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Churches Provide 200,000+ Acts of Kindness During Pandemic: Report
Monday, December 14th, 2020
A report by the Evangelical Alliance in Scotland has found churches have provided hundreds of thousands of acts of kindness during the pandemic.
Premier News reports, the Stories of Hope report assessed what churches all over the nation did between May and July this year.
It found there were more than 212,000 individual acts of support at 181 locations, involving more than 3,200 volunteers and staff members.
Almost 56,000 people received help from churches over the period.
Evangelical Alliance spokesman Fred Drummond says churches have been creative in how they responded to COVID-19, including food distribution, opening their buildings to be used by councils, checking on the vulnerable, and having a phone line for people with mental health issues.