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.