Downend Junior Soup Team the Bromley Heath Souper Troupers need your help. So they have written to the Downend Voice to get local support for their project.  What started off as a small school project as part of Downend Soup is growing and we are keen to see other community groups and other local schools […]

The craft group at Christ Church have been supporting Mercy Ships for a number of years. The African Mercy is a huge hospital ship which docks in different ports in Africa. The surgeons on board perform hundreds of operations each year, many cataract, large tumours, and straightening children’s limbs, all giving their services free of […]

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 […]