With the COVID-19 pandemic, it's not easy to go to church or confession, but local Valley churches are streaming daily in Arizona, while also offering masses and services online. 

Our Lady of Perpetual Help, a Catholic church in the Valley, has been offering a different type of service during the pandemic. 

Valley residents are waiting in line in their cars at Our Lady of Perpetual Help to visit the church's drive-thru confession in preparation for Easter. 

"The first day we had a dozen and it's only increased since then," Fr. Gregory Schlarb, pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, told Fox 10 News. 

Schlarb said the idea for a drive-thru confession was found on social media. 

"So the drive-thru confession it was an Instagram post somewhere in the Midwest and it became an acceptable image," Schlarb said. "So it was one of the first ways for us to really kind of venture into the social distancing - how can we still offer one of our sacraments?"

But social distancing during one of the holiest times of the years for Catholics isn't something that is easy to do. 

"We've been thrown into this now, and families need healing," Schlarb told Fox 10 News. "And the sacrament of confession is a great way for Catholics to be able to express where they have fallen and broken relationships."

The process of the drive-thru confession took some trial and error before Our Lady of Perpetual Help found the best method for itself. 

Cars wait in line for their turn in confession. Once a car reaches the drive-thru confession, a person can exit the car and receive the sacrament of confession one person at a time, while keeping a distance from the priest. 

"There was a family in the car. One would come out of the car at a time and their confessions were being heard," Schlarb said. "Again, keeping that social distancing, making sure that when we're giving the prayer of absolution there was no touching. But the extension of hand is there."

Our Lady of Perpetual Help is following Diocese guidelines regarding the coronavirus and making sure to keep health and safety while being able to offer an important sacrament to the parish's community. 

"It's part of who we're called to be as Christian stewards," Schlarb told Fox 10 News. "We not only cultivate the gifts given to us, but we share those gifts."