How do evangelists get paid?

[Michael The Disciple]

Originally Posted by Steve Epley

I Pastor and I also have evangelized. I was always paid well. Never would demand an amount or use an evangelist that did. The circles I preached around treated evangelists and their families like royalty. Hopefully I do the same. They don’t leave here in need.

I cant find the YOU ROCK button!

You're talking truth!

[Tithesmeister]

Originally Posted by Steve Epley

I Pastor and I also have evangelized. I was always paid well. Never would demand an amount or use an evangelist that did. The circles I preached around treated evangelists and their families like royalty. Hopefully I do the same. They don’t leave here in need.

Do you pay the evangelists from tithes or offerings?

[Evang.Benincasa]

Originally Posted by Tithesmeister

Do you pay the evangelists from tithes or offerings?

I usually pay in oxen, chickens, and an occasional Red Heifer. Preferably one with a number 7 on its forehead.

[Steve Epley]

Originally Posted by Tithesmeister

Do you pay the evangelists from tithes or offerings?

Both. I teach tithes goes to the ministry. Thus I tithe to the ministry.

[consapente89]

Originally Posted by Steve Epley

Both. I teach tithes goes to the ministry. Thus I tithe to the ministry.

Amen!

[MawMaw]

Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa

I usually pay in oxen, chickens, and an occasional Red Heifer. Preferably one with a number 7 on its forehead.
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this one was born a few days ago sans the #7.........

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The Temple Institute has announced the birth of a flawless all-red heifer that could pave the way for the fulfillment of a major End Times biblical prophecy.

The reddish-colored female calf was reportedly born in Israel on August 28 and is being raised in accordance with the Jewish laws of the Torah, according to the Temple Institute.

[derAlte]

Originally Posted by Aquila

Unregistered thinks the Didache is inspired. lol

Who gave you that idea? You just lobbed that over into my backyard to get a reaction.

[derAlte]

The custom out here in the wild, wild, west was that evangelists were paid a certain amount per service. If it was a one-and-done, the pastor would have an envelope ready with a check in it. There was a joke that the evangelist couldn't look at it until he was in the bathroom after church where no one could observe him checking out the amount.

I have observed that some long-time pastors and church secretaries lose touch with the reality of expenses and still pay itinerant evangelists ridiculously low amounts. Still others in my part of the country won't have an evangelist come unless they can afford to pay him well and put him and his family up in comfort. Since their circumstances are not flush, they don't have special speakers very often. The churches are extremely far apart here and traveling expenses eat up the meager offerings quite quickly.

The result is, we haven't seen an evangelist come through in many years. The last few to come through were institutionally outraged independent ultra-ultra conservatives unhappy with any church or pastor that didn't fit their world-view. Although they didn't do much damage to the church, the bad taste they left in the mouth of the pastor while fellowshipping means they probably will never get a second invitation.

[CC1]

In the old days when many churches and church folks were poor evangelists were paid through "pounding" which was giving them food / things in lieu of cash. In a rural farming community that might mean ears of corn, fresh beans, etc and perhaps bacon or ham.

The problem with pounding was that many times a preacher would be brought way more of one thing than he or his family could use but desperately need other things. No ebay,FB marketplace, or Craigslist back then to sell what you didn't need.

i remember a prominent preacher's wife who is in her 70's now telling me that when she was young and the wife of a Pentecostal evangelists they were preaching in the Dallas area. They were given a small apartment above a business to stay in and were supposed to be taken care of through pounding but no one was bringing any food and she was very hungry. Out the window she could see a park across the street and there was a vendor selling popcorn. She only had a nickel but went to see how much the popcorn cost. It was a dime but she talked the vendor into selling her half a bag for a nickel.

When I heard that story I thought it was almost criminal that the pastor they were preaching for would not have the integrity to make sure they were taken care of. However we tend to judge the past by current norms and probably back then a lot of good men did not think to organize the giving to an evangelist.

[Steve Epley]

Originally Posted by CC1

In the old days when many churches and church folks were poor evangelists were paid through "pounding" which was giving them food / things in lieu of cash. In a rural farming community that might mean ears of corn, fresh beans, etc and perhaps bacon or ham.

The problem with pounding was that many times a preacher would be brought way more of one thing than he or his family could use but desperately need other things. No ebay,FB marketplace, or Craigslist back then to sell what you didn't need.

i remember a prominent preacher's wife who is in her 70's now telling me that when she was young and the wife of a Pentecostal evangelists they were preaching in the Dallas area. They were given a small apartment above a business to stay in and were supposed to be taken care of through pounding but no one was bringing any food and she was very hungry. Out the window she could see a park across the street and there was a vendor selling popcorn. She only had a nickel but went to see how much the popcorn cost. It was a dime but she talked the vendor into selling her half a bag for a nickel.

When I heard that story I thought it was almost criminal that the pastor they were preaching for would not have the integrity to make sure they were taken care of. However we tend to judge the past by current norms and probably back then a lot of good men did not think to organize the giving to an evangelist.

As a boy I remember those poundings and the stories surrounding them. However today I know in conservative circles evangelists are well taken care of.