The Parish of Christ the King provides parishioners with the opportunity to both serve others and experience spiritual renewal through several mission trips and pilgrimages.
Join a Ministry
Join Fr. Elkin and fellow parishioners on his next pilgrimage. Recent trips include the route on El Camino de Santiago (The Way of Saint James) in Spain, Guatemala, the Holy Land, and Catholic sites across Italy such as Vatican City, Papal Audience, St. Peter’s Basilica, and more.
Please contact the parish office at 918-584-4788 to learn about upcoming trips.
Every other summer, a group of approximately twenty adult parishioners travel to the small village of San Lucas on Lake Atitlan to engage in works of service, form bonds of solidarity with the local indigenous population, and learn about the social, political, and economic factors that govern systemic poverty. The experience of serving some of the poorest people in the world is life-changing and faith-inspiring. If you have never spent time serving the poor in the Third World, then this is the perfect opportunity for you to step outside your comfort zone and open yourself to the graces God wants to pour into your life by taking the next step in your discipleship and participating in the Guatemala Mission Trip.
Mission Trip participants work with local volunteers who are part of the “Friends of San Lucas” mission team to identify and assist at various service sites. Service projects include building stoves, constructing homes, assisting with coffee bean harvest, and so forth. The Mission Trip is limited to adult members of the parish community (age 18 and older).
Connection with Oklahoma
Mission San Lucas is only fifteen miles from another mission on Lake Atitlan named Santiago. The Catholic Church in Oklahoma sponsored Mission Santiago Atitlan for nearly 40 years from the early 1960s until the early 2000s. One Oklahoma priest, Fr. Stanley Rother, was martyred in the rectory of Mission Santiago during the night of July 28, 1981. His cause for canonization is proceeding. Participants in the Guatemala Mission Trip will have the opportunity to make a pilgrimage to Santiago and celebrate Mass in the very room where Fr. Rother was martyred. As an Oklahoma priest who gave his life for the Gospel and the people of Guatemala, it is important for the Catholic faithful to learn about him and his great witness of faith.
For more information contact Fr. Elkin Gonzalez.