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Tithes rise during COVID, defying church collapse worries

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — As the pandemic hit, Pastor Ennis Fant, like thousands of his...

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Tithes rise during COVID, defying expectations of widespread church collapse in Upstate SC

Tithes rise during COVID, defying expectations of widespread church collapse in Upstate SC
Mike Ellis, Greenville News
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Sanctuary of Praise, a Pentacostal church in Anderson, has had a better year financially than last year.
As the pandemic hit, Pastor Ennis Fant, like thousands of his fellow clergy, worried it would be the end of his church.
"We always operate on thin margins, any little snag would be cataclysmic," said Fant, who leads a small Powdersville Baptist church.
But he found, as have most churches, that fears of an apocalyptic year were unfounded.
At the start of the pandemic, the predictions were dire: Churches, already on narrow budgets, would soon collapse in large numbers.

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