Article Archives >> Lead Stories >> June 1-15, 2005
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Bylaw Provisions on Pensions
Serve as Contracts with Pastors
Provisions setting retirement pay supercede
previous agreements when ratified by members
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A church in Indiana has been ordered to pay retirement benefits
to its founding pastor and his son, the successor senior pastor,
according to provisions of the church’s Constitution ratified
by the members and not according to prior specific employment agreements.
The state Court of Appeals has said the church is obligated even
though the pastors had left the church to found a new church and
had taken about half the membership with them.
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