Our church went on a visit to an AME Church. The basket came by and I was about to put a $20 bill in it. The elderly Black women next to me whispered to me:
"Don't put it all in at once dear, it'll be coming around a few more times."
I then pulled out a fiver and she said: "That's better."
Wow. Our church has experimented with dropping the collection entirely. Just an announcement at the end that anyone with a special gift or offering should stop by the ushers on the way out. A lot of the folk in our church have our tithes set up to happen electronically. I imagine it looks funny to newcomers when the baskets come around and not a lot of people are putting anything in. We went back to passing the baskets because some folks would get distracted by other folks on the way out and would just forget. I know that would happen to me, which is why I prefer to not have to worry about it.
On the topic of multiple collections....I have often wondered that if I took a $20 bill, tore it in half, and put half in each collection, would they get the message?