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Originally Posted by Margies3
I'm curious to know how many UPC pastors actually take all the tithes as their income? I know I've been out for many years and that when I was UPC I always attended small churches that barely scraped by. But I don't know that I ever sat under a pastor who took all the tithe. In fact, at least 2 of the pastors I sat under actually ended up paying to pastor the church. In one case his wife worked and he pastored. They are the ones who lived in the tiny parsonage we could provide. So most of their money actually ended up going back into the church to pay church bills. In the other case, the pastor himself worked and so did his wife. And I know for a fact that they put more into the church than anyone else there for years and years and years.
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In our local assembly the tithes pay both of the pastors salary as well as all of the church staff salaries, as well as funding various of the churches ministries. And in the annual business meeting there is a complete breakdown of what has come in, and where it has gone.