The Eastbrook Church medical advisory team is monitoring the impact of COVID-19 on our church community. The situation continues to be fluid and rapidly changing. If you have any questions or concerns, the latest information will be communicated on this page, eastbrook.org/wellness, as well as the weekly email newsletter. Any more urgent news affecting the church body will be sent by additional emails. If you are not getting the weekly newsletter and would like to, you can sign up here. Additional up to date professional recommendations can be obtained at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, and the Milwaukee Health Department.

Church services are currently open to current limitations of capacity as determined by the City of Milwaukee. If you wish to attend in person, please pre-register each week using the links found at eastbrook.org/reopening. To access live online broadcast of the services please go to eastbrook.org/athome or download the Eastbrook App. If you are experiencing anxiety, depression, isolation, loneliness, or other concerns, please let us know via this confidential form. 

Current recommendations for our area:

• Avoid contact with people who are sick.
• Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth.
• Cover your cough or sneeze with a tissue, then throw the tissue in the trash.
• Follow the physical distancing recommendation to wear masks in public.
• Wash your hands often.

Eastbrook encourages you to consult your medical advisor/physician regarding COVID vaccinations. If you would like to talk to an Eastbrook Pastor, please contact our Pastor on Call at 414.228.5220 or reach out at info@eastbrook.org.

If you have concerns about symptoms you have or are wondering about going to the hospital or asking for testing, you may call this COVID hotline for instructions: 1-833-981-0711.

Parents,

We strive to make all of our children’s ministry spaces healthy and safe environments for learning, worship, and friendship. Please help us in this effort by cooperating in these well-child guidelines:

• FEVER – Child may attend when free from fever for 24 hours without medication.
• NASAL DRAINAGE: Child may not attend until clear.
• COUGH: Child may not attend with croup or persistent coughing associated with respiratory infection.
• RASH: Child having an unexplained or contagious rash may not attend.
• VOMITING/DIARRHEA: Child should have no incidence of these for 24 hours.
• STREP THROAT: Child should have started antibiotics 24 hours before attending.
• PINK EYE: Child may attend after 24 hours of antibiotics, and there is no matting or drainage from the eye.
• CHICKEN POX: Child may attend when all spots are scabbed over and the child is no longer scratching or touching scabs.
• LICE: Children may attend after treatment and all live lice and visible nits have been removed.

If these symptoms appear during the course of your child’s time with us, we will contact you to pick them up early. Thanks for your cooperation!