{"id":14612,"date":"2025-01-06T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T11:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=14612"},"modified":"2025-01-06T12:05:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T12:05:43","slug":"churches-see-a-drop-in-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=14612","title":{"rendered":"Churches See a Drop in Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/churches-see-a-drop-in-giving\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/churches-see-a-drop-in-giving\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Christian post reports that a recent survey shows that the share of Evangelicals who have donated to their church has dropped in recent years, with nearly one-third saying they didn&#8217;t donate to a church or charity within the prior 12 months. The poll found that 61% of respondents donated to a church in the 12 months preceding the survey, constituting a drop from the 74% of Evangelicals who gave to a church in 2021. Every age and socioeconomic group showed a drop in the number of people giving.<\/p>\n<p>If this becomes a trend, churches will be in serious trouble. One of the best antidotes to this is for families to intentionally teach their children biblical principles about money and especially about giving. Giving a tithe to our church is a good place to start since it\u2019s an easy concept for even children to grasp: some portion of what we have and earn goes to God\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/churches-see-a-drop-in-giving\/ Christian post reports that a recent survey shows that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14613,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14612\/revisions\/14613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}