Pastors See Church Worship Drop after Pandemic; Most Presume Attendance Decline after It Is Over

A new survey by the Barna Group shows that a little more than half of U.S. pastors expect their worship attendance to decline after the COVID-19 pandemic is over, according to the Christian Post website.

Barna recently released the findings of  week 17 of their Church Pulse Leader Survey, which drew from a poll of 422 Protestant pastors taken September 10-18.

For week 17. 46% of pastors said they expect attendance to have "declined slightly" by the end of the crisis, while 6% responded that they expect to have "declined dramatically."