![]() (Invite children to curl up in a ball and try to hide.)īut God sent a big storm and tossed that boat around so much that the other sailors thought they were going to drown. "Surely God won't find me here," Jonah thought. ![]() Jonah got on that ship and hid way down deep inside. He learned that you might run from God, but you cannot hide. Jonah learned a very important lesson that day. (Have kids pat their legs quickly to make a fast running sound.) He caught the first ship out of town and headed in the opposite direction from where God told him to go. So Jonah decided to run away and hide from God. He didn’t like the people in that city, and maybe he was afraid of them. (Invite the children to respond with a "NO!") One day, God said to Jonah, "Go to the city of Nineveh and tell the people who live there that they are a very wicked people and that they need to change their ways." Jonah did not want to go to Nineveh. Jonah was a prophet of God he would listen to God and tell the people what God said. ![]() Have any of you heard about a man named Jonah? (Let the children respond.) ![]()
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