As most of you will be aware, we have been following on the Whole Life Discipleship journey for some time now, and we’ve been encouraging other churches in the Diocese of Bristol to join in. LICC have helped the Diocese to run a second Learning Hub in 2017/18 along the lines of the one we […]
How Messy Church is reaching out to the community- and how you can be part of it. I’ll admit it, I quite like statistics. Sometimes they help you take stock. We can take part in some aspect of church life for years and never really stop to think, is this working? Are we spreading God’s […]
Community crowdfunding project Downend SOUP is gearing up for its fifth and most ambitious project yet – the SOUPerbowl – two SOUP events all on one evening. The simple yet effective idea sees people gather together to hear three community projects pitch their ideas. Donations on the door create a prize fund which is used […]
At the start of 2019, Christ Church Downend made the bold decision to fling open their doors and invite the whole community to “Bounce into Church”. So on the last day of the school Christmas holidays, your local Church was filled with jumping children and happy parents. There was a hospitality team serving toast and […]
Book your children in and prepare to blast off in a praise party like you have never known. Christ Church is hosting Big Church Kids worship leader, Chip Kendall and he will be bringing his crew to Downend in 2019. We have booked this epic Praise Party, which is called, “Orbitron” at Christ Church Downend […]
Ben and Katy Ray are our mission partners in Tanzania. Get right up to date with what’s been happening in their December newsletter. Latest news: Our Neema craft sales raised £380 this year and we have received the following message from Ben and Katy Ray, our mission partners in Tanzania; “This is just to say a […]
Thank you to everyone who has donated to our Christians Against Poverty Centre (CAP) Christmas hampers. Here is our CAP debt counselling centre manager, Leyla Fellows and Bryan Ashton who will be delivering these parcels and a food hamper to one family. We have a CAP here at Christ Church and we also support those […]
Here is Joan with one of the Noisy Neighbour nativity story books from the Bible Society. Our amazing local Mothers’ Union team have given out over 800 of these lovely books to children to children’s groups and local schools in Downend, Children’s groups at local churches and Messy Church at Christ Church Downend, in fact all over the Kingswood and […]
Hello everyone, It was so lovely to see so many of you at our Christingle Services and at Messy Christmas too. This Sunday, 16th December, our children’s groups are running as normal over in the Infants’ School classrooms. And there are two Carols by Candlelight services on Sunday 16th, we are planning to invite any […]
The annual Christingle Services at Christ Church have become a regular part of the calendar at Christ Church and all because of one amazing lady. Doreen Cruse, a longstanding member of Christ Church started doing door to door collections for The Children’s Society in 1960. Then in 1981, she was invited to tea with The […]