These buildings were gifted to the church, so they were essentially free. The church has no incentive to repair the buildings, rather, they can now have a large outdoor space for a pretty low cost.

The request to raze these buildings should be denied. Instead, the church can sell them and use the $ to improve its own building or pad its savings account. Or perform more Christian outreach to whatever community it seeks to serve.

TL:DR - the church doesn’t care about these buildings bc it didn’t pay for them. Make church sell buildings to somebody with $ who does care.