Video from the Lee Abbey weekend 2019
A video montage of photos from the Christ Church Downend weekend away at Lee Abbey in September 2019, compiled by Jenny Rawling.
#5 What does it look like for Christ Church to be a real family?
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
#4 What does it look like to be a church that radically loves those in poverty?
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. […]
#3 What does it look like to be a church that is learning to learn?
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, […]
It’s good to be messy at church
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 […]
#2 What does it look like to be passionate about prayer?
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 […]
What does it look like to be Christ Church?
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 […]
Sermon series: What does it mean to be Christ Church?
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 […]
Diane Paddon interviewed on BBC Radio about Soul Survivor
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.
Lights, Camera, Action !
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. […]