Melonie Kemp - Associate Pastor

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I was born and raised in Lake Charles, Louisiana. I took a lifeguard job at the YMCA Camp on Orcas Island at age 21 and simply never went home. Orcas Island is where I met and married my husband Mike. We continued to live there until moving to Bellingham, Spring of 1990. We have two beautiful daughters Ashley and Katie and a son, Zachary who keeps us all on our toes. As a family we began attending Christ the King Church in Fall of 1996. We’d been a bit battered and bruised by the world and found Christ the King Church to be a safe place with real people who weren’t afraid of the messy and the broken.
I graduated from Western Wa. University with a M.Ed. in June of 1998 and came on staff at CTK the next month. I have functioned in just about every role there is on staff, which is part of what keeps life exciting. I felt God’s calling on my life within a full-time ministry context when I attended a church leadership seminar many years ago. I feel both privileged and blessed to serve the church. My current role is the Associate Pastor overseeing our Recovery and Alpha Ministries. I do a few other things as well but this role with Recovery and Evangelism is where my main focus is and what I am most passionate about.

Recovery is simply the process of recovering the life God intended for us.  We have found that sometimes people need a little help along the way. A culture of recovery means encouragement to be honest and authentic about where you are without judgment or condemnation. In other words, you get to be a real person. When we gather together in Jesus name we can always expect the Holy Spirit to be present and to minister to the needs of those present.

My family has been absolutely blessed through being a part of the Christ the King Church Ministry.

The scripture that has impacted me the most: Ephesians 3: 16-19 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

My favorite name of God: Jehovah-rophe. For I am the God who heals you.