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• Download Michael Ryan's brochure Protecting the Parish Purse: Vital Information for Parish Staff and Volunteers Involved in Handling Sunday Collections. You may copy and distribute the printout or, even easier, order glossy brochures from VOTF for $1 each. 

• Also, download a Currency Counting Form you can print out and use to document your parish's Sunday parish collections better and more accurately. 

• Need more help finding the sequential seals or self-sealing bags highlighted in the brochure? Order self-sealing, tamper-evident polyethylene bags through Amazon.com, Staples, and other office supply companies, where you also can purchase numbered plastic security seals to secure collection bags.

Learn more about how to reduce financial losses in the Church from Michael's book, Nonfeasance: The Remarkable Failure of the Catholic Church to Protect Its Primary Source of Income. From his decades of experience working to prevent financial fraud, Michael examines how we consistently fail to protect Sunday collections and describes the methods that can provide such protection.

You can order the book from Amazon using our VOTF link. Click here to go to VOTF's BOOK webpage and then click on either of the Amazon links at the top of the page. Use that same link if you order polyethylene bags or other merchandise, and each purchase will benefit VOTF.

Or visit Michael's website, ChurchSecurity.info, to learn "the plain and simple truth about Sunday collection embezzlements."
Michael’s workshop is one of the six we're offering in Hartford, Connecticut, at the Assembly. Register for the 2014 Assembly and sign up for Ryan's and one other workshop by clicking here.
Additional workshops include Diocesan Financial Accountability, Clericalism, Priestless Parishes: There IS An Answer, Female Voices, and Survivor Support: Spirituality & Trauma, which will be facilitated by long-time clergy sexual abuse survivor supporter Fr. Thomas Doyle. Click here to see explanations of each workshop.