​The Christ the King community bread oven is just about open for business! With gratitude to the CtK foundation for making this possible, and to the dozens of volunteers who assisted in building the oven these past six months, the true fun of this bread oven ministry can now begin. Breads, pizzas, gatherings around this hearth - the possibilities for using this oven for fellowship and feeding are many. We hope you might be interested in playing a part someday in this ministry. For anyone interested in being involved, we will have an informational summit on Tuesday, November 26th, at 6:00 PM. Please let Pastor John know if you plan on attending. If you would like to be involved but cannot attend the meeting, let Pr. John know that as well. 

Here are a few of the roles you might consider being a part of in the future: 

Bakers: This is the big one. The fun one. The tasty one. If you want to be notified of upcoming opportunities to mix dough, bake bread, throw pizza dough, or taste test, please let me know! If you have a bread recipe or sourdough starter you would like to share, we'd love to have it. 

Firewood Collectors and/or Splitters: We need a team of a few people who could periodically be called upon to collect orphaned firewood for future use in the oven. Do you have a pick-up truck or trailer? Do you have a wood splitter we could borrow? Let me know if you'd be open to receiving periodic requests for assistance in wood collection. 

Stokers: Do you like making fires? The oven needs to be stoked for many hours before it's ready for baking. Even if you can't commit to a shift of food preparation or cooking, we need a prep team who can light a fire and/or keep that fire going. Let me know if this sounds like something you'd love to do. 

Other Needs: We still need a plan (structure?) for long-term wood storage. We would love a pathway for easier access to the oven in the wintertime. Some beautification of the grounds around the oven slab could be a fun springtime project. Do one of these projects pique your interest?

Our Season of Generosity is about to reach its culmination—not that we can’t or shouldn’t be generous all the time, of course! This coming Sunday, we will gather in at worship completed Pledge Cards stating the intention of giving over the course of the coming year for each of the households that make up the CtK community. By now, I hope that you have each received the Generosity Packet for 2020, including a brochure outlining some of our goals for the coming year, as well as a 2020 Pledge Card and a return envelope. If you didn’t get this yet, please let us know as soon as possible by calling the church office at 651-633-4674. Thanks!
 
Ministry at CtK relies on the prayers as well as the prayerful contributions of all of our members. We rely on gifts and offerings to fund many of the ways that we are responding to God’s call in this congregation, both in how we serve one another and in how we serve the wider community around us. Your generosity in the past has helped make Christ the King a vibrant and vital congregation, and has allowed us to both continue many of the ministries that have served us well over the years while also permitting us to try new things—adapting, innovating, and at time even experimenting with new ways to be God’s hands and feet.
 
I invite you to join me in continuing to prayerfully discern what God is calling us to do as a faith community in the coming year. Pray also about the invitation to consider increasing your offering in this coming year. However God leads to you give in the coming year, be assured that your offering—whatever amount you give—will be very much appreciated by me and the rest of CtK leadership.
 
CtK continues to be guided by our values of Engaging Worship, Nurturing Faith, Building Community and Growing Compassion as together we are Becoming Christ’s Beloved Community.  You are a valuable part of who we are andwho we are becoming. Thanks for all the ways you take part in Life at CtK. Thanks, too, for your continued financial support of our shared ministry here and now.
 
Faithfully, 
Pastor Peter Hanson
 

 
Take part in the Generosity Galley!  Have your photo and answer to the question “Why do you support CtK?” added to the Gallery in the narthex either Wednesday night or next Sunday morning!