[LCFinance] Sunday collections

[Jane Millen]

Our procedures are similar to some that have been described except our interpretation of the Discipline (please correct us if we are wrong) has been that neither the Treasurer nor the Financial Secretary is allowed to count the offering.  As others have described, we have two unrelated counters from two separate households who count the offering after worship (also one Sunday each month).  They complete both the bank deposit and a contribution log and drop the deposit in the night deposit at the bank.  The Finance Secretary receives both the duplicate copy of the deposit slip and the contribution log (just an Excel spreadsheet providing names of donors and space for designations of gifts, if applicable).  The Treasurer receives only the summary page of that log which has totals for each type of gift (designated or undesignated) with no names of donors.  We are not a large church and have relatively little cash in our deposit so a church that receives a significant amount of cash may not be comfortable with our procedure.  In contrast to other procedures that have been described, the church never retrieves the offering from the bank after it has been deposited - that was a new concept to me.  The bank simply notifies the treasurer if there is a discrepancy between the deposit and the deposit slip.  

Jane Millen
Resurrection UMC
Durham


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