National Youth Sunday 2014

Skit

Written By: Emmett Eldred and Kerrick van Asselt

[Cell Phone Rings]

SPEAKER 1: Hello? ..... Oh, Hi Jesus! ....you want me to what?!?!....Well okay, if you say so .. Alright, see ya Jesus, nice talking to you!

[SPEAKER 1 moves to background]

[Cell Phone Rings]

SPEAKER 2: Sup?..... No way? Jesus! It’s been awhile bro! How you been?...... You need me to what?...Alright dude, whatever you say! Catch ya later!

[SPEAKER 2 moves to background]

[SPEAKER 3 pulls out cell phone to text]

SPEAKER 3 [reading aloud as he or she types]: Howdy Jesus! What’s the shindig up in Heaven these days?

ADVISOR: Hey, ready to go bowling?

Speaker 3: Yeah just one sec, let me answer Jesus real quick!

Advisor: Jesus is texting you again? What’s he saying?

Speaker 3: Well he says he wants us to go on a journey or something….

Advisor: Then what are we waiting for? Let’s go!

[SPEAKER 3 and ADVISOR move to background.]

[SPEAKER 1 moves forward and pretends to pack his/her bags]

SPEAKER 1: Mom! Where’d I put my guitar? …. I’m packing. ….. Yes I packed underwear …. Yes I packed toothpaste …. Yeah, Jesus needs me for a journey. … Thanks mom! Alright, so I just need to find my guitar. Oh! And underwear and toothpaste. Mom always has the best ideas.

[SPEAKER 1 moves to the background]

[SPEAKER 2 moves forward. He/she pretends to be following a GPS signal around.]

SPEAKER 2: It’s a good thing I have this GPS. I’d wander in the desert for 40 years without it.

[SPEAKER 2 follows GPS into the background]

[SPEAKER 3 and ADVISOR move forward. ADVISOR pretends to push a shopping cart and SPEAKER 3 puts things in the cart.]

ADVISOR: Now we’re on a budget here, so we can only buy the bare necessities. Hey! What’d you just put in there?

SPEAKER 3: Cheez-Its…

ADVISOR: Cheez-Its, what’re Cheez-Its?

SPEAKER 3: It’s like cheddar flavored communion bread.

ADVISOR: Oh! Well in that case we’d better get some grape juice to go with it.

[SPEAKER 3 and ADVISOR push the cart into the background]

[SPEAKER 1 is sitting pretending to play guitar and singing. SPEAKER 2 walks past]

SPEAKER 1: **Singing some praise song**

SPEAKER 2: Hey! I know that song!

SPEAKER 1: Cool! I learned it because Jesus wanted me to go on a journey.

SPEAKER 2: You’re on a journey for Jesus!? Hey! I’m on a journey too!

SPEAKER 1: I was on a journey.

SPEAKER 2: You were on a journey.

SPEAKER 1: Yeah. But I have absolutely no idea where I’m going.

SPEAKER 2: Well I have a GPS. Why don’t you come with me? I’ll navigate, and you can be in charge of music.

[SPEAKER 1 and SPEAKER 2 walk around for a little]

[SPEAKER 1 and SPEAKER 2 sit down as if they’re famished. SPEAKER 3 and ADVISOR walk past]

SPEAKER 3: Hey, are you guys ok?

SPEAKER 1: We’re a little hungry.

ADVISOR: Well what are you doing out here?

SPEAKER 2: Jesus called us to go on a journey. We met up along the way, and we’ve been helping each other, but we forgot to bring any food.

SPEAKER 1: I haven’t eaten in like 45 minutes!

SPEAKER 3: Hey! We’re on a journey for Jesus too!

ADVISOR: Yeah, and we have plenty of food, why don’t you come with us?

SPEAKER 3: Here, have some Cheez-Its.

ADVISOR: And some grape juice!

[ADVISOR and the SPEAKERs) wonder around together and arrive at the pulpit, where the PASTOR is standing. A phone rings. SPEAKER 2 pulls out his/her phone.]

SPEAKER 2: Hello? … It’s for you.

[SPEAKER 2 hands phone to PASTOR]

PASTOR: Hello? Oh hi Jesus. … Yeah, I’ll tell them… Ok see ya later! Jesus says he wants everyone to join the journey.

[The actors lead the congregation in “Hamba Nati.”]