Lake Pointe Church Reviews

Pay too low. Even though they promote family values, they tell you that you have to think of your job as a ministry and that they can't pay the industry standard because it's a church. There were also no raises in the years that I was there. Toward the end of my time there, they began to lay off employees who had been there for years while simultaneously building a million dollar remodel. It just seemed to have to mix ups in priority. There was obviously enough money to pay people who worked hard for them what they were worth, but they spent it elsewhere or didn't manage it well. I've seen examples. Also management and leadership was disconnected from the processes, needs, and troubles of the people they managed. Sometimes they were just hard to talk to and you wonder how they even ended up in a leadership position in the first place, at least in my department. Also, employees go to upper management with open door policies, only to have their concerns disregarded and disclosed to the people that they were trying to avoid knowing about it in the first place.

Leadership has no accountability- at least in the department I was in. Pay was low- even for a ministry. I ended up leaving for many reasons but a big one was they wanted me to work more hours and take on more responsibility without proper compensation. Even though my boss was far removed and kind of clueless about the day to day processes of my position, he still tried to micro-manage everything I did. Most processes were convoluted and they refused to change them to make them more efficient. A lot of my job was the equivalent of moving a pile of sand with tweezers- There was always a better way to get the job done, but I was bound to the inefficient way because of the tools I was given or the resistance to change. Leadership was often unkind in the way they handled internal issues. I felt my boss was unprofessional in the way he talked about others on staff to me. I couldn't go to anyone with issues because I knew that a confidential conversation wouldn't remain confidential. Unfortunately, I found that out the hard way. Human resources was basically useless in the same way. The human resources director is good friends with most of the leadership on staff so there was no going to human resources about any issues. The HR department was not an advocate for the employee but for the higher ranking staff. Women were not respected in the department that I was in. I can say this because of the many comments my boss made to me about the other ladies working in the office. There was an obvious double standard for the male and female employees. Example- male employees could be late all the time without consequence. If female employees were 5 minutes late they would be reprimanded. There is a constant revolving door amongst the entry level employees. Within my first year, 7 employees from my department either left the department or left the church for different jobs.