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Who We Are

Christ the King is a community of people with a vital faith. We encourage and challenge one another to know, love, and serve Jesus Christ. In other words, a personal relationship with Jesus Christ is the norm of our experience.

Christ the King is a diverse family. We blend the traditional Episcopalian love of the historic liturgy and sacraments with the charismatic joy in spontaneous praise and the ministry of the Holy Spirit. We come from different racial, ethnic, and social backgrounds. We are political conservatives and liberals and everything in between. However, the basis of our unity is the person of Jesus Christ.

Christ the King is a community within the world-wide Anglican Communion. We are one of 148 congregations, 39 schools, and 10 institutions that comprise the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Los Angeles. We are part of a national community of 2.1 million Episcopalians in 118 dioceses throughout the United States under the leadership of The Most Reverend Katherine Jeffords Schori (Presiding Bishop). We are a global community of 70 million Anglicans in 28 member provinces on six continents.

Christ the King is part of the network of biblically orthodox congregations in the Episcopal Church that is served by the American Anglican Council and the Anglican Communion Network. (Here is the Vestry Resolution on Joining the ACN in December, 2004.) In 2004, Bishop J. Jon Bruno appointed Bishop Edward S. Little to serve Christ the King in the role of Delegated Episcopal Pastoral Oversight. Bishop Little is Diocesan Bishop of the Diocese of Northern Indiana.

Our Vision: Reconciliation

II Cor. 5:18, 19: All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them and entrusting the message of reconciliation to us.

Christ the King is a community with a vision. We are a community of people who glorify and serve Jesus Christ through the ministry of reconciliation.

Among members of CTK you will encounter a great deal of activity focused on reconciliation. At the heart of the Kingdom of God is the experience of reconciliation with God, self, and others. We seek to be both a community living out the reality of reconciliation in our own lives as well as being instruments of faith-based reconciliation in the Santa Barbara community and beyond. In various ways within our own spheres of influence we seek to be bridge-builders, peacemakers, advocates of social justice, facilitators of forgiveness and healed relationships, and messengers of God's love. We challenge people to submit their lives to God, to follow Jesus, and to discover peace in their souls.