{"id":17314,"date":"2010-01-15T19:29:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T19:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today_church_contributions_budgets_recede_in_poor_economy\/"},"modified":"2010-01-15T19:29:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T19:29:28","slug":"usa_today_church_contributions_budgets_recede_in_poor_economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17314","title":{"rendered":"USA Today: Church contributions, budgets recede in poor economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A national survey of 1,002 Protestant pastors in November by Nashville-based LifeWay Research found:<\/p>\n<p>\u201d\u00a228% reported raising less money than in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d\u00a257% said the poor economy was hurting their church.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d\u00a270% reported increased requests from people outside their congregation for assistance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d\u00a243% budgeted more money to help more needy people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201d\u00a23% were considering closing down their churches.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Churches have not yet entered the recovery,&#8221; says LifeWay director Ed Stetzer. &#8220;Historically, they tend to recover financially when unemployment decreases, usually after the economy as a whole&#8221; recovers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2010-01-14-churchmoney14_ST_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A national survey of 1,002 Protestant pastors in November by Nashville-based LifeWay Research found: \u201d\u00a228% reported raising less money than in 2008. \u201d\u00a257% said the poor economy was hurting their church. \u201d\u00a270% reported increased requests from people outside their congregation<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17314\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,40,50,42,209,149,154,184,108,441,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-economy","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}