Maundy Thursday

For MRD tonight we decided that we wanted to do communion. We went to Save-On Foods and got some bread and grape juice (TWU is not down with the wine thing). I thought it would be cool to have a Maundy Thursday service, so when I got back to my room I looked up some liturgies and cut and pasted and kind of formed a liturgy for our service. I enjoyed doing that a lot. I think I would like to do that for a job, just design church services. I called Caleb up real quick and asked him if he could do these songs that would fit in well. We decided to do it in this little upper room (ooh, symbolism). It was so cool that we could sit in this little upper room together and kind of reenact the last supper that Jesus had with his disciples.
Well, no one from MRD really showed up. It was basically just the people that planned it. Everyone else went to this concert they were having on campus. I was a little bummed because I really wanted to share this experience with our group. I decided it was best to just go on with it and invite other people to come and join us. It could be a sort of outreach for us to campus. I went and tried to find some people and invite them while Boone went to try and get some people from the concert. Chris from my dorm said he would come (thanks a lot Chris), and I asked some more people in the Lower Caf. I even went out of my comfort zone and invited this girl that was just kind of standing around. Everyone I asked just seemed really confused about what we were doing. Anyways, it ended up that the only non-MRD people there were Chris and the night janitor, Clyde, who we have made friends with.
It turned out to be a pretty good-sized group for what we wanted to do. I will give you a little rundown of what we did. Started with a song and a welcome. Next was a prayer of confession was read, and then a time of individual confession and reading an assurance of forgiveness. After reading the story of Jesus washing his disciples feet, we went around the room washing each other's feet. This portrayed such an amazing idea of humility and service. We sang another song and read the about the Last supper. Then we took communion. With this we also went around the room, one person serving the other and saying the phrases, "The body of Christ broken for you, the blood of Christ shed for you."€ Then we sang another song and ended with a benediction.
I think it went over really well. Boone and Caleb did a great job of supplying music throughout the service. I really loved how we were doing the same service that people all around the world today and throughout history have done. There is much more of a feeling of the whole church body coming together even though we are separated by time and space.