General Church Offering / Contribution

[samaniyeb]

If a Church organizes general church offering and receive contributions from the entire congregation and not from individuals, how should that be recorded?
Sometimes Church Offerings (collections) are put together in the offering bowl/plate (this will not indicate the individual and their respective amounts).
How will such giving/offerings/contributions (which usually occurs during Church Services), be recorded, without the use of individual names or envelope numbers?

[NeilZ]

Here is the answer I gave when someone else asked a similar question:

In the case of Loose Plate cash, it is recommended that you create a Dummy Envelope number. In the case of many churches, the envelopes start at 100; you would add a person just as you would a new contributor. We name this person Lucy Cash (or Loose Cash) with the address of the church. We then give this dummy entity the envelope number of 99, which is outside the normal envelope system.

All loose plate cash and coin are then credited to this number. Any checks placed in the plate are given a regular envelope number using the name on the check giving them the next number in series.