USA Today: In times like these, more people are going to church for help

Posted by Kendall Harmon

Pleas for help — spiritual and financial — are flooding U.S. churches, from tiny congregations to megachurches, as recession woes seep into the pews, a new survey finds.

Pastors say they're giving out benevolent funds in record numbers, increasing ministries to the unemployed and the financially fearful, even reaching into their own pockets more to help.

Nearly two in three pastors (62%) report more people from outside their church asking for help, and nearly a third (31%) see more such requests from church members, according to a survey of 1,000 Protestant pastors.

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Filed under: * Christian Life / Church Life • Parish Ministry • * Economics, Politics • Economy • The Credit Freeze Crisis of Fall 2008/The Recession of 2007--

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Posted March 30, 2009 at 5:30 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. Philip Snyder wrote:

In our society, God is placed in a Glass enclosed box where He can’t really hurt us, but there is a hammer next to the box with a sign “In case of emergency, break glass.”

How much better would our society be if we turned to God before the crisis erupted?

YBIC,
Phil Snyder

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