Same thing here. Left a mega church in the Spokane valley to help start an outreach church in Browne's Addition. On the board, etc. Church took off, rapidly gaining members, programs, press and donations.Still have PTSD from serving as an elder of a church where, invariably, everything always came back to the Benjamins.
Never again.
Within two years I and every other founding members were gone. Except for the pastor...he was making bank.
Between that experience and the mega church politics, I decided that from that day forward it was just between He and I.