Churches actually do really cool stuff sometimes. unfortunately they are similar to governments, unions, and any other kind of community effort in that they require significant time investment from good people to ensure that their community and it's leadership are safe and effective.

My childhood church was actually pretty good but also we basically had Fred Rogers' secret twin as the pastor (like, weirdly ALSO a Presbyterian minister???) Dude knew the name of every person in his 500+ congregation on sight, knew all of their families names, what they did for work, what college their kids got into... He had a PhD in theology and his sermons were often about the sociopolitical situations the passages were referencing, the histories of the liturgical traditions, and the various different ways a passage has been translated through the years.

When my mother got the news of my brothers death she called her best friend and she must have called him because he was at our doorstep within the hour. My mother said her sister who still lived back in her home state was probably going to tell her he was in hell for killing himself and our pastor had everything from his theology background to the rudimentary developmental psychology he learned in seminary to counter that with.

This guy also founded the "interfaith council" for our area which was a collection of all the churches, synagogues, mosques, and anyone else they could get to join to pool financial and volunteer resources into a soup kitchen, cold weather shelter, and a yearly clothing and school supplies drive. My mother dragged me to volunteer at a few and we gave three outfits, a pair of shoes, a coat, and a backpack full of school supplies to a few hundred children each time. One of my required nursing school clinicals doing health checkups with their clinic doctor.