Day 3 Drama

Day 3

The Good Shepherd Provides for me

DRAMA

This drama could be acted out and planned before hand or you could use this story to do and impromptu drama using volunteers from the audience.

 Supplies

·        Signs with stripes and dots

·        Signs that are white

Characters  needed:

·        Narrator(this could be your announcer or MC person)

·        Jacob

·        Labon

                                                                                                                                        

Here is Jacob. He follows God

(Jacob comes in dressed like a shepherd and waving at people)

Jacob works for his father in law Labon caring for his goats and sheep.

(Labon walks in and waves and stands on the other side of the stage)

  Jacob has a BIG family and doesn’t make a lot of money at his job. So Jacob comes up with a plan so that he can watch God provide for him.

(Jacob acts like he is thinking and coming up with a good idea)

Jacob goes to Labon and says, “Hey Labon, I have an idea. How about instead of paying me money you just pay me by giving me all the spotted or stripped animals when they are born. That way you’re heard will be the best and pettiest and most spotless heard there is in the whole land.”

(Jacob goes up to Labon and is talking to him )

Labon thinks about this idea. Labon is selfish and greedy. He wants to have the best heard, and most of the animals that are already really nice, so that means he might not have to give Jacob hardly any animals for all his work. Labon like this idea and says “Yeah, It’s a deal”

(Labon thinks about it, then gives a thumbs up and shakes hands with Jacob)

Jacob goes off to take care of Labon’s animals.  God gives Jacob the idea to put up signs up where the animals eat and drink that have big dots and stripes on them. So that is what Jacob does.

(Jacob puts out signs with dots and stripes on them)

Guess what? When the baby animals are born almost ALL of them have spots or stripes on them. So Jacob got almost ALL of Labon’s animals! 

(Jacob is happy)

 This happened for a little bit but pretty soon Labon noticed.

This made Labon grumpy.  Labon said NO NO NO NO I change my mind.  I want the stripped and spotted sheep and you can have the plain ones.

(Labon shakes his head says no and points to Jacob acting out he words)

So Jacob only gets the spotless animals. But right always he changes the signs to plain signs

(Jacob looks grumpy but changes signs to plain signs)

Do you know what happened? The next time animals started only having plain babies, and not very many spotted ones. So Jacob started getting more and more animals again.

(Jacob is happy again)

But it didn’t take long before Labon noticed it again, and changed his mind.

(Labon shakes his head ‘no’) and points to the sheep)

In fact we the Bible tells us that this happened lots of times!

(Labon and Jacob act this out a few more times where Jacob keeps changing the signs and Labon keeps changing his mind, until Jacob plops on the ground exhausted)

 But every time Labon changed his mind, God still provided for Jacob. In fact when it was time for Jacob and his family to move away, the Bible says that Jacob was a very rich man, because God had provided for him in lots of ways.

(Jacob gathers his sheep and signs and walks off the stage waving at Labon)