Word: baptiste
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Episcopal Bishop Roger Blanchard of the Southern Ohio diocese reports that the average minimum pay for priests in his 85 parishes is $8,000-an increase of about three thousand in a decade. In the American Baptist Convention, the average ministerial salary (including housing allowance) has risen from $3.903 to $5.795 during the past decade; since 1956 the number of pastors earning $10.000 or more has tripled. Last April the United Lutheran Church in America announced that since 1955 the number of its clergymen earning less than $3.000 had dropped from 182 to 20; the number earning...
...Ridpath of Kansas City's Trinity Methodist Church (salary: $11,000): "It would cost me $300 a month to rent a home like the parsonage I have now." Although relatively few ministers in the larger Protestant denominations have time to accept sideline jobs, their wives do; in Miami, Baptist congregations commonly allow ministers to hire their own wives as church secretaries. Many congregations provide expense accounts, vacation hideaways, cars and car allowances...
Episcopalians and Presbyterians have done the most to standardize ministerial salaries, but the American Baptists are improving rapidly. When a church reports to its local association that a new minister is needed. Baptist officials check into the congregation's need and clerical preferences-but they also insist that the church pay enough. In Utah a congregation raised its standing salary for a minister from $6,000 to $8,000 on the association's recommendation...
...intolerable in a Rockefeller. Soon after his tenth birthday, he wanted a toy sailboat and took it upon himself to order one from a carpenter. When his father found out about it, he deducted the $4 cost from David's allowance over a period of months. A devout Baptist, John D. Jr. neither smoked nor drank and did everything in his power to impress upon his sons the evils of both practices. (David enjoys a martini or two before dinner, but has never taken up smoking...
...James Robert Orr was finishing a rugged five-year tour of duty sowing the Protestant gospel on the stony soil of Brazil's Parana state, near the Argentine border. Now the gaunt, 59-year-old Baptist was heading home for Canada. With his wife and their three youngest children, he jeeped into Laranjeiras do Sul (pop. 2,000) and went to a local doctor for certificates of vaccination. Told that the Orrs had all been vaccinated six or seven years earlier, the doctor perfunctorily issued "certificates of immunity...