What amount of money prompts FBI involvement? Probably doesn’t work that way. What kind of security force does a church that size have? Probably a pretty good one or at least they look pretty good, I would imagine. Has anyone ever attempted it? I’ve heard of small time stuff like grab n’ dashing old ladies at the church steps. Do they count and sort the offering right there in the church or do they armor it to a bank? Probably becomes federal money once the armor is involved. When do they armor it out? Do they have the means to store that kind of money over night? Do they have a safe? A vault? What kind of money are we talking about anyway? How much offering does a 20,000-member church produce on a Sunday? Don’t most of these churches have an automatic withdrawal yoked on their parishioners’ bank accounts?
Now on the business end of his depression, Hatchet rattled Woody Hightower’s little cage when he found the opportunity over cups of coffee, producing more questions than answers. Woody told him that most of the automatic withdrawal accounts were folks who rarely went to service and the country’s economic downturn had scared many of the congregation out of those agreements, which seemed revealing phenomena on a social level. Parishioners who liked electronic giving used the new Giving Kiosks scattered throughout the main building. Because they were the kind of people who failed to keep bank accounts for long, most of the cash contributions came from those he called in-recovery types like alcoholics and druggies. Their need for a cure made addicts of all shades prime Calvary targets. Woody told him that donations over all had taken a dip during the recession. But when you pack a bunch of young single folks who’ve lost jobs and gone back to school to fill the time and supplement their incomes—all of them staring total ruin in the face—into a crowded building, hinting that what little cash they may have on them as they sit in that pew might be a sincere enough sentiment to let God know you are here to further his success as much as your own, you can make the wallets open and the purses shuffle. If the church fails, we’ve all failed, Woody gave him sarcastic smirk, mimicking Brody Lassiter. Woody said that he had seen $700,000 in receipts in cold cash one Sunday.
He didn’t know much about the movement of the money. More than likely, they were trucking it out after the evening service but all the accounting occurred on church grounds. You ever do any of the counting? My job is separate from the actual cash; I scan personal checks into computers and make the electronic deposits. There were a couple of safes that had little or nothing to do with the offering but Woody didn’t know about any vault. Really? Hatchet would ask, in that big fucking complex of buildings over there, they don’t have a vault or huge safe of any kind? Not that I know. How can they possibly armor that money to a bank on Sunday? I’m not sure about that. Are there any weapons besides sidearms and TASERs? I saw a machine gun once.
No shit?
No shit.
He told him the security had been the responsibility of five of the best off duty municipal police officers the city could boast. Then Brody Lassiter decided he needed a personal battery of protection he would refer to as the Guardians. The Guardians would soon become the brand name of the entire Calvary Fellowship security force. The drama surrounding the change became a whispered about plot twist in the growing pains the church had endured during their massive expansion in the years after 2000.
Now on the business end of his depression, Hatchet rattled Woody Hightower’s little cage when he found the opportunity over cups of coffee, producing more questions than answers. Woody told him that most of the automatic withdrawal accounts were folks who rarely went to service and the country’s economic downturn had scared many of the congregation out of those agreements, which seemed revealing phenomena on a social level. Parishioners who liked electronic giving used the new Giving Kiosks scattered throughout the main building. Because they were the kind of people who failed to keep bank accounts for long, most of the cash contributions came from those he called in-recovery types like alcoholics and druggies. Their need for a cure made addicts of all shades prime Calvary targets. Woody told him that donations over all had taken a dip during the recession. But when you pack a bunch of young single folks who’ve lost jobs and gone back to school to fill the time and supplement their incomes—all of them staring total ruin in the face—into a crowded building, hinting that what little cash they may have on them as they sit in that pew might be a sincere enough sentiment to let God know you are here to further his success as much as your own, you can make the wallets open and the purses shuffle. If the church fails, we’ve all failed, Woody gave him sarcastic smirk, mimicking Brody Lassiter. Woody said that he had seen $700,000 in receipts in cold cash one Sunday.
He didn’t know much about the movement of the money. More than likely, they were trucking it out after the evening service but all the accounting occurred on church grounds. You ever do any of the counting? My job is separate from the actual cash; I scan personal checks into computers and make the electronic deposits. There were a couple of safes that had little or nothing to do with the offering but Woody didn’t know about any vault. Really? Hatchet would ask, in that big fucking complex of buildings over there, they don’t have a vault or huge safe of any kind? Not that I know. How can they possibly armor that money to a bank on Sunday? I’m not sure about that. Are there any weapons besides sidearms and TASERs? I saw a machine gun once.
No shit?
No shit.
He told him the security had been the responsibility of five of the best off duty municipal police officers the city could boast. Then Brody Lassiter decided he needed a personal battery of protection he would refer to as the Guardians. The Guardians would soon become the brand name of the entire Calvary Fellowship security force. The drama surrounding the change became a whispered about plot twist in the growing pains the church had endured during their massive expansion in the years after 2000.
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