Custom Script Samples

There’s a great deal of creativity and ingenuity happening in ministry today. I know because I hear from a lot of you who are doing some pretty amazing stuff. Odds are the more original you want to be, the harder it will be to find drama materials in a book to fit your needs. Below are some of the more unique writing requests I have received, just to show you how we can help you with your drama script needs.

Count Yourblessings
I got an email a few years back from a very sweet lady running a children’s puppet ministry. She had just acquired a Dracula puppet and wanted 3-4 scripts that would use him. This is still one of the most unusual requests I’ve ever received, and it led to a number of zany scripts… including the one linked above.

Starch of the Spirit
Another woman emailed me needing a script for a women’s retreat. The theme of the retreat was “Starch”, and the women would be learning about how the “starch of the spirit” would help them live more godly lives. Not your typical cookie cutter Biblical illustration, so I wrote a less than typical skit to illustrate the message.

Let’s Talk About Sex
I’ve got a great friend on the East Coast at Bay Area Community Church who always knows just what she wants. This script was written as an intro for a “sex talk” at a women’s conference. She wanted an over-the-top old lady babbling excitedly about how she couldn’t wait to hear the “sex talk” that would help the women laugh, loosen up, and be more receptive to the message that followed. Not for younger audiences, but the script had a special place in this women’s event.

Friends and Gilligan's Island

Another friend on the West Coast asked for a group of skits to accompany a sermon series. The theme was sitcoms, and each week, people would be treated to a different show. Two of the resulting scripts are linked above.

Alf On Sheep

While we're on the subject of old TV shows... a guy in Alabama wanted to do a skit about the shepherd/sheep parables featuring Alf. I have no idea how they staged this, but I'm sure it was a lot of fun.

There's a youth camp in Minnesota that asks me to write their theme skit every summer. The theme for 2007 is "The Mountain." (The photo above is another theme skit I wrote for them, Doll in the Trash.)

Dinner theater's a very popular outreach ministry these days, and the above script was written for that very purpose. Before you open the file, please know the characters, the plot, and all the other core ideas came from the person who commissioned the play. It's the second one I've written for them, and let me tell you... it's a trip.

One of the biggest writing assignments I've had was a DVD devotional series that spoofed a nightly newscast. The theme of the series was the fruits of the spirit, and this "X-Treme Investigative Report" was used to highlight the fruit of peace.