Are you talking about the 'Countdown in Progress', 'Clock Paused', etc. status messages, or custom built status messages? cause if it's the countdown, clock paused messages, you can disable/enable them via preferences, but if it's custom messages set up via the events tab, then it'd be something entirely different, I would imagine.
But in either case, I don't believe it's possible to pause the display of status messages to be automatically be re-enabled after the event fires. I could be wrong, but I don't think it's possible at this time.