Laborers Into His Harvest
© Frontier Creations, Inc.

by Karen Bennett

CAST: Keith, Kevin, and Carl
PROP: Place and secure a dowel across the back of Carl so his arms will be held up and out like a scarecrow.  Stuff hay into the shirt neck and arms and dress him like a scarecrow.
SCENE: Carl is onstage, held high like a scarecrow in a field, very quiet and still.   Keith and Kevin enter.

KEITH:    Where can Carl be, anyway?

KEVIN:     I don't see him, but his mom said he headed down to their vegetable garden this morning.

KEITH:    Peas, corn, and carrots, but no Carl.

KEVIN:    Garden hose, scarecrow, and garden tools, but no Carl.

KEITH:    Squash, beans, and tomatoes, but no Carl.

KEVIN:    Carl!  Carl!

CARL:    What?

KEITH:    Aughh!  (KEITH AND KEVIN GRAB EACH OTHER IN FRIGHT)

KEVIN:    Don't do that!

KEITH:    I think my heart stopped. (HOLDS CHEST)

KEVIN:    What are you doing up there, anyway?

CARL:    Just what it looks like, I am being a scarecrow!

KEITH:    It looks like you are being miserable.

KEVIN:    Yeah, doesn't that straw itch?  Especially as hot as it is!

KEITH:    Don't tell me you'd rather stand around in a corn patch than play ball or watch T.V. ...

KEVIN:    (INTERRUPTING) Or go to town with us?

CARL:    Well, this isn't glamorous, but we all need to do what we can.   I'm not going to be a lukewarm Christian!  Even if it's difficult, I'm going to take a stand for Christ!

KEVIN:    You have taken a stand alright!

KEITH:    I think you have been standing in the sun too long!

KEVIN:    Yeah, you'd better let us help you down and get you inside.

KEITH:    Where you can take a long rest.  (SHAKES HEAD)  Poor Carl...     (KEVIN AND KEITH  START TO HELP CARL DOWN)

CARL:    Wait a minute!  Didn't you guys hear the pastor last Sunday?

KEVIN:    Sure we heard him.  We were all sitting there together, you know!

KEITH:    What does that have to do with you out here getting a heat stroke?

CARL:    I am out here as a "laborer into the harvest."   You know, like the pastor said!

KEITH:    What?

CARL:    (TRYING TO EXPLAIN)  It tells all about it in Luke 10:2, "The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few:  pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He would send forth Laborers into His harvest."

KEITH:    Yeah?

CARL:    Well, I can't work much in the garden yet, but everybody can do something.

KEVIN:    Carl, that's not what the Bible is talking about.

KEITH:    (TO CARL) Yeah!  (TO KEVIN) It isn't?

KEVIN:    The laborers are people that will share Jesus with others.

KEITH:    And the harvest that is great?

KEVIN:    That's the people who don't know Jesus.  There are many of them who want to hear the good news of God's love.

CARL:    And that's where the laborers come in?

KEVIN:    Right!  We work in the harvest by telling others about Jesus.

KEITH:    That does sound better than standing around in a corn patch!

CARL:    I'm ready!

KEVIN:    To be a real laborer for Jesus?

CARL:    And to get out of this outfit!  Help me down, will ya?   This hay is making me itch all over!  Let's go.  (CARL FINISHES TALKING WHILE THE BOYS HELP HIM DOWN. ALL EXIT)

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