{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/64baaf9acf6b1700117afd52/66b3eb68ec20c36e8e26e480?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"How to Restart a Church: Church Insurance, the Unsexy Thing That's Kill You","description":"<p>Much like Heart Disease in the human population, the shocking rise in church insurance costs over the last four years is the unsexy and even boring sounding thing killing churches. A combination of inflation, a pandemic, climate change, and massive empty facility have combined into what the Associated Press describes as a \"perfect storm\" to make insuring churches next to impossible. Churches are regularly seeing a 4x increase in insurance costs - in just a single year. That dramatic a shift that quickly puts ministries and overall stability at risk. </p><p><br></p><p>\"How a perfect storm sent church insurance rates skyrocketing\" by Bob Smietana</p><p>https://apnews.com/article/church-insurance-skyrockets-storms-disasters-2035fbdbb8cff8e03b1efc8f49eb5c94</p>","author_name":"Trey Comstock"}