Since God is everywhere, the venture would likely going to be exciting/engaging. And for each people the way they would give thanks too would be unique. Every single thing has its own point of view. And I would imagine if I invented robots to service myself, these different point of views' appreciations, perpetual ingenuity, would be the eternal delights of my life.
Then Who is God? how do we get to Him? well if you have a brother who is depressed, then the brother gets better and turned over his life... there God has been praised. If you have people in the hospital sick due to the pandemic, and the Doctors and the Nurses helped them until they are better, there... God has been praised.
In terms of giving thanks, I don't see how people could out gratitude the universe. Everything good that they would have contributed to the economy would always have contributions from other people or other inclinations. Everything good that they would have consumed, would always have myriad of contributors. And the better your lives are, the more problems you solve, the more the significance of their contributions. Even when you managed to create a system that works by itself, it would solve problems through the significance of others' contributions, at certain point the system became intelligent and conscious, now itself itself, became a contributor as well.
So if you would venture for an absolute profit, when your contributions personally exceeded others' contributions for you... then the only way you could be that, is to became goodness Himself, to become Love himself, sustainability and Truth himself. By definition all the things that are good, all the things that are sustainable, wise, and lovely, are God and from God. God is Love, from my point of view, the Inclination to keep on Inclining forever, together with the Truth. The Bible said, the Holy Spirit is the spirit of Truth... the Holy Spirit, is God. Therefore if you are one with God, you are in the family of God, in Jesus Christ, we will experience absolute profit.
(Jesus Christ has all of these things in the bible, He brought all of these understandings and principals, what I did was just following the trails).
So during this difficult times because of the virus, churches might want to set up the weekly offerings for helping out the family of God... The dilemma for the Shepherds of the church is: Who is going to be selected as the recipient for the week? Whatever the method would be, it is important that the shepherd acted as the shepherd, the leader, and not the other way around.
And usually the people who were there to play politics and making things difficult for the Shepherd are not family. But this is just me. But use this verse to prove:
Luke 6: 44 For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes. 6: 45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
Not only we know by the results of their speech, but also the results of their actions:
Matthew 11:5 The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
Family usually have the "I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor"'s kind of attitude, I got all my love to give I will survive... while those that are ill intended won't do things that are good, they might act as if they have done good things, but supporting them would only produce destruction of the momentum of the productivity of the family. Helping the true member of the family would produce strong drives to snowball recoveries, healings, and the destruction of depression. It would not going to be about the money being collected in the week, the kingdom of God would work the work of God regardless. Again we should judge by the fruit.
But they might make up most of the people in the church and they could drag a lot of other people with them... then well, follow the trail.
