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Foursquare NextGen
Written and arranged by Dorothy Quertermous
Reader 1:Jesus Christ is the same
All:Yesterday…
Reader 2/3:``“In Memoriam” –
Reader 3:The originals.
Reader 2:Foursquare youth.
Reader 4/5:Crusaders.
All:The Covenant.
Reader 5:Slide trombones
5/1:And golden trumpets
Reader 1:Splashing California sun –
4/3:Uniforms drumming
Reader 4:down Sunset Blvd.
Reader 2:God’s soldiers on the home front.
Reader 3:battle fronts popping up
3/1Under tents,
All:Foursquare outposts
Reader 5:with
5/4:Sawdust floors
Reader 2:rows of folding chairs
Reader 3:Yellow light bulbs on a line
3/1:Strung,
Reader 1:held up by poles
2/4:Golden music
Reader 5:pouring through flaps,
2/4:Under ropes
Reader 3:straining at wooden pegs.
All:And people came! -
Reader 1:leaving dark, graceful hoopies
1/2 :On grass parking lots.
Reader 5:Sometimes
5/3:when it rained,
Reader 5:Muddy puddles
Reader 3:mired the tires down.
Reader 4:Stuck.
Guys:And men had to pull and push together
In their dark pants and white shirts – ties loosened,
All:Laughing –
Girls:girls holding coats and hats.
Reader 1:Foursquare, yesterday.
2/5:And military youth –
4/3:Warriors on the world fronts
Reader 4:our finest
Reader 2: followed the nation’s call to arms.
Reader 5:Hearts to save people
5/1:in countries
Reader 1:They only knew from geography books.
All:The right thing.
Reader 3:World War!
Reader 4:All over the world
4/2: taking the Message with them.
Reader 5:Some were chaplains, then
5/1: – in that time
Reader 3:Kneeling in consecrated pools of blood
Reader 2:The last comfort
Reader 4:to young men shattered,
Reader 1: wounded
Reader 5:Crossing over…
All:Foursquare young.
Reader 3:Jesus Christ is the same today…
Reader 4:All sizes
4/2:Shapes
4/2/1/:Colors
4/2/1/5/:Personalities
All:Strong
Reader 2:and in your face.
Reader 1:Electronics
2/3:creating fantastics
Reader 4:comfortable –
Reader 5:confident as
4/5:Citizens of the world
Reader 2:Surfing globally.
Reader 3:Savvy.
Reader 1:Smart.
REAder 4:Politically aware
All:and not easily deceived.
Reader 3:with
Reader 5:Hearts to save people
5/1:in countries
Reader 1:They only know from the internet.
All:The right thing.
Reader 2:Some are -
2/3:Hard edged
Reader 4:Tattooed
4/5:Pierced
Reader 1:Wearing
1/3:His Name,
Reader 3:His identification
2/3:like a multi-colored badge
Reader 1:Christ markings
Reader 2:Crown of thorns
Reader 3:The cross
Reader 4:The Word –
Reader 5:scripture running down legs
5/2:and across bare backs
Guys:Taking it to the streets
Girls:Wearing it in the streets
Reader 4:And showing Jesus there –
Reader 4/3:Who He really is
Reader 2:Tough
2/1:Relentless
All:love.
Reader 5/3:The church is not a building.
Reader 4:Not
4/2:stained glass
Reader 2:and
Reader 3:an altar at the front.
Reader 1:Street corners
Reader 5:Café tables
Reader 4:Bar stools
Girls:Alleys with trash cans
Boys: and cardboard houses
Reader 2:They flash joyful smiles
2/1: under sculptured hair
Reader 1: and preach:
Reader 3:“Dude! The church is us.
We are the sanctuary”!
Reader 3&4:The Hope.
Reader 5:Describing,
Reader 1:Defining
1&2:for the lost and alone
1,2,3:the impossible dream of
Reader 4:salvation!
All:Salvation.
Reader 5:Putting it within reach.
All:Redemption!
Reader 2:Adding color, diversity,
2 & 3:and new flavors to the Body,
Reader 3:as we know it.
All:He knew from the beginning -
Reader 1:Our Lord.
All:He knew
Reader 4:- all its kaleidoscope richness –
Reader 4/2:from the beginning,
Reader 2:His heart was open wide to all.
Reader 5:But it is
5/1:`A new season for some of us.
Reader 1:He reveals His heart in theirs
Reader 3:– enlarges our grasp
Reader 2:Grows us up a few notches in His likeness
2/4:By way of our young people.
All:Evangelizing
Reader 5:inner city alleys.
All:Exposing
Reader 3:the invisible children.
All:Embracing
Reader 4:the cause of Aids orphans.
All:Loving the unlovely,
Reader 1&2:the outcast,
Reader 1:the forgotten,
Reader 2:the ignored.
Reader 3:Filling up the hole in our Gospel!
Reader 1,2,3:Taking back what’s lost.
Reader 5:Covert operations
5 & 4:in forbidden territory
Reader 2,5:Search and Rescue
Reader 1,4:Storm troopers,
Reader 3:Elite
Reader 5:Razor-sharp and
Reader 4:intensely focused.
Reader 2:Guerilla warfare.
All:On the front-lines -
Reader 1:not afraid of anything.
Reader 2:Practical,
Reader 5:Outrageous,
Reader 4:Swashbuckling,
Reader 3:Fully-functioning
All:Faith!
Reader 5:God
Reader 4,5:help
Reader 3,4,5:them.
Reader 1:Their task is overwhelmingly and totally impossible -
Reader 2:And they are fine with that.
5 & 3:Confident in their strategy.
Reader 4:Secure in His Strength.
Reader 4,3:They know Who they serve,
Reader 1,2:The only One
Reader 2:they call Lord
Reader 5:By way of an intimate,
5 & 1:urgent
Reader 1:knowledge of Who He is.
All:Wide open!
Reader 2:Jesus Christ,
2,3:The same forever!
All:We are Foursquare!
© Dorothy Quertermous 2009 from the collection: “Living Scripts” All rights reserved. Please do not copy or perform without written consent from the author: Dorothy Quertermous, 11457 Florence Avenue, Santa Fe Springs, Ca. 90670, 562-868-2234