The Church of God at Southaven entered into an agreement with a general contractor called National Church Services (NCS) for the construction of a sanctuary for about \($1.1\) million. NCS hired several subcontractors. Three of the subcontractors claimed that they had not been paid for construction work done on the sanctuary and that the church was responsible to pay them because NCS was acting as agent for the church when it hired the subcontractors. Was this argument valid?