Category Archives: Church  Why Do Ministries Pay So Badly?  Over
the last few months I’ve had conversations with numerous people
who used to work in either fundamentalist or evangelical
ministries and just can’t afford to keep doing it. When you’re
putting in a full week of work but eating from your own church’s
food pantry because you can’t afford groceries that might be a
problem.  There is a serious problem in American Christianity
with “ministry” employees being underpaid, undervalued, and
under-appreciated. Here are a few reasons why:  1. Isolation.
By the nature of being sacred instead of secular, many ministry
employees are isolated from the rest of the job market. Being
cut off from the rest of their colleagues makes them prone to
believing the lies that they didn’t need to get accreditation or
certification. As a result they have no relationships with those
kinds of bodies and they don’t participate in continuing
education with their secular counterparts.  As a result they
simply have no idea what t