PHOTOS: This was a stay-in-your-car Easter service at west Salem church
Unable to conduct the usual Easter morning service in the chapel because of coronovirus restrictions, Pastor Seth Morley of the West Salem Christian Church delivered his sermon from a makeshift pulpit on a flatbed trailer parked in the church’s parking lot. Church members were asked to keep their windows rolled up and to tune to a short-distance radio station to hear the service on Sunday, April 12, while parked at the church at 1155 Glen Creek Rd. N.W in Salem. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)
A participant in a drive-in Easter Sunday wears a mask and listens as Pastor Seth Morley of West Salem Christian Church delivers his sermon on Sunday, April 12. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)
Unable to conduct the usual Easter morning service in the chapel because of coronovirus restrictions, Pastor Seth Morley of the West Salem Christian Church delivered his sermon from a makeshift pulpit on a flatbed trailer parked in the church’s parking lot. Church members were asked to keep their windows rolled up and to tune to a short-distance radio station to hear the service while parked at the church at 1155 Glen Creek Rd. N.W in Salem. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)
A drive-in Easter service on Sunday, April 12, at the West Salem Christian Church was an informal occasion and this participant relaxed while listening to the sermon on her car radio. As a coronavirus precaution, congregants were asked to keep their car windows rolled up on a sunny, warm Easter morning. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)
Pastor Seth Morley of the West Salem Christian Church delivers his Easter service from the bed of a flatbed trailer on Sunday, April 12. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)
Congregants attending an Easter morning drive-in church service on Sunday, April 12, at the West Salem Christian Church were asked to remain in their vehicles and to keep their windows up. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)
Worshipers attending a drive-in Easter morning service on Sunday, April 12, enjoyed sunny skies and pastoral surroundings at West Salem Christian Church at 1155 Glen Creek Rd. N.W in Salem. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)
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Photographer Ron Cooper and his wife Penny moved to Salem in 1969 to take a job as photographer at the Oregon Statesman (later the Statesman Journal). Their three children, Monica, Kimberly, and Christopher, attended and graduated from Salem public schools. Cooper retired from the Statesman Journal in 2001 but, has continued his passion for photography in many ways, including as a photographer for the Salem Reporter.
