David C Cook COVID-19 Response

Choosing to Help

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Materials Needed:

  • Internet access
  • Whiteboard/markers (or screenshared document)

Welcome your students as they enter. As everyone settles in, ask your students what their least favorite chore is. Picking up their dog’s poop? Emptying the trash? Cleaning toilets? When everyone is settled, ask your students to make a list together of all the things they might be asked to help with in a given week. Make a master list on the whiteboard (or screenshared document).

  • Do you feel like you have to help too much? Just the right amount? Not enough? (Answers will vary.)
  • What makes helping feel better or worse? (Answers will vary. If your help is appreciated, if it’s a job that’s not too hard, if the person your helping is nice, etc.)
  • When you have a choice (like your parents or teachers aren’t forcing you to help), what factors make you more likely to want to help someone? (If they’re nice, if they deserve help, if they’ve helped you before, if you have the time, etc.)

Share the following video with your students [4:24; stop at 3:27]:
Social Media Star Jimmy Darts Spreads Love With Undercover Kindness

  • What impressed you the most about this video? (Answers will vary; how Jimmy gives so much money away, how blessed people seem by the money, how Jimmy specifically choose people, etc.)
  • How do you think the people Jimmy talks to feel about being asked for help (mostly through donations) all the time? (Being asked all the time is overwhelming. You might not know who your true friends are because everyone would be nice to you just to get what they want. You just want a minute to yourself, etc.)

Sometimes, being asked for help can be overwhelming. Sometimes it feels like we just have nothing left to give. Jesus felt that way sometimes, too. He helped and He helped and the people just wanted more. But Jesus showed compassion on those people, even when He was tired or they could make Him sick. He helped them no matter what.

Looking for Steps 2 & 3?

You can find Steps 2 and 3 in your teacher’s guide. To purchase a teacher’s guide, please visit: Bible-in-Life or Echoes.

Materials Needed:

  • Internet access
  • Paper
  • Pens/pencils

Spread the word

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