Shepherd Ministries Inc

“PDF of form was emailed to board members.”

“All employees and Contractors that are on the board or family members are required to be under a signed and board-approved contract. All employees are required to have board permission for expenses over $500 and all receipts must be provided and a listing of expenditures sent to all board members.”

“Michael Leach was employed as a web developer and audio/vidoe editor. We looked at the average pay for a web developer and audio/video editor in the state of Oklahoma, according to several online sources (zip recruiter, indeed, local hiring ads, etc). Michael, with 20 years of experience, is paid approximately 12k below that average.”

“Our tax filings are all on the IRS tax-exempt search. We have our governing documents and financial statements in an online storage that can be shared upon request.”

“Family Relationship”

“Bylaws were updated to provide a line of succession as the president and founder is now in his 90s.”

“Michael Leach and Adele Leach live in Oklahoma at: 1737 South Pine Place Broken Arrow, OK 74012 918-606-0394”

“We created a 2nd teaching website rockwellbreakabean.com that serves as a more story-centric way of sharing truths from the bible. We also started a YouTube channel where we post 2 sermons a day as well as a free podcast. Our President, Rev. Matt W. Leach, has written 3 bible teaching books. We will be transferring the copyright to Shepherd Ministries and republishing the books. All proceeds will directly fund the cost of the websites.”

“We no longer operate as a lending library with cassettes available through the mail and are online only due to very low demand for physical media. We also abandoned our plans to develop a retreat center in New York and instead sold the land to fund the transfer of our library of over 8000 sermons on cassette and reel-to-reel to digital and develop our website and social channels to make all these available for free. Funds from this sale were also allocated to develop a 2nd teaching website as well as republish 3 books previously written by Rev. Matt W. Leach.”

“We purchased 2 copyrights from Rev. Matt W. Leach for bible teaching books he has written. We intend to republish these books and give them digitally or as cheap as Amazon will let us sell them once we have sold enough to cover the cost of the copyright.”

“$2500 - CFO International $2500 - Iowa CFO $5000 - Elijah List Ministries $5000 - ACFO $5000 - United Prayer Tower $5765 - Kenneth Hagin Ministries $5000 - Kenneth Copeland Ministries TOTAL: $30765 for Part IX Line 1 $500 - School Fundraiser $139 - Bought groceries for someone $22 - Purchased teaching books and mailed them to someone who contacted us TOTAL: $661 for Part IX Line 2 $3200 - Copyright Purchase for 2 books TOTAL: $3200 for Part IX Line 24e”

“Generally we operate on a very small budget. The only exception was this year with the land sale. After 2024 we will be back to the e-postcard filing.”