Holy Week was a joyful blur. We celebrated Maundy Thursday together with communion and a footwashing service in the chapel. In John’s Gospel, Jesus gets up from the table, washes feet, and then returns to the table. We imitated some of that by folding the footwashing into the communion liturgy. There are few things that will solidify the community more than washing feet–it’s one of my favorite things about Holy Week.

On Friday, several students went to First Presbyterian for their noon service while others went to Friendship Presbyterian for the community Good Friday service. Sunday found us at Oconee Presbyterian Church for the sunrise service. Two of our students, Hayley and Caroline, were readers at that service. It was a beautiful setting. The sun rose behind the table as we celebrated communion. Afterwards, we had breakfast together.

On Sunday evening, we had dinner and worship at the PSC. We shared the Emmaus story and sang lots of songs. All in all, it was a great Holy Week/Easter Sunday.  [posted by Andy]

I had a great Holy Week at the PSC. We did a footwashing service on Maundy Thursday. We held the service in the dining hall and used John 13 as an outline for our service (sans the betrayal). It was a very meaningful service for me. On Good Friday, we had the community service at First Pres. After Good Friday service, I like to go home and pretend that the church doesn’t exist anymore–at least until Sunday. I went home on Friday afternoon and worked on a fence around my garden. I found myself cutting off the top of the green vinyl welded wire fence and rolling it up into little coils. I soon realized that I was making little crowns of thorns. Even though I left the church for the weekend, I still could not get away from the sin that put Christ on the cross. Like Peter, I wasn’t even aware of what I was doing. It all seemed oddly appropriate.

On Sunday morning, I worshipped away from the PSC since we don’t have a Sunday morning service. On Sunday evening, we all gathered informally, reaffirmed that “Christ is Risen Indeed!,” and we read the Emmaus story together.

All in all, it was a very meaningful week for me.