Object: A piece of wood, several screws, a hammer and a screw driver.

Text: Yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to you - I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus.

Good morning, boys and girls. Today we are going to learn about one of God's great disciples, Paul. He was put into prison for teaching about Jesus in a part of the world that thought it was wrong to talk about your God, when the people had a different god. Prison is not a good place to be, but because Paul was a special sort of person, he was allowed to have someone stay with him and take care of him. They did not punish Paul in this prison the way that they had punished him in other places, but they also did not allow him to go free and preach about Jesus the way he wanted to.

Paul had a friend who …