Woodlawn United Methodist Church to hold reenactment of The Last Supper
On April 9 at 7 p.m. Woodlawn United Methodist Church will hold “The Leonardo da Vinci’s: The Last Supper”, a living drama by Earnest K. Emurian of Leonardo da Vinci’s painting of the last supper. The photo strives to capture the Master’s “One of you will betray me” story in the Bible during Jesus’ final days as narrated in John 13:21.
Throughout the reenactment, disciples will express thoughts that may have been theirs during this event in the Bible. Each of them looks at Jesus and asks, “Is it I, that is going to betray you?”
Anne Elliott, one of the directors for this year’s reenactment, said that the church has done this reenactment before, but it’s been about five years.
“We just asked for volunteers in the church and they were given lines to learn,” Elliott said.
Volunteers make up the 12 apostles and Jesus, with a total of 13 actors. But it takes more than that to get the ball rolling. Elliott said, besides the two directors, herself and Suzanna McClung, they have volunteers for the makeup and the costumes.
“There are a lot of other people involved. We have the costumes and what we don’t have, Donna Fleshman makes. She tries to fit everybody into what we have and has to make some too.”
The church decided to do the reenactment again this year after a 2009 planning retreat last September.
“We are hoping to have people, not only our members, but in our surrounding neighborhoods come out,” Elliott said. “It’s very meaningful and powerful. There is a lot to memorize and some of the men are even growing beards for it.”
The reenactment will last about an hour to an hour and a half and it’s free to the public. After the reenactment, communion will follow.
Woodlawn United Methodist is located at 2922 Corbieshaw Road. For more information contact 540-774-8126 or email, infor@woodlawnumc.com.
March 30, 2009 - 2:13 PM
It is good to see that another church is doing this program. We have done this same program at our church several times. We have also done it at 7 other churches also. This year will make the tweny seventh time that I have played the part of Peter. Our church is Mt. Zion United Methodist Chrch in Mt Zion Georgia.
In 2010, we performed it at the Carrollton Cultural Arts Center in Carrollton
Georgia. We have performed it in 4 United Methodist Churches and 3 Baptist churches one of which was a predominately black church. Several of the churches have started this program in their churches. Every year it is a blessing especially for me. I am 73 years old. I hope to hear back from you.