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Here's a nice little script to help you recruit volunteers for specific ministries around your church. The script can be adapted easily to fit whatever sort of event/position for which you're recruiting.  Perhaps you know of a ministry in your church that is unrelated to puppetry that needs to recruit.  This would be an excellent opportunity for you to step in and volunteer your services as a puppet team to help another ministry.  By doing this sketch Sunday Morning or at a large meeting, you could simultaneously get exposure for your puppet team and serve others with a script of this nature.

Stinky Sneakers
© Puppet Productions

by Mrs. Teresa Brown

CAST: Edgar, a refined gentleman with an English accent; Homer, the country bumpkin type
PROPS: One pair of dirty, beat-up tennis shoes.
SCENE: Homer is onstage, looking at the shoes, as Edgar enters.

EDGAR: Great Galahads! There is a most offensive odor in this vicinity.

HOMER: Just the sweet smell of success, Edgar! You are lookin' at the most beautiful pair of sneakers in the world.

EDGAR: Surely, my good fellow, you are just stringing me along. What could possibly be attractive about those stinky, rotten, dirty tennis shoes? Bless their worn-out soles.

HOMER: Come a little closer and I'll show you.

EDGAR: (TO THE AUDIENCE) Do I dare? My nostrils are pleading for mercy!

HOMER: See them black scuffs on the toes? Those are from kneeling and praying with kids in Backyard Bible Clubs. And these holes on the side ... they're from going out on visitation every week.

EDGAR: What about those odd-looking purple spots?

HOMER: That's from taking homemade blackberry jam to the shut-ins ... A jar of it accidentally fell on the sidewalk and broke.

EDGAR: Well, I must admit, this is not an ordinary pair of shoes.

HOMER: And here, these yellow specks? Dried up glue from Vacation Bible School.

EDGAR: You mean to say these poor, mistreated fellows have been through a Vacation Bible School and they're still in one piece?

HOMER: Like you said, buddy - these here ain't your average, ordinary, run-of-the-mill tennyboppers!

EDGAR: Did I say that?

HOMER: Well, give or take a few grammatical blunders.

EDGAR: You are correct, Homer. I see the beauty, now. It is not unlike the beauty spoken of in the Bible ...

HOMER: (INTERRUPTING) Are you sayin' there's a Bible verse about stinky sneakers?

EDGAR: Not exactly, but Isaiah 52:7 says 'How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings; that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tiding of good; that publisheth salvation; that saith ... the Lord reigneth."

HOMER: Boy, howdy! That sho 'nuff describes the feet that go in these shoes.

EDGAR: By the way, chap - do those shoes belong to you?

HOMER: Of course not! I don't even have feet! I'm just a puppet!

EDGAR: Well, whose are they?

HOMER: The truth is, God is looking for someone to fill these shoes. (LOOKING TO AUDIENCE) Do you know of anybody? (BOTH PUPPETS FREEZE FOR A MOMENT AND THEN EXIT)

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