Incarnation among the Dustsheets

This modern pageant used the theme of a family’s move to introduce the Christmas story.

Preparation: minimal
Cast/Characters: 7 adults plus extra children

• Narrator
• Gabriella and Joe – sister and brother who recently moved to a new home
• Mother and Father – parents of Gabriella and Joe who are busy unpacking
• Mary and Ian – new friends who live next door to Gabriella and Joe
• Children – neighbourhood children who are curious about the moving van

Scenes: 1 (4pp)
Arrange a few moving boxes, a doll, and a few stuffed animals at the front of the worship space. Two children are sitting

Main Props: cardboard boxes, Christmas decorations, scarf/clothes, tools, dustsheets, doll, stuffed animals

Narrator: Gabriella and Joe are brother and sister who have recently moved to a new neighbourhood
with their parents. Gabriella and Joe are bemoaning the fact that soon it will be
Christmas and they are feeling unsettled. Imagine being in a new house and a new neighbourhood
with only a few days before Christmas…

Gabriella: This is going to be the worst Christmas ever.
Joe: Yeah. We can’t find any of our games in all this mess and we don’t have any friends to play
with.
Gabriella: (trying to sound hopeful) Our cousins are coming soon!
Joe: Maybe, but it doesn’t help us now.
Gabriella: Maybe Mother or Father can do something with us.
(Mother staggers across the scene carrying boxes mumbling about the amount of work, wondering where they are going to
put the cousins, where the decorations might be. She moves among the boxes, wondering what to unpack next.)
Mother: (indicating the two larger boxes in the room) Oh dear! I’ll sort those later (she exits).
Gabriella and Joe: (looking at each other) I doubt it!

Narrator: Poking around in the boxes, Joe and Gabriella wonder if they might contain something
interesting (children poke around the boxes, and stop at one).