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Maundy Thursday
Minute for Mission
Mission week at Menaul School? That’s right! In the spring of 2008 during Holy Week, Menaul School, one of our racial ethnic schools, started a mission/Holy Week tradition. Menaul School is a middle school and high school, grades 6–12, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
During Holy Week, all students, faculty, staff, administrators, and some parents committed a week to do mission work. The word “mission” of course means both giving and receiving, and not one without the other. We experienced the season of Lent and Holy Week in a very humble way.
Grades 6–8 stayed in the local area and served meals, sorted donated food, and visited the elderly. Freshman and sophomore classes traveled within the bounds of the Presbytery of Santa Fe and worked among congregations with weeding, cleaning, and general maintenance. The junior class was welcomed to Sells, Arizona, by a Native American congregation in the Synod of the Southwest to work for the week. The senior class experienced the General Assembly connection of our church and traveled to Oklahoma to work among Choctaw Agency churches for a week.
This was a week of living justice, love, and humility in serving one another through Christ. On Maundy Thursday, we understand we have been served and have served among one another by putting the gospel into action. We see what needs to be done and do it with a good heart, and we stay humble by not bragging about the work we do among God’s people. We truly live out the Scripture by doing justice, loving kindness, and walking humbly with our God.
—Rev. Buddy Monahan, Choctaw/Maricopa, chaplain, Menaul School
PC(USA) General Assembly Staff
Rev. David Gambrell, GAMC
Deborah Gardiner, GAMC
Ruth Gardner, GAMC
Creator God, thank you for reminding us to be humble servants to your glory. As we experience Holy Week, on this Maundy Thursday we are reminded how important our relationships are to our existence. As we go about our day, may we keep our eyes and hearts open for opportunities to do justice, love kindness, and walking humbly with our God. Amen.
Ps. 27, 147:12–20 Ps. 126, 102
Jer. 20:7–11 (12–13) 14–18
1 Cor. 10:14–17, 11:27–32
John 17:1–11 (12–26)
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