collection plates
Pews' passing dishes
Collection plates are shallow dishes or baskets passed among a congregation during religious services to gather monetary offerings.
The practice is central to how many churches fund their operations: The ushers passed the collection plates during the offertory.
The term sometimes appears figuratively for any solicitation of donations.
- trayShallow portable platform
- almsGifts to the destitute
- offertoryService donation period
- silent prayerVoiceless religious entreaty
- donationVoluntary charitable gift
offering · church · usher · generosity · giving back · tithes · bowl · pass · pew · stewardship · community · altar · faith · congregation · worship · brass · loose change · spare change
- church financestithes, offerings, donations, giving, pledges
- church propertychurch building, abbey, rectory, manse, glebe
- collection pointsrecycling bins, trash cans, mailboxes, drop boxes, ballot boxes
- sacristyalb, chasuble, stole, surplice, cassock
collection platestip jars
Receptacles for service bonuses
charity boxes · cash registers · toll booths · vending machines · ATMs
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