{"id":7160,"date":"2008-11-04T11:52:49","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T17:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/04\/to-ministers-who-want-to-earn-extra-income-but-dont-know-how\/"},"modified":"2008-11-04T11:52:49","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T17:52:49","slug":"to-ministers-who-want-to-earn-extra-income-but-dont-know-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=7160","title":{"rendered":"To Ministers Who Want To Earn Extra Income — But Don’t Know How"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Theodric Franklinval<\/div>\n

Ministers are caught in an unusual situation. They are devoting their lives to the service of others and they may find that this devotion is creating hardships in their finances. Divinity schools are costly to attend and even some of the lesser known colleges and schools can require large financial expenditures.<\/p>\n

Worship Ministers, Music Ministers, Youth Ministers, Associate Pastors, and Ministers of Education can also find themselves in a similar position. These church staff members usually make less than the Pastor, but they still have the same kind of schedule. They really need a part time job to pay the bills. A wedding ministry business such as one provided in The Wedding Income Toolkit for Ministers is very often a perfect fit for members of the same church staff because if one has an event on the evening of the wedding, the other minister can take his place and vice versa.<\/p>\n

Ministers often have graduate and post graduate degrees in a wide variety of majors. Many churches and parachurch ministries even require their ministers to have these degrees. It is true that larger churches and mega churches can afford to compensate their ministers with good salaries and adequate benefits. However, churches are non-profit organizations and are limited in their budgets. So many ministers barely make enough money to pay their bills. <\/p>\n

It is very difficult for many pastors to have additional jobs of any sort because they need to be on call at all hours for their congregations. This creates a Catch22 situation for many of the more impoverished ministers. They desperately need more money but are not sure how to go about adding to their income.<\/p>\n

This dilemna has caused some ministers to take a job in desperation but with the knowledge it will interfere with their primary job. Unfortunately, there are ministers who have had to leave their calling behind to find a job that will feed their families. Those who have large families can struggle even more. Asking for a raise is sometimes appropriate, however it is not as simple as it might seem since most churches have boards that set the annual budgets. <\/p>\n

There are some options with people who have various skills. Ministers or their wives can earn extra income by doing small jobs that help members of their congregation. For instance, a music minister’s wife may give music lessons. Sometimes the wives are forced to take full time jobs to help with the household budget. Some services that the minister does may give him or her a chance to earn extra income, too, such as revival meetings, performing funerals, and performing weddings. Most pastors perform these services gladly for no cost whatsoever, but they are also happy for any extra money that is given. <\/p>\n

Of all of these religious duties, performing weddings is one of the easiest and best for pastors to perform. It is a joyous and festive occasion and people are glad to pay a fee for a minister to officiate at the ceremony. There may be a minimum fee set, but there are bonuses that are almost always added. One wedding can easily pay $200 to a minister. This means that a minister can add $10,000 or more to his annual income by performing just one of these weddings a week. A resource like The Wedding Income Toolkit for Ministers can help any minister get started doing weddings consistently in 60 days or less.<\/p>\n

There are some ways that you can begin to increase your income now by simply adding more weddings to your usual pastoral duties if you know how to begin. This is a perfect fit because this is a job that you are already prepared for and familiar with. If you have your credentials for performing wedding ceremonies already then you can begin to add needed money to your household finances today.<\/p>\n

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About the Author:<\/div>\n
Go to www.WeddingIncome.com<\/a> to pick up your free Premarital Counseling Outline you can use to earn $50 an hour. Learn how to become a wedding minister and perform weddings<\/a> to earn an extra $5,000 to 10,000 part time.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ministers are caught in an unusual situation. They are devoting their lives to the service of others and they may find that this devotion is creating hardships in their finances. Divinity schools are costly to attend and even some of the lesser known colleges and schools can require large financial expenditures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-7160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-based-business","tag-home-based-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}