This isn’t the Church of Christ that I am familiar with, which is deeply conservative. It must be the liberal Church of Christ.
The United Church of Christ UCC was perhaps the first and most liberal of the protestant denominations. They did some good leadership in the early civil rights days, 50-60 years ago, but since then have gone totally apostate. They are also shriveling on the vine like the rest of the moribund mainline.
Oh no, United Church of Christ is nothing like Church of Christ.
UCC are flaming liberals, and Church of Christ are way past conservative into “seriously strict.”
The United Church of Christ is the result of the 1957 merger of the Congregationalist Church and the Evangelical and Reformed Church.
It is the “United Church of Christ.” Formed in the 1960s and mostley in New England, parts of PA and Ohio IIRC.
They have been loosing members for decades. At it’s peak they were around 2.2 Mil members, now down to the mid-low 700k range.
On paper I’m a member of a UCC “church”, haven’t attended a worship in 10 years or so. Back in 2005 or so, it was a thriving congregation. Had 2 worship services, early with maybe 50 people and a later one with Choir and Synday School wiht 100-125 + 20-40 kids.
Now, they are down to one service with normally under 50 in attendance. COVID gave them the idea to install a permanent streaming camera system, spent thousands on it and only get 3-5 views each week.
Due to a fire in 2010 so so, they have a new larger sanctuary, multi-purpose room, kitchen, meeting room plus the older office and Sunday school building that was saved by the FD. In May 2021 when the state dropped all Coof mandated they continued to mandate masks, canceled all non-worship events like church supper/fund raisers, well into 2022.
Anyway, they are/were gonna try to hire a consultant as they have realized each year they are pulling more funds from the endowment then they make on investment income, even before Biden’s stock market. They estimate 5-8 years before the endowment runs out and they can’t pay utilities. Yes, the endowment now paying for electricity, gas, etc.
Get woke, go broke.