When we arrived at the resort Thursday, March 12th, one day before the masses would arrive, things were just starting to heat up. We were paying attention to it all——everyone was——but we were within the state guidelines for group gatherings (which at the time encouraged a limit of 250 people). Even still, we put extra safeguards in place for everyone’s comfort; we wanted to make sure people were safe and felt safe. A few attending couples cancelled, but not many, and all our speakers were still on board. Then, Friday morning, things escalated fast. In moments, we went from arranging raffles and alphabetizing name tags to an emergency board meeting in a storage closet where we made the hard decision to cancel. We knew that would mean a lot of disappointed people—many of whom were already en route from 15 different states; we cried over that. But, we knew the decision had to be made, and it has been confirmed over and over again since.

We are together called to live out our mission to care for caregivers no matter the cost. And, the people we are together called to serve are infinitely more important than any program we work so hard to offer.

Please take some time to click over to our Facebook group to admire the artwork and applaud the artists who would have been featured at an art show of sorts at Together Called 2020. After we had set them all up, we took them all down, then set them up once again so that we could take pictures of them. We wanted each artist to see them, and we wanted you to see them too.