Pause and breathe in the Easter story each day of Holy Week with us. Here is our Monday Reflection. The Painting – The Last Supper by Nebiyu Assefa (to view a larger image click here: https://www.imaginor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/JiELarge-pictures.pdf ) The Story: Jesus knew that the end of his time on earth was drawing closer. He wanted to […]
This Sunday our Connected children’s groups will be studying the story of when Jesus was tempted by the devil in the wilderness. You can read it here : Matthew 4: 1-11 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%204:1-11&version=NIV and listen to my reading of a Bob Hartman version of the story here: https://youtu.be/TIqu0mpV-_I If the children could have a dark colour […]
We are delighted to be able to share with you a new resource for Holy Week written by Shahne Vickery. Monday – Saturday next week, here on our Christ Church Downend website, we will share each day a new painting and some reflections and crafts and we invite you to draw on these reflections as […]
Hello everyone ! I expect lots of you are missing being with your friends. This Sunday we will have 4 children’s groups running and 1 youth group running, all meeting via zoom. I have emailed out to families the links to join each virtual Sunday Group, if you haven’t received the email please message me, […]
Join in our Sunday worship via our YouTube Channel on this link https://youtu.be/PfxO3jHOvb4 Hear a message from Jo Vickery & sung worship from Anita and Susie Dobson. Every Sunday there will be a new worship service published at 10am on our YouTube channel for everyone to join in with. And every other day of the […]
Children’s Resources for this Sunday: Here are some ideas for a family worship time together from Helen Buick our Children’s leader: There is a Youtube film of Helen https://youtu.be/PKqXhFKr0pk with an invitation to join in worship together on the YouTube channel. You can follow the written instructions from this post or watch Helen talking you through […]
We are planning a “New Destination Lunch” for the whole Church to join in with on Sunday 3 May 2020. You are all invited to a Church Lunch with a difference. The idea is that individuals, couples & families all have lunch with each other in homes all over the Parish. We tried this in […]
How could this happen ? Come in and drink in the stillness, pray in different ways, and soak in the presence of God. How ? We set out 17 prayer stations for our Sunday evening Spirit Space and then thought, why don’t we leave them up all week for others to enjoy. Puzzled? What on […]
Fun, mess & faith with friends. Come and enjoy a couple of hours of fun where the children get to make mess, we all hear some words of faith & then we share a hot meal together. Find our Messy Church at Christ Church facebook page to see photos of what we do ! Join […]
We warmly invite you to join us as we celebrate Christ and his arrival on earth to live among us.