Image courtesy http://jesuschrist.lds.org/SonOfGod/eng/faith-in-jesus-christThis reader's theater is STRONGLY based on "Chapter 3: Jesus Christ, Our Chosen Leader and Savior,” Gospel Principles, (2009),13–16 and “Chapter 11: The Life of Christ,” Gospel Principles, (2009),50–58"
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Shining Stars of Obedience
by Sofia Lykes
Speaking Parts
Camper #1 Camper #2 Camper #3
Angel #1 Angel #2
Mary John the Baptist
Leper Centurian Man of the Company Blind Man
Elder Whitney
Possible Non Speaking Parts
A couple children can be bushes by the campers
A couple children can be non-speaking angels
A couple children can hold up stars above their heads and be stars
Props
!!!!Simple!!!!! Costumes
Sticks with marshmallows
Scriptures
Camper #1: Please toss me another marshmallow! Yummy! I'm so excited to be camping.
Camper #2: Me too! This summer weather is perfect and my s'more is almost done!
Camper #3: While the treats are pretty awesome, my favorite part is looking into the night sky and seeing all the beautiful stars. It makes me feel so special knowing Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ made all of it for us.
Camper #2: (Looking up) It's so big up there! It makes me feel so small!
Camper #1: We may be small, but we can do big things with our lives! All we have to do is follow the Savior. He gave us the perfect example, as well as His life.
Camper #3: Jesus Christ always obeyed Heavenly Father.
Camper #2: Always?
Camper #1 and #3: Always!!
Camper #1: Remember the pre-existence?
Angel #1: I can't hear what Heavenly Father just said!!!
Angel #2: Shh!!! Whisper!! He just said “Whom shall I send?”1
Angel #1: Well... what else!?! I can't see anything with all these people. Not to mention my ears are still ringing from everyone shouting for joy at the plan of salvation!2
Angel #1: Ok, Ok... I think I got it. Jehovah...
Angel #2: You mean Jesus?
Angel #1: Yes, Jehovah is one of His many names. So Jehovah just said, "Here I am, send me...Father, thy will be done, and the glory be thine forever"3
Camper #3: Even before we were born on earth, Jesus obeyed Heavenly Father.
Camper #2: Hey I remember! Jesus obeyed Heavenly Father as a child too!
Mary: "Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing."4
Camper #2: And Jesus replied thoughtfully to His mother, "How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?"5
Camper #1: I would have been so scared to be lost!!
Camper #3: Mary and Joseph might have thought Jesus was lost, but He wasn't at all. He was being obedient and teaching truth. His Father's truth. Jesus was diligent and obedient as a child, and also throughout His entire life on earth.
Camper #2: Remember when Jesus was baptized?
Camper #1: He was perfect and had no sin, His baptism wasn't to cleanse him but to show He would do anything Heavenly Father asked Him to. John the baptist didn't even want to baptize Him at first because he knew Jesus was perfect.
John the Baptist: "I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?"6
Camper #3: Yet John baptized Him and a dove came down from heaven as well as Heavenly Father's voice when He said, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."
Camper #1: No wonder Heavenly Father was pleased, Jesus always listened and did what needed to be done.
Leper: "Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean."7
Centurion: "Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed."8
Man of the company: " Master, I beseech thee, look upon my son: for he is mine only child. And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departeth from him. And I besought thy disciples to cast him out; and they could not"9
Blind Man: "A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight."10
Camper #3: Jesus healed the sick, cast out devils and helped all those around him. One of my favorite scriptures is John 6:38 where Jesus Himself says, "For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me."
Camper #1: I wonder if on the night of the atonement our Savior saw as many stars as we see tonight. A latter day apostle, Elder Orsen F. Whitney had a vision of the Garden of Gethsemane and on seeing Jesus weep he said...
Elder Whitney: “I was so moved at the sight that I also wept, out of pure sympathy. My whole heart went out to Him; I loved Him with all my soul, and longed to be with Him as I longed for nothing else”11
Camper #2: Even as He was suffering so much, and in so much pain, we see His total obedience to Heavenly Father when Jesus said, "O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt"12
Camper #3: Jesus Christ always obeyed Heavenly Father. I can follow in His footsteps and do my best too!
ALL: We will be obedient like our Savior!
Camper #2: I can do all I need to do! I look at the stars above me and know that while I'm small, I shine big by my obedience to Heavenly Father.
ALL: We will do Heavenly Father's will always!
Camper #1: In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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1 Abraham 3:27
2 Job 38:7
3 Moses 4:1-2
4 Luke 2:48
5 Luke 2:49
6 Matthew 3:14
7 Matthew 8:2
8 Matthew 8:8
9 Luke 9:38-40
10 John 9:11
11 “The Divinity of Jesus Christ,” Improvement Era, Jan. 1926, 224–25; see also Ensign, Dec. 2003, 10
12 Matthew 26:39
See Here for tips about doing a reader's theater.
Shining Stars of Obedience
by Sofia Lykes
Speaking Parts
Camper #1 Camper #2 Camper #3
Angel #1 Angel #2
Mary John the Baptist
Leper Centurian Man of the Company Blind Man
Elder Whitney
Possible Non Speaking Parts
A couple children can be bushes by the campers
A couple children can be non-speaking angels
A couple children can hold up stars above their heads and be stars
Props
!!!!Simple!!!!! Costumes
Sticks with marshmallows
Scriptures
Camper #2: Me too! This summer weather is perfect and my s'more is almost done!
Camper #3: While the treats are pretty awesome, my favorite part is looking into the night sky and seeing all the beautiful stars. It makes me feel so special knowing Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ made all of it for us.
Camper #2: (Looking up) It's so big up there! It makes me feel so small!
Camper #1: We may be small, but we can do big things with our lives! All we have to do is follow the Savior. He gave us the perfect example, as well as His life.
Camper #3: Jesus Christ always obeyed Heavenly Father.
Camper #2: Always?
Camper #1 and #3: Always!!
Camper #1: Remember the pre-existence?
Angel #1: I can't hear what Heavenly Father just said!!!
Angel #2: Shh!!! Whisper!! He just said “Whom shall I send?”1
Angel #1: Well... what else!?! I can't see anything with all these people. Not to mention my ears are still ringing from everyone shouting for joy at the plan of salvation!2
Angel #1: Ok, Ok... I think I got it. Jehovah...
Angel #2: You mean Jesus?
Angel #1: Yes, Jehovah is one of His many names. So Jehovah just said, "Here I am, send me...Father, thy will be done, and the glory be thine forever"3
Camper #3: Even before we were born on earth, Jesus obeyed Heavenly Father.
Camper #2: Hey I remember! Jesus obeyed Heavenly Father as a child too!
Mary: "Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing."4
Camper #2: And Jesus replied thoughtfully to His mother, "How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?"5
Camper #1: I would have been so scared to be lost!!
Camper #3: Mary and Joseph might have thought Jesus was lost, but He wasn't at all. He was being obedient and teaching truth. His Father's truth. Jesus was diligent and obedient as a child, and also throughout His entire life on earth.
Camper #2: Remember when Jesus was baptized?
Camper #1: He was perfect and had no sin, His baptism wasn't to cleanse him but to show He would do anything Heavenly Father asked Him to. John the baptist didn't even want to baptize Him at first because he knew Jesus was perfect.
John the Baptist: "I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?"6
Camper #3: Yet John baptized Him and a dove came down from heaven as well as Heavenly Father's voice when He said, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."
Camper #1: No wonder Heavenly Father was pleased, Jesus always listened and did what needed to be done.
Leper: "Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean."7
Centurion: "Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed."8
Man of the company: " Master, I beseech thee, look upon my son: for he is mine only child. And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departeth from him. And I besought thy disciples to cast him out; and they could not"9
Blind Man: "A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight."10
Camper #3: Jesus healed the sick, cast out devils and helped all those around him. One of my favorite scriptures is John 6:38 where Jesus Himself says, "For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me."
Camper #1: I wonder if on the night of the atonement our Savior saw as many stars as we see tonight. A latter day apostle, Elder Orsen F. Whitney had a vision of the Garden of Gethsemane and on seeing Jesus weep he said...
Elder Whitney: “I was so moved at the sight that I also wept, out of pure sympathy. My whole heart went out to Him; I loved Him with all my soul, and longed to be with Him as I longed for nothing else”11
Camper #2: Even as He was suffering so much, and in so much pain, we see His total obedience to Heavenly Father when Jesus said, "O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt"12
Camper #3: Jesus Christ always obeyed Heavenly Father. I can follow in His footsteps and do my best too!
ALL: We will be obedient like our Savior!
Camper #2: I can do all I need to do! I look at the stars above me and know that while I'm small, I shine big by my obedience to Heavenly Father.
ALL: We will do Heavenly Father's will always!
Camper #1: In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
____________________________________________________
1 Abraham 3:27
2 Job 38:7
3 Moses 4:1-2
4 Luke 2:48
5 Luke 2:49
6 Matthew 3:14
7 Matthew 8:2
8 Matthew 8:8
9 Luke 9:38-40
10 John 9:11
11 “The Divinity of Jesus Christ,” Improvement Era, Jan. 1926, 224–25; see also Ensign, Dec. 2003, 10
12 Matthew 26:39
This is great! Thank you so much for putting time into this. It helps me get my creative juices flowing, and this readers theater will be perfect for our little senior primary...now to go put together some simple costumes.
ReplyDeleteI've done a readers theater before with the senior primary and it was great. We have a large primary and all the children were so silent while it was going on because they were all paying attention! I can't wait to do this with the senior primary this Sunday. Thank you for putting this together!
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