Small church budgets, they say, cannot meet the rising cost of having a full-time minister.

But both acknowledge the difficulties a full-time minister can face so far from an urban area.

After graduating in 1889, he was ordained and installed as the full-time minister on August 4.

The following year he became a missionary and full-time minister in Massachusetts.

He became a full-time minister for the Community of Christ in 1982.

A full-time minister was employed by the nonconformists for the first time.

The first full-time residential minister was appointed in early 2001.

A full-time minister since 1978, he was ordained as a president of seventy.

It inspired him to possibly head to seminary school and become a full-time minister.

Veazey has been a full-time minister in the church since 1983.