From a Philadelphia Church of God source:
In the UK all charitable organizations must file a public document reporting their accounts for each year with the Charity Commission for England and Wales.
This report only itemizes the income and accounts for the PCG UK (Registration #05314410]. The most current report is for the year ending Dec 31 2020 but it also lists all the financial information for the previous year 2019. While the entire 24 page report is intriguing and definitely worth a read, a few items jumped right off the page.
“Expenditures on Charitable Activities”
On page 21 of this report is a list totaling the expenditures for the year. One line item dwarfs all the rest. One might assume it has something to do with giving or some charitable activity. But one would be WRONG!!! A whopping £473,520 ($565,735) in 2020 and £525,287 ($631,893) in 2019, this massive line item is titled Ministerial Travel! They must have a large ministry to send all over Europe…… Nope, just 3 ministers! To boot there are approximately 7 tiny congregations one being Edstone! Wait it gets better…… How do 3 ministers spend £473,520 ($565,735) on “traveling” when travel was completely restricted for most of 2020 due to COVID-19? This is a ludicrous amount even when they can travel! Most European airfare, round trip can be purchased for £100. What type of ultra luxury accommodations are these “servants of Christ” staying in? Where and what are they dining on?While the PCG will probably claim that these exorbitant costs are associated with the “Flurry Jet” that simply doesn’t make sense. Why would you infuse cash into the UK to balance the books to turn around and pay the PCG USA for a Jet that might have been used once in the UK for all of 2020?Publishing, advertising campaigns, and distribution of literature in ten languages.
True to cult form The PCG tries to exaggerate their impact by using percentages instead of actual numbers. For instance under this section (see attached document) they boast “Literature requests in French were 9.5 times higher” “German literature request were four times as high and downloads increased by 25%” why, if they are having such an amazing growth and impact wouldn’t you produce actual numbers? One might ask 9.5 times higher then what? Four times more then??? 25% increase from what? If the PCG was having such an impact and reaching vast numbers of people through downloads and literature, the actual numbers would be published. Just as they did in the next sentence for the amount of propaganda articles they published FYI 983. This is because their people sit in their seats and are trained not to think or ask these questions, just blindly trust and believe the “government”“Rendering of Charitable Works under the Benevolence Program”
This subsection is laughable! Here is where the cult can’t hide behinds words: Let’s just see how much benevolence is flowing out of the PCG! Under the financial review section the PCG UK claims to have a total income of £986,353 with a “charitable” expenditures of £897,517 leaving a surplus of £88,835. This is only possible with a infusion of cash from the PCG USA and PCG AUS of £333,425. With that background, now let’s go back to the “love” the PCG claims to show.
Page 21 and 22 have line items showing how much 3T Assistance AND FOT assistance was distributed (no where does it show how much was collected which is another interesting omission) the total for 2020 drumroll please ……. £2,845 and in 2019 it was £ 1,114! I double checked, I didn’t for get a zero or two! That’s it! So now let’s use the percentages this cult loves to throw around, to determine the total amount of love that flowed out of the PCG to its membership .0028% in 2020 yep less the 3 hundred thousandth of a percent of the PCG UK income that flowed back to its people in true love! So they demand their people pay their 3T and they claim that it all goes to help those in the church in need. But when they have to open the books it shows a completely different picture. To summarise Ministerial travel (in a time of no travel) was £473,520 and total love distributed to help it’s membership £ 2,845. Where is the money actually going?
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What I find myself asking is, just who is the Stanley Rader type whom they have found to create such an "interesting" document?
It's like I said elsewhere folks, the crop of Armstrongite leaders of today will never, ever repent of HWA's sins, no matter how blatant they were! Rather, those sins are considered to be license, the very blueprint as to how to spread the Armstrong half a gospel! If this is what they do with their book keeping, can you honestly trust them with what they do to the Bible???
Brother Creflo:
Your recent financial repentence was really impressive, and got a good writeup here! I assume some of your people noticed this and told you about us and our accountability mission here. Could you get in touch with the Flurrys and help them to understand what a sacred trust God's money is, and how they should manage it?
Thanks in advance!
Well this is ‘revealing’……….
74 requests in 2020 for ministry visits? Only 74?
And of that number how many became tithe paying members?
With ministry expenditure a sure sign of impending disaster.
And 7 small congregations spread over Europe.
Like to know the numbers.
Well the maths don’t look good going ahead, perhaps the ministry can learn how to travel economy class in future, even if it means mixing with the great unwashed masses. And dining out…..at MacDonalds for a change.
Otherwise the march to oblivion is well on its way.
Holy sh!t, we’re they taking helicopters???
So, they are either lying…… or they aren’t requiring people to pay 3rd tithe….., which I highly doubt!
Good point
PCG folks still gonna find ways to excuse their "idol ministers" and their sorry excuse of a "church."
Sheeples to the core.
In the OT, it says that the Levites could also take from the third tithe. Presumably the ministers have decided to plunder the third tithe using this "loop hole." But this violates the purpose of the third tithe. Third tithe was ancient Israelites social security safety net, which today is being supplied by the secular government. Church members are already paying for it though their taxes, so there's no reason to pay it a second time to their greedy corporate churches.
Didn't savvy Hebrew-Herbie-Handler Stan Rader lease not buy church jets?
Flurry must be getting killed by depreciation!
Salaries, Food & Beverage, Travel. WOW!
I suspect that the USA expense sheet looks very similar.
Their total income of about 1 million pounds gives an indication of their third tithe income. To be fair, much of their income could come from deceased estates, but it should still be much greater than the 3 thousand pounds distributed to members.
Since the ACOGs copy each other, this probably holds true for all of them.
This also raises suspicion on their handling of excess second tithe donations.
Page 20 of the report has a line item for Bequests income “estate” it was zero for 2020 and only £16,390 for 2019. Excess second tithe is encouraged to be given in the Last Great Day offering at the feast. They make sure to make an announcement every year, so it is then allocated in 1st tithe and offerings line item. The biggest question remains is how did 3 ministers spend nearly 1/2 million pounds sterling when the UK and almost of all of Europe was shut down for the year?
RCG has bypassed registering in the UK. I looked for them and they were missing. HQ found a way around this years ago.
At 2000L per year donation per member, this suggests no more than 250 members in Europe.
Even in Canada the church pays the ministers rent for their luxury homes with pools and huge open lots. On top of that they get travel and meal allowances and a day paycheck
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