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📣 2ND PASSOVER ANNOUNCEMENT
SEDER IN THE BARN — MAY 11TH AT 2 P.M. EASTERN TIME
We invite you to join us for a special Second Passover Seder
This is a beautiful opportunity for anyone who was unable to partake in the first Passover to still honor the Lord's appointed time, as outlined in Numbers 9:10–11.
🕑 Date & Time: Saturday, May 11th at 2:00 P.M. EST
📍 Location: In the Barn
🍽️ SEDER SETTING & INGREDIENTS:
Please prepare and bring all necessary ingredients for your personal Seder plate, including:
· • Unleavened Bread (Matzah)
· • Bitter Herbs
· • Lamb (or appropriate symbolic meat)
· • Charoset (fruit/nut mixture)
· • Parsley
· • Salt Water
· • Egg
✨ All ingredients must be turned in upon arrival for a unified, sacred setting.
Let’s honor the Lord together with reverence, order, and joyful remembrance of His deliverance.
We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to Angela Stallings, one of our faithful church members, for her beautiful contribution to our Passover celebration. Angela lovingly created a homemade Seder set that added a meaningful and personal touch to our gathering.
Your creativity, time, and dedication truly blessed us, Angela. Thank you for being a part of this special celebration and for using your gifts to glorify God and serve the body of Christ!
— We Are Jesus Doers Ministry
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The seder dinner is structured around the seder plate which contains six foods to illustrate the story of Passover.
You also need Matzo at the table (3 pieces, stacked and separated by napkins) and a dish of salt water.
The seder ritual contains 15 steps which includes blessings, washings, questions, and answers. And participants are required to drink 4 cups of wine during the seder (men and women alike).
FIRST CUP AND KIDDUSH (“SANCTIFICATION”)
SEDER
Before the Seder began, traditionally a woman lit special candles to mark the commencement of this sacred time. Immediately after this, the head of the table raised the first cup of wine, the cup of sanctification—and blessed it.
LORD’S SUPPER
According to Luke 22:17–18, “‘After taking the cup, he gave thanks and said, “Take this and divide it among you. For I tell you I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”
THE FIRST WASHING OF THE HANDS AND THE BITTER HERBS
SEDER
As everyone got ready to partake of the Passover meal, the leader of the Passover washed his hands. Then a plate with salted water was passed around into which everyone dipped a piece of lettuce or parsley (karpas). The salt was a reminder of the tears the Israelites shed during their bondage in Egypt. The green herb was a reminder of a new beginning.
LORD’S SUPPER
Jesus went further than the traditional hand washing and taught his disciples humility by washing their feet (John 13:1–17). During the remembrance of the Israelites’ tears, Judas’ betrayal was likely also a bitter experience for Jesus (Mark 14:20).
THE AFIKOMEN
SEDER
The leader took three matzo breads and placed them in a special bag with three compartments. The middle matzah was broken and one piece placed back in the matzo bag. The other piece was hidden under a pillow and was called Afikomen.
LORD’S SUPPER
Although the practice of the Afikomen goes back to antiquity, it is quite possible that it originated after the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in AD 70. In other words, it probably was not practiced in Jesus’ time.
Easy Homemade Matza
Ingredients:
Instructions:
The entire process from mixing to baking must be completed within 18 minutes
Counting the Omer – the 49 days (7 weeks) from Firstfruits (Omer HaReishit) to the Feast of Weeks (Shavuot / Pentecost).
Shavuot / Pentecost is observed on the 50th day, at the end of counting the Omer. It marks the start of the wheat harvest and is believed to be the day God gave the Torah to Israel on Mount Sinai, and also the day the Holy Spirit was given to the believers in Jesus in (Acts chapter 2).
Firstfruits – this word identifies two festivals:
The Sheaf of the Firstfruits, which is part of Passover week and marks the start of the barley harvest and counting the Omer.
YOHM-ha-kur-REEM– "The Day of the Firstfruits."
Leviticus and Numbers, in particular, link these great feasts with formal offerings and sacrifices. Every Israelite who engaged in agriculture—and this was the majority—was instructed to bring their first ripened produce, "firstfruits" (bikkurim), as an offering to God (Numbers 18:13, Deuteronomy 26:1–11, and more).
The Feast of Unleavened Bread also included a firstfruits offering, though it was called reishit—“first”—rather than bikkurim (Leviticus 23:10). These were acts of thanksgiving, part obligatory, part spontaneous—signaling the farmer’s recognition that both the land and people belonged to God.
It was a family obligation, certainly widespread, ancient, and expected. We can assume that on the village level and from the earliest times, Search harvest time offerings were also natural times to have a feast!
The most formal firstfruits offerings became connected to the Feast of Harvest/Weeks (Shavuot), which marked all the important wheat harvest. For this reason, Weeks, which was celebrated for only one day, became known also as the Day of Firstfruits (Yom HaBikkurim).
1. All
2. Sabbath
3. Passover
4. Feast of Weeks
5. Day of Blasting
6. (Traditional) Rosh Hashanah
7. Day of Atonements
8. Feast of Booths
9. Feast of Dedication
10. Feast of Lots
1. Happy Holiday!
2. Peaceful Sabbath!
3. Happy Passover holiday!
4. Happy feast of Weeks holiday!
5. Happy Day of Blasting holiday!
6. To a good and sweet year!
7. (May you) finish inscribed for good
8.Season of our Joy
9. Happy feast of Dedication holiday!
10. Happy feast of Lots holiday!
2. sha-BAT-sha- LOM
3. khag PE- sakh sa-ME-akh!
4. khag sha-voo-OT sa-ME-akh!
5. khag yom t'roo-A sa-ME-akh!
6. la-sha-NA to-VA oom-tzo-KA
7. ga-MAR kha-tee-MA to-VA
8. z-MAN seem-kha-TE-noo
9. khag kha-noo-KA sa-ME-akh!
10. khag poo-REEM sa-ME-akh!
Pesakh - Passover
The four cups of wine (the 4 "I Wills") Ex 6:6-7
1. Cup of Sanctification - "I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians."
2. Cup of Judgment - "I will rid you out of their bondage."
3. Cup of Redemption - "I will redeem you with an outstretched arm."
4. Cup of Praise - "I will take you to me for a people."
NUMBERS CHAPTER 6:22-27
22. The Lord said to Moses
23. Tell Aaron and his sons,
This is how you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them:
24. The lord bless you and keep you;
25. The Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you;
26. The Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.
27. So, they will put my name on the Israelites, and I will bless them.
One loaf of bread, showing that we are one body.