Added on 15 Sep 2008
Aim
Hope in God is stronger than hope in anything else.
Introduction
Good to see everybody again. Glad to be back in school.
How did the holidays go? Anybody go to the seaside?
Any good or bad experiences of the sea? Nothing could be worse than a shipwreck could it?
Interaction – the sea
(Sound effect of the sea) ask children to act the motion of waves.
Our players enter the hall as if swimming in the sea after being shipwrecked. Wander through hall and arrive on dry land (the stage)
The survivors bemoan the fact that they've been shipwrecked and hope that their SOS message has got through; they hope they will be rescued.
Narator: After a few weeks they are still on the island.
The survivors are beginning to loose hope. They find a bottle that has been washed up, get some paper that they found when they were shipwrecked and scribble a message in a bottle.
They ask the children to act like waves again and pass the bottle around the hall as if being carried on the waves.
As they watch the bottle floating away they end the sketch saying "I really hope that someone finds that bottle or we're in trouble!"
The story of Paul in Acts 27
When his ship was in trouble and became shipwrecked. The crew were panicking but Paul had his hope in God. Emphasise that Christians have a hope in God that helps them in the hardest times – a hope that is available to all who believe.
Song
Great, great, brill, brill