(RNS) — Giving is down, attendance is up and a good number of pastors still aren’t sure what they’re going to do about Easter.

Those are some of the big takeaways in a new Barna survey of Protestant pastors from across the United States about their churches’ responses to the current coronavirus pandemic.

“The crisis is starting to take its toll” on church leaders as it becomes clear the measures needed to slow the spread of the virus will stretch on much longer than first thought, according to David Kinnaman, president of the California-based Christian research firm.

Barna surveyed 434 senior and executive pastors online using its Barna Church Pulse tool, starting one week after President Trump declared a national emergency related to the pandemic;

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