Di you do tithes to a church?

Manybyears ago i used to give on Sundays but there waa a chrch meeting that I attended with the gf. She is quite active there. At the meeting they let slip that 90% of what was given was used for utilities, maintenance, retirements, their children's
private college tuitions, and salaries. It's a big church. The minister's homes are much bigger than mine. I've never heard of a minister getting laid off. I was going to voice some concerns but tge gf shut me up. Ivtried putting in some weather stripping on the leaky front door but no, thatcrequired a committee which never did anything. At that point i decided to just save my money and focus it on people anonymously that i knew that needed it without going through the church.
It drives the people at the church crazy.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

The regular churches in England do not use tithes. I don't know if they still do but at one time they passed a collection-plate or bag around the congregation during the service.

Now they rely locally on donations-boxes by the door, and by fund-raising voluntary / community events like fetes, local clubs hiring church halls, coffee-mornings and music performances. Some of the cathedrals and even some parish churches have cafeterias, open out of services hours, possibly run by volunteers.

Nationally the various denominations rely mainly on investments and property-rents but it is becoming harder for them by fewer regular church-goers, higher running-costs and the sheer cost of maintaining and repairing so many buildings. Those for the Roman Catholics and Anglicans can be anything up to about a thousand years old - a few parish churches still contain fragments of their Saxon originals. Methodist and other non-conformist chapels are far younger, dating back well under 300 years, and all denominations have 19C and 20C buildings. My local church is from the 13C, I think.

Many churches, of different denominations, have closed, often forcing their attendees to travel to ones further from home.

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