COVID depletes collection plates at churches nationwide Biltmore is just one of an untold number of congregations across the country that have struggled to stay afloat financially and minister to their flocks during the pandemic, although others have managed to weather the storm, often with help from the federal government's Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, and sustained levels of member donations. The coronavirus hit at a time when already fewer Americans were going to worship services — with at least half of the nearly 15,300 congregations surveyed in a 2020 report by Faith Communities Today reporting weekly attendance of 65 or less — and exacerbated the problems at smaller churches where lean budgets often hindered them from things like hiring full-time clergy. "The pandemic didn't change those patterns, it only made them a little bit worse," said Scott Thumma, director of the Hartford Institute for Religion Research and co-chair of Faith Communities Today.
God will pay their costs, right? After all, they are doing His work. RIGHT? Or does God not understand finances? He's too high-brow to concern Himself with his own creation? He's a punk-ass bitch who doesn't exist. WAKE UP PEOPLE!
%% LOL, as if poor God needs gov loan?? The virus maybe the least of any church's problems. No wonder God doesnt have many friends/ he drowned the king of Egypt + his hellish hosts in the Red Sea. Yes ,they discovered the Egyptian chariot wheels on bottom of Red Sea The good news is the Lord God can heal with or without doctors