Study Shows Giving Finally Rebounding for Majority of Churches

Church budgets, consequently, are up, and churches are allocating the extra funds to staff pay raises (40.3 percent), missions (36.5 percent), church buildings (35.3 percent) and benevolence (31.1 percent). And the way churches receive donations has shifted from the traditional "envelope packets" toward electronic giving, such as cell phone applications, automatic bank withdrawals and lobby kiosks.