Senate to investigate finances of selected televangelists.

[SWTXBelle]

Let me just add - the pastors of the megachurches have help - for example, Joel Osteen only preaches. He does not meet with his parishoners - he has "assistants "who do that. Pastors of smaller churches may very well be doing more pastoral work for far less money than those of megachurces with dozens of staff members.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Pastors of smaller churches may very well be doing more pastoral work for far less money than those of megachurces with dozens of staff members.

I totally understand that. My pastor has a church that's grown from 300 to 600 in 3 years, and he's had to do things like Stephan Ministers and let the Youth & Family Minister help him out, because he's just completely overwhelmed. We're in process of calling a part time visiting minister, because our pastor is just too stretched to get to everyone.