What do you seek? Seek His face above all else. Join us as we seek God more deeply and more persistently in January 2017 in a week of 24/7 prayer. Yes, 24/ 7. round the clock. At least two people will be praying here at Christ Church Downend at all times throughout Sunday 15th to […]

Our on the Front Line series provides viewers with a chance to get up close and personal with one of our Christ Church Downend family. Being a Christian isn’t just for Sundays. How do we continue to live our faith for the rest of the week, while we are at work or at home, with our […]

Watch and Wait Feel a stirring in your soul at this time of year: there must be more than this? In this season’s Growing 4 Life newsletter, find inspiration and ideas about how to Watch and Wait – and what on earth for? Pray – And pray BIG Find quiet in the midst – Read […]

Here is a new idea for a way to reach out to our community with a social evening over a bowl of soup. Downend Soup aims to get a three charity groups to make a bid for some crowd funding and over a short evening event you hear the three bids (5 minute pitch and […]

News from Moldova: We have recently received news from Misa, the church leader in Ursoaia, who is linked to the mission organisation called Transform Europe Now (TEN). You can read the November issue of the TEN partner newsletter, where he describes some of his recent encounters in Pelinei, Moldova. It includes specific prayer points for us and […]

Frederick  Garton Greenway from Downend died 100 years ago on the Somme. As we commemorate Remembrance this year, we will be looking a bit more closely into the life and service of one Downend soldier and his sacrifice during the First World War. Come and hear first hand at Christ Church on Thursday 10 November […]

We have a special time of Remembrance at 10.30am on Thursday 10th November in the churchyard with the Royal British Legion, when we place crosses on the war graves we have. Our Remembrance Day Services for 2016 will be on Sunday 13th November. There will be a Morning Worship Service at 9.15am at The Church […]

Are you a leader in some area of life: work, church, in the community? Would you like to understand the call and role of leadership as a Christian better? Would you like to be a better leader? Then the Growing Leaders Course might be for you. The course runs over one year in monthly sessions. […]

We will be joining the congregation at St Michael’s Stoke Gifford for a joint Confirmation service on Sunday 16 October 2016 at 6.30pm There will be no evening service at Christ Church for one Sunday only.

Messy Church is 1 year old! And it has surpassed our hopes and prayers, because of course God likes to give us more than we can ask or even imagine, as it says in Ephesians. We didn’t really know what to expect on that first Wednesday last September. We had no idea how many people […]