![]() In August of 2020, Thom Rainer predicted that roughly 20-30 percent of church members would not return to church after the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing policy responses resulted in significant and rapid changes in church attendance patterns. The disruption in church attendance patterns is astounding. Church Attendance Patterns During the Pandemic Our second article will reflect on church giving and staffing and our final installment of this three-part series will focus on church leadership and priorities at present and looking forward. In this article, we will provide an overview of our findings regarding church attendance patterns over the past year and a half. We hope you will join us as we unpack our initial findings. ![]() Through the collaboration of Wheaton College, Exponential, Outreach, and the Wheaton College Billy Graham Center, our initial survey represents the experience of more than 600 churches, over 400,000 weekly worshippers geographically covering 47 states and the District of Colombia. By gathering as many individual church stories as possible, from all over the country, we aim to provide a broad sense of the impact of COVID on attendance and what the path to recovery has looked like for churches so far. ![]() The NCCAP represents our efforts to try to see the bigger picture. ![]()
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