© Christ the King Episcopal 2012 Made with Xara 4805 Lawrenceville Hwy, Lilburn, GA 30047 Phone: 770-309-8589  Contact: johnsewakray@aol.com A Parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta We moved to our first worship space on Lawrenceville Highway, Lilburn, the international corridor of Metro Atlanta, in December 2007. And in January 2012, we moved across the road to our larger, newly-renovated location in Lilburn Market Place. At the 2009 Annual Council, Christ the King was welcomed as a full parish in the Diocese of Atlanta, a new, intentionally-planted, multi-ethnic congregation. Any Sunday morning, eight to ten different ethnicities (from Jamaica, Sierra Leone, Liberia, India, Pakistan, Burma, Indonesia, Britain as well as Euro-Americans) gather to celebrate the Eucharist together in English, the language of this country. Every month or so, we invite our family members, our friends and neighbors in the local and wider community to join us for an International Lunch after our morning worship, a feast for body and soul! This event is often combined with the Epiphany Folk Band leading our worship with their inspirational, upbeat playlist of traditional hymns and contemporary music. Our partnership in the mission of God involves outreach to the increasing numbers of Karen refugees from Burma. In February 2008, as a very new worshiping congregation, through the Refugee Resettlement and Immigration Services of Atlanta (RRISA), we co-sponsored a Karen refugee single mother and her three daughters. We set up their apartment, met them at the airport, stocked their larder and fridge, and served them their first meal in their new home as they arrived from a camp on the Thai-Burmese border thousands of miles away. Since then, a number of Karen families have made Christ the King their spiritual home. We have taken only the first steps on a journey which has few roadmaps in the Episcopal Church in the U.S.. This means that as God’s people we are depending on God’s Spirit to guide and lead us forward. Our Bishop, who has visited us annually to baptize, confirm, and receive new members for the past three years, and the Diocese have been generous in their support for which we are grateful. What lies ahead? Where will the road lead? How will the people of Christ the King stay in the vanguard of God’s mission in the changing landscape of twenty-first century America and the world? “We know not what the future holds - but we know who holds the future.” Welcome home!