A great friend of mine gave me this idea for a skit about finding and reactivating our "lost sheep" in the YW program. (We are doing this along in our New Beginnings program, along with the "Light the Torch Within" theme.)

FINDING THE "LOST SHEEP" skit
For costumes:
Shepherd: Robe and blanket on head
Sheep: White shirt and khaki pants or white or gray sweat shirt and sweat pants turned inside out to look fuzzy
Floppy ears could be felt material cut out and pasted on yarn and tied around the head
Torch: Stick with flash light taped on the end or
Construction paper cut out like flames and taped on end

You could have a girl being a shepherd looking for one of her lost sheep at night so she is holding a TORCH. The other YW are the sheep and some of the sheep could be talking to the shepherd tempting her with reasons why she shouldn't look for or contact the lost/inactive sheep. For example they could say,
"She NEVER comes any way,"
"She goes out on the weekends and Parties,"
"She goes to another church now,"
"I don't know her very well, so I feel too weird to talk to her,"
"We are too busy to call her or go visit,"
"She doesn't like me,"

You know, whatever excuse you can come up with. (If you want you can have a few valiant sheep that are willing to help the shepherd search for the lost sheep.) Let the shepherd be determined and very focused in his goal of finding the sheep. The shepherd may find the sheep a few times, but the sheep isn't ready to come back to the fold. The lost sheep says things like, "I don't fit in. Nobody talks to me are even cares that I am there, etc." Finally after a third or forth approach, the lost sheep joins the fold, but when he joins the fold no one talks to her, so she leaves again. The shepherd now takes the whole flock (all could be holding a torch) to find her again and the flock now fellowships and becomes friends with the lost sheep and the sheep feels apart of the flock and is "reactivated."

You could have the girls recite a scripture at the end that talks about missionary work or bringing one lost sheep unto fold.

Have one girl explain moral of story which could go something like: Reactivation/Missionary work takes more than just wanting it to happen, it takes making it happen. Through determination perseverance and all working together did this one sheep finally feel apart of this flock. It takes everyone in the YW program working together to bring back a lost soul. We can reach out to any visitors or lost sheep by helping them feel loved and included by making the extra effort to be their friend and talking with them.

For refreshments you could serve "white food" to go with the white sheep and bring up purity, (Be pure in thought about your friends in YW, don't gossip or excluded anyone etc......)  White Cake and Icing, Popcorn Balls, Nuts, White Chocolate covered pretzels, Chips and dip, vanilla Ice cream floats, etc.

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