Guide to Amending a Pastor’s Housing Allowance
“Ministers living in church-owned parsonages may also incur housing expenses beyond their designated allowance. Churches should consider amending the allowance to cover these additional expenses for the remainder of the year.” - C.Leaders
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i thought parsonages were all but dead.
In our city, the average price for an average three bedroom family home is over 1.2 million dollars. I've considered leading our church to buy a house to use as a parsonage someday (renting it out in the meantime) since the cost of housing here is so very high.
How would a new younger pastor have a hope of purchasing his own home if they were to start out in our city? I think the church would have to consider some way of helping him build some equity as part of his compensation as well as providing a parsonage.
Nevertheless, it might be time to resurrect the idea of the parsonage, especially in places like ours.
Maranatha!
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3
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