Helping Others Sunday School Lesson for Kids -
The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats
Use this children’s Sunday School lesson to teach kids that serving
others is a way of serving Jesus.
Needed: Bibles, dice, drawing paper, crayons or colored pencils
Intro Game: Raising the Dice
Divide students into two teams or more teams and give each time a six-sided die. The first student from each team runs up to a table and rolls their dice. The student with the highest roll gets a point for their team.
The trick is that each team can help their player. As the students are rolling their dice, the teams cheer. The team that’s the loudest gets to add one number to their player’s die roll. So, if Team A’s player rolls a 3, but their team is cheering the loudest, you’ll count that player’s roll as a 4.
Students re-roll in case of a tie, but only if the tie occurs after you add the cheering bonus.
After the first two students roll and you determine who gets the point, those students run back to their teams, hand off their dice, and the next students run up. The team with the most points after everyone has rolled wins.
Explain that it’s important to help each other.
Lesson
Ask students, If you believe in Jesus, what kinds of things are you supposed to do?
Sometimes, we think that the only things Christians are supposed to do are read our Bibles, go to church, pray, and not do bad things. But there’s something else we’re supposed to do if we believe in Jesus.
(Read Matthew 25:31-40.)
So, Jesus says that when He comes back, He will sit on a throne and will judge whether people did the right things or the wrong things.
What were the right things that some of the people did in this story? (They helped other people. They gave people food, they were nice to strangers, they gave clothes to people who didn’t have any money, and they visited people who were sick or in jail.)
The people who did the right things by helping other people will get to live in the new world that Jesus will create.
God likes it when we help other people. And Jesus says that if we help other people, then it’s like we’re helping Jesus Himself.
(Read Matthew 25:41-46.)
These people did not do the right things. What kinds of things didn’t they do? (They didn’t help people. They didn’t give people food or clothes when they needed it, they weren’t nice to strangers, and they didn’t visit people who were sick or in jail.)
And where did these people go? (They went to Hell.)
So, Jesus is saying that if we really want to be His followers, and if we really want to go to live forever with Him, then we have to help other people. Jesus helped other people when He was alive on earth, so if we believe in Jesus, we have to help other people too.
Game: Reaching Out Relay
Divide students into two teams and have them line up at one side of the room. When you say, “Go!” the first student from each team will act run to the end of the room, then back to their team, acting out the appropriate motion. The second team member then does the same thing and so on. The first team to complete all legs of the race wins.
Leg 1. Hungry. Pretend to cook and pass out food.
Leg 2. Thirsty. Pretend to pour cups of water and hand them out.
Leg 3. Stranger. Pretend to motion people toward you, inviting them in.
Leg 4. Clothes. Pretend to pass out clothes.
Leg 5. Sick. Pretend to take care of someone who is sick.
Leg 6. Prisoner. Pretend to visit someone in jail.
Craft: How Can I Help?
Give students drawing supplies and have them draw pictures of how they could help someone. Ask them to focus on the areas Jesus mentions in the parable: helping the poor, caring for others, and visiting the lonely.When everyone is finished, have them explain their drawings to the class.
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