Nollywood actress turned evangelist, Eucharia Anunobi, has come for Nigerian general overseers sending pastors on missions without financial stipends.
She wrote:
You Are Free To Block Me After This Post… This thing of
sending an assistant pastor to start a new branch WITHOUT any financial
assistance, asking them to go and ‘prove’ their ministry looks like
wickedness in religious robe.
Did you consider that those pastors have families who depend on them?
Whose
ministry are they even proving? Theirs or yours? Definitely not theirs
because this church is your ministry, not theirs? If they were going out
to start their own ministry, then we can tell them to go and prove
their ministry. Even though we should actually assist them too But this
time sir, it is your ministry, your responsibility, your vision and you
should also be part of the provision. Let’s be real and truthful to
ourselves. Let our conscience judge this thing.You
won’t give them $1 but you will expect tithe from them in a matter of
months. Sir, that’s not good nah. Even unbelievers won’t open a branch
of their business without equipping the shop for their manager.
Religious people will come here to say “The kingdom operates with
kingdom principles, don’t bring in corporate principles here”. Religion
is insensitive, wicked and dangerous. Yet, religion preaches love. Such
hypocrisy.
I am saying this because in my village,
there’s a vibrant young pastor who was sent there by a very big ministry
headquartered in the city, and he’s in my village to ‘prove his
ministry’. He has no place to rest his head with his family and my
family back home had to take him in. It hasn’t been easy with him yet
the rich G.O of his church wouldn’t assist him financially. He laid
hands on him and believes that’s enough to support him in the mission
field.
You haven’t yet blocked me? You must be a lover of truth. You will live long.
Secondly,
when a pastor leaves the service of your church having served for
years, please don’t let him go empty handed. The situations surrounding
his exit notwithstanding, provided he had once worked for you over the
years, he deserves a gratuity/pension.
I have said it
several times, assistant pastors should start demanding for a formal
employment contract which stipulates the terms and conditions of their
employment. This is 21st century