Church Decline and Recovery During COVID-19

A national project aims to understand the impact of the pandemic on church attendance.
“Are people going to return to church after COVID?” This question, on the minds of pastors everywhere, is at the heart of the National COVID-19 Church Attendance Project (NCCAP). Posed directly to one of us by his brother, a pastor himself, it served as the genesis for this project.
Most of us are aware of the effects of COVID on our home church. Many of us have heard accounts of various other chur