TMC311

Charity and
Community
Service
 Lecture Objectives
• define charity;
• define community service;
• mention avenues for charity and community service;
and
• situate the man’s responsibility in charity and
community service.
 What is Charity?
• The practice of charity means the voluntary giving
of help to those in need who are not related to
the giver.
• A gift made by an individual or an organization to
a nonprofit organization, charity or private
foundation.
 Scriptural Confirmation
• Proverbs 3:27: Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when
it is in the power of your hand to do it.
• Proverbs 28:27: He that gives to the poor shall not lack: but he that
hides his eyes shall have many a curse.
• Luke 3:11: He answers and said to them, He that has two coats, let him
impart to him that has none; and he that has meat, let him do likewise.
• Luke 6:38: Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed
down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your
bosom.
 Charity and You
Charity is a social responsibility. Everyone is
supposed to do it in one way or the other.

• “You have not lived today until you

have done something for someone
who can never repay you.”
― John Bunyan
 Charity and You
Charity is service and worship unto God
Benefits of Giving

Giving makes givers happy.

A 2008 study by Harvard

Business School professor
Michael Norton and
colleagues found out that
giving money to someone
else lifted participants’
happiness more that
spending it on themselves.
Benefits of Giving

Giving improves the health of givers.

In his book Why Good Things Happen

to Good People, Stephen Post, a
professor of preventative medicine at
Stony Brook University, reports that
giving to others has been shown to
increase health benefits in people
with chronic illness, including HIV
and multiple sclerosis.
Benefits of Giving
Giving promotes cooperation and social connection
• When you give, you’re more likely
to get back. Several studies,
including work by sociologists
Brent Simpson and Robb Willer,
have suggested that when you
give to others, your generosity is
likely to be rewarded by others
down the line.
 Benefits of Giving
Giving is contagious
A study by James Fowler of the
University of California, San Diego,
and Nicholas Christakis of Harvard
shows that when one person
behaves generously, it inspires
observers to behave generously
later, toward different people.
 What is Community Service?
Community service is a volunteering service or activity
that is performed by someone or a group of people for
the benefit of the public or its institutions.
 What is Community Service?
It is giving to the society that has impacted us in one
way or the other.
 Community Service
Participating in community service makes you a responsible
citizen of your country.
.
 Avenues for Community Service
. Environment sanitationm - periodic cleaning of roads,
streets, highways, etc
Road mending - Filling of potholes, clearing of blocked
drainages & water channels and grading of roads that
have become impassable.
Public Enlightment- Outreach programmes addressing
national and global challenges i.e. MDGs, NEPAD,
HIV/AIDS, etc.
 Avenues for Community Service
. Humanitarian services – prisons, schools, churches,
refugee camps etc.
Permanent projects - Construction or rehabilitation of
roads, markets, stalls, public toilets, recreation centers,
parks, boreholes, handicapped homes etc.
 Concluding Remarks
• Every one should make giving community service a lifestyle.
• Givers never lack.
• “There is not a man of us who does not at times need a
helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame
upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his
brother.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
Concluding Remarks