Report Reveals Salaries of Megachurch Pastors

The average salary for a lead pastor in a megachurch is $147,000, according to a recent survey.

Salaries for lead pastors go as high as $400,000 to as low as $40,000, Leadership Network reported in its 2010 Large Church Salary and Benefits Report.

Executive pastors at churches that have a weekend attendance of 2,000 or more persons earn, on average, $99,000 a year and worship pastors get paid $75,000.

Meanwhile, high school pastors earn $54,000 and the church technology director earns $58,000. The salary figures do not include the value of benefits.

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Personally, I don’t think any pastor should be making $400,000.  My pastoral friends Jonathan and Tim in West Texas make about this much I think, maybe just a little less.

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BB Gun Motivation

LEESBURG, Fla. (WOFL, FOX 35) – A Central Florida man was arrested Saturday after sheriff’s investigators said he used BB gun to motivate a boy under the age of 16 to perform wind sprints.

Robert Barker, 41, was charged with child abuse after investigators said neighbors saw the man forcing the boy to run wind sprints while he fired a BB gun at him.

The boy’s exact age and relationship to Barker aren’t being disclosed in order to protect the boy’s identity.

The article mentions that the boy was in his pads, so at least he had that going for him.

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Model-Morphosis

The photographer Greg Kessler captures the transformations of New York Fashion Week. Here, the model Ginta Lapina from Women Model Management before (right) and after (left) makeup by François Nars and hair by Guido Palau. (Drag the orange bar right to reveal the full transformation.)

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Yellow pages publisher SuperMedia works to overcome digital-era challenges

Yellow pages publishers, like just about every other printed media producer, have been all but written off for dead in the past few years.Ad sales are down, Google is up and who needs one more phone book stuffed in a kitchen cabinet?

But Grapevine-based SuperMedia Inc., despite all sorts of tough financial numbers, says it is boosting its investment in digital directories and revamping its old-school print division. There are small signs that those changes are beginning to pay off.

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