Missions

Note: For obvious reasons, the durations against each script are only very approximate.

Key:
L
= Generally lighthearted
D
= Drama
H
= Heavy

N=Narrator; M=Male; F=Female; C=Child; M/'F=optional Male or Female; VO=Voices only; V=Vary to suit needs

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NEW! A Missionary's Heart

Dur: 8min

D

1N, 5M/F

The Lord seeks for a person with a missionary's heart. He tests hearts through asking them to give, pray, go, or obey. Instead, He finds selfishness, pride, self-righteousness, and doubting. He finally finds a missionary's heart in a child. (Author: R. Taylor)

Diversity Training

Dur:7min

L

2M, 1F

Two young Americans with little experience abroad arrive in Ecuador, displaying their ignorance of the customs and geography of the country. (Author: Dan Wilson)

Do As You're Told

Dur: 5min

L

2M/F

Person is ready to "go into the world and spread the Gospel" but he doesn't realize that the Gospel needs to be spread in his own back yard. (Author: Walt Scheiman)

Dr Cold Bath

Dur: 10min

L

1M

An ancient scholar lectures on Jonah, the reluctant missionary. (Author: Derek Wenmoth)

Father, Forgive Us

Dur: 15min

D

3M, 5+ M/F

The work of the greatest Missionary, as seen through the heart of His Father. Modern day setting. (Author: Sandy Erb)

Green's Call

Dur: 8min

L

1M, 1M/F

The missionary call is somewhat suspect in this young surfer! (Author unknown)

Hey Joe

Dur: 60min

L

14M, 1F, 8M/F

A musical telling the story of Jonah and his voyage to Ninevah. Suitable for school performance. (Authors: Robin & Delwyn McKenzie)

I Want You, Moses!

Dur: 10min

L

1M, 1V

A rather "smart alecky" Moses has a conversation with the God of the burning bush. (Author: Kevin Penner)

I've Come to Apply for the Home Mission Job...

Dur: 7min

L

4M, 2F

5 characters have very different ideas of what home mission is. (Authors: James Houston and Chris Mooney)

Jonah and the Psychiatrist

Dur: 7min

L

2M

Trying to avoid his call to Ninevah, Jonah takes his troubles to a psychiatrist. (Author: Kevin Penner)

Maintenance to Mission

Dur: 6min

D

3M, 2F

3 friends are out tramping and come to a crossroad with a signpost. To the left is "Mission", to the right "It's always been". They have come from "Maintenance" and are heading to "More of the same". (Author: Mike Cain)

Mission Possible

Dur: 3min

L

4M, 2F, 1M/F, 2VO

Tongue-in-cheek mission adventure in a take-off of the TV 'Mission Impossible' style. (Author: John McNeil)

Mixed up Mission

Dur: 7min

L

7M/F

A drama team struggles to throw together a drama about being on a mission from God. (Author: Eric Fisher)

Once Upon A Mission

Dur: 7min

D

1M, 1F

This play is based on a true story, is set in a small hut. Two missonaries, Jon and his wife Linda, are being guarded by some of the warriors of a remote Indian village. They are under the threat of death. (Authors: Joshua & Loretta Reid)

Self-Exile

Dur: 5min

D

2M/F

Two missionaries have been ordered out of a riot-torn country by its government. One does not want to go. (Author: Dan Wilson)

Send Me Away

Dur: 7min

D

2F, 3C

A woman reveals to her friend that her secret desire has always been to be a missionary.  She can only stay at home and take her mother for her chemo treatments, care for her brother’s 3 young children, and volunteer at church.  How she wishes she could make her life “count for God”.  She never seems to realize all that God is doing through her right where she is. (Author: Joanne Miller)

The Fabulous Adventures of Fred the Missionary

Dur: 12min

D

3M

Two secret service agents come into contact with a missionary and learn about his boss, Jesus. Instead of torture, they come to realise the missionary's love of Jesus. Comedy. (Author: Noah Christopher Leon)

The Graduate

Dur: 9min

D

1M, 1F, 1M/F

A newly graduated medical student stuns her parents when she announces she wants to work with a missionary organisation. (Author: Derek Wenmoth)

The Grinch Who Stole Missions

Dur: 9min

D

1N, 3M, 1F, 3M/F, 2C + V

A take-off of Dr. Seuss's The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, and should be read in the same manner. Read by a narrator and acted out on stage by various people, this drama is suitable to promote missions during Christmas, such as the Lottie Moon Offering and Christmas Boxes for Children in third world countries. (Author: Terri Savage)

The Pensioner and the Mission

Dur: 7min

D

1M/F

Christmas is a lonely time for many. The pensioner goes to the City Mission to share in the community Christmas dinner, but even the hard work of the Mission staff to provide a happy occasion cannot disguise his loneliness. (Author: John McNeil)

Three Little Missionaries

Dur: 10min

L

N, 1M/F + puppets

The Three Little Missionaries discover the Big Bad Wolf is still alive and kicking! A play combining puppets with live actors. (Author: John McNeil)

Which Way?

Dur: 60sec

L

2N, 1M/F

How does a mission-field hopeful choose? (Author: John McNeil)

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