CTK members in 2018, providing Ashes to Go, coffee and donuts. 

A dozen members of Christ the King Lutheran Church are hitting the road this afternoon along with CTK’s disaster response trailer. The group will join the Carolina Rebuilding Ministry (crmhome.org) in Plymouth, NC for a weeklong work camp to make homes “stronger, safer and healthier” for lower income families. The team will be introduced and blessed at today’s 11:00am worship services. Led by Bill Pate, the group includes David Bass, Ricky Boyce, Fred Burchett, Jeff Hoffert, John Mahoney, Mike McKinney, Fred Staley, Bob Thompson, Kevin Thompson, Bob Wilke and Jim Watts. The team returns on Friday.

Lent is a time when we are called to reflection, repentance, confession and perhaps, a change in our habits. Tish Warren’s book, Liturgy of the Ordinary, and our conversations during the class will help to illuminate how our everyday activities, from waking to making the bed, from losing our keys to sitting in traffic, from eating leftovers to drinking tea, can be rethought and re-enacted as a liturgy that deepens our faith life, enhances our relationships and draws us closer to God and to one another. Please join us on February 26 at 9:50am in the Parlor for our first discussion on chapters one and two. Get the book today.

This class, Wendell Berry, and the Sabbath Poetry of Lent, will allow us to reflect together on poetry, nature, and sabbath. In this study, Bible texts walk hand in hand with Berry’s sabbath vision of the natural world, and together they suggest simple, accessible practices we can try out this Lent! Join us for this conversation Sunday mornings beginning February 26 either in West Fellowship or by Zoom during the season of Lent. Check out the Church Center group under Faith Formation for more information and materials for this class.

Thank you to everyone participating in the youth take and back pizza fundraiser on big game day! A total of 79 pizzas made that morning help send CTK youth to the National Youth Gathering. We hope you enjoyed your pizza and the game!

CTK is participating in the Annual WAKE Up and Read Children’s Book Drive. Books for ages birth through 12 can be dropped off in the Atrium and will be donated by WAKE Up and Read. This book drive strives to help ensure children’s reading success, assure school readiness and increase learning opportunities. There are three ways to help: new books that are needed can be found on the wish list on the home page in Church Center, gently used books can be donated, and financial donations can also be made online. Help bridge the gap so that kids in need can fall in love with reading!