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United Methodist Church Reviews

3.9

78% would recommend to a friend

(273 total reviews)
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Preston Greenwaldt

71% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

United Methodist Church has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 273 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The United Methodist Church employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Construction, repair and maintenance industry (3.7 stars).

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273 reviews
2.0
11 Feb 2015

Great benefits, but that's about it

Anonymous employee
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Pros

In comparison to other non-profit organizations, the salary and benefits are solid. For the most part, people are nice and friendly.

Cons

Although the salary and benefits are good, for people seeking professional growth and an opportunity to learn, this organization is not for you. People enter at the position that they "fit" into and almost never move up so talented people never stay for too long. Nepotism is rampant - if someone up high really likes you then it's easy to get perks and many staff are hired due to connections within the organization regardless of qualifications. As a result, executives do not know how to manage programs or budgets and are resistant to innovation. The organization functions the same way it has for years and will likely not change. Well-qualified staff are overworked - for example, an assistant that does his/her work quickly and well will have more assignments piled onto their workload while slow/lazy staff are just left alone, ultimately reducing their effectiveness.

5.0
31 July 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Great community outreach, wonderful staff and congregation, supportive pastor and district, able to work from home, creative freedom, flexible schedule.

Cons

You don’t get rich working for a church, and you may work long/odd hours. Church politics and seeing the underbelly of what happens behind the scenes at a church can be difficult. There can be some very not nice people you have to deal with and many feel you work for them because they tithe to the church and “pay your salary.”

3.0
7 Feb 2018

It's not a job

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Pros

Being a pastor is a way of being, a calling. It brings you into intense, personal, deep contact with others. It is: conflict resolution, peace negotiation, orator, teacher, administrative management, creative visionary, social work, manual labor, therapist, and more, rolled into one package. If you like to multitask but see things through, if you are passionate about social justice and not afraid to make everyone angry for the sake of what's right, and if there is nothing else you could ever see yourself doing, be a pastor.

Cons

No one knows what you do, but everyone thinks they do. And wants you to do something else. Everyone wants you to tell them they are tight and the other guy is wrong. You are unlikely to be well paid. You will probably move around every few years - this is good and bad, actually. Tax time will suck for you. Dating will be hard.

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