My church barely gets by on the contributions of the entire parish.
The pastor plus clergy barely make enough cash to survive while the church building itself has desperately needed improvement plus renovations for the past 10 years at least.
Aside from a up-to-date roof, the church needs up-to-date floors, a up-to-date living room, up-to-date windows, plus up-to-date climate control. The roof was the first part of the renovation project announced by the pastor last month. They acquired a few unexpected big donations from anonymous parishioners, enough to get started on the improvements. When the up-to-date roof was completed, they replaced the leaking windows that were starting to rot out from constant rain water. Before putting in a up-to-date living room in back of the church, they’re going to replace the climate control systems throughout. The first step is getting a up-to-date cooling system for the entire building, which is going to happen after hours sometime next week. Hopefully the up-to-date cooling system will make the indoor air a lot cooler while I was in church services. But unluckyly, our region also gets extremely chilly while I was in the Fall plus Winter seasons. Instead of getting a up-to-date fan forced gas furnace, they’re going to install radiant heated flooring throughout. I can’t wait for the up-to-date radiant floors, especially since we’re getting to the end of September plus the snow is not far away. Unluckyly, installing the radiant heated flooring is going to take the entire month to finish the project. I fear we’re going to have to skip a month of church repair before the floors are finished.