Sardis Baptist Church will hold its fourth annual Maundy Thursday Communion Supper on Thursday, April 18, 2019 at 6 p.m in the Sardis Meetinghouse, 5811 Sardis Road in Charlotte. Many churches participate in Tenebrae services on either Maundy Thursday or Good Friday — a somber liturgy that extinguishes candles, and moves from light to darkness to represent the betrayal, agony, and anxiety of Jesus’ last days in Jerusalem.  While we note the somber tone of Jesus’ last supper with his disciples, we also seek to remember it as a first supper.  This is, after all, the very first Communion.  And this is, after all, the very same table where we come to meet our Lord each time we offer Eucharist.  And even though Friday morning would be dark and dreary, all three Gospel accounts of Thursday evening tell us that Jesus and his disciples (both men and women!) left that place singing.

So join us at a table.  We’ll chime the hour at 6 p.m. We’ll share in a simple (but delicious) soup supper.  We’ll hear all three Gospel accounts of the meal in the upper room, as well as John’s telling of Jesus washing the feet of his disciples, and the Apostle Paul’s recollection in First Corinthians.  In between these readings, we’ll eat, and we’ll engage in conversations about how to make our table more open, more accessible, and more representative of the One we follow.  We’ll also share the bread and cup. Everyone at the table will serve and be served by their neighbors.  And the, like the first disciples, we’ll leave our supper in song.

We’ll need the joy of Thursday evening, and the nourishment of a table to steel us for Friday, and to remind us of what’s to come on Sunday morning.

All are welcome, especially children (and children at heart), guests, and anyone who’s curious or eager to find a new kind of Holy Week Experience