Incredible Race Promo Skit
WEEK 1

Props: Racing medals and trophies (real or fake)
Costumes: Person 1 wearing workout clothes and a sweat band. Person 2 is in normal clothes.
(Person 1 is on stage wearing their workout clothes and medals, performing stretches)
Person 2: What are you doing? And why are you dressed like that?
Person 1: I’m getting ready for the race! 
Person 2: Oh! I didn’t know you competed in marathons!
Person 1: Huh? I’m not running a marathon. 
Person 2: Then why are you dressed like you are running a marathon?
Person 1: I’m getting ready for The Incredible Race. You know the one our church is putting on. (Give time and date of VBS)
Person 2: The Incredible Race isn’t a marathon race. It’s Vacation Bible School! Each day the kids will be racing to another continent to learn about God’s love for the nations and about how we’re all part of the same family!
Person 1: So we don’t have to run an actual race?
Person 2: No! 
Person 1: Oh, thank goodness! A whole week (change to state the length of time of your VBS) of running sounded exhausting! But I can’t wait to learn about how we’re all part of the same family!
Person 2: Me too! And no racing gear required!
(Both exit stage)

Incredible Race Promo Skit: Volunteer Recruitment
WEEK 2

Props: clipboard or paper
Costumes: VBS T-Shirts (optional)
(Person 1 walks onstage reading their clipboard/paper, visibly excited. Person 2 walks on and notices.)
Person 2: You sure look excited! Good letter?
Person 1: Oh, hey! I just found out that I get to serve in the fourth and fifth grade room at VBS this year! I’m so excited!
Person 2: You GET to serve? Don’t you mean you HAVE to serve? 
Person 1: No! I don’t feel that way at all. To me, I feel so blessed that I GET to serve. 
Person 2:  What do you mean by that?
Person 1: We do so much more than pass out snacks and walk kids to recreation at VBS. By loving on them, we have the opportunity to impact a child for all eternity! I think it’s amazing that I GET to be a part of it!
(Share a personal testimony from a VBS worker at your church if desired).
Person 2: I’ve never thought of it that way! We GET to be a part of something big!
Person 1: It’s an amazing opportunity!
Person 2: You know, I bet if people knew that they get a chance to impact a child’s life for all eternity, they would want to sign up. 
Person 1: I sure hope so! All they need to do is (briefly explain how a person can sign up to volunteer for VBS). 
Person 2: I’m going to go see how many people I can tell that I GET to work at VBS this year! Now I’m so excited!
 (Both exit stage)

Incredible Race Promo Skit
WEEK 3

Props: Large world map
Costumes: VBS T-Shirts
(Person 2 is on stage trying to figure out the map. Person 1 walks on stage.)
Person 1: What’s with the map? Are you planning a trip?
Person 2: No. I was just trying to figure out the best way to get children from all over the world to our VBS.
Person 1: From all over the world?!?
Person 2: Yeah! In just (correct number of weeks until VBS) weeks, the children will be learning about God’s love and how they can become part of God’s family! I don’t want a single child to miss out!
Person 1: I think it might be a little hard for children all over the world to come to our VBS, but I have been praying that God will send more and more kids from our community to VBS this year where they will discover all about God’s love for the nations through Jesus!
Person 2: Are you sure we can’t figure out a way to get all of the children from all over the world here? 
Person 1: Yes, I’m sure. I do know that God is already preparing the hearts of the children that he will be sending, though! 
Person 2: That’s a great idea! To pray for God to send the children, and to prepare their hearts for the lessons they will learn! 
Person 1: And we can be praying about who we can specifically invite!
Person 2: Two people praying is better than one. But more people would be even better. 
Person 1: That’s why we need to ask people at church to join us in praying for all the children that God will be sending to VBS!
Person 2: Please pray with us that God will send the children and that he will begin preparing their hearts to learn! Who should we ask first?
(Both exit stage, excitedly)

Incredible Race Promo Skit
WEEK 4

Props: Large water bottle with label “VBS Fuel”
Costumes: VBS T-Shirt, workout sweatband
(Person 1 is stretching on stage, and taking drinks of her “VBS Fuel” as Person 2 walks on stage.)

Person 2: Why are you sitting here stretching?
Person 1: I’m getting ready for VBS! I’ve even got some VBS Fuel to keep my energy up for the first day tomorrow. 
Person 2: Umm, NAME, tomorrow’s not the first day of VBS.
Person 1: What?!
Person 2: No. VBS starts next week at (time). 
Person 1: Ah, man! And I was all stretched out and everything!
Person 2: Stretched out? You know VBS isn’t an actual race, right? The kids are “racing” around the world, learning about God’s love for the nations!
Person 1: Oh, I know that! The kids will start their race through the book of Genesis, learning about the beginning of the human race, the only race, and along the way they will discover about the love that God pours out for every tribe, tongue, and nation through his Son, Jesus Christ! I guess I was just so excited, wishing it was already here!
Person 2: I’m super excited too! But that still doesn’t explain the stretching.  
Person 1: Oh! I just wanted to make sure I wouldn’t injure myself trying to keep up with those song motion moves! 
Person 2: Well you’ve got a whole ‘nother week to keep practicing since VBS starts (start time of VBS). (Give any additional VBS information if needed).
Person 1: That gives me time to fill up on more “VBS Fuel” too. 
Person 2: What’s in there anyway? Protein shake?
Person 1: No. It’s a triple espresso. Those song motions are fast!  (Both walk off stage laughing). 
 (Exit stage)

Incredible Race Promo Skit
WEEK 5 – After VBS

Props: streamers
Costumes: VBS T-Shirt
(Person 1 is walking on stage, pulling down remaining streamer decorations as Person 2 walks up.)
Person 2: Taking down the final decorations, huh?
Person 1: (Sadly). Yeah. VBS is officially over. I’m so sad. I don’t think I can wait a whole year until it comes back!
Person 2: But just think of the (number of kids attended) kids we shared the gospel with. The (amount raised for mission offering) we raised for missions. And how we all discovered Jesus’s love for all the nations! We are all part of the same family, the same human race, and we all need the same savior, Jesus!
Person 1: It was pretty amazing! But it’s over!! 
Person 2: It might be over, but there are still lots of people we need to thank. 
Person 1: That’s true. We want to thank the wonderful workers who prepped snacks and helped with games.
Person 2: Thank you to the craft workers, classroom helpers and all our amazing teachers.
Person 1: And don’t forget our awesome VBS director, and all the work he/she put in.
Person 2: It took so many people, all working together to make this a great VBS!
Person 1: You are right! We have so many people we can thank for making it possible. In fact, if you helped with VBS this year in any way, please stand so we can thank you. 
Person 2: Above all, we want to thank our Lord and Savior for making this VBS such a great week!
Person 1: Well, it looks like you got all of the decorations down. 
Person 2: Yeah. This year’s VBS is over. (Starts to exit) 
Person 1: (As you exit) You know, I did see a VBS catalog for next year….
Exit

Incredible Race Promo Skit
VBS Family Ceremony

Props: Foreign language-to-English translation book
Costumes: VBS T-Shirt
(Person 1 is on stage trying to learn a language as Person 2 walks up.)
Person 1: Yow!
Person 2: Huh?
Person 1: That means hello! I’m trying to learn a new language. 
Person 2: That’s cool. Any particular reason?
Person 1: So, I can share God’s love to every tribe, tongue, and nation, just like we learned about in VBS! 
Person 2: Wasn’t it cool to learn how God made one human race from Adam and Eve? 
Person 1: Then Adam and Eve disobeyed God’s command about that tree. They sinned. And from that time, every person who has been born has been born as a sinner. We each choose to disobey God’s commands. And God said the punishment for sin is death. We will be eternally separated from God’s goodness forever. That’s sad.
Person 2: We saw, as time passed, that at the tower of Babel, the people sinned again. God had told Noah and his family to spread out and fill the earth after the great flood. But Noah’s children and grandchildren stayed together and built a city and a tower to make a name for themselves.
Person 1: God put a roadblock there. He gave the various families at the tower of Babel different languages and caused them to scatter around the world. 
Person 2: The beautiful variety of people groups that we find today have come from those families at Babel. Each family that left Babel settled in a different area and developed their own cultures and languages. And people continued to move over the earth. We also learned that no matter where we live, we all have the same skin coloring pigment: brown. When our skin produces more melanin, we have a darker shade of brown. When our skin produces less melanin, we have a lighter shade of brown skin. And there are so many lovely shades of brown in between.  
Person 1: I think the best thing we learned this week, though, is that God’s love is for ALL people!
Person 2: Isn’t it amazing! Jesus came to call people from every tribe and nation to himself. But each person must choose to become a child of God! Jesus came to earth, lived a sinless life, but died on the cross. Not because he was a sinner, but so that he could take the punishment for our sin. Then he rose on the third day to show that God had accepted his sacrifice! We can become a child of God when we repent of our sins and trust in Jesus Christ alone for eternal life. 
Person 1: And because God loves all nations, we also need to show love to our neighbors near and far by treating them with love and respect, not prejudice and judgment. 
Person 2: Wow! We learned so much in just one week! I can see why you’re excited to share God’s love with every tribe, tongue, and nation!
Person 1: It might take a while before I can tell other nations, though. There’s a lot of new words to learn!
  (Exit stage)