Object: Pilgrim's hat (can easily be cut out from black paper)

Lesson: Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.

Good morning, boys and girls. Have you ever sung the hymn "Faith of our Fathers"? (Or, This morning we sang together the hymn "Faith of our Fathers.")

Do you know who our fathers are? (Responses -- prior generations, grandparents, apostles, disciples, people who have lived before us, founders of our nation, and so forth.) Well, I'm thinking this morning of a particular group of people who came to America in a little ship.

Anybody want to have a guess? Yes, they were the Pilgrims! And who can tell me the name of their ship and where th…