Backyard Servant 2 - Serving Friends

Join us for another exciting installment of Backyard Servant! In Serving Friends, Willie and Woodie think they have service all figured out—serve their family and enjoy the rewards. But when Tracey and Lynn show up, helping their neighbor Mrs. Duncan, they challenge Willie and Woodie’s idea of who deserves their help.

With humor, heart, and a lesson straight from Mark 3:35, this fun-filled sketch teaches kids that friendship is about more than just who we know—it’s about serving those around us with kindness and love. Featuring engaging dialogue, relatable characters, and a powerful message, this script is perfect for VBS, Sunday school, or a stand-alone performance.

SKETCH 2 OF 5 short sketches on the theme of “Who, (and why), do we serve?”
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The individual themes for the five days, (included in this script), are:

• Serving Family
• Serving Friends
• Serving Neighbours 
• Serving Community  
• Serving Jesus  
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Bible Reference: Mark 12:29-31, Mark 3:35

Cast:  4 (m or f any age)

• Woodie
• Willie
• Tracie from Backyard Service Company doing good deeds
• Lynn from Backyard Service Company doing good deeds

Bible Reference: Mark 12:29-31, Mark 3:35

Set: bare with recliners, lawn chairs

Lighting:  standard

Sound:  wireless mics if available

Song:  none

SFX: none

Costumes: standard

Props:

• rake and hoe, drinks in glasses

Special Instructions:   none

Time:  15 (approx. 15 min for each sketch)

Sample of script: Sketch 1 – Serving Friends

Title: Backyard Service

(Scene: Willie and Woodie are lounging on recliners, sipping lemonade, and enjoying the sunshine.)

Willie: Wow, Woodie, is this some kinda day or what?

Woodie: Mmmmmmmmmm Mmmmmmmmmm! You said it, Willie—some kinda day!

Willie: Sun shining down, not a cloud in the sky!

Woodie: Laying here in our family’s backyard.

Willie: The family who, I might remind you, we love dearly!

Woodie: And 'cause we love our family, we serve them.

Willie: For sure! We did a bang-up job cleaning up our family’s backyard. Looks some kinda awesome, for sure!

Woodie: You know what? I kinda like this serving our family.

Willie: And now we can lie here in our family’s backyard and enjoy the day.

Woodie: Kinda in our own little world—just you, me, and our family.

Willie: A tall, cool glass of Mom’s lemonade in hand. I tell ya, life does not get much better than this!

Woodie: Mom’s lemonade is for sure second to none—not too sweet, not too tangy, just bang-on awesome, that’s what it is.

Willie: Ever wonder how the rest of the world manages, not havin’ Mom’s lemonade and all?

Woodie: Who cares? All of our family has Mom’s lemonade. That’s for sure all that counts.

Willie: Like you say, Woodie—our own little world.

(Tracey and Lynn enter, carrying a hoe and rake.)

Willie (waving): Hey Tracey, Lynn, whatcha doin’ over there in Mrs. Duncan’s backyard?

Tracey: Hey Willie, Woodie. Me and Lynn, we are cleaning up Mrs. Duncan’s backyard. You know... Backyard Service, at your service!

Lynn: Likely you know Mrs. Duncan, what with you being next-door neighbors and all.

Willie: Mrs. Duncan? Oh, for sure we know Mrs. Duncan! She's a sweet lady, a good friend, teaches me in Sunday School.

Woodie: And forgiving too. Mrs. Duncan hardly ever reminds me much about how my baseball went through her picture window by accident last year.

Willie: "Went through her picture window by accident?" Woodie, you threw your baseball—real hard—straight through Mrs. Duncan’s big picture window.

Woodie: It was an accident! I was throwing my ball up over Mrs. Duncan’s roof, and see, it was a real cold day, and everyone knows how the air gets real heavy on a really cold day. When I threw my ball—which, on a hot day like today, would have easily cleared Mrs. Duncan’s roof—but being as how it was, like I say, real cold, my ball just hung up there and... whamo... right through Mrs. Duncan’s big... and expensive... picture window.

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