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The tween years are an amazing time of change and growth, and those students have very specific needs spiritually. This collection of funny, goofy, and meaningful skits were designed specifically to reach Junior High students where they are, to help them grow close to God, and to see life from God’s perspective.

American Idol
We are often told to follow our dreams, but what do we do when criticism slaps us in the face. In this skit several people audition for American Idol and are encouraged by some and rejected by others. In the end we are reminded that if God has given you a dream it is worth pursuing.
Themes: Dreams, Fun, Manners, Talents, Gifts, Learning to Deal with Mean People, Truth

Baby Steps
A baby can only grow so fast, and it’s nice to know that most parents are more encouraging that critical. The same is true of our heavenly Father as we grow up spiritually and take our baby steps into becoming like Christ.
Themes: Patience, Growth, Frustration, God

Dad Give Me My Money Now
It’s the Parable of the Prodigal Son in fast forward! Full of humor and truth, students will be able to get something out of this skit no matter where they are on the spiritual spectrum.

Themes: Consequences, Selfishness, Forgiveness, Parables, Salvation

Ehud: The Left-Handed Man
Welcome to Masterworks Theatre as they present the funniest version of one of the men who delivered the Israelites from oppression during the time of the Judges – complete with intrigue, deception, and a greasy bucket of chicken.
Themes: Bible Story, Courage, Faithfulness, Repentance

I Never Knew You
When Jesus told parables, He used everyday events to make a spiritual point. In this skit the situation, which takes place at school, draws upon Jesus’ words from the Sermon on the Mount an applies it to the lives of today’s students.
Themes: Belief, Jesus, Fame, Honesty

I Want to be More Like
This skit shows five people who are caught up in comparing themselves to someone else. It leaves them envious and discouraged until one of them remembers that he should be comparing himself to the character of Christ.
Themes: Comparison, Contentment, Satisfaction, Being who God created you to be

Nerds and the Women Who Love Them: The Phil Calahan Show
This “skit bit” involves four beauty pageant contestants as they talk about their dream guy. Look out for the surprise ending!
Themes: Fun, Commitment, Love, Dating, Differences, Crowd Breaker, Image

Take Off the Diaper Put Down the Bottle
To grow up spiritually is a choice, it doesn’t happen naturally, as the characters in this skit demonstrate. Four friends who made commitments to Christ together are at different points in their growth, due to the degree they are willing to trust God to take care of their needs.
Themes: Growth, Rationalization, Choices, Friends

The Roller Coaster Life
In the midst of life’s ups and downs it would nice to have an easy way into Heaven. This “game show” skit tries to offer some alternate solutions to salvation, but in the end it is only by the narrow road can one live through the roller coaster of life.
Themes: Salvation, Taking the “Easy Way,” Heaven

What God Sees
With so much pressure on how a person looks, it’s easy to get distracted from what God sees when He looks at us, and focus more on what other people see. The truth is that it is your character, not your looks that God is most interested in.
Themes: Acceptance, Appearance, Perspective, Identity