Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 12/23/2020 3:49:36 PM
It started with a rumor on social media. Is a traveling religious revival that believes COVID-19 is a sign of the end times really coming to New Ipswich to spread their gospel – and potentially the novel coronavirus – to the surrounding area? The answer was yes, as Torben Sondergaard’s group The Last Reformation made its way to New Ipswich in August for a week-long evangelical event.
Group representatives initially told the Select Board that The Last Reformation would likely not follow the state’s COVID-19 social distancing and quarantine guidelines, despite traveling through a series of coronavirus hotspots on their way to New Ipswich. This alarmed residents around the region who’d been largely able to avoid a COVID outbreak to that point; some locals even closed their businesses for the week.