Christian Comedian Kathy Frady combined humor with a serious message as she regaled over 50 interdenominational women attending the monthly Community Women's meeting at Bogalusa First Baptist Church.
Utilizing one of her many comical characters, in which she claims to be the granddaughter of Marilyn Monroe, her squeaky voice, blonde wig and clingy bright pink satin gown completely captivated her audience.
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In her innocent and dumb guise, she opened her Bible and amazingly discovered something for the first time - then asked the group if they knew "there are two parts to the Bible, the old part and the new part?"
She picked several women from the Bible to try to illustrate worthy women. From Second Samuel, she talked about Michal, King Saul's daughter who was David's wife, filled with scorn and hatred because her husband had danced before the Lord. Not finding any reason to prove her worthy, she said, "Let's go to another story" and promptly talked about Sapphira in the book of Acts, who was in "real estate" with her husband, Ananias. When she discovered Sapphira was a liar and not worthy, she moved on to Gomer's wife in the Old Testament, who was a prostitute and then to Salome, who danced before King Herod and had John beheaded.
After hilariously moving on to several more women, she finally concluded that she "must be in the wrong Bible" because she could find no worthy women.
"There's nothing good at all about women in the Bible," she said just before she "noticed" the ribbon hanging from her Bible and opened the Bible to First Timothy 5:10.
"We want to be women worthy before the Lord," she said, "And not a bunch of losers."
Tongue-in-cheek and frequently mispronouncing words, she commented on the traits of worthy women. On bringing up children, she said she was not old enough to be married, but she was sure she would be a wonderful mother. She brought much laughter as she pulled out baby things from a bag and speculated on how each item was used.
She commented on lodging strangers and being hospitable, that she would allow her guests to actually use her bathroom guest towels that nobody is allowed to use. She mentioned all the other ridiculous things she would do to make guests "comfortable."
She got to the part about "washing the saints' feet" and allowed that she would also give them a pedicure. For the "afflicted" she took that to mean helping people in trouble but commented that she didn't know any people in trouble.
So she hung large tags around the necks of three women in attendance, dubbing them poor, uneducated and with no friends. She gave the "poor" woman a credit card, the "uneducated" one a dictionary and the one needing "friends" a photo of herself.
She recapped the humorous presentation by telling the group to always look for stories in the Bible, to open their Bibles in the right place "with the ribbon" and although the scripture in Acts was written to Christian widows, it also applies to Christian women.
Then in a serious tone, she related that none are as worthy as they could be and that women could do all the things mentioned in this scripture if they first asked Jesus into their hearts.
Kathy Frady and her husband, John, of Celebration Church in New Orleans, contribute both drama sketches and devotions to "Let's Worship" a quarterly periodical for church worship leaders published by LifeWay Resources.
They have published a variety of drama sketches for worship with Plastow Publications and The National Drama Service.
The Contemporary Drama Service published a collection of drama sketches about biblical women created by Kathy Frady, "Chick Flicks."
She earned a Master of Education Degree, a Bachelor of Education Degree, and a Bachelor of Psychology degree from Ouachita Baptist University.
Dorothy Miller was emcee for the program, which began with a soup and salad luncheon.
Jackie Strange introduced the speaker, commenting on Frady's abilities and accomplishments.
The Community Women meet once a month, are announced in advanced and women from all denominations are invited to attend.
The meetings are from 12 to 1 p.m. and a $1 donation is asked for the salad luncheon, provided by the women of the church.
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