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From luxury stays to ‘champing,’ churches adopt pandemic-era Airbnb models

After the death of its founding pastor a few years ago, membership at Cullen Missionary Baptist Church in Houston took a nosedive.

André Jones, the current pastor, said that with fewer donations supporting the upkeep of a building equal in size to a city block, “we had more space than we knew what to do with and didn’t have the people or resources to pay for it.”