A 15 April 2021 Christianity Today article by Daniel Silliman reporting that Church of God in Christ's first-ever financial audit, commissioned under then presiding bishop Charles E. Blake Sr., found an additional 10 million dollars that had not been accounted for, and that denomination-wide giving fell by nearly half during the COVID-19 pandemic, a steeper decline than the roughly 42 percent of churches nationally reported by the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability.
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Tier 2: a 15 April 2021 article by Daniel Silliman for Christianity Today, a national evangelical news magazine, read directly, reporting that Church of God in Christ's first-ever financial audit, commissioned under then presiding bishop Charles E. Blake Sr., found an additional 10 million dollars that had not been accounted for after the denomination's departments and ministries had operated with increasing financial independence, and that denomination-wide giving fell by nearly half during the COVID-19 pandemic. A named-byline national religious news outlet's direct reporting relaying an internal audit's findings, not the audit report itself, which was not made public. Citation
AuthorDaniel Silliman
PublisherChristianity Today
Publication Year2021
URLhttps://www.christianitytoday.com/2021/04/cogic-covid19-financial-crisis-bishop-sheard/
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