A member of the Redeemed Christian Church of God b has ignited widespread online discussion after publicly expressing his dissatisfaction with the salary structure for pastors, particularly highlighting the pay of a zonal pastor in Abuja. His post has sparked debates about church finances, pastoral welfare, and the centralization of revenue within the organization.
Member Reacts to Salary Disclosure
Ucee Harmony, a songwriter and long-standing RCCG member, shared his frustrations on Facebook after attending a church service where a zonal pastor in Abuja revealed details about his monthly pay. According to Ucee, the pastor disclosed during his testimony that he earns only N80,000 per month, a sum that Ucee considers insufficient for someone tasked with leading a congregation and supporting a family in the nation’s capital.
Ucee described the revelation as shocking and concerning, noting that full-time pastors are expected to dedicate their lives to spiritual leadership while living on a fixed salary that does not reflect the scope of their responsibilities or the cost of living in Abuja.
Concerns About Pastoral Livelihood
In his post, Ucee questioned the broader implications of the church’s financial system, highlighting that pastors are treated similarly to ordinary employees of the RCCG headquarters. He criticized the requirement that pastors remit all tithes, offerings, and seed sowings to the central office before receiving their modest monthly salary. According to him, this approach reduces pastoral work to a routine job rather than a calling, undermining both the spiritual and practical responsibilities of church leadership.
He argued that pastors should be adequately compensated for their labor, especially given the high cost of living in major Nigerian cities and the significant responsibilities they carry. The practice of centralizing all church revenue, he suggested, transforms the spiritual institution into a business-like organization, prioritizing income generation over ministry and care for congregations.
RCCG Criticized for Centralized Control
Ucee further elaborated that the current system of revenue centralization and fixed salaries diminishes the role of pastors to that of mere employees rather than spiritual leaders called by God. He questioned why pastors, who are formally ordained and believed to be divinely called, are recruited into what he described as a corporate structure, with all financial inflows directed to the church headquarters before being allocated as monthly salaries.
He wrote in his post:
“A Redeemed Christian Church of God pastor who pastors one of the RCCG zones in Abuja came to our church today. He gave a testimony. While giving his testimony he said a lot of things. The one that caught my attention was when he said as a Zonal pastor in Abuja his salary is 80k in naira.
A mature full grown family man and a fulltime Zonal pastor receives 80k salary from RCCG. A family man with wife and children living of all places, Abuja. Pastors are they no longer called and ordained by God? If they are called by God why are they recruited and turned to employees to daddy GOs? Why pay them peanut as salary?
Why must they remit offerings, tithes, seed sowings, and other monetary income to the church headquarters and wait till month end to receive salary? Does it mean all their churches scattered all over the country now generate monthly revenue to the church headquarters and then allocation in form of salary is paid to pastors?
If so, church is now a full time business. Nothing spiritual, nothing special. Just business and a means of generating income, revenue to the oga at the top a.k.a Daddy G.O. All these new generation churches are into full time business, nothing you wan tell me.
No wonder in one street you can see about 7 different shops asin church business outlets. I am a Redeemed Christian Church of God member for years now, but I can’t see black and call it white. It has never been in my nature.”
The post has been accompanied by screenshots shared online, showing Ucee’s detailed critique and the viral nature of the discussion among RCCG members and the wider public.
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