Children’s Ministry Skits
A. Heart Surgery Skit (by Anthony Mansfield, quoted by
Lloyd Squires in “King’s Clown” (see reference below)
Four people dress up as doctors. A fifth person is
asked to be the patient. We call him “Brother Im-patient.” The
main doctor wears an army helmet. He is “General Surgeon.” First
the congregation sings songs such as Come Into My Heart, Thy
Word Have I Hid In My Heart, etc.
After the song, the doctors get tools and show off their “latest
technical advances” to the children--hammers, saws, pliers,
tweezers, scales, tongs, toy pistols (for shots), drills, etc.
The doctors act like they want very much to operate on
someone--anyone. The other doctors have funny names--Dr. Quack
(carries a toy duck), Dr. Quake (shakes all the time) and Dr.
Quick (talks too fast). Finally, the patient walks in and the
doctors all jump for joy.
General Surgeon asks the patient, “What’s the problem?” He
replies, “Oh, my heart is very heavy.” Before he can explain
further, the doctors grab him and wrestle him onto the operating
table. He is screaming and kicking, so General Surgeon
administers the anaesthetic--a hammer hits the table right next
to the patient’s head! He passes out. They cover him with a
sheet. Because there are four doctors, every question has to go
through all four and then back to the guy who asked.
Doctor Quake performs the surgery with all the rest handing him
the essential tools, passing it from person to person to finally
Quake. They pretend to cut the patient open and pull things out
of him. All these things get passed from doctor to doctor to
general surgeon, who tells the kids watching what they are--a
wrench from the patient’s ankle, butterflies from his stomach, a
big button from his belly, nails from his finger and toes, water
from his knee, etc.
Finally, they get to his heart. All four doctors are pulling and
tugging and finally pull out a huge family Bible. They open it
and read Psalm 119:11. They explain to the kids, “Sometimes the
Word of God gets in our hearts and we feel a burden from God for
someone else, or maybe for ourselves to be closer to God.”
B. Heart Cleaners (by Lloyd Squires in “King’s Clown”
Christian Educator (vol 17, no 4, p. 10-11).
You’ll need a shirt that has already been ruined, as well as
some watercolor (not permanent ink) pens and some ordinary
bleach. You start by putting one pen, preferably red ink, open
in the shirt. As the ink spreads, pretend you don’t notice. Then
suddenly overreact. “Oh, no! This is my favorite shirt! Grandma
gave it to me for being the honorary student of the year!”
Really act it up. Cry. Your helped (another grownup) tries to
pacify you, but nothing helps. “You don’t understand. Right
after this service I was going out to dinner with my
grandmother. If she sees this shirt like this, she’ll die of
apoplexy!” Get more frantic. Finally, your assistant gets the
bleach. You scream, “Don’t touch my favorite shirt--you’ll ruin
it worse.” Your assistant says, “It can’t possibly get worse, so
let me try to help you.” Then he takes a sponge or cloth full of
bleach, rubs the spot , and the ink spot is gone.
You tell the kids Isaiah 1:18: “Though your sins be as scarlet,
they shall be white as snow.” Also Psalm 51:1 “Blot out my
transgressions.”
Decorations: you draw a big heart out of white paper. on one
side, stain it with pens and markers. Maybe also write some sins
on it-- “stealing, lieing,” etc. Leave the other side of the
paper pure white. While doing the skit, the stained side is
showing. When you give the lesson, you point out the stains,
then turn it around to show the result of God’s
forgiveness--clean and pure.
Children’s Ministry Suggestions
Kirk Aikey, a children’s evangelist, in an article “Priorities”
in Christian Educator (vol 17, no 4, p. 12), suggests these
measures to attract young families to church:
- Include children’s items in your welcome packets you give
to new families.
- Make a focused effort to reach children as well as adults.
- Make every child feel welcome.
- Tell all local church staff members that children are
important to reaching your city.
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