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In house or virtual, how is the support?

01000001 01100011 01110100 01110011 Posts: 24285 **8/18/23 6:48 pm**

Being totally deaf with Cochlear Implants if it were up to me only, I would stay at home and worship with our church on-line, using the closed caption. In church I understand about 50% or less, BUT I attend with my wife to keep harmony in the family. If I remained at home I would send in my support as if I attended. We did it for over 20 years on the road without the privilege of seeing and hearing our pastor and friends at home.

My question here do the members who stay at home and join with the church still support the church as they did when attending in person?

Also is it more the seniors using the virtual?
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Re: In house or virtual, how is the support?

Acts-celerater Posts: 787 **8/22/23 3:23 pm**

Re: In house or virtual, how is the support?

01000001 01100011 01110100 01110011 Posts: 24285 **8/25/23 9:41 am**

[quote="FLRon"]I do not relish visiting church after church looking for a good fit. Been there done that and hated it. ..................

Our lives have required moving often. We have searched for the 'RIGHT' church so many times. We have been fortunate to pick solid churches most of the time and enjoyed the worship and people. BUT they are becoming harder and harder to find.

On line is not the same as in person of course, but my hearing fits better on line..... Confused

Some sound systems are crazy, I wonder how pastors and musicians did it with congregations of 300-500 without a sound system, but they did. Confused

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Online vs in house giving

Acts Enthusiast Posts: 1607 **8/26/23 8:43 am**

I think the key is in offering online giving along with your online service. We thankfully had digital giving available via kiosk and online long before covid. Pre-covid we hit around 35% to 40% digital giving. Post covid that number is consistently at 60%. So we have obviously seen a big shift in those who give digitally vs with check or cash. The other obvious is there is a cost for doing business that way in the fees associated with digital giving.

On to the question- I don't have exact numbers for comparison of online worshippers vs in-house. I think those numbers would be skewed somewhat by people who are members/connected to another church, but watch our services online. We have those weekly, both live and later in the week. Those people would be giving to their church, rather than to our church, which is to be expected.

I don't have a specific comparison, but I can say that our giving is strong, and is more digital than "paper" at this point. FYI we are an in-house congregation of about 450-500.

Re: Online vs in house giving

01000001 01100011 01110100 01110011 Posts: 24285 **8/26/23 2:12 pm**

[quote="4thgeneration".................
I don't have a specific comparison, but I can say that our giving is strong, and is more digital than "paper" at this point. FYI we are an in-house congregation of about 450-500.[/quote]

The entire comment is appreciated, but it is great to hear solid congregations. so many are down below the 50 mark and struggling.
Our home church was a steady 200-250 congregation for many years, then dropped to 150 then a steady 100 now we seldom break the 60 mark.

Thanks....
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