Theme: Better to be awake and alert than apathetic and asleep

Characters:
Philippe (lazy)
Mother (concerned)
Father (disciplinarian)
Wolf
White Cross rescue workers

Tone: Cynical, instructive

Setting/Props: “Philippe” may be read with or without actors. The congregation may be invited to be a part of a children’s time as this play sets up the context for effective preaching in the sermon on the theme of being ready for the coming Messiah.

Suggested song: “Wake up, Sleeper, Arise,” by Handt Hanson, © Prince of Peace Publishing, licensed by CCLI

Approximate time: 5 minutes

There once was a lad
named Philippe (fil—leep)
who would only say,
“I’d rather sleep!”
Hear his story now my friend,
for an amazing moral
lies at the end.

Scene 1
One day
his mother said
when Philippe
fell out of be…