Boon and bust

There is a God in heaven! With three children in university and a late start into the pension plan, it was such an unexpected boon for my future! When it was reported to my congregation that the management team at 50 Wynford had all now received a significant boost in salary (or stipend), they near unanimously decided that I was as valuable to them as anyone at church offices, and should receive equal compensation, and boosted my stipend to match theirs! Regrettably the only way such an increase could be made was by a reduction [BIG] in the congregation's accepted Presbyterian Sharing allocation.