This is usually collected after the sermon. Normally, the person who greeted people at the door will also hand round the offering ‘bags’, which in our case are individual socks fixed onto wire frame handles. A CD track is played while the offering is being collected, and once the socks have been round the whole space, they are gathered together and the door/offering person leads us in a prayer. This can be ad hoc, although a member of the congregation did write the following prayer a few years ago for use with the offering:
Prayer for the offering
Lord, You give to us out of your abundance
We give to you out of our caution
Sometimes we give to you
With a big impulse
From a small heart
What we have
We release to you
To use beyond what our caution
Or even the bigness of our hearts
Might otherwise allow
(Andrew Rockell)