Tik Tok personality Nikalie has been calling churches to see if they would provide formula for her fictitious baby during the government shutdown/SNAP freeze. So far she’s gotten 9 yes/ 28 no. Amon...
Among the few yeses were a mosque, Buddhist temple and a historically black church.
I’ve long since left the church, stopped believing, and think there’s often no love like Christian hate, but I don’t quite think this is fair without actual congregation size alongside the other data (Google photos is often very misleading and not the actual church in my experience, or Easter photos when normal size is 1/100th of the photos).
The church I grew up in had 100 members tops (members, not families) and ran a food bank. We could never afford maternal supplies and it was never donated to the bank so we would have said no. Listing if they have a food bank at all or not would be a good idea.
I agree In general, that information would be helpful before we grab our pitchforks.
But at least one of the names on this list, the Lakewood international Church in Houston, Texas, boasts 45,000 congregates a week and a 17,000 seat auditorium. They are one of the prototypical mega churches in the United States. I have not looked up the rest of these, I just recognized that one.
I’m sure there are several small congregations who would like help but don’t have the resources. But at the same time, it is an obvious and irrefutable fact that dozens of prosperity Gospel mega churches sit on their hands while people starve. If your church has an annual budget of over 90 million, is run out of an old NBA stadium, and you still can’t be bothered to give poor babies formula, I think you should be thrown to the lions.
I’ve long since left the church, stopped believing, and think there’s often no love like Christian hate, but I don’t quite think this is fair without actual congregation size alongside the other data (Google photos is often very misleading and not the actual church in my experience, or Easter photos when normal size is 1/100th of the photos).
The church I grew up in had 100 members tops (members, not families) and ran a food bank. We could never afford maternal supplies and it was never donated to the bank so we would have said no. Listing if they have a food bank at all or not would be a good idea.
I agree In general, that information would be helpful before we grab our pitchforks.
But at least one of the names on this list, the Lakewood international Church in Houston, Texas, boasts 45,000 congregates a week and a 17,000 seat auditorium. They are one of the prototypical mega churches in the United States. I have not looked up the rest of these, I just recognized that one.
I’m sure there are several small congregations who would like help but don’t have the resources. But at the same time, it is an obvious and irrefutable fact that dozens of prosperity Gospel mega churches sit on their hands while people starve. If your church has an annual budget of over 90 million, is run out of an old NBA stadium, and you still can’t be bothered to give poor babies formula, I think you should be thrown to the lions.