Hempfield United Methodist Church (UMC), 3050 Marietta Ave., Lancaster, will host a free community event from 7 to 8 p.m. on Fridays, May 14 and June 4. A Time for Everything is designed to provide a place and space for people of all ages to acknowledge, express, name, honor, and reflect upon their individual and collective pandemic losses. The event will also be livestreamed on both evenings at http://www.hempfieldumc.org.

Pandemic losses may include the loss of loved ones, jobs and financial security, homes, social connections, activities, milestone celebrations and events, rites of passage, time spent with family, and routines and traditions.

The event will feature reflections and meditations, video vignettes, interpretive dance by HurleyInMotion, meditative music by Tish Brown and Abigail's Garden, and prayer. Attendees also will have the optional opportunity to privately jot down their own personal pandemic losses on slips of paper, which they may crumple up and bring to the altar to symbolically release some of the pain from these losses.

Due to COVID-19 protocols, in-person attendance will be limited on each evening, and preregistration is required at http://www.hempfieldumc.org/a-time-for-everything. For additional information, contact Joyce Young at jyoung@hempfieldumc.org or 717-285-5156, ext. 222.

Current COVID-19 protocols will be followed. At the conclusion of each evening's program, donations will be accepted to help offset costs.