I know of another Pastor who felt that collecting offerings was taking-up too much valuable time during his Sunday church services.

So he decided to build two offering slots into the front entrances of the building, one with the inscription "tithes and offerings", the other, "missions". And from that time on, the church altogether ceased collecting offerings as part of their Sunday services. No more long offering speeches - members simply placed their offering at will, as they entered or exited the building.

Amazingly, the weekly offerings - both the tithes and offerings and the missions offerings - straightaway nearly doubled. And an elder of the church informed me that both offerings have been sustained at that new, higher level ever since.

It was quite a risk, for a church with a large budget. But God is blessing the church. An added advantage is that now, first-time visitors to the church are not immediately confronted with those regular, long offering speeches.