Experts project an estimated 100,000 churches in the US will close or be repurposed over the next decade.
Many churches will be unable to escape this “tsunami” of closings — a grim trajectory one pastor described as, “Every year the pews are getting emptier and the collection plates getting lighter.”
Thank you for understating this. So much of Lemmy is just hard black and white but there’s so much grey in between that people (myself included) often miss.
One of my friends used to belong to a church that provided them with housing for her and her husband. This was over 20 years ago though. Not sure if the church still offers services like that for those in need.