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by John Cosper
GENRE: Comedy
TIME: 5 minutes
SYNOPSIS: Mindy’s decided to take
CAST BREAKDOWN: 2F
pictures of everything: the good, the
bad, and the really, REALLY bad…
THEME: Sin, Choices
DIRECTOR’S TIP: We’re of course not
seeing the pictures the girls are describing, so keep the descriptions and
reactions engaging so we’ll stay tuned
in.
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE: Matthew 7:13-14; Philippians 4:8
CHURCH YEAR SEASON: Any
SUGGESTED USE: Youth service; sermon illustration
CHARACTERS:
MINDY - a girl with incredibly bad judgment
JORDAN - Mindy’s friend
PROPS: Two smartphones
COSTUMES: Contemporary
SOUND: Wireless mics if desired
LIGHTING: General stage
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SETTING: A park bench
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Lights up. Mindy is sitting on a park bench at center, playing with her smartphone. Jordan
enters.
JORDAN: Hey, Mindy!
MINDY: Jordan, hey! How are you?
JORDAN: Guess what I got today?
Jordan shows off her new phone.
MINDY: Cool! You finally got a phone!
JORDAN: Yes I did!
MINDY: That’s so awesome. Did you put any apps on it yet?
JORDAN: Not yet. I’ve been too busy taking pictures.
MINDY: Let me see.
JORDAN: Look, here’s me when I got my phone. And here’s me and my Dad. Here’s my
dog.
MINDY: (unimpressed) That’s nice.
JORDAN: What’s the matter?
MINDY: It’s kinda boring.
JORDAN: Boring?
MINDY: Taking pictures of family and puppies. I mean everybody does that. Everybody
takes happy pictures where everyone’s smiling. Now me, I take pictures of everything.
The good, the bad, and the really, really bad.
JORDAN: How bad?
MINDY: You really wanna know?
JORDAN: I guess so.
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MINDY: Okay. Grab a seat.
Jordan sits. Mindy pulls up her pics on her phone and starts to show them off.
Here’s me just after I got my new phone with my mom. Here’s me by myself. Self-Portrait.
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JORDAN: I thought you said that stuff was boring.
MINDY: Hang on, we’re getting there. Okay, here’s me going to church with my parents.
JORDAN: Okay.
MINDY: Here’s me skipping out of church to steal the donuts from the old people’s
class.
JORDAN: You stole donuts from the old people and took pictures?
MINDY: I told you, I take pictures of everything. See? Here’s me watching TV instead of
studying for our history test.
JORDAN: That’s not so bad.
MINDY: Here I am writing the answers on my forearm so I can cheat.
JORDAN: That’s pretty bad.
MINDY: Here’s me when the teacher caught me cheating during the test.
JORDAN: That’s really bad.
MINDY: Here’s me headed to the principal’s office after I told the teacher she looked
like a Hutt.
JORDAN: What’s a Hutt?
MINDY: You know, like Jabba the Hutt on Star Wars?
JORDAN: Never saw it.
MINDY: She did, and boy was she mad.
JORDAN: What’s that one?
MINDY: That’s me in the principal’s office. And here’s me hitting the principal with his
own paddle.
JORDAN: Oh my.
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MINDY: Here’s me stealing his car keys.
JORDAN: I don’t know if I need to see this.
MINDY: Me again, driving his car. Me again, wrecking the car.
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JORDAN: Wow.
MINDY: Here I am running from the police. And here I am getting tasered.
JORDAN: They tasered you?
MINDY: I called him a fat pig. He had no choice.
JORDAN: No, but you did.
MINDY: Yes, well, I’ve never been the best at making good choices.
JORDAN: I guess not. But hey, your parents must not be too mad. I mean here you are
on the playground instead of grounded.
MINDY: Who said I wasn’t grounded? They grounded me until my sixteenth birthday!
JORDAN: So why are you here and not at home?
MINDY: Like I said, I’m not very good at making choices. Hey, look, it’s the ice cream
man! You want a bomb pop?
JORDAN: I’d love one, but I don’t have any money.
MINDY: Money? Who needs money? I’ll steal us some.
JORDAN: You what?
MINDY: (hands her phone to Jordan) Here. When you see me run, take my picture. Then follow me because this could get dicey.
Mindy runs off, stage right.
JORDAN: I gotta get some new friends.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lights down.
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cost. Scripts and performance rights are not transferable between churches and cannot be resold. You may not use the sketch for any commercial or fundraising
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