Posts Tagged as ‘tithe’

July 28, 2008

Funding

Seventh-day Adventist Churches are typically funded differently than other churches.  First, all tithe goes to the World church and then is distributed accordingly to various divisions and programs.  The majority of North American tithe dollars are spent overseas and fund one of the largest and fastest growing missions in the world.
In addition, all Seventh-day Adventist [...]

July 27, 2008

Funding Issues

(NOTE: This is from an email I recently wrote to a friend asking about why we lost funding for Common Ground.)
I know, most people assume the worst regarding church planting and I can get a bit defensive.
Pastors are paid by the local conference, but that doesn’t take the science of finance out of the [...]