Editors’ note
This editorial note introduces a special collection of pastoral responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, including a sermon, congregational letters, and an elder's pastoral letter that exemplify faithful shepherding during crisis. The editors highlight how both pastors and elders fulfilled their calling to care for God's flock during this period of divine providence, demonstrating the practical application of church leadership in extraordinary circumstances.
Below you will find some unusual items related to God's 'frowning providence' of sending the coronavirus worldwide. In order to fit these special items, we delay printing of other articles that were planned for this issue. We trust the reader understands the appropriateness of addressing the current issues in the church and world. We did not ask anyone to produce special articles. Rather, we noticed what pastors and consistories were doing to care for their flocks in these unusual times, and...
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