Onsite Worship

 While the authorities allow up to 1000 fully vaccinated pax to attend on-site worship services, please understand that AMKMC needs to abide by the safe distancing regulations within the physical limits of our space. Thus, we are only able to host 230 worshippers.

Worshippers have to be segregated into zones holding no more than 50 worshippers each. Each zone must be completely separated from another at least 3m physical spacing demarcated by continuous physical barriers (e.g. rope barrier). 

As a Church and a family, we also have important factors to consider, such as (1) how to cater to as many worshippers as possible, (2) how to ensure that there are enough volunteers and staff who are fully vaccinated on-site, and lastly and most importantly, (3) how to do all the above without jeopardising the health and safety of everyone involved (including ministering to those who are unable to take the vaccines due to medical reasons).

Given that the morning on-site services have historically always had the highest attendances, we want to protect the unvaccinated from exposure to a larger crowd.

Secondly, for practical reasons, fewer MOH-approved clinics are open to do PET on Saturday evenings after 6pm or on Sunday mornings.

If demand for 5pm worship on-site services is consistently high, we will consider opening up another Sunday afternoon worship service slot (e.g. 2pm or 3pm) to cater for everyone’s safety and worship needs.

According to MCCY guidelines, unvaccinated individuals are allowed to attend on-site worship services if they have obtained a negative result on a pre-event test (PET) taken in the past 24 hours before the expected end of the event.

While fully vaccinated individuals have been given more concessions, we seek your understanding that we, as a church, also need to minister to non-vaccinated individuals, who may not be able to take the vaccines for various reasons.

If you are fully vaccinated* against COVID-19, you may register for on-site worship services and come to church.

If you are not fully vaccinated, you may register for the on-site worship service at 5pm. However, if you wish to attend the 8am or 10am services, you will need to undergo pre-event testing (PET) and have received a negative test result (except for children aged 12 and below).

To facilitate a more efficient check-in process, please arrive 15 – 30 minutes prior to the start of the on-site worship service.

*According to MOH guidelines – from 10 August 2021, individuals who are fully vaccinated with the WHO EUL vaccines such as Sinovac-CoronaVac, Sinopharm, and AstraZeneca will be eligible for the vaccination-differentiated safe management measures. Thus, an individual will be considered “fully-vaccinated” two weeks after he or she has received the full regimen of Pfizer-BioNTech/ Comirnaty, Moderna, or any WHO EUL vaccines.

Attendees may drop-off your children aged 4.5 to 10 years at the on-site AMKids class, but please do not intermingle with the other worshippers.

Children aged 12 years and below are currently ineligible for any COVID-19 vaccine in the National Vaccination Programme, and are exempted from undergoing PET. They can participate in vaccinated only-worship services. If there is more than one child in the group, all children must be from the same household.

The permissible group size is 2 pax (including children and babies). Unvaccinated individuals with a valid negative pre-event test result or recovered individuals are of similarly lower risk and may also join in such groups of up to 5.

To enable selected activities to resume in a safe manner, the Ministry of Health (MOH) is implementing the use of PET as one of the measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

A “Pre-Event Test” refers to a COVID-19 test taken by an attendee or patron who wishes to enter a venue where selected events, businesses, or activities are being held. This attendee or patron must have a valid negative COVID-19 test result taken within a specified period of time, before being allowed to enter the venue or participate in the event, business, or activity.

PET helps to reduce the risk of individuals infected with COVID-19 from transmitting the virus to other people at the event, and hence reduces the likelihood of an outbreak occurring at events, businesses, or activities. This allows more of such activities to resume safely, in particular, those with larger numbers of attendees or patrons.

For more information, please visit: https://www.moh.gov.sg/covid-19/pet.

The PET must be administered by MOH-approved COVID-19 test providers: https://www.moh.gov.sg/licensing-and-regulation/regulations-guidelines-and-circulars/details/list-of-covid-19-swab-providers

Home test kits (bought from retail pharmacies) are not considered valid test results.

The cost is estimated to be around $55 for the Antigen Rapid Test (ART) and $250 for the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) swab test. Attendees will need to book an appointment on their own and bear the cost of the test. The PET test will not be provided on-site.

The test results are only valid for 24 hours from the time an individual registers at the testing premises to take the test. Attendees must ensure that the result of the test is valid until the end of the worshipper’s participation in the worship service.

For example, if you are attending the 8am service which ends around 9am, your PET must be conducted no earlier than 9am on Saturday morning.

Attendees must be able to produce any one of the following documents:

• COVID-19 Test Result Notice (Negative ART result displayed on https://checker.covid-ops.gov.sg/
• COVID-19 Test Result Notice (Negative PCR result displayed on a GP’s Notice)
• PRPP Art Result Slip (issued by a GP clinic)
• PET Exemption Notice (issue by any clinic offering ART or PCR testing services); OR
• Check In Successful or Entry Restricted banner: displayed on the SafeEntry (Business) application upon scanning with the Tracetogether App/Token

If you have been vaccinated in Singapore, you will be able to verify the status of your vaccination or COVID-19 test via the Tracetogether App/Token. You may also check your HealthHub mobile app.

According to MOH guidelines – from 10 August 2021, individuals who are fully vaccinated with the WHO EUL vaccines such as Sinovac-CoronaVac, Sinopharm, and AstraZeneca will be eligible for the vaccination-differentiated safe management measures. Thus, an individual will be considered “fully-vaccinated” two weeks after he or she has received the full regimen of Pfizer-BioNTech/ Comirnaty, Moderna, or any WHO EUL vaccines.

If you had received the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine and your status is reflected as “not vaccinated” or “in progress”, it may be due to the following reasons:

• You have not completed all doses of the vaccination. You require two doses to complete the vaccination programme.
• It has been less than 14 days since you received the second dose of the vaccine. The vaccine will only fully take effect 14 days after your second dose.
• The interval between your vaccination doses is outside of the recommended minimal interval for the vaccine. Please refer to http://www.vaccine.gov.sg for more information on the recommended interval between doses.

For more information about Tracetogether, visit https://support.tracetogether.gov.sg/hc/en-sg.

With regards to PET, our staff will be able to retrieve your vaccination status directly from MOH’s database as part of PET status checks using the SafeEntry Business app.

Yes, the following individuals are exempt from undergoing the PET:

• Children aged 12 years and below
• Individuals who have been fully vaccinated in Singapore (i.e. 14 days after completing their second dose of vaccination)
• Individuals who have recovered from COVID-19 and are able to produce a valid exemption notice. However, the exemption notice has a relevant validity period. It must be issued 270 days from the date of the earliest PCR+ result performed in Singapore or 270 days from overseas PCR+ result if a Serology-positive (S+) result is obtained in Singapore.

All persons present must wear a face mask at all times. Face shields are not permitted as substitutes for face masks. Young children are still strongly encouraged to use a mask, especially when they are in a group setting (e.g. attending worship service).  

Singing by worshippers with masks on is not permitted.

There must be no reception or mingling between worshippers, before, during or after each worship service.