Can your employer change your pay date without your permission?

I’ve been at my current job for about 18 months now, and I’ve always gotten paid on Fridays. It’s bad enough that my employer won’t do direct deposit, which means it can take a day or more for my check to clear and funds to be available. Now, today he tells me the he’s going to start writing my checks on Mondays. (I don’t work Mondays so now I won’t be able to get my check until Tuesday, it won’t clear before Wednesday at the earliest, etc.) Can he do this?

I work for a church, and while he is the treasurer, he is not an elder, so I do have the option of going to the Council person in charge of personnel and bringing this up as an issue, but am trying to figure everything out before I do that.

Oh, and one more thing. When I was trying to explain the hardship that this was going to cause me this week in particular, his response was to say that he had just given me my Christmas bonus last week. Now, I used most of that money to buy gifts for family, and to get some things for myself that I’ve been putting off buying because my money was so tight. No matter what I used it for, I feel it was very inappropriate and unprofessional for him to make that comment and make me feel I had to explain how I had spent my bonus. Should he have even said that?