Our old church sold the biulding we had & after paying off the mortgage they had over $800,000. The pastor feels he should get a lump sum from this as a retirement package. As far as we can tell he is looking for around $200,000. While we were still at the chuch & on the board we took good care of this man and his family. We paid him around 35K and we actualy gave him the church parsonage & continude to pay the mortgage & all utillities. Once the parsonage is personle property it gets taxed we paid that too & all property taxes scinc hes owned it. We gave him a car allowance & pay all the insurance gas maintainence repairs. Medical & life insurance are allso provided. On top of all this we set up a retirement package for him. Now he says he was never given a retirement plan. Imajine if you could put all the bills we paid in your retirement. His current board wants to give it to him 200,000 How can we stop this man from taking what was given to do the work of the church
2006-06-21 17:54:44 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
a church is a non profit organization so no one should be entitled to part of the profit, If you gave him the house and cash for retirement all ready than it sounds like he all ready has a retirement plan. 35,000 + Bennie's+ ALL utilities+ Car insurance+gas+ no rent or mortgage! Sounds like he had no bills and a few hundred a week for whatever. That doesn't sound like it would be to hard to live on, You got punked! Call the Attorney General there is no way this guy can claim that the 200,000 dollars is a retirement , not if you all ready gave him a house and Cash
2006-06-21 18:34:48 · answer #1 · answered by Hank G 1 · 3⤊ 2⤋
You can t, period. While I understand this seems excessive and as a pastor I personally would never consider demanding a second retirement, you no longer have an interest in the proceedings. All churches have had to deal with people leaving the church but still trying to run things from outside the fold. The bottom line is when you chose to leave you you relinquished all input on this and any other church matter at that location. Its none of your business. Also have faith that if the pastor is indeed greedy or doing something wrong, God will handle the correction.
2015-05-05 03:08:07 · answer #2 · answered by Terri 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't have a pastor, you have a business man. That's who you're dealing with. He has obviously become more attuned to making money than saving souls. A true pastor wouldn't even think along the lines of taking all that money, especially if he was truly concerned with the matter of being a pastor.
From what I know of the Bible, the Apostle Paul (who helped set up Christianity during the Roman era), called such men "peddlers" or businessmen. You either denounce and remove him as pastor, or pay him and shut up.
2006-06-21 18:01:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
None of that has anything to do with retirement. My husband gets a great salary but it does not interfere with the retirement fund they give him. If you are no longer at the church, what does this have to do with you? I think you should stay out of this church's business & let the board run it. We do not pay our clergy but $35,000 seems like hardly liveable income for a family to me.
I did understand you do not even attend church here. Our members are less stingy in giving to the church. We give our tithes & mind our own business.
2006-06-21 18:10:14 · answer #4 · answered by Wolfpacker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since you are not currently members of the board, there is probably nothing you can do.
Consult with a local attorney for specific advice. $200k is a lot of money to throw away.
2006-06-21 17:59:58 · answer #5 · answered by Left the building 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why dont you just fire him? he is obviously corrupt
2006-06-21 17:56:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋