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WHO WE ARE
Christ the King is a pastoral size parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Texas. We are a compassionate, generous, outreach-oriented congregation. We have approximately 70 families on the active roll and the average Sunday attendance is between 90 and 100 people.
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We worship liturgically
In the Episcopal Church we follow a "liturgy," which means that the worshippers praise God through standard forms and prayers and readings from Sacred Scripture. We offer God our praise through use of the Book of Common Prayer, the Anglican expression of Christian worship beloved by many through the centuries.
Each Sunday we participate in the Liturgy of the Word, in which we hear as many as four readings from the Bible, each chosen by the Church to reflect a certain theme or teaching. Then we hear a sermon that interprets the Scripture texts and helps us to apply them to our daily lives. The congregation then recites the Nicene Creed, a summary of our Christian faith which has been in use since the fourth century. Next, we enter into a period of general confession, a corporate statement in which the congregation confessed its faults and looks to Jesus for forgiveness.
Following prayers for the people of the Church and the world we enter into the Liturgy of the Table, in which we participate in the Holy Eucharist, or as it is sometimes called, the Lord's Supper, Holy Communion, or the Mass. Consecrated Bread and Wine, "the gifts of God for the people of God" are shared at the Table, or altar, in an act of communion with God and one another.
Nearly 80% of the Book of Common Prayer is either quotation from the Bible, or is paraphrase of the Bible. Add to this the weekly readings from the Old Testament, the Psalms, the Epistles, and the Gospels and the sermon, which expounds on a given selection of scripture, and you've got a church rooted in the teaching of Christ and the Bible.
Church Hours
M-TH 10am - 2pm
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Ministries
Humble Area Assistance Ministries
In 1990, Christ the King was a founding covenant church for Humble Area Assistance Ministries ("HAAM"), which was established to address the growing demand in the Humble, Atascocita and Kingwood communities to help the needy with food, shelter, clothing, transportation, and other emergencies. Since HAAM's inception, Christ the King has continued to serve as a covenant church, supplying a congregation member to serve on the Board of Trustees and supporting the organization monetarily and through its various annual drives.
Churches United in Caring
In 1984, when Christ the King was still on the east side of Lake Houston, the church helped establish Churches United in Caring ("CUIC"), a coalition of churches in the Crosby-Huffman area organized to provide food pantry relief to those in crisis need. Today, we continue to support CUIC with food pantry goods and an annual monetary contribution.
Five Talents Project
One of the most recent examples of our commitment to outreach was our undertaking of a Five Talents project. Our objective was to raise money to help improve the lives of the citizens of the small village of Shirotsa in western Kenya, which is the boyhood home of one of our parishioners. In the late spring, each member of the congregation, regardless of age, was given $5, along with the charge of using his or her God-given talents, whatever they may be, to increase the $5 into profits to send to Kenya. Our goal was to raise $3,000-$4,000, which the Bishop of the Angelican Diocese of Butere told us would be enough to improve the life of every family in Shirotsa.
Parishioners devised all sorts of ways to use their own talents to increase their seed money for the village. An artist painted and sold watercolors of the church building; two members organized and led a Girl Scout camp; bakers and cooks sold their specialty items; a family auctioned a dinner and evening out at their home; a quilter raffled her handmade quilt; and a smocker crafter and sold a beautiful Christening gown. After a summer of enthusiastic and energetic efforts, our September ingathering yielded not $3,00, not $4,00, but $10,000 for the Kenyan village! Not only did we raise more money than we ever imagined to change the lives of those so far away, but we also changed our own lives by sharing the commitment to and fellowship of this mission.
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19330 Pinehurst Trail Dr
Humble, TX 77346-2224
United States
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