Pastor Education and Salary Support

The Pastor Education and Salary Support Advance Project will help pastors feed their families, pay rent and educate their children while pastoring churches in areas of extreme poverty. It will additionally address the need for solid United Methodist doctrine from our pulpits, where the alternative is often “name it and claim it” prosperity gospel heresy.

The primary goal of this project is to provide our United Methodist pastors, (and potential ones) with more than basic education (higher than grade 7), and help financially towards college/seminary. It is also the purpose of this fund to give pastors a subsistence salary, so that they will have a roof over their heads, food on the table and children who can attend school. The long term impact is that our pastors will be able to teach and encourage and truly care for the church members. In turn, we hope to also teach the church members how important it is to pay their pastor enough that they can do their job well (and the pastor won’t be lured away to another church/job).

1. We would like to see the people be encouraged! a. The community will watch their pastor grow, change, and teach more confidently! b. The community will see the positive impacts of paying their pastor a salary. c. The people will be encouraged through proper teaching, and watching goals being set and accomplished. Too often poor people believe lies like “it’s impossible”; “it’ll never happen”; “I could never…, etc. but this will demonstrate otherwise.