Church Financial Security

counting the offering, deposit procedures, accounting


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  • Church Security Alliance Interviews Church Risk Management Expert

    Church Security Alliance co-founder Glen Evans interviews Michael Bebout, Executive Director of the Institute for Church Safety and Risk Management, about how a church can reduce risk through proper planning and preparation.

    Churches today face an increased chance of litigation due to vehicle crashes, on-campus accidents, child abuse, and violence. Michael Boutot explains what risk management entails and how churches can reduce the risk of liability due to inaction. This 30 minute interview reveals what your church needs to examine so ministry dollars are spent on ministry and not lawsuits.

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  • Church Offering Security: Woman is charged in theft from church

    Prosecutors on Thursday charged a 36-year-old Edwardsville woman with stealing about $5,000 from Trinity Lutheran Church. The suspect, Elizabeth R. Klaas, was the volunteer treasurer of the Parent Teacher League of Trinity Lutheran School

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  • Protecting the Offering – Part Two

    In Part One we discussed the different risks that apply to the church offering. In this installment we will discuss how to pickup and count the offering. Most of the risk can be mitigated if you implement proper procedures that provide for accountability in the transport, handling and counting of the church offering.

    Pilfering is one of the most common means of stealing money from a church. Typically the dollar amount is fairly low but a much easier to be successful in the act of thievery. The ability to remove cash from the offering box, plates, safes or lock boxes is eliminated when an appropriate level of accountability is introduced into the procedures.

    Lets look at the typical means used to collect the offering.

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  • Protecting the Church Offering – Part One

    In today’s environment the church faces many challenges to it’s existence. Churches have faced scandals from sexual abuse to loss of creditability, embezzlement and thefts. Knowing how many of these issues can happen can help to understand what can be done to prevent them. In Part One, we are going to focus on how the offering can be placed at risk, both from outside forces as well as internal risks. Since the offering is the tithing of God’s people back to God, most of the church family does not understand that there even is a risk. What can place the offering at risk.

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