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Published Monday, January 05, 2009 in Religion

Schedule change announced for Christ the King

After a full calendar of events in late 2008, Christ the King Charismatic Episcopal Church is making a schedule change as 2009 begins.

Starting Sunday, the time of the early service at Christ the King will be changed from 8 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. The service will feature worship led by a praise band, liturgy in the Anglican tradition, preaching, prayer for the sick and other needs and Holy Communion each Sunday.

There is also a service at 10 a.m. at the church near Sharpsburg.

A Christmas Eve service at Christ the King attracted 234 -- including 51 children. In addition to singing the carols of the season, hearing the Christmas story from the gospels and receiving Holy Eucharist, the children were read the true story of Bishop Saint Nicholas of Myra.

The children received a surprise visit from "St. Nicholas" who present all the children will a gold-color U. S. dollar coin.

On Nov. 8, the CEC Diocese of the Mid-South sponsored a Diocesan-wide purity seminar for teens and their parents, "Sex, Love, and Relationships," at Christ the King Church. David and Sharon Holland of St. Andrew's Church in Covington led the seminar with 50 people -- teens and parents participating.

The seminar included talks, video presentations, skits, and break-out groups all designed to impart an understanding of the physical, emotional and spiritual consequences of sex outside of marriage and the call of God to sexual purity. Special guests, Matt and Casey Robuck, newly married after a courtship of six years which led them from high school through college, were present to share their testimony of commitment to Biblical purity before marriage and the joys of following God's plan for sex, love and relationships.

Overall the seminar was well received, with many parents and teens requesting follow-up talks on biblical courtship and marriage. Canon Randall Allen of St. Andrew's Church, commented, "I am thankful that we as a Diocese are starting to talk about these things with our children. Though the subject matter is no doubt challenging and uncomfortable, the fact that children as young as 11 and 12 years of age are becoming increasingly sexually active and putting their lives and health at risk makes the need to teach God's view of sex, love, and relationships absolutely necessary. To fail to do so would be irresponsible."

Plans are underway to provide follow-up seminars and additional teaching of the subject of sexual purity. In addition, all materials and video recordings of the sessions are being shipped to the Cathedral of Christ the King, Manila, Philippines at the request of Archbishop Loren Hines who has expressed an interest in providing a similar course in his province.

The purity seminar was sponsored by the Mid-South Diocese's newly formed division of ministry development. The division was formed to equip people for the work of the ministry by providing continuing education and special training opportunities for clergy, commissioned ministers and laity.