Collecting Offering

(a suggested method)

Start with four people at the front of the church (centre of the circle).

One person takes the main aisle and two offering plates.  Start one plate on each side in the first row, continuing with the odd numbered rows. 

A second person has two offering plates and takes the far left aisle, and starts one on each side….in every row on the left, starting at the front, and the second row in the main section, doing the even rows.

A third person has two offering plates and takes the far right aisle.  They start one plate in the choir, moving it to the first row on the extreme right section, doing every row.  The second plate is started in the second row in the main section, doing the even rows. 

A fourth person walks up the part aisle in the main section.  They don’t need any offering plates, and facilitate the movement of the plates from one row to another, continuing the movement of the plates across the rows.

September 2011