Bebe, I'm an agnostic (reform, not evangelical 😉) and a member of a local United Church of Christ congregation. My wife Deb is a faithful Christian, and attending church together was our understanding before we got married. When we were looking at churches, our present one stood out for most of the reasons you listed .

One of the things that jumped out at us at the first service we attended was the head of church council making a plea for more donations to the church. Meanwhile I'm looking at the announcement sheet (with what $$ came in and where the $$ went the last month) and I can see that the church has plenty of money — or would have, if they cut back on missions. Not even a concept! [They also got points for fiscal transparency.]

Our congregation increased in size in 2022 for the first time in several years; we have thriving kids and youth programs; we added streaming during COVID and have kept it going as the number of folks who watch are more than half the numbers who attend in person.

(And what does an agnostic do at a church? I'm on the tech team who provides bodies to enable streaming to happen; I'm the webmaster for our website; I do other odd jobs as needed, like tech input to some of the working groups. Plus Deb & I are in the top 5% of contributing family units — we used to tithe 10% of income, but we don't actually have any now that we're retired, so we figured out how to be retired and still donate the same amounts as before.)

It sounds like your church is hitting the right spots to be relevant in the 2020s. Good luck and keep doing what you're doing! 💚