HISTORY OF OUR PARISH
Christ the King Parish began in 1974 as
an outstation of St. Michael Parish Lang’ata, by then under the pastoral care
of the Guadalupe Fathers, from Mexico.
In 1992 Fr. Arturo Arreguin was
appointed as assistant parish priest in St. Michael’s Parish, and his pastoral
work involved visiting the Small Christian Communities in Kibera. It soon
became tiresome for him to shuttle through the large pastorate back to his
residence every evening. Thus he decided to live and work in the slum (in Laini
Saba), which was a sub-parish; a priest’s house was built to facilitate his
work.
In November 1997, during the Christ the
King Feast celebration, Fr. Roberto Figueroa Gomez, who was by then the
assistant priest requested his Grace Archbishop Raphael Ndingi, who was celebrating
the mass, to officially recognize Christ the King as a Parish; since the number
of faithful had grown larger and there was a need to move services nearer to the
people.
In February 1998, Christ the King outstation was officially
recognized as a parish within the Archdiocese of Nairobi. Since the number
of Christian continued to increase and thus enabling the formation of more
small Christian communities and different parish groups.
Currently the parish is subdivided into
5 sub-parishes with 42 Small Christian Communities and 30 volunteer catechists.
We implement our Strategic Pastoral Plan through 6 departments (offices), the
Pastoral Parish Council and other Parish groups including 6 Choirs, Youth,
Finance Committee, Lumko Pastoral Team, Catholic Women Association, couples etc.
In January 2007 the construction of a
permanent church started, and with the effort of our community, assistance of
Guadalupe Fathers and missionaries of St. Patrick we have managed to complete
the whole building.
That we have Faith, Solidarity, Good leadership and physical development in our Parish Community.
MISSION
Through the preaching and witnessing the gospel promote unity, commitment and physical development through spiritual formation.
OBJECTIVE
To strengthen our community and support physical development through faith, unity and commitment by 2016 - 2017.
The Parish has six departments:
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