For a year I had been watching the deep, insightful, funny skits at church, dreaming of being in one one day....I signed up to be in one....and I got an email that invited me to rehearsal!! The creative process was so engaging- the director insisted on our input, even made big decisions such as what props to use up to us!! We were bouncing ideas off each other...at the speed of a mile a minute..

Ths skit was about the chance to get to heaven, the contestant on the game show had to offer up her seat on the bus to me, a pregnant lady (lol)and I my answer was 'I may be pregnant but I'm not an INVALID.....you can keep your lousy seat!!!' The contestant ends up pushing me in the seat, and I exaggerated with my movements how hard she pushed me and got quite a laugh

Next the contestant has to buy a homeless person dinner..the homeless person refuses the $$...but she shoves it in her hands anyway..

The judges end up ruling in her favor, oddly, that she passed the first two contests....she gambles everything she has won thus far to proceed in a final challenge-- she must give away as much as she can to help others...she struggles with how will people know it's from her? Time is out...she has lost everything.....and the newest contestant is called into the gameshow..

Our church's skit is supposed to you leave you feeling uneasy and very ready to hear the pastor's message....that service is done from what's in your heart, not to 'get to heaven' that comes from what's in your heart..

Our church is so innovative, so nonjudgemental, so friendly!! I was shunned from so many churches on account of my eccentricity...only to be made the leader of different groups..and embraced...and loved at mine

I have a coming audition to make the Sunday morning announcements onstage-- another dream coming true..

It's funny how the RIGHT people behind an organization make all the difference to this previously shunned young woman, me...