Backyard Servant 3 - Serving Neighbours

What does it really mean to serve our neighbors?

In this lighthearted yet thought-provoking skit, Willie and Woodie learn a valuable lesson about what it truly means to serve—not just their friends, but everyone in their community. When they set out to clean backyards, they limit their service to those they consider part of God's family. But when Tracey and Lynn challenge their thinking, they discover that serving isn’t just about who we already know—it’s about showing God’s love to everyone.

SKETCH 3 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  
• NOTE: DramaShare has no relationship with Standard Publishing and no Standard Publishing materials were used in writing these scripts.

 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

Set:      bare with picnic table

Lighting:        standard

Sound:     wireless mics if available

Song:     none

SFX: none

Costumes:      standard

Props:

• photo albums, rake, hoe, Bible

Special Instructions:   none

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

Sample of script: Sketch 3 – Serving Neighbours

Willie and Woodie are sitting on stage, very dejected, Tracey and Lynn walk on stage, listen

Willie, big sigh: This is so totally sick!

Woodie: Bummer is what.

Willie: Nothing could be any worse than this!

Woodie: Nope.

Lynn: Hey what's wrong guys?

Tracey: You were so excited last time I saw you, what happened?

Willie: Well, you guys said we would do backyard service for all our friends.

Lynn: Yes, that’s exactly what we said.

Woodie: So we went all around the block and found all our friends, and we served them by cleaning up their backyards.

Tracey: Well that’s wonderful, but I still don’t understand why that would make you sad.

Willie: Well, when we were going around the block we found lots of really messy backyards, but because it wasn’t friends of ours who lived there we couldn’t serve them by cleaning their backyards.

Lynn: Wait a minute, did you forget about who is your family friend?

Tracey: What does it say about that in Mark?

Woodie: I looked it up and it said that whoever does God’s will is like my family.

Lynn: OK, so . . ?

Willie: So we went door to door and asked everyone if they do God’s will.

Woodie: And in the houses where they told us that they do God’s will we served them by cleaning up their back yard.

Tracey: Well that was a good thing, and you mean that serving all these people didn’t make you feel good, and make you happy?

Willie, sad look: We felt real good and real happy.

Lynn: Well then, I don’t understand, why are you unhappy now?

Willie: ‘Cause when we were walking around the block we saw all these other backyards that really, really needed cleaning.

Tracey: So then, why didn’t you go clean those dirty backyards?

Willie: ‘Cause those folks in those houses said they didn’t do the will of God.

Woodie: So that meant they couldn’t be our friends.

Willie: And so we couldn’t clean their backyards.

Woodie, big sigh: Bummer is what! . . . What’s the use, might as well just go to bed.

Willie and Woodie start to move offstage

Lynn: Wait up, you don’t understand!

Tracey: Yeh, we need to have a long talk about serving neighbours, as well as friends.