By China Cassidy On Tuesday, June 16, the Bread of Life Mission in Holbrook reported an outbreak of COVID-19 at the mission. Director Cherise Meyers reported that the mission continued to accept new people following the stay at home order, which took effect on March 26. “That’s what we do, we are a faith-based ministry and want to be wise but not operate out of fear. We did not have any confirmed cases, there was no reason to lock down at that time.” Despite resident and staff efforts to take immediate precaution offering masks, gloves and implementing strict sanitizing practices, the mission now has 14 confirmed cases of the virus at the facility. The first confirmed case was quarantined immediately but according to Meyers, the second person that caught the virus did not disclose the fact that he was sick until he left the mission. Already having three residents in quarantine they stopped accepting new people as of June 10. According to Meyers, the Navajo County Health Department was able to assist the mission in getting all residents tested at once. The results confirmed that 14 residents did in fact have the virus with no symptoms and the rest came back negative. Meyers said that they have since quarantined all positive cases separate from the negative cases and will continue to do so until June 22, at which time they will proceed to operate with caution. Meyers extended her gratitude to those who contributed to the efforts to keep everyone safe and healthy offering, “The community has been fantastic and the collaboration with the Navajo County Health and Emergency Management has been spectacular. Thank you especially to Kathy Solomon, Ashley Wilkie, Pam Harris, Alyssa Lemmon, Catrina Jenkins and Eli Bierman,” said Meyers.