question: If Christian churches are non-profit / not-for-profit, how do full-time pastors/reverends earn a salary?
comment: Paying your employees isn't profit. The pastor/reverend is an employee of the church. I can answer the question in one sentence so technically it doesn't belong here. Also, all churches/temples/mosques/synagogues are like this. Christian churches arent getting special treatment. Loaded question much?
passages: Local churches are led by a senior pastor, pastoral leadership team (with one person designated as a congregational pastoral leader), each of which is supervised by a district pastoral leader. Some senior pastors are responsible for a single local church, but many are responsible for working in two or more churches. Salary compensation for the paid local church pastor, if available, is determined by the local church.
   Up to $100,000 a year is raised for the field missions; however, only $300 of this total is given to each of the field missions per month (or about $43,000 yearly for all 12 missions combined). Many ministers of field missions report that they live in poverty. Other reports show the amount of money given the field missions is even less.
   , the annual fee for a US CCLI license ranged from $59 (for a church size less than 25 people) to $5,266 (for a church size greater than 200,000 people). License fees are similar for churches in other countries, taking exchange rates into account.
   Pastoral and organisational duties in the congregations are carried out in an honorary capacity. All acts and blessings performed by the Church, e.g. baptisms, wedding ceremonies or funeral services are carried out free of charge. Generally Bishops and Apostles are the only ministers employed full-time by the church with their salary coming from offerings and authorised by accountants.
  
  Section::::Organization.:Church Institutions.
   Section::::Church employment.
   In addition to his work at Grace, Davis has served as a pastor of two churches (having been ordained in the Grace Brethren Church in 1962) and as a Senior Supervisor on 13 Archaeological Digs in Israel and Jordan for almost 30 years.
  
  He leads Wild Game Dinners, works on archaeological digs, and continues working on his music career as a recording artist (since 1995) for Gospel and Hawaiian music.
   All local churches are required to send ten percent of all tithes to the leadership in Graham. Expenses to the leadership, however, are minimal since congregations are expected to support themselves. Pastors are also expected to maintain full-time work in addition to their ministerial duties, and also tithe to Graham. Ministers receive no finances from the central church coffers to help build their ministries, except for loans to buy land and building materials for new churches. They are expected to repay these loans even though the NTCC organizational office holds the titles to church properties. Local churches are expected to pay rent to the NTCC on their facilities as well, even though they financed them to begin with. "The Dispatch" also found that, whenever a pastor leaves a church, the NTCC absorbs the local escrow account, which may be tens of thousands of dollars, leaving the new minister with no funds. Ministers and their families are rotated out and shuffled from place to place frequently, seldom remaining at servicemen's works for longer than two years at a time.
   Samuel Hiestand ministered in a period when salaries were pitifully small. In 1832, for example, while appointed to the Muskingum Circuit, he and the Junior Preacher with him received "together" only $155.80. Another year, when he received $93 for his services, it was the highest salary any preacher in the Conference received that year! Indeed, no one could ever suggest that the Circuit Riders of the early days entered upon their duties with any idea of becoming wealthy!
  
  Section::::Effectiveness in ministry.
   On October 30, 2018, Calvary Church of Clearwater, Florida announced that Christian will assume the role of director of worship and creative arts in January 2019.
  
  Section::::Early life and education.
  
  Stephen Christian was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan July 28, 1980.
   In 1955, Banks graduated from the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. He went on to Wheaton College (Illinois), where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Theology and a Master of Arts and Biblical Studies degree. He received an honorary Doctorate of Literature from Wheaton College in 1992.
   Section::::Career.
  
  Section::::Career.:Church ministry.
   Phil and Kim have started music presentations for church camps and extended-length revival campaigns. They have also held the positions of Ministers of Music, and Directors of the Music Division at Union Bible College, Westfield, IN. Phil was Dean of Enrolment Management at his Alma Mater, God's Bible School & College, Cincinnati, OH. 
  
  In 2010, the Collingsworth Family signed with then new Christian label Stowtown Records
   Under this arrangement, one congregation (specifically, the congregation's eldership or, if it lacks elders, the men of the congregation) agree to oversee the work of an individual (such as a missionary to another country) or group (such as a children's home). Other congregations and/or individuals, desiring to support that work, would send contributions to the overseeing congregation designated for that work. The work may be performed using a separate entity for legal purposes (and, as such, contributions would be sent to that entity) but the sponsoring church's elders/congregation would still maintain control and oversight of the entity and its work (an example being the Gospel Broadcasting Network, a satellite television network featuring Church of Christ programming, which is overseen by the elders of the Southaven Church of Christ congregation in Southaven, Mississippi).
   Section::::Community-based model of ministry.
   In the last twenty years, many assemblies in Australia and New Zealand, and some elsewhere, have broken with tradition and have begun calling their full-time workers "Pastors", but this is not seen as ordaining clergy and does not connote a transfer of any special spiritual authority. In such assemblies, the Pastor is simply one of several elders, and differs from his fellow-elders only in being salaried to serve full-time. Depending on the assembly, he may, or may not, take a larger share of the responsibility for preaching than his fellow-elders.
  
  Section::::Characteristics.:Leadership.:Elders.
   During 2016, Nazarene churches received annual income from all sources of US$860,949,037, a decrease of US$941,336 from 2015, and a 3.79% decadal decrease from the US$894,866,142 reported in September 2006. Worldwide per capita expenses amounted to US$353.04 (a decrease of $198.77 from that reported in 2006).
  
  Section::::History.
   BULLET::::2. Broadcasts might advertise programs, inexpensive radios (possibly spring-wound), and a literature ministry that sells a Christian mail-order correspondence course at nominal costs. The literature ministry is key, and is normally a separate organization from the radio ministry. Modern literature missions are shifting to web-based content where it makes sense (as in Western Europe and Japan).
   The arrangement differs from the "missionary society" or "mission board" arrangement within denominations (such as the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention) in that, within the society or board arrangement, the denomination maintains oversight and control of the work apart from any local congregation. However, as Churches of Christ are autonomous local congregations and are intentionally non-denominational (and oppose such societies or boards as not part of the New Testament pattern), the sponsoring church arrangement exists so that individual congregations can co-operate on projects that one congregation alone would not be financially able to undertake, while maintaining local congregation oversight and control of the work.
   Clergy Voice is represented pro bono by Marcus Owens, who, prior to his current role in private practice, was the chief decision maker at the IRS regarding the design and implementation of federal tax rulings and enforcement programs for exempt organizations and was a recipient of the IRS Commissioner's Award for exemplary service.
   Section::::Professional memberships, ecumenical and denominational activities.:Church of the Nazarene.:Trustee, Mount Vernon Nazarene University (2011-2014).
  
  Since November 2011, Sunberg has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Mount Vernon Nazarene University.
  
  Section::::Professional memberships, ecumenical and denominational activities.:Church of the Nazarene.:General Board, Church of the Nazarene (2013-2014).
   BULLET::::- C. Stanley Bass (1944-1998): Second and last African-American to be ordained as an evangelist; from 1990, was on the English faculty at Ambassador University in Big Sandy. As he had graduated from Paul Quinn College many years earlier, he was finally awarded a degree from Ambassador in 1997 at the institution's final spring commencement.
   Section::::Modern revival in North America and the United Kingdom.:Finances.
  
  Limited financial resources can encourage church leaders to rethink the pattern of ministry and look for ways to forward the outreach of the church with unpaid members. 
  
  "The constant pressure to fill the pews and provide the money to keep the building and programs going is draining to the traditional church. To some of us, churches have become like big monsters that eat up everything we can give them and then constantly ask for more and more."
   Brethren follow a nonhierarchical pattern of church life. In the past, most congregations were served by multiple "free" ministers, who supported themselves through other occupations. Today, most congregations have paid pastors, but their function is still somewhat limited, with the laity still taking a very active role in ministerial work.
  
  Section::::Beliefs.:Simplicity.
   Financial support is not the only essence of tentmaking. Instead the vocational identity coupled with excellence of work and lifestyle influences colleagues to follow Jesus Christ.
  
  Section::::Modern Times.
   A given assembly may have any number of full-time workers, or none at all. In the last twenty years, many Open Assemblies in Australia and New Zealand, and some elsewhere, have begun calling their full-time workers "pastors", but this is not seen as ordaining clergy and does not connote a transfer of any special spiritual authority. In such assemblies, the pastor is simply one of several elders, and differs from his fellow-elders only in being salaried to serve full-time. Depending on the assembly, he may or may not take a larger share of the responsibility for preaching than his fellow elders.
  
presuppositions: Employees of non-profits are not paid. Non-profits cannot pay their employees.
corrections: Employees of non-profits are paid. Non-profits pay their employees.
raw_presuppositions: Employees of non-profits are not paid. Non-profits cannot pay their employees. Non-profits cannot pay their employees.
raw_corrections: Employees of non-profits are paid. Non-profits pay their employees. Non-profits pay their employees.