world’s first bearded super hero
by D.O.
Having spent all of four weekends back here in College Station at my beloved church, Living Hope, this weekend the powers that be decided it was time to put me back in a skit. I’ve been in a handful of skits at the Hopester over the past few years, but only once have I played a super hero. This was super hero week.
I was “Trial Man”, the superhero who swoops in to your everyday situations to alert you that you’re currently in the midst of a trial. The kind of trials that James talks about in the 1st chapter of his best-selling book. How does Trial Man warn unsuspecting believers that a trial is coming, you ask? Well it’s not by words. I have to work my way up to the point of playing skit characters with lines. See the air horn in his right hand? That’s how he warns the masses.
A brief note on the costume: It’s pretty simple. All you need is the outfit you wore to church, a yellow shirt with a “T” on it, a pair of XL Sponge Bob boxer shorts, a red cape, and (this is important) a piece of poop slice of red fabric with two eye holes in it for the mask. It needs to fall apart more and more as you make your way through three services.
You’re probably thinking, man, D.O., that’s great. I’m glad to see you’re involved in the children’s ministry at your church, I bet those kids thought you were a riot. Well thanks for the encouragement, but no, this wasn’t a kid’s church skit character… Trial Man was for big church. This was the skit for the adults. Only at Living Hope…
[Edit 09.17.07: Photograph's background was necessarily changed from a skit closet to an American flag. Keep that in mind when reading comments. Thanks, odfm mgmt.]
Comments
Know what I love most about this picture?
The footprints poem behind you.
Classic.
That’s where Living Hope keeps the footprint poem…the one every church has to has…
It’s in the skit closet.
I’m going right now to add “keep footprint poem in the closet” to my list titled “Things I love about Living Hope.”
Heather
Heather, correction: It’s actually the Prayer of Jabez. Even better.
Man…and I wrote “foot prints poem” in pen on my list. I’ll have to start my list all over…because even though it’s a make believe list…I still can’t stomach scratch outs.
Heather
way to go DO(H)! (that kinds rhymed… cool!)
Don’t for one minute think that roles without lines are inferior to roles with lines. In some ways they are more challenging!
Two of my most memorable roles in LH skits were Don, for the K-DON skit (Didn’t say a word) and Lenny from numerous children events.
Roles without lines are serious fun man… and they are also rare… you, my friend, have done what only few have done before. You were on stage and said nothing… on purpose!
p.s. – I was really looking forward to my own link category, but instead you just took “(mostly hers)” off of the “theirs” category! man!!… ha!
priceless! i agree with bill-it was a role of the utmost importance! and i haven’t laughed that hard in awhile!
Bill, K-Don was greatness. I’ve not forgotten.
If you re-check people’s comment sections like Heather does, you’ll see my appreciation.
Also, this is the only time I’ve posted two comments on my own blog.
Jason and I laughed so hard upstairs when you swooped in with the air horn that they probably heard us downstairs. It was almost embarrassing the amount and volume of laughter I was doing in that small room.
This was a classic. I love our church.
Lyns
re-check people’s comment sections??
I know not of where you speak.