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Dear Beloved Christ the King Community,

A New Year is coming.

     Can you feel it?

          It’s just around the corner.

               Can you hear it?

CTK Staff and Council are starting the New Year on retreat at our camping ministry, Lutherhill, by exploring and embracing the theme, “We’re in this Together,” rooted in the scripture passage: 1 Cor 12:14-26.

his theme is a continuation of the devotion I offered during our Annual Meeting, Part 1, where I encouraged us to ponder how we are all parts of the body of Christ, uniquely gifted to participate in God’s mission in our communities.  

As we move into this new chronological year of 2025, let us grab hold of the kairos time we are experiencing and discover how God is calling, “All Hands On Deck” to come together and serve in a variety and diversity of ways, both in our spiritual home and beyond.  Your gifts and talents are needed for “All Hands On Deck,” and everybody has something to offer.  

I can’t wait to see what this year brings to our spiritual home!

Grace and peace, and even more joy,

Pastor Jennifer

 

1 Cor 12:14-26

Indeed, the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot would say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear would say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many members yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, the members of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and those members of the body that we think less honorable we clothe with greater honor, and our less respectable members are treated with greater respect, whereas our more respectable members do not need this. But God has so arranged the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior member, that there may be no dissension within the body, but the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honored, all rejoice together with it.