Mission

Host - Rich Youngman, stereotypical game show host Mary Missionary, pretty normal. Chuckie Churchman, a little not normal. Johnny. Just a voice. 2 Assistants (no lines) & 11 "volunteers", possibly from the audience, depending on your nerve. Staging: Two contestants standing behind a table and the game show host walking around with a microphone. Props: Buzzer system. Applause signs. Items identifiable with the peoples of the various continents. Loaves of bread.

A game show provides an easy, painless and fun way to give to others. Written for "Faith Promise" Sunday Morning. Demonstrates mission statistics and visions. Key words: The Great Commission • Faith Promise • Giving • Game Show • Missions • Prizes • Money • Hypocrisy

Based on Acts chapters 9-28 and the verse Philippians 3 v 8 ( paraphrased as "knowing Jesus is the very best treasure")

Judith Charmers Paul Silas Luke Barnabas 4 Pirates Notes: We have a Kids Club at our chapel on Friday nights....like Sunday School on a Friday....the children range from 3 to 18 years old. My group is 9 to 13 years old. At the end of the school year (July) the children put on an evening of songs and sketches to show their parents what they have been learning throughout the year. My group decided to do their sketch with puppets. We started the sketch with the theme music from the programme, which is distinctive. I think the sketch would also work even if you had never heard of the TV programme. We had on stage two trestle tables turned on their sides, with a picture of a boat painted on paper and stuck one on each table.....so, as the audience looked at the stage there was a grey cruiser on the left and a wooden pirate ship, with jolly roger flag, on the right. The puppet "playing" the part of Judith Chalmers was in the cruiser with Paul and his friends (Barnabus, Luke, Silas), and the pirate puppets (travelling the Med looking for the "very best treasure") were in the wooden boat, but did not appear until first mentioned in the sketch. At the end of the sketch the pirates sang the Landlubbers Song from the Scripture Union holiday club programme which was also called Landlubbers, and they changed their Jolly Roger for a white flag with a Christian cross on it. We had six children behind each boat (with a puppet each, including a parrot). The puppets were all from the same pattern, like a Sesame Street style with wide mouth, but all different bright colours and different T-shirts, and the pirate captain had a pirate hat on. We recorded the children reading the script beforehand so that they only had to concentrate on the puppets on the day. I strongly recommend this method. The last line of the sketch mentions "the beautiful Coquet Valley in Northumberland", in England....that is where our chapel is, and where we live (and it is beautiful!). You could change this to your own area.

This puppet sketch is about Paul's missionary journeys around the Mediterranean. It is based on a television programme called "Wish You Were Here?" that was regularly on TV in England in the 1970s.

How easily we can be prevented from making the most important decision of our lives, to be lit up for God in this dark world. In this drama, the devil tries to prevent people from lighting a candle. Style: Dramatic.  Duration:  6min Actors: 6M/F