Today, we take one for the team (or the congregation as it were) and take it upon ourselves to remove the offerings from the altar and the area around the altar.
While we thought there were only four offerings to remove, there were many many more. on the order of about twelve to fifteen. We were too busy retching, though to count.
Let's see what happens at the altar. Now that it is clean, we can track our congregation's activities more closely.