Did you know that the Passover Meal is one of the longest continuous celebrations since 1450 B.C.? It is celebrated by Jews and non-Jews alike all over the world. Part of the Passover Meal is celebrated as Holy Communion in the Christian Church in the celebration of the wine and the bread. The wine representing the blood of Christ shed for the sin of mankind. The bread representing the broken body of Christ to make us whole.

On March 8 Seadrift’s Baptist Church hosted a Passover Meal with Mitch Forman from Chosen People Ministries out of Amesbury, Massachusetts. Mitch is a Messianic Jew whose grandparents descended from Eastern Europe having escaped to America because of the pogroms. The pogroms (or massacring) in Eastern Europe and elsewhere had been aimed particularly at the Jewish people forcing them to leave their homes. Mitch has been involved in Christian ministry for thirty-five years. His heart has been to especially reach his own people with the love of Christ and His salvation. When Mitch does the Passover Meal at churches, he does the entire ceremony that is conducted in Jewish households and synagogues. It really is a very moving experience to take part in the Passover Meal and it gives one a sense of why the Passover Meal has been such a long-standing tradition.

From the lighting of the candles to the meanings behind the wine, the bread, the herbs, and the vegetables the story is told of how God’s people were delivered after 400 years of being in slavery.

Chosen People Ministries is in nineteen countries. In America it has ninety missionaries and eighty volunteers in thirty cities. It has a website called isaiah53.com. Mitch said, “Isaiah 53 is very special because it’s the most vivid picture of Jesus in the Old Testament.” And picturing Jesus for Jews and non-Jews is what Chosen People Ministries is all about.