Messy Church is back this week on Wednesday 18 September… we started Messy Church at Christ Church 4 years ago on 23 September 2015 ! So its our 4th Birthday ! Its from 4.30-6.30pm in the Parish Hall, North Street. What exactly is Messy Church ? well its a way of being church for families involving […]
Session 2 of our journey into what does it look like to be Christ Church examines what God can do in and through us if we grow warmer towards spending time with the Lord and listening to him. We may not all have the gifts or the the temperament of Iona Clark who shared her […]
We are starting a new journey in this season. A journey of exploration, of listening, of wondering, of learning. Of asking ourselves, what does it look like to be the church that Jesus calls us to be? What does it look like to be the Acts 2 church that “devotes itself to prayer” “eats and […]
The series aims to explore what our church is called to be at THIS time in THIS place, in the light of our vision of “learning to live the life” as Jesus’ followers. At a pivotal moment in our church’s life, how can we more fully become the community Jesus wants us to be? The […]
Christ Church Downend youth leader Diane Paddon was interviewed on Sunday’s Lucy Tegg show, on BBC Radio Bristol, about our young people’s experiences at Soul Survivor.
Songs of Praise comes to Christ Church Downend With less than three weeks’ notice, Christ Church hosted Songs of Praise on the evening of Saturday 13th July. Vans, turned into mobile recording studios, lined the paths to the Church, whilst inside, believers of all ages and church backgrounds lifted the roof as we worshipped together. […]
40 Christ Church ladies & friends enjoyed a super evening together at the Bristol Hippodrome watching, “Calendar Girls”. It was a great show and we spent our evening with friends we knew and others we made on the night ! Thank you Diane and Carole for organising our ladies events, next on the calendar is […]
Families from Christ Church Downend went off for a day out together in June and we found sunshine and had lots of fun. On the same day that the Party @ Page Park was cancelled because of the rain, our intrepid group set out to have fun anyway and ended up with a dry day […]
If you hear lots of noise, children playing with their friends & lots of chasing each other, relay races, catching balls, bean bags & more outside the Pendennis Flats …. Well it’s probably a Tuesday and it’s after school. Nic Barnett from Pendennis Good News Church & Helen Buick from Christ Church Downend have been […]
Hello and welcome to the wonderful world of Youth Ministry. The diagram below displays all that we offer young people, including the seven youth groups that meet each week showing and sharing God’s love. In this blog, Diane Paddon, Head of Youth Ministry highlights the strip running along the bottom of the diagram – the […]