In November a great crowd gathered for Downend SOUP for their 7th evening of Community Crowdfunding. Three brave souls took to the stage and explained their cause and the funding, help or volunteers they wanted.George spoke for The Littlest Rescue https://www.facebook.com/TheLittlestRescue/a pet re-homing charity based in Staple Hill. Where they are looking for funding to relocate some […]
Over the last 8 weeks we’ve been asking this question, at all our services. We really want to know the answer. We want everyone to be asking the question, debating the answers, moving towards being a church that Jesus would feel at home in. Hopefully you’ve caught at least some of the talks and caught […]
Here’s a blog post originally posted after Hallowe’en in November 2016 when we had suggested DIY light parties all over Downend ! “No one rang the doorbell last night. It was October 31st and the trick or treaters were busy walking through the neighbourhood. Before you ask, yes we did have the lights on and […]
Grace: receiving the undeserved and generous riches of God’s love when he could have turned away from us and our sin. At the 10.30 service Cathie Watson showed us a clip from the film “Les Miserables” which captures perfectly the undeserved kindness God shows to us through Jesus. Jean Valjean the ex-convict, unable to find […]
This week’s theme challenges us to consider: what does it look like for me to live simply? What does it look like as a church? Jesus’ words in Luke 12:22-34 remind us that we have over- complicated and over- busied life for ourselves and even as a church. Paul Peterson in his sermon spoke these […]
Gathering in the Harvest Many people long to belong. To connect in a genuine way with others. To know complete forgiveness and start afresh, free from guilt. To discover meaning in life. To find inner peace and hope. All thee things come from meeting Jesus, so let’s make sure people have every chance to do […]
A video montage of photos from the Christ Church Downend weekend away at Lee Abbey in September 2019, compiled by Jenny Rawling.
Here are questions and notes from our weekend away at Lee Abbey, which will also echo the sermons preached at Christ Church. We Are Family: but what does that really mean? Follow the link to read questions which you can look at as an individual or as a group. http://christchurchdownend.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/What-does-it-look-like-for-Christ-Church-to-be-a-real-family.pdf
Our 4th issue in our series “What does it look like to be Christ Church?” asks how we take seriously Jesus’ bias for the poor. Nigel Stowe our preacher, and Leyla Fellows our CAP Centre Manager, helped us to connect helping those in need with Jesus’ command to love one another and to love God. […]
Here are the questions from yesterday’s talk by Shahne Vickery about how we are all created to have different spiritual temperaments, or ways of responding to God in worship. Reflect, discuss with others, feed back: to aidan@christchurchdownend.com or anitadobson@christchurchdownend.com Spiritual Temperaments Shahne spoke of 7 different temperaments: the intellectual, the ascetic, the naturalist, the activist, […]