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WELCOME TO WORSHIP | MAUNDY THURSDAY | april 17, 2025

MUSIC FOR GATHERING
What Wondrous Love is This | arr. Sarah Douglas
Chuck Stanley, organ

WELCOME | Pastor Monique McBride

* CALL TO WORSHIP | Pastor Peytyn Tobin

Tonight, is a night for tables with room for everyone
Old stories full of liberation and hope, and traditions that span not only time, but faith.
Tonight’s story goes back to the journey of Moses and the Israelites seeking freedom from captivity.
It takes a detour with Jesus and his friends in the Upper Room.
It travels to today where two roads converge in tradition, food, resilience, solidarity, and hope.
As we recall the rich symbolism of the seder meal and dig deeper into what Jesus was doing that sacred night, may we find our place in the story and make room at the table for others.
Amen.

* OPENING HYMN
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross | The United Methodist Hymnal No. 298 (verse 1,2,3,4)
When I survey the wondrous cross
on which the Prince of Glory died;
my richest gain I count but loss,
and pour contempt on all my pride.

Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast,
save in the death of Christ, my God;
all the vain things that charm me most,
I sacrifice them to his blood.

See, from his head, his hands, his feet,
sorrow and love flow mingled down.
Did e'er such love and sorrow meet,
or thorns compose so rich a crown.

Were the whole realm of nature mine,
that were an offering far too small;
love so amazing, so divine,
demands my soul, my life, my all.

Isaac Watts & Lowell Mason | © words and music: public domain | CCLI License # 487103

SCRIPTURE

Exodus 12:14-20 | Common English Bible | Pastor Doug Johns
“This day will be a day of remembering for you. You will observe it as a festival to the Lord. You will observe it in every generation as a regulation for all time. You will eat unleavened bread for seven days. On the first day you must remove yeast from your houses because anyone who eats leavened bread any time during those seven days will be cut off from Israel. The first day and the seventh day will be a holy occasion for you. No work at all should be done on those days, except for preparing the food that everyone is going to eat. That is the only work you may do. You should observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because on this precise day I brought you out of the land of Egypt in military formation. You should observe this day in every generation as a regulation for all time. In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day, you should eat unleavened bread. For seven days no yeast should be found in your houses because whoever eats leavened bread will be cut off from the Israelite community, whether the person is an immigrant or a native of the land. You should not eat anything made with yeast in all your settlements. You should eat only unleavened bread.”

Luke 22:1-20 | Common English Bible | Pastor Cathy Johns
The Festival of Unleavened Bread, which is called Passover, was approaching. The chief priests and the legal experts were looking for a way to kill Jesus, because they were afraid of the people. Then Satan entered Judas, called Iscariot, who was one of the Twelve. He went out and discussed with the chief priests and the officers of the temple guard how he could hand Jesus over to them. They were delighted and arranged payment for him. He agreed and began looking for an opportunity to hand Jesus over to them—a time when the crowds would be absent.

The Day of Unleavened Bread arrived, when the Passover had to be sacrificed. Jesus sent Peter and John with this task: “Go and prepare for us to eat the Passover meal.”

They said to him, “Where do you want us to prepare it?”

Jesus replied, “When you go into the city, a man carrying a water jar will meet you. Follow him to the house he enters. Say to the owner of the house, ‘The teacher says to you, “Where is the guestroom where I can eat the Passover meal with my disciples?” ’He will show you a large upstairs room, already furnished. Make preparations there.” They went and found everything just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover meal.

When the time came, Jesus took his place at the table, and the apostles joined him. He said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer. I tell you, I won’t eat it until it is fulfilled in God’s kingdom.” After taking a cup and giving thanks, he said, “Take this and share it among yourselves. I tell you that from now on I won’t drink from the fruit of the vine until God’s kingdom has come.” After taking the bread and giving thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way, he took the cup after the meal and said, “This cup is the new covenant by my blood, which is poured out for you.

These are the words of God for the people of God. Thanks be to God.

OFFERING
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Connect cards may also be placed with your offering. Christ Church is a congregationally supported ministry. We thank you for your faithfulness as we reflect the love, hope and joy of Jesus to our community.

MUSIC MINISTRY
Wash Their Feet | Pepper Choplin
Chancel Choir

There one night in the upper room, he laid aside his robe. He wrapped a towel around his waist like a servant’s clothes. Then my master, Lord and King, kneeled to do this amazing thing, he washed their feet, he got down on his knees and washed their feet. Why would my master, Lord and King, come to do this amazing thing? He washed their feet. “As I come to wash your feet to make you pure and clean, go out now and touch the world, do what you have seen. Hear my call and live it true, do for them what I do for you. Go, wash their feet. Be a servant, humble and meet, wash their feet. Hear my call and live it true, do for them what I do for you. Wash their feet.” When the Lord left heaven to come down, he laid aside his glory and his crown. He did not cling to power or follow after fame. Still all heaven sings the glory of his name. There one night in the upper room, he laid aside his robe.

PRAYER

INVITATION TO THE PASSOVER SEDER | Pastor Monique McBride

Please make your way to the gym and find a seat at a dining table.

LIGHTING OF THE CANDLES
We are thankful for these festival lights and for coming together to celebrate Passover. May these candles remind us that we must help and not hurt, cause joy and not sorrow, create and not destroy, and help all to be free. Amen.

THE SEDER ELEMENTS

KIDDUSH | The First Cup: Our Dreams of Freedom
Tonight, we tell the story of how God’s people were enslaved and oppressed in Egypt thousands of years ago. Yet, we should not forget that there are still many people today who are victims of oppression. Oppression from slavery, racism, discrimination, ignorance, greed, hatred, selfishness, and even pollution of our environment. We can also be in slavery to fear, to anxiety, and to apathy. As we drink the first cup, let us imagine a world in which we are all free from suffering and slavery in all its forms.

KARPAS | Eating Greens
Tonight, we stop to honor our tears and the broken places in our lives. Tonight, we tell ancient stories of struggle and sacrifice which birthed new life. May these stories give us hope and courage that new life will come to us and to all who shed tears.

YACHATZ | Dividing the Middle Matzah
Tonight, we lift up the bread of affliction to you without eating it. In doing so, we remember all who go without bread tonight.

MANISHTANA | The Four Questions

THE MAGGID | The Story of Passover

SONG
Go Down, Moses | arr. Harry T. Burleigh
Michael Marks, Keith Parent, tenors

TEN PLAGUES PRAYER
These plagues are in the past. As we know all too well, today’s world holds plagues as well. Let us also lift up modern plagues and the many sicknesses that infect us both physically and spiritually.

DAYENU | It Would Have Been Enough for Us
(refrain) Dai dayenu, Oh, Dai, Dayenu, Oh, Dai, Dayenu,
Dayenu, Dayenu

MIRIAM’S CUP
Tonight, we honor the women who teach us compassion, courage, and strength. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them.

THE SECOND CUP | Our Struggle Against Oppression
Tonight, we sit in solidarity with the oppressed. If we see oppression around us, may we seek the courage of Moses to stand up and fight against it. May we live lives of compassion and awareness to the oppression of others in all forms.

THE ELEMENTS OF HARDSHIP | Matza, Maror, & Charoset
Tonight, we eat the matza and the maror with charoset, the sweet mixture of apples which reminds us of the mortar used by the Jews to make bricks while enslaved. We eat the matza of freedom and the maror and charoset of slavery together as a sandwich, remembering that when people are not free, there is always hope for freedom.

THE ORANGE | The Modern Element of Inclusion
Tonight, we recognize that justice and freedom are still not available for all people because of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, or other forms of oppression. Tonight, we share the fruit of the orange, recognizing the blessedness and connection of all people. Passover teaches us that no one is free until all who are oppressed are free. Let us pray together that soon all people will be able to shed their thick skins that protect them, expose their vulnerabilities, and delight in each other with appreciation instead of fear.

THE AFIKOMEN | The Dessert Matza

THE THIRD CUP | Our Responsibility to Justice
Tonight, we remember that freedom from suffering is something we are all striving for, and how we live our lives can bring change to this world.

ELIJAH’S CUP
Tonight, we pray for redemption and freedom for all. With this extra cup, we honor all the people who have lost their lives in the struggle for freedom. We think about those who continue today to struggle for freedom. We send our prayers of compassion to people everywhere and hope that this seder will inspire us to take action to help them in the coming year.

SONG
Alleluia

THE FOURTH CUP | Our Commitment to Peace
With the completion of the seder, we renew our commitment to peace and harmony, we remember that when others are oppressed it is as if it is happening to us.

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