Churches pinched by health care costs: Health care may soon eat up missions dollars
Unlike many other pastors in the Church of the Brethren, Kendal W. Elmore stuck with his denomination’s medical insurance plan for 34 years, even as premiums escalated.
The 60-year-old pastor from Toledo, Ohio, says he was told that the higher costs made health care more affordable for older and less healthy Brethren pastors.
“I felt I needed to be loyal to the Brethren plan,” he said.