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Download Collection & Accounting Guidelines
These newly expanded guidelines, which relate to both a church’s Sunday collection and its disbursements operations (including bank accounts), contain step-by-step, easy-to-understand instructions on how to proceed. The guidelines even include a description of the simple, low-cost equipment that must be combined with the recommended procedures before your Sunday collection and disbursements operations can be elevated from the status of a sitting duck (most are) to that of an unobtrusive Fort Knox.
It’s been said that one picture is worth a thousand words. In this case, however, one picture could be worth a thousand dollars - every week - to a single parish. The two pictures shown below depict what are, for all practical purposes, the only two acceptable methods for securing a Sunday collection. In either case, this procedure must be performed concurrent with the ushers’ consolidation of their collection baskets. Any delay whatsoever opens the door to surreptitious theft. |
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Depicted in the photo on the right is a mail-type nylon sack from A Rifkin Co., being used in combination with a tamperproof numbered seal from ULINE. The photo on the left depicts a serially numbered tamper-evident polyethylene bag from SECUR-PAK. SECUR-PAK bags are one-time-use but can be purchased in bulk with price breaks for quantity purchases. Centralized purchasing is therefore highly recommended to reduce costs. No doubt there are other equally reliable vendors available; the above three just happen to be the ones with whom I have had contact. See the Sunday Collection Guidelines for further details.
To download either or both of our guidelines, simply click on the hyperlinks shown below. Depending upon your particular browser, the documents will open or you will be given the option of saving them. In either case, you can print or save them to your desktop or other location where you will be able to later find them. If you elect to save the documents, you can then open them via your own word processing program.
Download Sunday Collection Guidelines ~ Download Financial Operations Guidelines
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Drawstring Sack and Tamperproof Numbered Seal |
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Serially Numbered Tamper-evident Polyethylene Bag |