Complex sentence: Following his departure, Fountain Street Baptist Church found itself at its lowest ebb since 1869, with the mortgage taking up nearly half of the annual budget and the Great Depression making every year more challenging than the last.
Split into simpler sentences: Following his departure, Fountain Street Baptist Church found itself at its lowest ebb since 1869. The mortgage took up nearly half of the annual budget, with the Great Depression making every year more challenging than the last.