How much is alot to you? I come from a small Church, and we're practically operating on a budget. At the end of the year, we'll probably end up having only a couple of hundred dollars leftover. Your parents' church must be operating on grants. Hopefully there are no problems relating to money in their church.
Let said my parents current church now they have probably closed to 300k. My parents old small church with only about less than 5 family before they decided to joined the current church........
60k. All that money was given to the new church. I should know because the person who is in charge of the money is actually one of my old childhood friend still just a Nkauj Laus these day.
I can tell you that every weekend offering or loose plate can be anywhere from $1000-1500. They only paid thier pastor part time was it either 2 or 3k a month.
You can't really blamed people for putting thier money or even investing it in church because no one is pointing a gun on thier head to tell them they have a specific amount that need to be paid each month.
Unlike church "Tooj Vaj" the one the turn of the light or whatever......
....... his church........
my husband has a uncle and his brother is just crazy or whatever but he usually give all his money to the church to the point where sometime he still need his brother help. I never saw him before but that fool already moved to another state after what he done and trying to get away from his 2 brothers.
You just have to understand that church or not..........y
ou got some who faith is just small while some are just big strong believer......
...... Example......a strong Shamanism believer will do almost every little jingle bell/ua neeg for every little problem they hear to correct or make it better while some don't put thier beliefs that far...........
..... Church.......t
he strong believer are the one who participate and talk too much about God this and that, pray too much (annoying to me) give 10% of thier income to the church along with offering every Sunday.
I don't criticized my parents at all for how strong thier faith is because that is them and what they choose and see better fit. As for myself........
even though I was raised as a Christian.....
.it just a lot of bullshit to me from praying out loud like I'm talking crazy. I don't need to depend on God's answer to my prayers or the Shaman power to cure me or whatever. I'm a much better person without religion even being a part of my life.