Flocks grow but tithes decline
3 Apr 2021
Safety first: An assistant registers worshippers who maintain social distancing inside the tent of the Incredible Happenings Ministry Church in Katlehong, Ekurhuleni. Photo: Marco Longari/AFP
From supporting the most vulnerable and those seeking spiritual refuge to conducting more funerals and becoming tech-savvy, churches in South Africa have been busier than ever. No one could foresee the hardships, adjustments and difficulties individuals would face when the coronavirus emerged in South Africa in March last year.
“Hunger, depression and domestic strife with concomitant domestic violence and gender-based violence became the new challenges the churches had to address in their communities,” says Bishop Malusi Mpumlwana, general secretary of the South African Council of Churches (SACC).
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