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    ALL Schullers To Take a Temporary 50% Salary Cut

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    ALL Schullers To Take a Temporary 50% Salary Cut

    Group Sects and the OC Register is reporting that Crystal Cathedral founder Robert H. Schuller will take a 50% pay cut for the next four pay periods.  So will his wife Avella.  So will current Senior Pastor daughter Sheila Schuller Coleman.

    But more suprisingly...  so will Robert A. Schuller and his wife, Donna (who left after a family feud in 2008) and Schuller's daughter, Jeanne Schuller Dunn (who lives in Hawaii).

    No more church payroll checks for the daughter that lives in Hawaii?  Wow, that's radical.

    Also announced:  Other Cathedral employees, depending on their salaries, will also face a pay cut of between 5-10%.

    According to the OC register story, the CC has seen more than a 30% drop in revenues; been selling properties like crazy to make up a $55 to $70 million budget deficit; and has laid off at least 100 employees over the 'last year or so'.

    OBSERVATIONS: 

    Watch this one.  What happens when a once financially viable ministry like the CC hits hard times like this?  Once you start selling assets to cover multi-million dollar shortages, it becomes a game of monopoly.  We all know what usually happens when you have to start cashing in your hotels.  Are there other large ministries that will see the same fate in the future?  Promise Keepers and Focus on the Family are a couple that come to mind... but what happens when its an actual church that fails.  (And yes, this case can prove that no church can be 'too big to fail')

    Does your church have anyone on the regular payroll that isn't local?  Or as an extreme, is the founding pastor's daughter that lives across the ocean?  (Could be that she contributes some kind of signifant work from Hawaii though).  If so, how do you lay off a hundred employees with good conscience?

    I don't wish for the demise of the CC.  But the truth is, their support base is dying (literally).  The day of big money from that segment is quickly coming to an end.  That's a tough position to be in, but not unlike thousands of churches here in the US that are just on a much smaller scale.

    Is it ok for a church to die this kind of slow, agonizing death?

    What would you do to revitalize or turn around a place like the Crystal Cathedral?  Is there really anything that CAN be done?

    Todd

     

     

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