An evangelical Christian singer plans on holding three days of New Year’s Eve gatherings in Los Angeles, with stops in Echo Park, downtown L.A.’s Skid Row area, and finally a party in a church parking lot in Valencia.
Activists are trying to stop the “super-spreader” event that overrides the region’s stay-at-home orders.
Sean Feucht of Redding, California, along with his followers are staging a “massive outreach” Wednesday night, in a city teeming with COVID-19 cases, a record-high death count, and hospitals facing massive shortages.
The “Let Us Worship” concerts, are a musical protest against government mandates of large gatherings.
In the past, Feucht’s events have featured hundreds of maskless worshipers, standing close together, while singing and dancing.
“We know based on his track record whatever he’s going to do is going to be maskless,” Stephen “Cue” Jn-Marie, pastor of Church Without Walls, a skid row congregation told The Los Angeles Times.
“The problem we’re facing is even prior to the stay-at-home order, people come into the community and say they’re bringing resources but what they’re bringing is the disease,” Jn-Marie added. “It doesn’t take thousands to start an outbreak.”