Puppet Ministry with Noah's Ark
by Richard W. LaFountain, all rights reserved.

"Fleas!"

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copywrite Richard W. LaFountain, all rights reserved.
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Characters:
   MC: Master of Ceremonies
   Puppet: Any puppet will do

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MC: Good morning Milton. How are you today?

PUPPET:: Good morning Marilyn. I'm very well thank you.

MC: It's a really great day! It's a wonderful day for Noah's Ark.

PUPPET:: I agree!  And I even bought some little friends with me
today.

MC: Really? OK, where are they? Introduce them to us.

PUPPET:: They're right here with me.

MC: Here... where?  I don't see any friends.

PUPPET:: They are with me inside my fur!  They are fleas and they want
to sign up to be members in Noah's Ark.

MC: Woah!!! Wait a minute. I already told you that animals can't win
prizes in Noah's Ark.

PUPPET:: But they aren't animals. They are things... insects. They are
my neighbors and friends. We are practically family.

 MC: Almost family? What do you mean?

PUPPET:: Well, they are part of my family. My mother has fleas, my
father has fleas, my aunts and uncles have fleas, my bothers and
sisters have fleas. In fact everyone in my family has fleas. Fleas are
part of the family.

MC: Ok, I see what you mean. I'm not going to argue with you about
that. You have flea friends but how did you ever get so many fleas?
Don't you ever take a bath.

PUPPET:: A bath! No way! I don't like to take baths. I feel perfectly
fine, in fact, I'm quite comfortable being stinky. Besides, my flea
friends don't like to take baths either. They are afraid they will
drown.

MC: Milton!! Don't you know you can get diseases by not taking baths?
You could even die!

PUPPET:: I could die?!  Me? I never thought of that. Really? I didn't
know it was so dangerous to be dirty.

MC: Indeed it is Milton. The Bible talks about dirt, or the
uncleanness of our hearts. God calls heart-dirt - SIN! The bible says,
"For the wages (or payment or result of) sin is death." 

PUPPET:: (Frightened) You mean the result of fleas is DEATH?? 

MC: No Milton - fleas will not kill you but sin in our heart like
filthy thoughts, angry words, nasty behavior, lying, disobedience to
parents, etc. will take its toll on us. God sees it and someday he
will blow the whistle and say "Enough!" Then we die and will be judged
for our sins. If we die with our sins God will send us to an awful
place he prepared only for the devil. 

PUPPET:: Oh no. I don't want to go to that place. I want to go to
heaven. Help me Marilyn! These fleas are killing me.  Hurry, pick them
off of me. (He frantically shakes or scratches self all over)

MC: Milton fleas don't cause death or send us to hell. SIN DOES! But
God loved us so much that he gave his Son Jesus to come to earth and
die for us, to pay the penalty for our sins so that we don't have to
die for our sins. Jesus took the MC:nishment your sins deserve.

PUPPET:: That was nice of him! 

MC: Not only nice Milton. God says it was the only way to take away
the dirt of our sins and make us ready for heaven.

PUPPET:: You mean dirty people can't go to heaven?

MC: No, not dirty people, or people with fleas but anyone with the
dirt of sin in his heart. Jesus can clean our hearts from sin when we
ask him to come into our hearts.

PUPPET:: Can he take away fleas too?

MC: No Milton you have to do that by taking a bath. But God wants to
give you a bath. Would you like that?

PUPPET:: I certainly would. But I won't drown will I?

MC: No, you won't drown bu you will get clean. God says your sins will
be washed away and your heart will be as white as snow.

PUPPET:: Wow! That's way cool! I'm going to ask Jesus to take away my
FLEAS, I mean SINS, give me a bath so I can go to heaven. See ya later
Marilyn. I've got to go talk to Jesus!

(He leaves and director talks to the boys and girls about asking Jesus
into their hearts to take away their sins)

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