Why do financial donations from KCMs local congregations go to a central treasury?
The Kingdom Christian Ministries sprang out of a formerly-existing fellowship of like-minded churches, all of whom were under the ministry of The Kingdom, described above. After a restructuring which took place in 1998, it became clear to some of those churches (later called KCM) that they wanted to carry on the same ministry, which included (in part) the unity of all believers. This kingdom principle means that we are all part of the same body of Christ, and as such we wanted to operate as one church, even though our ministries were in various locations. At the time of restructuring, each congregation incorporated individually and received its real estate assets formerly held by The Kingdom. Then, those who wanted to continue ministry together decided to pool those assets. In other words, we had the freedom to operate as independent churches, but consciously chose to join as one church. The spiritual leadership was given to a board made up of a pastor and elder from each of the joinin