas has partnered with Main Line Health (Lankenau Medical Center), according to ABC 6.

I know people in the African American community, people of color, who will not feel as comfortable going to a medical center as they will feel coming to a place of worship to receive their vaccine.

Historically, there have been some instances in American history whereby African Americans were used as guinea pigs in medical research and medical explorations. There is a hesitancy about if this is maybe, possibly, another way that the government or medical community is using the African American community to do research medically.

The Church is doing what it’s called by Jesus Christ to do and be. To be there for the people.

Father Martini Shaw. The Rector at St. Thomas.

Baptist News Global says other churches in states such as Florida, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia.

They note the strategy of some of these churches is to get the vaccine in more rural areas.

According to the report, In early January, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced an initiative for counties to partner with local churches to get the vaccine into underserved communities. Seven sites were chosen to administer up to 500 doses per day to people over age 65 on an appointment basis. At one of those locations — St. John Progressive Missionary Baptist Church in Tampa — 590 people received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine on Jan. 10 and were to return for a second dose on Jan. 31. The church-based clinic was administered by the Florida Department of Health-Hillsborough County.

On January 6th, Ascension Sacred Heart Health Care System partnered with Olive Baptist Church to distribute 1,000 vaccines in the Pensacola area.

New York announced eight churches on Jan. 23rd to distribute the vaccine.

If the role of the church is to be the salt and light of the world, then you seek to do good in any instance in which you can, and so for us this really was a no-brainer. We’re a 203-year-old church in the middle of the city of Augusta, and we’re perfectly positioned to host something like this. We have continually tried to reach beyond ourselves and help other people, and this was literally a situation where we could help save lives.

We live in a city where there are quite a few churches that are acting as though COVID is not a real thing with masks not being worn, social distancing not being observed, and I have had multiple people tell me they have walked away from churches because of that sort of attitude. For me and I think for us as a church, we felt it really important to say, ‘That’s not the only way to follow Jesus. In fact, there’s a more fruitful, faithful way: to trust our medical professionals, to partner with them to help make the city a safer and better place for everybody.’

To paint some sort of picture that is positive and affirming of what Jesus actually teaches is to me pretty important for us to do.

Will Dyer. Pastor of First Baptist Church of Augusta, Georgia. He partnered with University Hospital to vaccinate 5,300 dose in February

In Tennessee something similar is occurring.

We were approached by the city administrator for the city of Germantown. They have the personnel locally to be able to administrate the vaccine and put everything together, and they were looking at potential sites and I think quickly recognized that probably one of if not the best place to do it in the city of Germantown would be our church because we do have a large parking lot.

This is just a small way that our church is able to communicate that we love and care about our neighbors and the communities we serve. A lot has been said over the past several months about living in unprecedented times and the challenges we’ve faced as a result of a global pandemic, and so much of Jesus’ ministry was ministering to the masses through teaching and healing, and so it’s just an opportunity for us to play a small role in ministering to our community and the mid-South by offering our parking lot for COVID vaccinations.

John Longworth. Recreation and Senior Adults Pastor at Germantown Baptist Church.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

[1] Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD. [2] Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 23:1-2

[18] For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. [19] While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

2 Peter 2:18-19

You see how easily the government reached out to these “churches?” As I have said in other reports, if these church buildings are in bed with the government apart of the public sector (which is the majority of them), all the government has to do is tug on the leash and force these churches to become vaccine rollout and inoculation sites. If nothing else they will pressure them to speak about it and do sermons about them and putting up church bulletins and social media posts.

It goes without saying these preachers are totally false and are not saved. The logic used is just as heretical as what Graham has been saying. These false teachers will never dare to tell them to get cured naturally: that’s “taboo;” but they sure are quick to do a jig for vaccines and yoke up with the modern medical mafia.

And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.

Ezekiel 47:12

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