dancing at passover

Last night we gathered with about 60 other messianic believers to celebrate with a passover seder meal. It was an absolutely enchanted evening from start to finish.


The church building where the meal was held had been elaborately prepared. The entrance foyer was decorated with draped cloth and arrangements of shofars, candles, tassels and other ornamental objects. The door way into the dining room was veiled with cloth with a blood stained lintel over the door.

My friend, Renalee, and me.

We greeted our friends as we waited for the shofars to blow announcing the start of the meal.

Jay and I...why didn't someone fix my hair!

We wore special in white clothing as part of the celebration.

We sat at beautifully arranged tables of eight and were privileged to be seated with this mother and daughter, Mormon neighbor's of one of our friends. They seemed to enjoy the meal and had lots of questions.


We followed a well written script through the traditional seder including the roasted bone, the horseradish, the charoset, the matzah, and the karpas along with the four cups of juice and the blessings in both Hebrew and English.



When it came time for the telling of the passover story we dipped our fingers in the juice 10 times for each of the judgments and chanted, "blood, blood, blood" and "frogs, frogs, frogs" as each plague was introduced in the story. To make the telling more interesting there were both audio and visual aids. Including frogs croaking, insects buzzing, and people weeping.

Jay collected "locus stickers" and put them on his hat.

The teens circulated the room with each new plague showering the tables with symbols of the plagues. Rice was thrown to remind of us the gnats. There were paper frogs and pipe cleaner flies, round stickers for boils and kosher marshmallows for hail. When the darkness came glow rings were passed out and when the locus arrived there were stickers to stick to our clothing.


After completing the pre-meal portion of the seder we feasted on a delicious meal including the cold asparagus salad....


and chocolate covered strawberries I had prepared.


After the meal and the final portion of the seder script the chairs and tables were pushed back to make room for celebratory dance and worship.

What a wonderful way to be able to remember Yah's goodness to his people throughout the ages.