Star Guidance ​[Christmas drama on the topic of 'The Guiding Star' ]


Performance: Castle Hill Seventh-day Adventist Church - December 22, 2018


[Four wise men walk down isle and stop on stage.]

1: We must stop, these heavily clouded skies are making it impossible to see the guiding star.

4: Not again. This is getting ridiculous. We just spent a week at the last town waiting for the clouds to clear and now, only three score furlongs along, we have to stop again and twiddle our royal thumbs.

2: Patience, young king, the guiding star is the only way we’ll find salvation.

4: There must be another way to help speed this up. I got Carol’s program to get back for.

3: Carols program?

4: Yes, princess Carol is holding a sing-a-long in our kingdom, I promised I’d host the event, so we can’t just wait around here doing nothing.

1: The scriptures suggest it is a star we must follow, and without clear skies we can not follow this guiding star.

4: Well, this obviously isn’t a very efficient way of navigating. Let me show you a gadget I’ve been working on. Its called a GPS.

Peaces [Skit about peace]

Performance: Castle Hill Seventh-day Adventist Church - October 27, 2018

[ person comes and in casual, typical talk, says:]

R: Hi, How are you?

S: Good thanks.

R: How’s you family?

S: Good

R: How’s work?

S: Fine, thanks.

R: Great! We’ll get going in a moment.

[R walks off]

[per-recording of S plays of troubled mind, where S talks about one worry, the volume fades a little and the next worry topic starts speaking on top of that (so there's two voices speaking at once now) and then after a couple of seconds the next worry (so there's three voices speaking now - and each new worry is a bit louder so you can hear it over the first worries - and so on until we end up with a group of voices disturbing the peace in S's head. Example: how am I going to pay this months rent.... my back is killing me, I can hardly sleep... Why is my wife so distant from me these days... this global warming is a real worry.... What am I going to tell my boss about that accident. I'm going to get fired for sure... etc]

[R returns just before the recording finishes]

High Forgiveness [Skit about forgiveness]

Performance: Castle Hill Seventh-day Adventist Church - November  17, 2018
[Grudge and Joy are voice-over parts with two miming actors]

Captain voice-over: Ladies and gentlemen, I’ve now turned off the seat-belt light and our cabin crew will come around shortly with some drinks.

[Flight attendant comes and delivers drinks but spills them equally over the two people seated]

Flight attendant: I’m so sorry!

Grudge: Unbelievable! I can’t believe this just happened.

Joy: Unbelievable! I can’t believe this just happened. Oh well, I guess accidents happen.

Grudge: Call yourself a flight attendant? More like a flight offendant.

25 words or less

Thought I should collect some of my 'interesting' responses to 25 words or less competitions.


In 25 words or less: why have you outgrown your family car?

We've outgrown our family car because we thought having an ingrown family car would be very painful (and it'd be hard to find fitting shoes).


Why are you the ultimate Weet-Bix kid? 
 
I'm such a Weet-Bix kid, whenever I graze my elbow taking classic catches in our backyard cricket games, my elbow leaks Weet-Bix flakes (and REALLY bad grazes make me cry tears of So Good).
In fact, once a celiac footy mate of mine had an instant allergic reaction when he brushed past my arm from the Weet-Bix content in my sweat.
Then there's the time I was sent out of Sabbath School class by the teacher because I would not back down from my belief that Weet-Bix will be available on the Tree of Life in Heaven.
And don't even ask what happens to my dandruff when it rains...
When I went to see my doctor over what could be done to prevent these issues, he told me I needed to eat less Weet-Bix.
I have a new doctor now.
 

Injecting Stress [Skit about stress]


Performance: Castle Hill Seventh-day Adventist Church - September 15, 2018

NOTE: All Pat’s talking is done via voice-over.
[Pat walks in, and sits very nervously, leg jittering. Sweaty]

Pat: I can’t believe I’m doing this. I HATE injections. In fact they must be so bad I’ve blocked out all memory of them cause I don’t think I ever remember having one!
Oh, what am I even doing here? I should never have come. I’ve got to get that project done for my boss by the end of day or my job’s sunk. And no job, no mortgage payments, no mortgage payments, no house.

[Pat checks arms]

Pat: Great, now I’m all sweaty, the doctor will probably slip when he’s injecting me...

Father's Apprentice [mime script]

A mime about a fathers influence on their child. 

Set to an edited down version of Disney's Sorcerer's Apprentice soundtrack

[first Strings stanzas]
Standing net to each other, Father tries a few times to show son how to shake hands, but he never does in return.

[hopping sounds that turn into marching]
Dad stomps foot in frustration and thinks.
Pause until second music stomp and then son stomps in time with music once.
Father a little surprised, tries again curiously, with two stomps in time with music
Another pause and son does two stomps with music.
Father excited, starts marching on the spot with music, watching to see if son follows, son soon copies, and they march in a circle doing a 'skip' in time with the music.

Father thinks what else to do, tries rolling arms, then son copies
Father tries knocking knees, and son copies

Leaving Slavery...Again [Skit for a large group of kids about Moses, Pharaoh, the plagues and crossing the Red Sea]


Performance: Castle Hill Seventh-day Adventist Church Pathfinder Club- August 18, 2018


Kid: Mum, how did the Israelites get out of slavery?

Narrator: Well, my equally aged child, let me get some of our fellow Pathfinders to help tell the story.
One day God had asked Moses and Aaron to ask the Egyptian Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out into the desert to worship the Lord God. But Pharaoh thought it was a stupid idea.
Pharaoh: [laughs] That’s a stupid idea!

Narrator: And he made the Israelites work harder than ever before.
Israelite 1:
Aww Man!
Israelite 2: What have you done, Moses?
Israelite 3: Now we have to work harder than ever before!
Israelite 4: Not happy, Moses!

Mr Bean Sings [Skit for a talent night]

Compare: Ladies and gentlemen, we have a slight delay for our next artist. But you’re in for a real treat. Classically trained, toured throughout Europe, he has a voice you’ll never forget. I’ll just go and see if he’s arrived.


BEAN: Enter sweeping, Find Lolly, blow and eat.

See microphone “hello”, “pft” “laugh”

Get player, pull out cassette which is all come out - wind up.



Intro music. Pull out hymn book

V1: not find. Idea, Sings ALAYLOOYA,

look index, find ALya... ya.... yaaaa


Think Big [Puppet play about Christians thinking big and not being afraid to mix with those in higher society]


Performance: Men' s ministry service Castle Hill Seventh-day Adventist Church - June 23, 2018

[muppet music plays, two men walk in with a large sheet hanging between them as a screen, puppeteers sneak in behind screen as they enter the room. Jack appears in middle of screen, police and prime minister on one of the sides.]


J: Hey, Tod, look!

T: [appears] Looking... what am I looking at?

J: It’s the prime minister of Australia!

T: Really? Looks like Pr Pablo to me?

J: NO! Over there!

T: Oh yeah! Wow... Let’s get out of here!

J: What??

T: Before he puts us in Jail!

Life of Clair [mime script]

A moving Mother's day skit on a woman's courage, a mother's love



Set to music Clair de lune
(Timing cues)

0:00 mother and father stand face to face, staring at ground motionless.

(After opening stanza) Slowly look up and at each other.

Mother slowly raises her hand and sorrowfully strokes fathers check.

0:35 Father picks up suitcase and leaves, leaving mother staring at door for a few moments after he’s gone.

1.03 She picks up baby with joy in her heart at first, turns to trying to quiet/settle Baby asleep in her arms.

1:40 Takes baby out of room.

1:50 Mother returns, hair is in pony tail and wearing apron. Takes ‘month’ off calendar or winds wall clock forward, makes sandwich, primary daughter who followed her in waits - snatches once sandwich is given and leaves without acknowledgement to mother.

Doubts [Easter service skit about Thomas' Doubts]

Performance: Castle Hill Seventh-day Adventist Church - March 31, 2018

[Thomas begins to walk down isle towards the stage, carrying fishing nets and rope]
Crowd 1: Hey Thomas! Where’s that messiah of yours? Oh, that’s right. He got stuck up a tree! Shame that. Hahahha [mutters and sits down] Messiah, Yeah right.
[Thomas hurries to other side of stage and begins to sort out his nets, then]
Crowd 2: Oi! Weren’t you one of those trouble maker followers of Jesus of Nazareth? The priests would like a word with you ! They want to know where you’ve hidden his body. Oi, where you going? [mutters and sits] Trouble maker.
[Thomas grabs the nets and rushes off stage - three disciples enter the balcony area and Thomas arrives just as they start to bar the door shut - there’s a table with food set up - Thomas has fishing nets in his arms ] 

The Why Thousand Years [Article/chapter on the Seventh-day Adventist fundamental belief 28 about the Millennium]


Published: RECORD - February 3, 2018
Living 28 - February 2020

Stopovers when traveling by air are generally good to avoid. That way you’re lessening the risk of disconnected flights, not to mention the opportunity for luggage to go missing.
However, there’s one stopover that will be a rewarding experience, even though it involves a 1000-year wait to go home—without your baggage too.
I’m talking about a stopover to end all stopovers—the millennium in heaven spoken about in the Bible.
It’s a common belief that people will be going to heaven for eternity. However, a little Bible study reveals we’re only there for a mere 1000-year stopover—and I say “only” because that’s not much longer than our great-great-(etc)-grandfather, Methuselah, lived for. After that we arrive back home on earth again. This means the rousing last verse of Amazing Grace really needs to be sung “When we’ve been there 1000 years . . .” to be biblically correct.
But don’t get upset at being returned to earth. I agree the proposition of leaving heaven to end up back on earth initially sounds like you’ve being downgraded from first-class luxury to miserable-class torture. But fear not, the earth is being reinstalled to its original sin-free goodness soon after our return.

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