Do Good Deeds

Member Responsibilities

The very heart of this Church is that we "do good deeds!"

We are also serious about it!  We don't have a narrow agenda as to what type of good deed you do, as a Member of this  Church.  For instance, we do NOT operate a "home for battered women" or an orphanage, although if YOU did something like that it would qualify as a "good deed" if you just helped a little, or an "act of compassion" if you organized the whole thing!

Too many churches, we think, preach the doing of good deeds, and they don't get done, or only a tiny few members of that group do all the good deeds.  In this Church every Member does Good Deeds.

To enter Level One it would be an acceptable good deed to take a basket of food to a poor family for thanksgiving -- but the good deeds at higher Levels of Membership must be more robust. 

At the founding of this Church there were ladies in the town who would go to the homes of families where the woman might be in the hospital, giving birth. The ladies would clean house, cook, do the laundry. These are considerable high quality good deeds.  In contrast, giving money, only, to some charity that distributes food baskets, while acceptable to qualify for Level One, you would have to have more robust deeds in addition to maintain your Membership at a higher level.

At higher Levels there is still the requirement of participating in the book-distribution campaign described below, but we start expecting our good deeds and acts of compassion to make considerable improvement in conditions affecting some group or someone's life.

Or, there are charities, and government programs that you may feel are not truly helping society -- no matter how loudly they proclaim.

Also, many people may "think" dim thoughts, and "intend" to do a good deed -- but nothing happens.

This Church is so serious about doing good deeds that all Members are required to do some number of good deeds on a regular basis. Further they are required, to maintain their Membership in the Church, to send us evidence so that any investigator could verify that such good deed was done!

There is more, but we also think of "good deeds" as so important that people are eliminated from Membership for failure to do, and report, "Good Deeds."

We do have much more of a definition of "good deed" so that it isn't nebulous at all.  Click Here for further details on the definition of a "good deed."

We actually have a "basic type of good deed" where every single Member of the Church does this same thing.  We have observed that much of society lacks a common sense moral code -- and that many religious moral codes are not at all attractive to people from other religions.

We follow a non-religious moral code, even though we are a Religion.  Our Articles of Faith are very different from most other churches.  We believe in the existence of God, but have no teachings about the nature of God. We leave it to the individual Member to discover God, and God's characteristics by a personal journey of observation.

Many of our Members are active (or inactive) members in other churches, with no conflict of any kind with this Church. But, I assure you, there are no Members of THIS Church who are inactive in the field of our primary activity -- doing good deeds.

So, one on-going "good deed" which we require of all Members, should you choose to become a Member, is to enroll in a campaign to purchase 36 copies of this moral code every month, and give them away free to anyone you wish.

If you prefer, you can purchase these Books and allow others to distribute them. Some 60,000,000 of these Books have already been distributed, free, all over the planet --- with the usual result that there is an increase in peace and harmony, even in lands of turmoil.

You join this campaign by leaving your credit card, accepting a monthly charge for the 36 books, and then you can also sponsor others to do the same thing.  You can cancel at any time.  You also earn a commission of 15% on the purchases of all those you sponsor, and another 7 1/2 percent on your second level.

This is a standard "Associate Program."  If there were more than two levels of commission it would be called an "MLM," but with only two it is called an "Associate Program."

So, every Member does at least this one good deed every month -- spreading the message on this common sense moral code.  We expect you to do MORE good deeds, also subject to reporting and documenting -- these additional good deeds come out of your bright ideas and energies.

We do NOT encourage just "giving money" as a good deed, but actually doing something -- with your hands or time.

The minimum level of "good deeds" needed to satisfy the "good deeds" criteria for Membership at Level One is this simple campaign -- buy 36 copies of the Book, every month, and give them away.  The 36 books will cost you $38.25 per month. The commission arrangement means that you can easily sponsor a few people whose purchases give you enough commissions to pay for your monthly book purchase.

The Church of Compassionate Service does NOT operate this Campaign, and the payments referenced above do NOT go to this Church.

Other types of Good Deeds are further defined, particularly on Level One for eligibility for higher Levels.  Generally they are often defined by reference to doing something FOR a non-profit (501(c)(3) organization.)

For instance, you might volunteer to serve as a Scout Leader, or Den Mother, or PTA President. These would be "larger" good deeds, done in addition to the involvement in the book distribution campaign.

Going to the Boy Scout camping weekend, as a chaperon would qualify as a Good Deed and is optional, in addition to the campaign, to enter Level One, and some of such would be required at higher levels.

We ARE serious about every Member being an "active do gooder !"

By way of further explanation, a "good deed" is typically something done personally that affects just one or a few people.

In order to be a "good deed" for the purposes of this Church, we must not only get a report about the deed, but get photos, or other documentary evidence that would convince a reasonable person that there actually was a good deed done.

Publication in a local newspaper is an excellent method of validating the existence of a "good deed."

We also ask Members to perform "Acts of Compassion."  Acts of Compassion are 'bigger deals" than Good deeds.  There are examples of both Good Deeds and Acts of Compassion in the electronic course located HERE.