Items of Interest May 16, 2011 Issue

Church giving is up

Audrey Barrick

“Survey: More churches rebound from economic recession” www.christianpost.com, The Christian Post. Used with permission. March 31, 2011

Churches have begun to rebound financially with more seeing increases in giving, a new survey found.

Forty-three percent of churches saw giving go up in 2010. In the previous year, only 36 percent reported increases in giving. Nearly half (46.5 percent) of churches were also able to increase their budget this year.

The statistics were laid out in the third annual State of the Plate report . . . . Released [March 30], results from the survey of 1,507 churches revealed that many churches were still struggling financially. Thirty-nine percent saw a decline in giving in 2010, similar to the previous year. Churches in the Pacific Coast states and Southeast states were hardest hit this past year. . . . 

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