(ChurchLeaders) TobyMac, Mandisa, and for KING & COUNTRY—along with many others in the entertainment industry—are struggling financially because of the coronavirus pandemic. So in early June, Christian radio station 99.1 Joy FM decided to ask listeners to donate to a virtual tip jar in order to mitigate the losses of Christian artists and their crews.
“I don’t think, prior to what’s going on now, that any of us ever thought…‘Well there’s just going to be a moment where it all comes to a screeching halt and you can’t do anything,’” Luke Smallbone of for KING & COUNTRY told Joy FM. “Like there’s no work at all.”