A SURE FOUNDATION IN A SCHISM-RIDDLED WORLD

By Freya Hanson

“For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ”
1 Corinthians 3:11
 
In 1866, schisms threatened the church in South Africa and affected the Anglican Church worldwide. In response to these divisions and to refocus the church on what binds rather than divides, Samuel Stone, a British Curate at Windsor, England, wrote an enduring hymn, “The Church’s One Foundation.”  Although schisms continue to stalk our fallen world, dividing churches, nations, and the world, they were never God’s intentions for us.

“Where do we align? Where is the Foundation? Where is the Truth?” This old hymn, based on 1 Corinthians 3:11, gives us the answer: “For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ,” and it is from that one sure foundation, Jesus Christ, that we as the CTK Foundation work our purpose in a schism-riddled world
 
--to help heal the sick, 
--bind up the broken hearted, 
-- free the captives, 
-- care for the distressed, 
-- promote the teaching of God’s Word,
-- and proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ. 
 
Since 1989, the Christ the King Foundation has supported educational, charitable, missionary and religious causes in three primary areas in which the foundation strives for equal distributions:

1. CTK church
2. The community
3. The world

We accept grant applications twice a year; on or before April 1 and October 1, with the understanding that grants for our church are meant to reach beyond usual and customary budget items.

The Christ the King Foundation Website has examples of grants awarded in the past, grant guidelines, and an application form. The Foundation is pleased to be able to award about $100,000 in grants in 2022; with typical grants running between $5,000 - $8,000.  We thank God for the many generous donors who have and continue to make this Foundation a solid ministry of Christ the King. 

To quote from a verse in “The Church’s One Foundation:”
 
Though with a scornful wonder this world sees her oppressed,
By schisms rent asunder, by heresies distressed 
Yet saints their watch are keeping, their cry goes up: “How Long?”
And soon the night of weeping shall be the morn of song.
 
As a Foundation it is our prayer to be instruments of God’s peace in a schism-rent world, and in some small way turn nights of weeping into mornings of song.
 
Freya Hanson, CTK Foundation President