Exodus from Egypt long ago... still alive today in Passover commemoration

This Congregational Church began welcoming people to the commemoration and celebratory Seder supper about 6 years ago and has grown little by little. Few, if any, come as ethnic, cultural, or religious Jews. But most have some relationship with Christianity and would acknowledge its roots 2000 years ago in the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth and his followers and disciples. During those 80 generations or so the Seder details have ebbed and flowed according to host, the available foods, those attending, and the location (society and language of those taking part). But the central message of liberation from slavery remains unaltered. As the historical and cultural situation has changed, though, the significance and yearning for freedom and the recognition of slavery has waned and waxed; for example, USA slave holders until the conclusion of the Civil War in 1865 might view the institution of slavery differently to people today when indentured (undocumented, smuggled) laborers live shadowed lives, including the slave lives among sex trafficked young people.

Considering all that has changed (and yet all that has not changed of human yearning, preoccupation, life events) it is perhaps surprising to know that Seder fellowship, teaching, and fellowship lives on in many parts of the world, far, far away from the original commemorations at the east end of the Mediterranean Sea.