FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Contact: Pastor Bob Somerville
Awareness Ministry
Information Telephone: 882-7651
Email: aware@hiwaay.net
www.awarenessministry.org

Christ Our Passover Celebration,
Tuesday, March 22, 2005, Huntsville, AL
VBC, North Hall, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

A high profile celebration of Christian love and unity

"Let there be no strife. for we are brethren" Genesis 13:8

For the past 20 years, the body of Christ in Huntsville has celebrated at this unity banquet and Seder demonstration.

Over 3000 Christians from more than 20 different traditions/denominations and approximately 100 local congregations in the greater Huntsville area, gathered last year at the VBC to celebrate Christ Our Passover.

This celebration is conducted each year on Tuesday of Holy Week and has now become the largest annual assembly for demonstrating Christian unity (without compromise). Tickets are $10.

Historically, Passover celebrates the deliverance of the Jewish people from Egypt's bondage. Prophetically, it celebrates Messiah Yeshua who came to deliver us from the bondage of sin and every enslaving condition of mankind. The death of our Lord Jesus occurred on the very day of Passover. The festival of Passover lasted for one week, encompassing other related festivals known as Unleavened bread and Firstfruits. These three festivals together commemorate the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. He became the Passover lamb, sacrificed to take away the sins of the world. Twenty nine times in the book of Revelation Jesus is referred to as the "lamb". It is the only way the heavenly Father could answer the model Christian prayer "deliver us from evil".

May they [believers] be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. (John 17:23)

These words taken from the prayer of Jesus at the Passover season cry out for fulfillment. As believers, we are all one in Christ but very often, it is not reflected in our Christian relationships. Redemption and church affiliation are unrelated in the Passover experience. At the Passover in Egypt, tribal identities, while important, were inconsequential. The death angel only passed over the homes whose doorposts had the blood applied. The blood became the symbol of their oneness and corporate unity. The Christ Our Passover Celebration provides an opportunity to acknowledge our acceptance of one another by eating and fellowshipping together.

Your strong love for each other will prove to the world that you are my disciples." (John 13:35)
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