In place of the usual song-driven worship, this month’s ONE featured a walk through Holy Week, which led through 6 rooms, each representing an important moment in Christ’s journey to the cross. High School students gather the first Wednesday of each month for ONE, a unique, Spirit-filled worship service in the basement Greenhouse space of Faith Lutheran.

Room One: Palm Sunday

Images of Jesus were presented on a table of palms.

Everyone was asked to choose two images and tell what it depicted and how it made them feel.

Room 2: The Last Supper

Around a candlelit table, the groups discussed a typical Seder meal like the one Jesus and the disciples ate at the Last Supper, and why the chalice Jesus blessed for communion represented redemption.

Room 3: The Garden of Gethsemane

Scripture described the intensity Jesus’ prayers, as he prayed against himself and for God’s will, in the garden the night before his death.

Room 4: The throne room of Pontius Pilate

A bowl of water represented how Pilate washed his hand clean of responsibility for Jesus’ death.

Everyone was asked to write something they are guilty of on a rock. At the end of the night, the rocks were placed in the shape of the cross, then scattered, representing God’s forgiveness.

Room 5: The Crucifixion

Each youth used a hammer to pound a nail into a wooden cross. This is a symbolic act that connects our sins to Christ’s crucifixion and death. With a nail and hammer, they acknowledged that their sins were crucified along with Christ.

Room 6: When time stood still

Clocks, frozen on 3:00, the time Christ died on Good Friday, represented when time stood still on Holy Saturday.

Students were asked to write something they’re waiting for on a piece of paper, and leave it on a clock.