Object: a bottle with today's verse printed on a paper, folded and placed in the bottle.

Good morning, boys and girls. If you were on a ship, and you wanted to send a message, could you put it in a bottle like this and put it in the water? (Let them respond.) You probably could. But it might take a long time for someone to find it. Your bottle could break on the rocks. Or it could wash up on shore on an island where no one lives. Or it could float around forever. How many of you have heard of the word prophet before? (Wait for show of hands.) Can someone tell me what a prophet is? (Choose someone to try.) A prophet is a person who gives us messages. But they're not just any old message. Prophets are people with very special messages. Do you know who sent the special messages? (Let them re…