Object: Card stock printed with scripture reference and verse; Goldfish crackers or whale crackers (optional)

Do you know the story of Jonah? It’s the story of a man who swallowed a whale. (Pause — if the children agree, continue with the following.) I’m kidding! Jonah didn’t swallow a whale! The whale swallowed Jonah, but actually, the Bible doesn’t say it was a whale. It says that Jonah was swallowed by a great fish.

God asked Jonah to go to Nineveh and to tell the people there that they needed to quit sinning and start following God, but Jonah didn’t want to do it. So he got on a boat that sailed the opposite direction on the Mediterranean Sea. God knew where Jonah was, of course, and he sent a horrible storm. Everyone on board was afraid that the ship would sink. Jonah realized that …