This meanings to place your tithes and/or an offering to a Church. Typically is done when a plate, box or basket is passed around while in a church service. Churches usually take up tithes and offerings to cover for the expenses of their operations as well as for youth activities, missions to other countries, a building fund, single parents, feeding the homeless, etc. This is all good, but there is a main reason for giving that supersedes the basic giving defined above...