CTK Staff
Potent Partnerships
All God's Children
Ministry Teams
Worship
100
This staff member's job includes coordinating building usage, volunteers, and ministry schedules while setting a tone of hospitality and welcome.
Who is Jane VeVea?
100
Through our Bryant Park Community Garden, CTK helped to produce 4,627 lbs of food for this partner organization.
What is VEAP?
100
This event brought the Stay Puffed Marshmallow Man, clowns, ninjas, jedis, dragons, and a T-Rex (among others) to Christ the King.
What was the Halloween Family Fun Event & Trunk n' Treat?
100
This ministry team prays Psalm 90:17, "Prosper for us the work of our hands – O prosper the work of our hands." And God has answered their prayers, inspiring and strengthening them to give 1476 hours of work and distribute 74 items of their handiwork and 55 gifts of Christmas cookies.
What are the Quilters?
100
Last summer, Pastor Maria led the charge on this season of worship, which connected us with oceans, animals, storms, and the universe.
What is the Season of Creation?
200
This staff member does it all, including but not limited to running sound and video during worship, clearing pathways through the snow, cleaning floors, and making repairs to our boiler.
Who is Dan Lenort?
200
The Gift of Love is an amazing way Christ the King demonstrates our community's generosity and supports a different cause each month. This last October we raised a spectacular $3700 to support this organization, which Pastor Rory ran a marathon for.
What is Cure SMA?
200
This group had cross-cultural conversations about Christian faith with leaders from Kerala Christian Congregation, Zion Baptist Church, and the Church of Gichitwaa Kateri.
What is Confirmation?
200
The School Ministry team raised money last year through a noisy offering for this partner school.
What is Washburn Elementary?
200
Saturday Evening worship took on new life when it moved to Monday nights during the summer and started worshiping in this space.
What is The Commons?
300
Celebrating 15 years at CTK in 2020, this person is the longest serving member of the Christ the King Staff.
Who is Jane Bishop?
300
Though the rain put a damper on things this year, Labor Day weekend saw a new partnership with area Lutheran congregations when we held a joint worship service at this location.
What is the Normandale Lake Bandshell?
300
This staff member led a trip whose participants made the news in the Rushville Republican for making repairs to nearly 60 homes.
Who is Brittany McDonald?
300
This ministry team received a Ministry Imagination Grant from the Minneapolis Area Synod to fund a new kind of outreach.
What is King's Game Hall?
300
During Advent, some people did this and shared it during worship on the Sunday after Christmas.
What is learning scripture by heart?
400
Bjorn Gustafson has been crafting music and shaping congregational song for over twenty years, serving first in this youth position in his home church of Our Savior’s Lutheran in Outing, MN.
What is youth organist?
400
Our choir joined with members from this church last August for a chance to sing together in a new way. It was Summer Choir!
What is St. Luke's Lutheran Church?
400
Vacation Bible School was an interstellar event last year that featured the robot EP3-20 and taught this bible verse, which says, "Glory to God, who is able to do far beyond all that we could ask or imagine by His power at work within us!".
What is Ephesians 3:20?
400
This ministry team welcomed a new member, commissioning Clayton Gardner after he completed 50 hours of training.
What is Stephen Ministry?
400
Every week our worship bulletin includes prayers for our ministry partners in these three countries.
What are China, South Africa, and Israel?
500
Pastor Maria had an adorable baby boy, Solomon! This person joined the CTK Staff as interim pastor while she was on maternity leave.
Who is Pastor Craig Simenson?
500
This recent event was co-hosted by Christ the King along with a host of other organizations, including Together Bloomington, Dar al Farooq, Success Academy, Neighbors Together in Solidarity, and MUUSJA (Minnesota Unitarian Universalist Social Justice Alliance)
What was the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Community Potluck?
500
These two youth finished confirmation and affirmed their faith on Ascension Sunday last year.
Who are Siri Anderson and Jacob Johnson?
500
No longer "Average", this ministry team changed its name.
What is the Acclaim Worship Band?
500
During Lent last year, we were invited to do this activity as part of our Lenten theme.
What is Listening?