Last Supper Portrayed
at St. Andrews United Methodist Church
Mt. Pleasant

by: Bobby McDonald

 

 

 

The moving story of Jesus' last supper with his disciples was presented by members of the St. Andrews Methodist Church, in Mt. Pleasant, on both Thursday and Friday nights, as they conducted a communion service and brought those in attendance to the significance of the symbols of the bread and wine. Men in the congregation played the parts of Christ and his chosen, original twelve apostles...Peter, Andrew, James, John, Phillip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, Simon, Thadeus, James son of Alpheus, and Judas Iscariot.

 

 

Costuming and portrayal were outstanding as the story of the last meal that Jesus joined his apostles for unfolded. The actual portrayal of Judas' betrayal of Christ was presented, as the audience heard the tinkling of the 30 pieces of silver.

 

 

 

 

 

"For I have received of the Lord that which I also delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night

in which he was betrayed took bread and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, 'Take eat: this is
my body, which is broken for you; this do in remembrance of me.'

 

 

After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, ' This cup is the new testament

in my blood: this do ye, oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.'

For as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.

Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty
of the body and blood of the Lord.

But let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.

 

 

The cast and crew of the 2010 Living Last Supper elected not to be named in the program so that the presentational ministry might be an act of Christian love on their part. The cast involved 35 people and weeks of practice and service.

 

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