Jordan Bowen reports TAMPA, Fla. - Cheers and applause could be heard on a Tampa megachurch's livestream Sunday from a few hundred people inside The River at Tampa Bay Church.
The church is refusing to close its doors despite a "safer at home" order in effect in Hillsborough County meant to slow the spread of coronavirus. "It should make us all uncomfortable," said John DeBevoise, a pastor at Palma Ceia Presbyterian Church, located in South Tampa.
DeBevoise was among one of the first churches in the Bay Area to move online. "People should follow the safer-at-home order as a way of not only caring for themselves, but caring for their neighbors," DeBevoise said. RELATED: COVID-19 cases in Florida skyrocketed more than 900 Sunday to 4,246; 60