Christ the Lord Lutheran Church

04/01/2026

12/11/2025

It’s time to invite your friends and family to Christmas worship! You are warmly invited to celebrate the Nativity of Our Lord this season, through worship. 🎄✩

CHRISTMAS EVE CANDLELIGHT on Dec. 24
5pm Livestream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00FrxrM5gZ0
7pm Livestream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTrnpRQtyE4 Both of our candlelight services will include an interactive message for the young at heart of all ages. Coloring bulletins will be available for use during the service.

CHRISTMAS DAY WORSHIP on Dec. 25
9am in-person only
Our Christmas morning worship service will be a simple service straight out of our worship hymnals and communion with homemade bread. You can even request that we sing a couple verses of your favorite Christmas hymn!

SERVICE OF LESSONS & CAROLS on Dec. 28
9am Livestream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO3TxCT8lX8
Christmas isn’t over yet! On this first Sunday after Christmas, we continue the good cheer through familiar lessons and carols that highlight God drawing near to humanity in Christ.

11/04/2025

This year we are pleased to host the annual Thanksgiving Eve Service: Love Thy Neighbor. This ecumenical service is a collaboration with area churches to benefit Foothills Caring Corps

Come to meet neighbors, give thanks, sing for joy, hear reflections from multiple faith leaders, and unite in service to our community.

The service begins at 7pm and will be followed by light refreshments.

Singers of all levels are invited join the choir, rehearsing before the service at 6pm.

Attend in-person or via the live-stream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONbU8qf49Yk

10/04/2025

We invite you to celebrate the installation of the Rev. Yehiel Curry as the next presiding bishop of the ELCA on Saturday, October 4, at 2 p.m. Central time.

The service will take place at Central Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, MN. It is open to the public, and no tickets are required.

For details, or to join via livestream: ELCA.org/Installation

07/12/2025

We're grateful for our partners in faith, as we work together again to support the annual Heat Respite Project. It also happens to be FUN to prepare food and supplies toegether, in service of our neighbors. Stay cool and hydrated out there and check in on each other!

Ascension Lutheran, Scottsdale (top photos) and New Journey, Fountain Hills (lower photos) launched the second year of NEVC provision of lunches, water pallets, and electrolyte powder to Arizona Faith Network (AFN) cooling centers. Christ the Lord in Carefree, plus Living Water and New Covenant Luth

06/30/2025

We're so grateful for our partnership with Foothills Caring Corps. What a joy to see these smiling faces in the first Music, Memory and Movement workshop held in our beautiful sanctuary!

05/30/2025

05/13/2025

📍 Atlanta bound! Pastor Beth and Pastor Anna of Christ the Lord Lutheran Church arrived yesterday at the Festival of Homiletics—ready for a week full of learning, laughter, and lots of preaching inspiration. We’re excited for all they’ll bring back to share with us!

02/13/2025

We give thanks to God for enabling us to do ministry for 40 years in Carefree and beyond! Join us for whichever portion of the morning you can, to mark this milestone with worship, a blessing of our new labyrinth, and fellowship and refreshments.

02/06/2025

With thanksgiving for his life among us, we share the news that Keith Howard Kittle, Jr. died on January 9, 2025. He was a beloved member of the CtL family and will be deeply missed. Even in our sorrow, we trust that he rests in God's eternal embrace.

A Celebration of Life well be held on
Saturday, February 22, 2025, 3 PM
at Christ the Lord Lutheran Church
9205 E Cave Creek Rd
Carefree, AZ 85377

The service will be streamed live here:
https://www.youtube.com/live/n_EdEcTKXPA?si=J9fcfUHdfpmLt6km
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His obituary can be read here:
https://www.messingermortuary.com/obituaries/Keith-Howard-Kittle-Jr?obId=35189656

12/03/2024

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