Interesting thread on the crisis within the clergy (why so many giving up and quitting)

[marie999]

16. Churches around here are doing fine. They are a big help to the community.

The one we go to gives out food twice a week to anyone, you don't have to belong to the church. Other churches do it too. Also if a house needs repairs and the owners can't afford to fix it, the churches have teams of people that will do the work and the supplies are donated by the community. When our house was hit by a tornado spawned by Florence, right after the insurance company looked at the house Mennonites came in. They were not there to make repairs, but they ripped out the ceilings, walls, and floors in the rooms that needed repair and put it all into bags for the county to pick up. They refused donations. Our churches are not only religious places but are community places as well. We are Jewish but not religious so we belong to the local Baptist Church.