How Much Do "Megachurch" Pastors Rake In?

[ralph124c]

I was waching that guy in Texas (Joel Osteen), who owns his own megachurch. e must have a pretty substantial cash flow (I gather, from seeing the size of his congregation).
Is he a non-profit organization? Does he release any numbers?

[UncleBill]

Another mega church guy, Bishop Eddie Long of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Lithonia, GA (where we are just now moving from) was roundly criticized for payments to himself from the Bishop Eddie Long Charity equaling about 3.1 million bucks from 1997 to 2000. He said the Board of Directors chose to reward him with that, funny how the board was like his wife and son, or some such nonsense.

Long preaches Prosperity Theology, that Jesus was actually a rich man, and if you pray hard enough, you will be rich, too. Local story was he wore custom suits, and never the same one twice. He had/has at least one Bentley, a gift from his congregation.

I can't speak for Osteen.

[Mr. Slant]

For Osteen, I'm guessing multiple millions per year and tens of millions in some others.

Check this:
http://www.portfolio.com/executives/...een?print=true