Praying Puppet (How do you talk to God?)

  Performance: Castle Hill Seventh-day Adventist Church - June 19, 2021

[Designed to have as many, or few (2), participants as needed]

Reece: Hey, do you know God’s phone number?

Phone number?

Reece: Yeah, I’ve got a question I want to ask God

Umm, no, God doesn’t have a phone number.

Reece: Oh, ok then.

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Reece: Hey, do you know God’s email address?

Email address?

Reece: Yeah, I want to ask God a question

Umm, God doesn’t have an email address

Reece: Oh, ok then.

Social Justice Children’s Story

(Story concept - incomplete)
 

Pretend I have a shop and I have some work that needs doing, and I will pay my workers who help me.

Let me choose two workers

 (Pays three coins to the stereotypically ‘unprivileged’ each time and one coin to the ‘privileged’.)

 Let me check my payment guide
 

One wearing shoes, one not

One long hair, one not

One tall, one not

One young, one, not

One boy, one not

One white, one not

One born in Australia, one not

 

Now was that fair? I paid every single person immediately for their work.

No? What wasn’t fair?

Some people in the world think so. So I’m just following what they think. It works out cheaper for me too!


So now it’s now time to buy some food for your families. Who likes food?


Everyone stand up and line up at my shop so you can buy your family some food.

 

Everything in my shop costs two coins.

Come past one at a time with your coins and then sit down with your food.

So how come you kids haven’t bought anything for your family to eat. Don’t you care about your family?

Not enough coins? Have you been lazy?

What could we do to fix this?

(Those with a coin left give it to those who haven’t bought yet.)


Another option? We could have also paid the same amount to everyone who did the same job to begin with. If you’re doing the same work with the same ability you should have an equal opportunity to earn the same money.


You know, some of the adults in the world have made things unfair just like I did today. People are treated differently based on if they are boys or girls, or if their skin colour is black or white or maybe if their family wasn’t born here.

The good news is there are adults trying to fix this and now make things fairer then they have been in the past.

But if they don’t manage to it it, I really hope when you get older you’ll treat everyone fairly, and also encourage others to do so too.

And, just like your parents may do, you can share some of the money you earn with those in the world who don’t have even enough money to buy their family food.

Working together to help others [children's story]

 

Today I’d like your help to have my picture drawn.

My wife is away this weekend and I thought it would be nice to have a nice picture of myself I can give her so next time she goes away she can take the picture to remember how hansom I am.

I’d use a photo but thought if we do a drawing I can have some extra hair added.

I have the things you’ll need to draw me in this box.

(Clipboard, paper, blunt pencil, pencil sharpener.)

 

Ok who would like to draw me?

Take just take one thing only.

Ok stand there and draw.

Ok go stand over here, we’ll try someone else who might have more experience.

Just one thing

 

So I’m sure I brought all the things needed to draw a picture

 

Many skills makes toilet flush

 Performance: Castle Hill Seventh-day Adventist Church - May 2, 2021

Some quick questions kids:

• Who did not eat all their food this week, because they thought something was yucky?
• Slept in a house?
• Drank water?
• Went to school?  
• Flushed the toilet after using it?

You are all very blessed to be able to do all those things. There’s many boys and girls around the world who couldn’t do all those things.

Today I’d like your help to have my picture drawn.
My wife is away this weekend and I thought it would be nice to have a nice picture of myself I can give her, so next time she goes away she can take the picture to remember how handsome I am.
I’d use a photo but thought if we do a drawing I can have some extra hair added.
 

Three Days [Easter Drama script]

A moving three-act Easter drama for a cast of 2 guys.

[Backing music and sound FX: https://youtu.be/dfGGiPnUlys]

Act 1: Friday Dismay

[Eerie middle easy music plays. James is crouching on stage, Simon approaches not noticing him]

James: PSSST, Simon, over here!

Simon: James? Is that you?

James: Yeah, come here

Simon: It’s so dark this afternoon!

James: [short embrace] Get down. Where have you been?

Simon: I hid down the valley overnight. Man that mob was possessed last night… but you obviously got away.

James: Yeah, good to see you.

Simon: What’s happening up there?

James: They’re about to try and put teacher on a cross.

That’s Not Fair [an adult’s children’s story skit]

Performance: Castle Hill Seventh-day Adventist Church - March 27, 2021

 

[Jesus loves me plays on the  piano as the several narrator children line up across stage, each holding a book, and will read a line each after each other]

 

Hello adults! It’s now time for your story. 

 

So please sit quietly and keep your hands to yourselves. 

 

Unless you’re married, then you can hold hand.

 

Have you all had a good week, not at school?

 

Now do you remember when you were a child, it seemed like many things were unfair.

• You had to eat your peas, when all you wanted was chips
• You had to clean your room when all you wanted to do was play
• You had to go to bed when everyone else could stay up
• Your little brother or sister broke the toy that you were forced to share with them
• Or maybe all your friends had a colour TV, when yours was black and white.

I Am Strength [mime script]

Drama about finding strength in the Lord through life's challenges

Synopsis: The woman moves along the timeline of life, collecting more trials as she goes, and they start to weigh her down, until she reaches the end of her rope and struggles to continue. God, the I AM, offers help, and when finally accepted it gives her enough strength to lose the weight of the ill effects of the trials in her life, even defeating temptation.Call him.

Music “Lean on me” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOZ-MySzAac