Serious Thots:
RDB: July 26, 2010 at 9:35 pm
What about these guys who con God all the time?:
“Today I met with a long lost secondary school friend who is
presently working at City Harvest Church (CHC). She revealed to me
the secrets of how CHC and and its Senior Pastor Kong Hee earn
their big bucks.
Actually, from cell group leaders all the way up to Kong Hee,
all earn a commission when they get new members to join the
church.
For example when a person who earns 3k a month is recruited into
the church, he donates 10% of his salary which is $300 a month to
the church. He will be introduced into a cell group and as long as
the cell group leader (CGL) manages to make him stay and make him
donate 10% of his salary every month, the CGL will earn a
commission.
CGL earns 10% of $300 which is $30 a month. Each cell group is
estimated to have around 10 to 30 members so we shall take 20
members in a cell group as an average. The CGL will earn $30
multiplied by 20 members which is $600 a month.
On top of that, the CGL will encourage his cell group members to
bring new members into the church in order to earn the commission
which is $30 a month, assuming the person earns $3k a month. The
CGL does not tell his cell group members about this so his cell
group members keep on bringing in new members not knowing that it
is the CGL and the pastors who benefit while they get nothing.
A pastor gets a higher commission of 20% a member, that is $60 a
member. Each Pastor is in charge of around 10 cell groups and
assuming each cell group
have 20 members the eacb pastor gets $60 x 20 members x 10 cell
groups = $12k a month.
Senior Paster Kong Hee gets the highest cut of 40%
commission.
Assuming that there are 30 000 members in the City Harvest and
each earns 3k a month, Kong Hee will earn $120 X 30,000 members =
$3,600,000 a month which is even more than what our Cabinet
Ministers are earning.
The remaining 30% which is $90 multiplied by 30,000 members =
$2,700,000 goes into the church fund which is used to pay staff
salaries, electricity bills,
investment etc.
Do note that using 3k a month salary as a guideline is already
very conservative as a good number of the CHC congregation
comprises high-income individuals each of whom easily earns in
excess of $3k a month.
On top of that, CGL and all pastors are entitled to claim for
traveling expenses etc so their earnings are much more than
that.
So people, if the above is true, next time when you want to
donate 10% of your salary to CHC, think carefully.”