2006 COMMUNITY PASSOVER SEDER

"...for Messiah, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
Therefore let us celebrate the Feast..." (1 Corinthians 5:7-8)

Friday, April 14th, 2006
Woodland Hills Grand Ballroom, Cordova, TN

Our 2006 Community Seder was a huge success, with nearly 400 in attendance, a delicious meal served, testimonies of God's deliverance, teaching from the Haggadah, beautiful music, dancing, and fellowship. Over $8000 was raised to support ministry among Israelis, Ukrainian Jews, Russian orphans, children in Belarus, and the sick in West Africa.

COMMENTS FROM OUR GUESTS
"A wonderful evening. I wish my entire family had been here"
"[My home church] needs a good dose of your joy"
"I really loved being here tonight. Thank you!"
"Thanks for all your hard work...A blessed event!"
"Absolutely wonderful! I learned so much!"
"I have never experienced something like this...A great experience!"
"Thank you for restoring [the Jewish heritage] to God's adopted children"
"An extra special worship experience for all of us"
"An inspirational evening"
"Food and program was excellent"

One woman who attended was kind enough to forward us a copy of an email she sent her friends. With her permission we've included an excerpt below:

"Last night several friends and I attended a Passover Seder sponsored by a Messianic Jewish congregation. I loved all of it - the Seder plate, the cups, the reading of the Torah, the prayers, the stories - but it left an aching hollow inside me. Not an empty hollow, but one filled with the beautiful, haunting music, the dancers, the tradition, the connection with ancient Jewish history, the sense of watching the intimate love of a community. Like having a new place carved out in my soul.

Most lovely of all were the dancers, especially the young teenage
girls and the very old women. The way the older women welcomed the
young girls into the dance was mesmerizing and heartbreakingly
beautiful: widening the circle to make room for them, catching them up into the rhythm of their timeless joy and sorrow, accepting their youth with respect and expectation, handing down to them a precious past, trusting them as women in their own right now to carry it on. The girls followed the movements of the older women in the circle, arms and hands moving gracefully, echoing the rich heritage, the eternal beauty, of dancing before Adonai."

To all of our guests, thank you for joining with us for Passover 5766 and for sharing your comments. L'shana HaBa'a Birushalyim! [May it be] next year in Jerusalem!

A few scenes from the evening

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