{"id":13522,"date":"2014-03-10T08:48:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T12:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/?post_type=nccumc_faq&p=13522"},"modified":"2014-03-10T08:48:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T12:48:31","slug":"church-sold-parsonage-started-giving-pastor-housing-allowance-instead-can-use-money-sale-parsonage-pay-housing-allowance","status":"publish","type":"nccumc_faq","link":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/faq\/church-sold-parsonage-started-giving-pastor-housing-allowance-instead-can-use-money-sale-parsonage-pay-housing-allowance\/","title":{"rendered":"Our church sold our parsonage and started giving our pastor a housing allowance instead. Can we use the money from the sale of the parsonage to pay the housing allowance?"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can invest the money from the sale of the parsonage and use the earnings toward the housing allowance but you cannot use the actual sale proceeds as a housing allowance.\u00a0 The Book of Discipline prohibits the use of sale proceeds from any church building or parsonage to be used for current budget or operating expenses (paragraph 2543).\u00a0 Housing allowances are considered to be current expenses so sale proceeds cannot be used in this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":""},"nccumc_faq_type":[64],"nccumc_faq_tag":[136,137],"class_list":["post-13522","nccumc_faq","type-nccumc_faq","status-publish","hentry","nccumc_faq_type-church-finances","nccumc_faq_tag-parsonage","nccumc_faq_tag-sale-proceeds"],"yoast_head":"\nOur church sold our parsonage and started giving our pastor a housing allowance instead. Can we use the money from the sale of the parsonage to pay the housing allowance? | Treasurer's Office<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/faq\/church-sold-parsonage-started-giving-pastor-housing-allowance-instead-can-use-money-sale-parsonage-pay-housing-allowance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Our church sold our parsonage and started giving our pastor a housing allowance instead. Can we use the money from the sale of the parsonage to pay the housing allowance? | Treasurer's Office\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"You can invest the money from the sale of the parsonage and use the earnings toward the housing allowance but you cannot use the actual sale proceeds as a housing […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/faq\/church-sold-parsonage-started-giving-pastor-housing-allowance-instead-can-use-money-sale-parsonage-pay-housing-allowance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Treasurer's Office\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/nccumc\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@nccumc\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nccumc.org\\\/treasurer\\\/faq\\\/church-sold-parsonage-started-giving-pastor-housing-allowance-instead-can-use-money-sale-parsonage-pay-housing-allowance\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nccumc.org\\\/treasurer\\\/faq\\\/church-sold-parsonage-started-giving-pastor-housing-allowance-instead-can-use-money-sale-parsonage-pay-housing-allowance\\\/\",\"name\":\"Our church sold our parsonage and started giving our pastor a housing allowance instead. Can we use the money from the sale of the parsonage to pay the housing allowance? | Treasurer's Office\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nccumc.org\\\/treasurer\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2014-03-10T12:48:31+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nccumc.org\\\/treasurer\\\/faq\\\/church-sold-parsonage-started-giving-pastor-housing-allowance-instead-can-use-money-sale-parsonage-pay-housing-allowance\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/nccumc.org\\\/treasurer\\\/faq\\\/church-sold-parsonage-started-giving-pastor-housing-allowance-instead-can-use-money-sale-parsonage-pay-housing-allowance\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nccumc.org\\\/treasurer\\\/faq\\\/church-sold-parsonage-started-giving-pastor-housing-allowance-instead-can-use-money-sale-parsonage-pay-housing-allowance\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nccumc.org\\\/treasurer\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Our church sold our parsonage and started giving our pastor a housing allowance instead. Can we use the money from the sale of the parsonage to pay the housing allowance?\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nccumc.org\\\/treasurer\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nccumc.org\\\/treasurer\\\/\",\"name\":\"Treasurer's Office\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nccumc.org\\\/treasurer\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nccumc.org\\\/treasurer\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nccumc.org\\\/treasurer\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"North Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nccumc.org\\\/treasurer\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nccumc.org\\\/treasurer\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\",\"caption\":\"North Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nccumc.org\\\/treasurer\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/facebook.com\\\/nccumc\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/nccumc\",\"https:\\\/\\\/instagram.com\\\/nccumc\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Our church sold our parsonage and started giving our pastor a housing allowance instead. Can we use the money from the sale of the parsonage to pay the housing allowance? | Treasurer's Office","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/faq\/church-sold-parsonage-started-giving-pastor-housing-allowance-instead-can-use-money-sale-parsonage-pay-housing-allowance\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Our church sold our parsonage and started giving our pastor a housing allowance instead. Can we use the money from the sale of the parsonage to pay the housing allowance? | Treasurer's Office","og_description":"You can invest the money from the sale of the parsonage and use the earnings toward the housing allowance but you cannot use the actual sale proceeds as a housing […]","og_url":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/faq\/church-sold-parsonage-started-giving-pastor-housing-allowance-instead-can-use-money-sale-parsonage-pay-housing-allowance\/","og_site_name":"Treasurer's Office","article_publisher":"https:\/\/facebook.com\/nccumc","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_site":"@nccumc","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/faq\/church-sold-parsonage-started-giving-pastor-housing-allowance-instead-can-use-money-sale-parsonage-pay-housing-allowance\/","url":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/faq\/church-sold-parsonage-started-giving-pastor-housing-allowance-instead-can-use-money-sale-parsonage-pay-housing-allowance\/","name":"Our church sold our parsonage and started giving our pastor a housing allowance instead. Can we use the money from the sale of the parsonage to pay the housing allowance? | Treasurer's Office","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/#website"},"datePublished":"2014-03-10T12:48:31+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/faq\/church-sold-parsonage-started-giving-pastor-housing-allowance-instead-can-use-money-sale-parsonage-pay-housing-allowance\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/faq\/church-sold-parsonage-started-giving-pastor-housing-allowance-instead-can-use-money-sale-parsonage-pay-housing-allowance\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/faq\/church-sold-parsonage-started-giving-pastor-housing-allowance-instead-can-use-money-sale-parsonage-pay-housing-allowance\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Our church sold our parsonage and started giving our pastor a housing allowance instead. Can we use the money from the sale of the parsonage to pay the housing allowance?"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/#website","url":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/","name":"Treasurer's Office","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/#organization","name":"North Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church","url":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"","contentUrl":"","caption":"North Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/facebook.com\/nccumc","https:\/\/x.com\/nccumc","https:\/\/instagram.com\/nccumc"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nccumc_faq\/13522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nccumc_faq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/nccumc_faq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"nccumc_faq_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nccumc_faq_type?post=13522"},{"taxonomy":"nccumc_faq_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/treasurer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nccumc_faq_tag?post=13522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}