Day of Service

Tomorrow, September 13th, is God's work. Our hands. Day of Service. Everyone who worships with CtK tomorrow morning (worship is at 10:00am and will include an opportunity to hear from the youth who went to Detroit for the ELCA Youth Gathering this summer) will be invited to stick around to help assemble school kits for Lutheran World Relief or decorate cookies and assemble boxes of treats for those who protect and serve our community (first responders, hospital employees, etc.). We'll need a few folks to make deliveries of treats, too.
Would you rather spend some time serving outside? There will be a group heading to God's Garden to pick green beans. Wear your sunscreen and take a water bottle!

What a privilege it is to serve in God's world!

God's work. Our hands. Day of Service - Sunday, September 13th - Part One: School Kits

This fall CtK will join other ELCA congregations for the third annual "God's work. Our hands." Day of Service. There will be several opportunities to serve right here in Bozeman, as well as an opportunity to make a difference around the world.

Assembling School Kits for Lutheran World Relief is one way to have global impact, by making it possible for children who might otherwise not be able to pursue their education to attend school. In order to assemble School Kits, we need folks (you!?) to purchase and donate the supplies for them.

Each School Kit contains:

Four 70-sheet notebooks of wide– or college– ruled paper; no loose-leaf paper
One 30-centimeter ruler, or a ruler with centimeters on one side and inches on the other
One pencil sharpener
One pair of blunt scissors (safety scissors with embedded steel blades work well)
Five unsharpened #2 pencils with erasers
Five black or blue ballpoint pens (no gel ink)
One box of 16 or 24 crayons
One 2 ½” eraser

It is NOT necessary for you to purchase items for one complete kit. Purchase whichever supplies you like, and when everything is gathered we'll put together as many kits as we can. All items should be new and in good condition.

 

For more information about Lutheran World Relief and where school kits go, check out:

lwr.org/schoolkits

 

 

Family Promise coming to CtK in Nine Days!

Each summer, we are privileged to have the opportunity to serve homeless families in our area, by hosting Family Promise. Our host dates this year are June 15th-19th and July 13th-27th. There are lots of ways to serve - making dinner, spending the night, doing laundry, praying for our guests...
Volunteers involved in "direct service" to guests are asked to attend a volunteer orientation before signing up (you can sign up to do laundry or pray without attending), and the next training is coming up soon:

Family Promise is once again hosting a New Volunteer Orientation for those interested in doing direct service with our families. The training will be held on Thursday, June 26, 2014, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm in the Small Conference Room at the Bozeman Public Library.  
This training covers the basics of working with Family Promise: what is an Interfaith Hospitality Network, how it operates, where our families come from, as well as how to help in ways that make a real impact. The training is free but reservations are recommended. Please call 406-582-7388 or send an email to lprindiville@familypromisegv.org. Feel free to share this information with other people you know who would make great Family Promise volunteers.

A thousand thank yous!

Last Sunday during the "Blessed to be a Blessing" distribution of funds, Dawn Byrd made an appeal to join her in supporting and volunteering at the Bozeman Community Café. The café serves a hot meal every evening to residents of Gallatin County who are in need of food assistance. Christ the King serves dinner at the café on the first Sunday of the month. Our next host date is May 5, 2013.

Dawn informed me this morning that she received $900 from nine households of the congregation.
Dawn's contribution plus the $900 received adds up to $1000.

A thousand thank yous goes out to the ten households who decided to give their "Blessed to be a Blessing" 100 dollar bill to Bozeman Community Café.

Many of you who gave have volunteered at the café before. Half of you who gave are new volunteers.

Your gift of money plus volunteer hours will help Christ the King stand in partnership with the Gallatin Valley Food Bank in addressing hunger here in the Gallatin Valley.

CtK Birthday Party, Potluck & Spring Clean-Up!

This post should have been published on Wednesday. Due to a glich it's finally getting posted today, and without the groovy picture...

This Sunday, June 10th, CtK will celebrate the anniversary of the building with gifts, a potluck and spring clean-up of the building and grounds!

The congregational "wish-list" includes: First Class Forever Stamps, Postcard Stamps, Copy Paper, white(22# at least) in following sizes: Letter (8.5x11), Legal (8.5x14), Ledger (11x17), Copy Paper, Buff (11x17), Garbage bags (drawstring, kitchen size), Garbage bags (large, leaf size), Disinfecting wipes (any brand), Paper towels (rolls/any brand), Kleenex (boxed/any brand), Toilet Paper (Kirkland brand), Coffee (Regular) (NOTE: Not Kirkland brand, it is too fine), Coffee (Decaf, any brand). And if you want to go BIG - a flat screen TV is on the wishlist, too!

Bring gifts with you on Sunday and place them in the social hall. Stay after worship for a potluck bbq (burgers and hot dogs will be provided). Bring a side dish or dessert to share! And stick around for spring clean-up, too. There's a varied task list, including jobs like weeding in the flower beds, dusting blinds, cleaning and organizing the pantry and trimming shrubs. Something for everyone!

Come join the celebration and fun, and help with the work of taking care of the building we share!

A new way to address hunger

On Sunday, May 6th a group of volunteers from Christ the King served dinner to sixty-one people at Bozeman Community Café, a cooperative hunger program run by Gallatin Valley Food Bank and area churches. The café is located in the old Frontier Pies Restaurant on North 7th in Bozeman. Customers are greeted at the door by a host. Once seated they are greeted by a server, who takes their beverage order and informs them of the meal choices available that evening. On Sunday, May 6th you could choose from beef stew, chicken pasta primavera, and hot dog with baked beans. Once the order was taken by the server, the “scoopers” promptly plated the meal requested. As one customer said, “Hey, this is faster than fast food!” Christ the King has been active in collecting canned and non perishable food items for the food bank. Every first Sunday of the month we collect a special offering to benefit the ELCA World Hunger Appeal and the Gallatin Valley Food Bank. Community Cafe is a new opportunity to help us address hunger here in the Gallatin Valley. It puts a face on hunger. I invite you to visit the Community Cafe any evening of the week from 5 p.m.-7 p.m. to experience the ministry that is happening in our midst. Hungery people are being fed. Caring Christians and members of the community are responding to the overwhelming need in our area with gifts of time, talent, and treasure. Christ the King is scheduled to serve at Bozeman Community Café on Sunday, June 3rd from 4:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m. If you are interested in volunteering, please see Pastor Grant

How are your thumbs?

Do you have a green thumb? Even just a little? Do you aspire to green-thumb-ness? Then we have a job for you!

The CtK garden is growing like gang-busters. Unfortunately, so are the weeds! Do you have a few minutes to stop by and do a little weeding? No need to sign up, just show up!

Thanks!

Also needed for the garden: chicken wire. Have some to donate? Please call the church office at 587-4131.