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Name: Terry J Freeman

Professor: Paul Boyer

Course: ENC-101

Date: 20160117

Writing an Explanatory Paper

One Saturday morning on my way to church I happened to notice quite a few numbers of young and old people with the card board signs in their hands as I was driving through my community. They were standing on their sidewalks waving their signs right and left. As the traffic came to a stop at a traffic light some of them rushed to my vehicle and asked me for donations. As I was dropping some few dollars into one of their cups I happened to notice a sign reading “Support the relief of Haiti”. As I progressed on my journey this question came to my mind, what motivates individuals to volunteer or perform community services?

A lot of people today curry out various community services because of the many reasons such as; bringing people together, promoting personal growth and self-esteem, it saves resources, psychological benefits since you feel good about yourself and decreases stress and depression, and also it enhances saving of resources. However, most religious responsibilities and service hour’s requirement for programs are the top ten reasons that motivate individuals to perform community services. All over the world many people for example Christians are always seen performing numerous types of volunteer work. Christians frequently encourages believers to participate in community services.

In American way of life, money is one of the fundamental methods we denominate value. However, a life of Christian service will comprise the offering of a more valuable asset than money, and that is time. This giving away of time is regularly noted as being Christ like. Most of the people are usually motivated to volunteer because of sharing of the love they have and also the need to support. The gospel emphasizes the significance of providing services to others. In the book of (Luke 10:27), Jesus Christ himself indicated that in loving God you should love your neighbor as you love yourself when he was asked on how to inherit eternal life. The parable of “The Good Samaritan “is a good illustration of the person who loves his neighbor is the one who provides services to him when he is in need. (Luke 10:25-37). According to the bible everyone in supposed to provide services to those who are in need.

References

Gong, Gwendolyn and Dragga, Sam. A Writer’s Repertoire. (New York: Longman, 1995)

King James Version. The Holy Bible