--- title: Sunday school, youth groups and charity — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Sunday school, youth groups and charity», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Church is not only a Sunday service: there are Sunday school classes for children, youth groups for older ones, and camps --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / Sunday school, youth groups and charity # Sunday school, youth groups and charity Lesson 27 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity/0/) — Church is not only a Sunday service: there are Sunday school classes for children, youth groups for older ones, and camps and holiday clubs full of games, stories and adventures. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity/2/) — Jesus told a story about the sheep and the goats: whatever people do for the hungry, the stranger, the sick and the prisoner, they do for him (Matthew 25). - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity/3/) — That is why so many Christians run food banks, give to charities such as Christian Aid, CAFOD, Tearfund, the Salvation Army and Catholic Charities, and volunteer their time. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity/4/) — For a child today it can be small and real: bringing a tin to the food bank, planning to give part of pocket money, or visiting a lonely neighbour with a grown-up. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity/5/) — Sunday school is classes for children at church to learn Bible stories, pray, sing and make things. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity/6/) — Youth groups are for older children and teenagers to meet, have fun, ask questions and grow in faith. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity/8/) — Charity means giving help, time or money to people in need, out of love. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity/9/) — Christians believe that serving others is serving Jesus. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity/11/) — The story of the sheep and the goats is in Matthew chapter 25. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity/12/) — Food banks, often run by churches, give food to families who cannot afford enough. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity/13/) — Christian Aid, CAFOD, Tearfund, the Salvation Army and Catholic Charities help people in poverty and disaster. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity/14/) — CAFOD is the charity of the Catholic Church in England and Wales. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity/15/) — Tithing is the old practice of giving a tenth of one's income to God's work. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity/16/) — Tithing teaches that giving can be planned, not only done now and then. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity/17/) — Volunteering means giving time freely, for example visiting lonely people or cleaning up the area. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/27-sunday-school-youth-groups-and-charity/18/) — Christians believe time can be a gift as precious as money. - ← previous: [The church year](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/26-the-church-year/) - next →: [Churches of the English-speaking world I](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/28-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-i/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)