A new report from the Evangelical Alliance (EA) reveals that more people are attending evangelical churches than before the Covid-19 pandemic. The EA’s Changing Church 2025 report, a survey of 305 church leaders and 977 EA members published in May, showed a 13 per cent increase in attendances since January 2020.
Other results include:
Twice as many people are becoming Christians at churches today than they were in 2021;
Most churches have seen an increase in giving – but for four in five it is not enough to cover inflation;
The wellbeing of church leaders has improved!
However, the frequency of church attendance has decreased, with 78 per cent attending weekly – down from over 90 per cent, and larger churches are faring better than smaller ones.
The EA’s report follows encouragement from YouGov surveys, which indicate that the decline in general church attendance in England and Wales has reversed, with two million more people attending church in 2024 than in 2018.
630 children find faith at Christian festival
Around 630 children and teenagers gave their lives to Christ at this year’s Spring Harvest Christian holiday. Premier Christianity magazine reports that this is not a one-off. Abby Guinness, Head of Spring Harvest for ten years, writes that “in each of the past four years… more children and young people have made a decision to follow Jesus than the year before…
“Spring Harvest has always been an intergenerational event but since the pandemic our demographic has shifted even more noticeably towards the young. Almost 40 per cent of our guests and team are under the age of 26.”