Church Security Alliance co-founder Glen Evans interviews Michael Boutot, 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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St Louis area church report

Church Offering Security: 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, said Stephanee Smith, a spokeswoman for the Madison County state’s attorney’s office. Klaas, of the 400 block of Buena Vista Drive, was accused of embezzling the money between June 1, 2007, and June 1, 2008.

It is vital that you church have accountability measures in place to prevent this type of abuse. Oversight and audit must be maintained.

Overview

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 from the offering is one of the most common means of stealing money from a church. Typically the dollar amount is fairly low but easy to be successful in the act of thievery. The ability to remove cash and not be detected from the offering box, plates, safes or lock boxes is eliminated when an appropriate level of accountability is introduced into the handling procedures.

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

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Overview

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. Read More…