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Christ the King Episcopal Church
BREAKING NEWS!
CHRIST THE KING RECEIVES PARISH STATUS
At the 103rd Annual Council of the Diocese of Atlanta on Friday, Christ the King was voted in unanimously as the 96th parish of the Diocese. Praise be to God!
At last year’s Annual Council, we were recognized as a worshipping community, the initial step toward full status as a parish. And now we are a parish! The Bishop of Atlanta met with representatives and the Vicar of Christ the King earlier this month, received our petition for parish status signed by members of our congregation, and recommended to clergy, and lay delegates from across Middle and North Georgia to vote us in.
Present at this year’s Annual Council was the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori. In a Q&A session later on Friday morning after we were admitted, she responded to a question, “What’s your overall vision with regard to your ministry? Does it include reaching out to the multicultural community?” Here’s what she said, “It involves all God’s people. And my vision for this church is that it recognize that it is already multicultural. And not just recognize but celebrate it in the way that Christ the King is doing. What a remarkable sacramental example for the whole of this Diocese, and indeed the whole of the Church!”
CHRIST THE KING EPISCOPAL
is a multiethnic, international parish in Lilburn (Metro Atlanta, Gwinnett County), Georgia. Our liturgy, celebrated in English, unites us a Eucharistic fellowship which meets to worship with all of God's people in our rich diversity. If you and your family have been looking for an informal community that connects authentic spirituality to the realities of everyday life -
Welcome Home!
Christ the King is located at
4800 Lawrenceville Highway, (Hwy 29)
(Look for Joe's Home Cooking)
Lilburn, Georgia 30047
Phone: 770-309-8589
E-mail: johnsewakray@ctke.org
Click for driving directions to CTKE
CTKE provides back-to school supplies for more than forty refugee children
In July, the Refugee Resettlement and Immigration Services of Atlanta (RRISA) sent out an e-flyer asking for back-to-school supplies for refugee children. That Sunday, our Gospel reading was the story of Jesus multiplying the five loaves and two fish, one boy’s lunch, to feed five thousand people. The challenge before us: what could we offer that God could take, bless and multiply?
The following Sunday, the generous people of our small and growing worshiping community responded – with backpacks, notebooks, crayons, pencils, paper, glue, index cards and much more. Enough for more than forty children!
What a joy it was for Dorothy Lee, our Team Leader for Outreach (originally from Jamaica), Lili Phillips, a long-time school teacher herself (from Iran), and Vicar John Sewak Ray (a Pakistani) to take our “loaves and fishes” to the RRISA office! We were told that CTKE, one of the newest congregations in the Diocese, was the first Church to respond to RRISA’s appeal.
Yes, we can make a difference in answering “the humanitarian call to serve those fleeing from persecution, war, famine, and extreme poverty” now living as our neighbors right here in metro Atlanta. Thank you again to all the members of our mission-driven CTKE community for proving yet again what God can do when we open our hearts (and our wallets!) to show God’s infinite love for all - and meet the needs of our neighbors with few resources to call their own.
Bishop of Atlanta J. Neil Alexander visited the multiethnic worshiping community at Christ the King Episcopal Church, Lilburn, on a Sunday earlier this year. He baptized four children, confirmed 11 young adults and received two people at a capacity-crowd service followed by an international lunch.
"What a joyful day this is; this is almost like being around the world in microcosm," the bishop began his sermon. "Yesterday, at our annual Ministry Fair, I was teaching a class on the Anglican Communion, and it was wonderful to be able to show pictures of people from all corners of God's earth.
"There is no nook and cranny of this earth in which there are not Anglicans doing the work of the Gospel, reaching out and teaching and preaching, and living Gospel-centered lives. To gather and to see such a rich mix of people from all corners of the world is indeed a special joy."
You may watch online the rest of Bishop's Alexander's Lenten sermon -- part 1 and part 2. And view Bill Monk's photo album of the bishop's visit to the Diocese of Atlanta's newest and most international congregation.
Hungry for "the food of angels"
Two weeks before Christmas, I received an e-mail from Canon Rick Callaway that a family from Burma had asked for a priest to take them Communion. I called the phone number given in the message and spoke to MuMu. We arranged to meet on the afternoon of December 31. In true Asian fashion, I removed my shoes as I entered the family's living room - which was absolutely empty, not a stick of furniture. A steel folding chair was quickly brought in from the kitchen for me but sitting cross-legged on the carpet with the family was my response to their warm welcome and smiles. After a year and eight months in Atlanta, a priest had finally brought the Blessed Sacrament to this Burmese Karen Anglican family for the first time here. Their joy was unbounded! On the very last day of 2008, I celebrated perhaps the most moving and poignant Eucharist of my year with MuMu, her nephew, and her four children. Her husband was away at work.
Come worship with us soon - and welcome home!
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