I Know You© God is sovereign Key Concept:
God is all knowing, He knows all about me and I can trust Him for what is best for me.
Bible Verse: You are familiar with all my ways. Psalm 139:3 Know what: Children will hear that God knows all everything them because He made them. God knew David and planned for David to be king. So What:
Children will learn that God knows everything about them. Children will do an activity to help them believe that God knows what is best for them, and that they can trust Him.
Spiritual Formation: Trust Keywords:
knowledge trust familiarity
Cast:
4 actors, any age or sex
Set, sound, lighting, costumes:
standard
Script: Scene opens as Helen comes into a bicycle store. Frankie:
Hello, can I help you?
Helen:
Actually, no, I am just looking.
Frankie:
Wait a minute, don’t I know you?
Helen:
I really don’t think so, sorry, I’m from out of town.
Frankie:
Wait, but are you sure? I am positive I know you. I know, BMX crosscountry derby, right? You were the one in the fluorescent pink coveralls! I knew it! I never forget a face.
Helen:
Then my guess is this is the exception to the rule.
Frankie:
You are saying that it wasn’t you who jumped the burning cars on your red Z99 BMX Low-Rider?
Helen:
Uhhh, nope!
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Frankie:
Strange, could have swore that was you! So then, what trick did you perform on your red Z99 BMX Low-Rider?
Helen:
None, I . . . .
Frankie:
I remember now! You wiped out on the first jump, never did get to do your tricks. I coulda cried for you, was hoping to see you do the . . .
Helen:
Hey, this is getting frustrating! For the last time, I am not a BMX person, whatever that may be! And just what is BMX anyway?
Frankie:
BMX? You know . . . . bikes . . . . jumping hurdles . . . . . racing . . .the thrill of it all!
Helen:
Tell me, do I look like a BMX racer?
Frankie:
Now that you mention it, you do look just a little out of shape, how long since you last raced?
Helen:
This is getting too much! Now, listen to me . . .
Bobbie comes on stage Bobbie:
Hey Frankie, how’s things today? Who’s your friend?
Frankie:
You remember her/him, used to race on the circuit, been away for a while, but can’t you still remember him/her flyin’ through the air, takin’ all the corners mile a minute . . . .
Bobbie:
Now I remember, you rode a jet black KRTL MonoRail Junkee bike! Wow, only time I ever saw one of those babies was when you rode that the BMX nationals at Lexington with the . . . .
Frankie:
You’ve got it all wrong, Bobbie, Helen here rode a red Z99 BMX LowRider, and the nationals that year were in . . . . .
Helen:
Will both of you please give it a rest, I am not a BMX racer . . . .
Bobbie:
Was a serious back injury made you give it up, am I right?
Frankie:
Serious, yes, but as I recall it was a busted leg, correct me if I am wrong.
Helen:
You are both wrong! My name is Helen Peters, and I . . .
Frankie:
Not THE Helen Peters, winner of the 1999 All-Around BMX rider of the century . . . .
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Bobbie:
Only person ever to win six consecutive BMX Gold Seal Racer of the Year Awards! Wow, can I shake your hand, you have no idea what an overwhelming honor it is just to . . . .
Frankie:
Well, I gotta tell you, what sticks in my mind when I think of your illustrious career is the way you so gallantly allowed little Beaver Ben Mosley to win his hometown “Sticky Struddle” Runoff race when you were a shoo-in to take the title but you knew that . . . . .
Helen:
Enough already! You guys don’t know anything about me, I have never been a BMX . . . . (pauses, thinks), the “Sticky Struddle” Runoff . . . .
Bobbie:
Yeh, you remember, when the Bartsville Diner and Car Wash sponsored the BMX championships in . . . .
Frankie:
Think you are mistaken, Bobbie, believe it was the Eighth Street Cafeteria and Sandblasting group who were the sponsor, but no biggie, I can still see the tears in little Beaver Ben Mosley’s eyes when . . . .
Helen:
I can’t quite believe I am asking this but, why were there tears in little Billy Ben Mosley’s . . . .
Frankie:
. . . . Beaver Ben Mosley’s . . .
Helen:
WHATEVER!
Frankie:
Sorry, who am I to be correcting the one and only winner of the Potato Peel Push-Drag-or-Pilot All-American?
Helen:
OK, that’s enough, not another word, let’s get something straight right now . . .
Bobbie:
We are all ears, Champ, you just tell us what’s on your mind!
Frankie:
Did I happen to mention what an honor it is to just . .
Helen:
I said, HUSH!
Bobbie:
Not gonna hear another peep outta this kid, I’m gonna tell ya I’m just so flat out . . .
Helen:
I said, QUIET! Now, then! I am not now, nor have I ever at anytime in the past, nor will I ever, at any future date, been, or intended to become a BMX racer! Do I make myself abundantly clear on that point?
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Frankie:
Look Champ, whatever you say is cool with me, I mean, I’m on your team, right from the opening gun, I tell you, I’m . . . .
Helen:
I do not believe this! What gives with you two!
Bobbie:
We are just so full of admiration and appreciation for all you have done in your illustrious career that . . .
Terry comes on stage Terry:
Hey Helen, what’s all the screaming? I heard you clear across the street, inside Hannibal’s Grocery Store! What’s going on anyhow?
Helen:
It’s these two! They have some silly notion that I’m some BMX racer! And no matter what I say, they still won’t believe me!
Bobbie:
Look, Helen Peters, you wanna travel incognito, don’t let anyone know you’re in the territory, me ‘n Frankie here can play along, your secret’s safe with us two, you just better believe it is what!
Frankie:
Look, for the great world renowned Helen “Hipcat” Peters, why we do like you say, Mum’s the word I always say!
Terry:
Look, Hipcat, I really think you’ve gotta draw Frankie and Bobbie here into the plot, these guys are on the up and up, they can be trusted, can’t you boys?
Helen:
OK, has the whole world gone mad? Me, Hipcat? And you, Terry, of all people, how could you . . . . .
Terry winks at Helen, gestures with hands for Helen to play along Terry:
No, it’s like I say, Hipcat, let’s let the boys here give you a leg up for the day.
Helen starts to get the message, plays along, trying to keep from laughing Helen:
Well, if you think so, Terry, I mean, I sure wouldn’t want my secret getting out . . . .
Terry:
Guys, are you sure you can be trusted?
Frankie:
Silly question, not nothin’ I wouldn’t do for Hipcat here . . .
Bobbie:
Same! Right on same! You ask, it’s done, is all I say!
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Terry:
Well, it’s a very big job, what Hipcat needs you to do is for you to go over to the library and get all the BMX magazines you can find, look up every race Hipcat ever did race.
Frankie:
We can do that, why I figure I can likely rattle those off by memory, likely don’t even need to go to the library for that, why we can . . .
Terry:
No, see you don’t understand . . . we need to have you examine all Hipcat’s pictures and compare them to this picture I took of Hipcat here last night.
Bobbie:
We can do that, we can do that!
Terry:
OK, well, better get at it. And when you get finished I want you to go over to the newspaper office, tell Ned Powers, the Sports editor, how Hipcat is right here in our town, and show him the pictures, just to prove it to Ned.
Bobbie:
We’re on our way, we’re gone. Come on Frankie, can you just imagine what our friends will say when we tell them how we have been talkin’ with the one and only Hipcat, right under their noses, and . . .
Frankie and Bobbie leave the stage Helen:
That was cruel, you know it!
Terry:
Not really, by the time they compare the pictures of Hipcat to you my guess is they will notice that the real Hipcat is (opposite sex to Helen), (opposite height to Helen), ( opposite hair color to Helen). No, I think they will realize they were wrong.
Helen:
You know, it was really weird, those guys thought they knew me but really they knew nothing about me, nothing at all!
Terry:
Strange how that sometimes happens, isn’t it? People think they know you, but really no one knows you, other than you yourself.
Helen:
Well, actually, that isn’t entirely true, there is someone who knows everything about us.
Terry:
Don’t tell me. Bobbie, right? Frankie maybe?
Helen, laughs: No, neither of them. But God knows absolutely everything about us. Terry:
Everything? How could God know everything?
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Helen:
Well, first of all, God made each one of us, so He has been around us right from the very beginning. And He watches over each one of us, because He does want to protect us, see He wants what is best for each one of us.
Terry:
You know, that really is a big comfort, knowing that God is so familiar with us.
Helen:
Like it says in the Bible, “You are familiar with all my ways”.
Terry:
Wow, someone sure does know all about us, doesn’t He?
Helen:
Yes, God does. But speaking of someone knowing all about us, Frankie and Bobbie should have discovered their mistake by now. What say we run over to the library and apologize for playing this joke on them?
Terry:
Probably you are right. That way they will learn something about us, that even though we like to have fun, we also want to have them as friends.
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