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THE FACE OF GOD: BEING CREATED IN THE IMAGE OF GOD (Genesis 1:27) CHARACTERS
Reader 1: The questioner, any gender
Reader 2: an old man of African descent
Reader 3: an adult woman of Latino descent
Reader 4: a teenage girl of northern European descent
Reader 5: a child of Native American (First Tribes) descent
Reader 6: an old woman of Asian descent
Reader 7: an adult man of Arab descent If you
have people who fit these descriptions to draw from for your production, use
real people with real faces. If
your congregation does not include this variety of people, find pictures of
people like them and have the pictures made into posters for each reader to hold
in front of their bodies and faces when they step forward to speak.
Also,
each reader needs a mirror for the final lines. Each
person steps forward to deliver their line(s) and then back into place when they
are finished. All:
And God said, “Let us make humankind in our own image; in our image let them
be made; male and female let them be made.” Reader
1:
What does God look like? Reader
2: He
looks like me; face creased with the lines of eternity, wrinkled by eons of
cajoling, cautioning, and calling my children into loving relationships with
each other. Reader 1:
What does God look like?
Reader
3: She looks like me; hands worn with the work of
keeping families together, holding a baby on one hip while weaving a livelihood
out of cloth or reed or hemp. Reader
1: What does God look like? Reader
4: She looks like me; heart full of ache for a family no
longer living in the same house, shuttling back and forth between mom and dad,
wondering if Christmas will ever be merry again. Reader
1: What does God look like? Reader
5: He looks like me; living each day in two worlds, one
where spirits soar on the wings of hawks and the other where words rush through
the cables of computers. Reader
1: What does God look like? Reader
6: She looks like me; delighting in the sharing of my
poetry and paintings, catching the smiles of passersby in the park where I sit
each day to eat good food and laugh with my friends. Reader
1: What does God look like? Reader
7: He looks like me; wondering why, after thousands of
years of fighting, we can’t put the same fervor into creating a world where
all our children can live in peace and safety. Reader
1: What does God look like? (Everyone
holds up mirrors to the congregation/audience) All:
And God said, “Let us make humankind in our own image, in our image let them
be made, male and female let them be made.” And it was so! THE
END Deepening Faith: Youth Ministry Resources and Some Miscellaneous Advice Rev. Lizann Bassham, Front Porch Spirit Press Copyright © 2001
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