And the sign said “Everybody welcome. Come in kneel down and pray.” But when they passed around the plate at the end of it all, I didn’t have a penny to pay. So, I got me a pen and a paper, and I made up my own little sign. I said, “Thank You Lord for thinkin’ bout me. I’m alive and doin fine!” These lyrics from the song Signs, by Five Man Electrical Band from 1970 come to mind when I look at the CHRIST THE KING Lutheran Church ELCA sign out in front of our church on Was

December 19, 2025 Advent and Christmas greetings from South Africa! Thank you for your prayers as Dr. Beth Elness-Hanson (Wartburg Seminary), Pastor Peter Mannoja (Tanum Forest),Pastor Erik Roth (Christus, Greenville), and I meet, worship, pray and build relationships with the people of our companion synod, the Western Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (ELCSA). Our Christmas video this year comes from our synod’s delegation to South Africa and our

I write this Christmas greeting during our wonderful Advent Season. Each week in Advent we shared the importance of being ready, how to share with the words of John the Baptist, trust in God through the wisdom of Mary and Joseph, and marveled at the joy of our Sunday school when they presented their Christmas Pageant. Now we are at the big day- Jesus is Born. Here at Christ The King that season will culminate in the rather quiet celebration where we will gather and exclaim th

This coming Sunday, our church will be filled with joy, wonder, a little chaos, and the unmistakable magic of the Christmas season as our Sunday School children present their Christmas pageant, A Shepherd’s Story . There is something deeply moving about hearing the story of our Lord and Savior’s birth told through the voices of children. Their words are sincere, their songs are joyful, and their hearts are full. When they sing of angels, shepherds, and the newborn King, we ar