Don't Stop Doing That, by Marvin Lansverk
By: Marvin Lansverk
Church Year: Season of Lent and Easter
Title: Don't Stop Doing That
Bible Text: Luke 24:36-53, The Ascension
Theme: Jesus is with us
Puppets: Barnabas, Olivia, and Lippo
People: Kids
Props: Bible
[Tell kids to shout "HE IS RISEN INDEED," louder each time, at end]
[Lippo, Barnabas, and Olivia are up front, Barnabas in the middle]
Barnabas: Buenos dias kids. How is everybody today?
Olivia: Hi kids. It’s good to see you all here this morning. Hey look, it’s Lippo. It seems like we haven’t seen you since…before Brittney Spears was popular!
Lippo: Brittney Spears was popular?
Barnabas: [Feeling around] Hey, maybe we’re not actually seeing you now. Maybe we just hear you. [Pause] Wait….now I can’t even hear you. Shoot, maybe the whole thing was just my imagination.
[Lippo gives Barnabas a big smacking kiss]
Barnabas: Now I see you! It’s amazing what big pink smacking lips will do for your vison of reality. Lippo! We’ve missed you.
Lippo: And I’ve missed you. But I’ve been on one of those reality t.v. shows for a while—for the denomination.
Olivia: Really? What, like Methodist Survivor, or the Methodist Apprentice, or something? Cool, and instead of standing up and saying “you’re fired,” did the Bishop stand up and say: “You’re excommunicated!”
Lippo: No, no. Actually, I was just part of the ambiance on the set of American Idol. I was one of the fish swimming back and forth in the aquarium in the background.
Barnabas: But you said for the denomination.
Lippo: Yah. You know, for tens and twenties.
Olivia: Maybe we should be getting on with it. So just what is “it” today?
Barnabas: Oo. I just remembered something. I’ll be back in a minute. [Lippo and Olivia both look at each other and shrug]
Olivia: We’re supposed to be talking about the ascension.
Lippo: Ah. Whales and penguins do that.
Olivia: What?!?
Lippo: You know, they dive in the sea [make gesture], and eventually they come bursting out above the surface. [Make noise—pssshhh—and rising gesture]. Like that. Ascension.
Olivia: But, but…
Barnabas: [Sneak up behind them] Peace be with you!
Olivia and Lippo: Ahhhh!
Olivia: Would you stop doing that!?!
Barnabas: Doing what?
Lippo: Doing that sneaking up on other people and surprising them, business. [Scoffing] Peace be with you. I’ll give you peace—a piece of my fin! [Pretend to slap him.] Do you feel peaceful? Just check my heart rate.
Barnabas: But I’m just trying to be more like Jesus.
Lippo and Olivia: What?
Barnabas: You know. Like Jesus. After Easter. He kept surprising the disciples by showing up, unannounced. And saying things like: “Peace be with you.” It must have been quite startling. [Lippo and Olivia look away to make a face; Barnabas quickly ducks down under bench; Lippo and Olivia turn back to the front, discover him gone, then look forward, puzzled, when Barnabas pops up from in front, from under the bench]. Peace!
Lippo and Olivia: Ahhh! Would you stop doing that!?
Barnabas: But it’s in the Bible. Here, look. [Reading] “While the disciples were talking together, Jesus himself stood among them and said: ‘Peace be with you.’ And they were startled and terrified.” See? You did the “startled and terrified” part just right.
Olivia: [Grabbing Bible] “And Jesus said, ‘why are you frightened? Remember my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.”
Lippo: [Grabbing Bible] “Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations.” Wow!
Barnabas: Now, after your initial surprise, you’re supposed to be expressing great joy right about now! As you disciples walk along with me on the road from Jerusalem to Bethany.
Olivia: We are! Because, it’s, it’s so amazing! We saw Jesus, we saw you die, on the cross. But you’re alive. Just as the Scriptures said! Now we understand! Jesus is alive. He’s risen. [HE IS RISEN INDEED] He is risen. [HE IS RISEN INDEED] He is risen. [HE IS RISEN INDEED] [Barnabas disappears again during the shouting]. Hey, where’d you go this time?
Lippo: [Reading] Look. It says: “Then having led them out as far as Bethany, Jesus lifted up his hands, and he blessed them. And while he was blessing them, he withdrew and was carried up into heaven.” Wow. The ascension.
Olivia: Ahh. But Jesus promised that God would send the Holy Spirit. And that he—Jesus—would always be with us.
Barnabas: [From under the bench] I’m still here.
Lippo and Olivia: We know.
Barnabas: Bless you, may peace be with you, and God’s love now and forever, holding you tight.
Olivia: Thank you Jesus. Whatever you do, don’t stop doing that.
All: Now, is this a great day or what?
Church Year: Season of Lent and Easter
Title: Don't Stop Doing That
Bible Text: Luke 24:36-53, The Ascension
Theme: Jesus is with us
Puppets: Barnabas, Olivia, and Lippo
People: Kids
Props: Bible
[Tell kids to shout "HE IS RISEN INDEED," louder each time, at end]
[Lippo, Barnabas, and Olivia are up front, Barnabas in the middle]
Barnabas: Buenos dias kids. How is everybody today?
Olivia: Hi kids. It’s good to see you all here this morning. Hey look, it’s Lippo. It seems like we haven’t seen you since…before Brittney Spears was popular!
Lippo: Brittney Spears was popular?
Barnabas: [Feeling around] Hey, maybe we’re not actually seeing you now. Maybe we just hear you. [Pause] Wait….now I can’t even hear you. Shoot, maybe the whole thing was just my imagination.
[Lippo gives Barnabas a big smacking kiss]
Barnabas: Now I see you! It’s amazing what big pink smacking lips will do for your vison of reality. Lippo! We’ve missed you.
Lippo: And I’ve missed you. But I’ve been on one of those reality t.v. shows for a while—for the denomination.
Olivia: Really? What, like Methodist Survivor, or the Methodist Apprentice, or something? Cool, and instead of standing up and saying “you’re fired,” did the Bishop stand up and say: “You’re excommunicated!”
Lippo: No, no. Actually, I was just part of the ambiance on the set of American Idol. I was one of the fish swimming back and forth in the aquarium in the background.
Barnabas: But you said for the denomination.
Lippo: Yah. You know, for tens and twenties.
Olivia: Maybe we should be getting on with it. So just what is “it” today?
Barnabas: Oo. I just remembered something. I’ll be back in a minute. [Lippo and Olivia both look at each other and shrug]
Olivia: We’re supposed to be talking about the ascension.
Lippo: Ah. Whales and penguins do that.
Olivia: What?!?
Lippo: You know, they dive in the sea [make gesture], and eventually they come bursting out above the surface. [Make noise—pssshhh—and rising gesture]. Like that. Ascension.
Olivia: But, but…
Barnabas: [Sneak up behind them] Peace be with you!
Olivia and Lippo: Ahhhh!
Olivia: Would you stop doing that!?!
Barnabas: Doing what?
Lippo: Doing that sneaking up on other people and surprising them, business. [Scoffing] Peace be with you. I’ll give you peace—a piece of my fin! [Pretend to slap him.] Do you feel peaceful? Just check my heart rate.
Barnabas: But I’m just trying to be more like Jesus.
Lippo and Olivia: What?
Barnabas: You know. Like Jesus. After Easter. He kept surprising the disciples by showing up, unannounced. And saying things like: “Peace be with you.” It must have been quite startling. [Lippo and Olivia look away to make a face; Barnabas quickly ducks down under bench; Lippo and Olivia turn back to the front, discover him gone, then look forward, puzzled, when Barnabas pops up from in front, from under the bench]. Peace!
Lippo and Olivia: Ahhh! Would you stop doing that!?
Barnabas: But it’s in the Bible. Here, look. [Reading] “While the disciples were talking together, Jesus himself stood among them and said: ‘Peace be with you.’ And they were startled and terrified.” See? You did the “startled and terrified” part just right.
Olivia: [Grabbing Bible] “And Jesus said, ‘why are you frightened? Remember my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you—that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.”
Lippo: [Grabbing Bible] “Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations.” Wow!
Barnabas: Now, after your initial surprise, you’re supposed to be expressing great joy right about now! As you disciples walk along with me on the road from Jerusalem to Bethany.
Olivia: We are! Because, it’s, it’s so amazing! We saw Jesus, we saw you die, on the cross. But you’re alive. Just as the Scriptures said! Now we understand! Jesus is alive. He’s risen. [HE IS RISEN INDEED] He is risen. [HE IS RISEN INDEED] He is risen. [HE IS RISEN INDEED] [Barnabas disappears again during the shouting]. Hey, where’d you go this time?
Lippo: [Reading] Look. It says: “Then having led them out as far as Bethany, Jesus lifted up his hands, and he blessed them. And while he was blessing them, he withdrew and was carried up into heaven.” Wow. The ascension.
Olivia: Ahh. But Jesus promised that God would send the Holy Spirit. And that he—Jesus—would always be with us.
Barnabas: [From under the bench] I’m still here.
Lippo and Olivia: We know.
Barnabas: Bless you, may peace be with you, and God’s love now and forever, holding you tight.
Olivia: Thank you Jesus. Whatever you do, don’t stop doing that.
All: Now, is this a great day or what?
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