Hospitality Response to COVID-19

We’re doing things a little differently in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Fellowship is committed to keeping our campers, guests and staff healthy and providing and encouraging a safe environment for all.
These guidelines will be adjusted as new information becomes available about the novel coronavirus.

• You can download our COVID-19 Camper/Participant Acknowledgment & Waiver here.
  (Updated September 2021)
  

We invite your cooperation and assistance in caring for one another

• before you arrive

• during your time here and

• after you return home.

When necessitated by high rates of community infection:

All Fellowship staff will wear masks when interacting with guests inside buildings or in outside space when physical distance cannot be maintained. Food service employees will wear gloves and masks at all times when in the kitchen and dining room areas.

A few general recommendations in times of high community spread:

• We recommend group leaders assign each individual their own room, unless they share a household.

• We ask that Multi-day groups limit commuters coming and going daily.

• We ask that groups respect maximum occupancies in indoor spaces and plan as much programming in open air spaces as possible.

• We recommend groups encourage participants to do “in-between cleaning” of high touch areas and other shared spaces. Cleaning wipes and other accommodations will be provided by the camp.

• We request that guest groups notify a staff member of any needs in guest rooms. Our staff will clean and sanitize bedrooms, meeting rooms and private restrooms prior to your arrival and at departure, but will only access lodging and other accommodations on request.

• We recommend that guest groups encourage the use of hand sanitizer and frequent handwashing.

• We request that guest groups notify staff of special dietary needs, allergies, and other needs. During your stay, meals will be prepared by our kitchen staff and served in a method that accommodates the health and safety of our guests and staff. Meal service may be limited based on current health department recommendations and community impact. Guests are encouraged to enjoy meals outside whenever possible. Some services and items may be limited during this time.

Before You Arrive

As we prepare for your arrival, we ask that you take these steps to prepare, too!

All individuals planning to attend any day or overnight event at Fellowship agree to :

1. Monitor your health prior to the start of your event.
   You should not attend if you have or have experienced within the last 14 days any of the following symptoms:

   - fever of 100.4 °F or greater
   - cough
   - shortness of breath
   - diarrhea, vomiting or nausea
   - unusual or unexplainable fatigue
   - unusual, severe or persistent headaches, muscle aches
   - new loss of taste or smell
   - sore throat

2. If you have been in close contact within 14 days prior to the start of your event with a person who has been diagnosed with, tested for, or quarantined as a result of COVID-19, you should not attend your group’s gathering.

Group Leaders agree to:

1. Convey pre-arrival protocols to group participants.

2. Complete and submit the Contact Tracing Information Form containing full contact information for each member of their group. Fellowship will keep this information on file for 60 days to aid in contact tracing in case of reported illness.

3. Assign housing based on households or other pod groupings and maintain protocols for identifying close contacts.

Upon Arrival

We will work together to keep things healthy and safe on site!.

1. Group leaders will take temperature of all group members at arrival and before they are allowed to settle in a guest room.
   Fellowship will provided a no-touch, infrared thermometer for use by the group upon request.

   If a temperature of greater than 100.3° is recorded, another reading will be made after 10 minutes. If a second reading of over 100.3° is registered the person will be moved into isolation housing until arrangements can be made for their departure.

2. All group participants will be asked to confirm their answers to the following screening questions:

   • Have you or anyone in your household currently or within the past fourteen (14) days experienced any symptoms associated with COVID-19, which include fever, cough, and shortness of breath among others?

   • Have you or anyone in your household traveled at any point in the past fourteen (14) days either internationally or to a community in the U.S. that has experienced or is experiencing a high level of sustained community spread of COVID-19?

   • Have you or anyone in your household been exposed to or deemed a “close contact” to a confirmed or suspected case of COVID-19; or have you or anyone in your household been diagnosed with COVID-19 and not yet cleared as non-contagious by state or local public health authorities or the health care team responsible for their treatment?

     “Yes” answers to any of the questions above may be cause for self-exclusion from participation. Any “yes” answers will require further conversation with group leader, participant and Fellowship’s Executive Director or Medical Advisory and Safety Team designee.

After Your Stay at Fellowship