This year, as usual, the people of Christ Church are inviting church and community organisations to take part in a number of Advent and Christmas activities. This year we are having a Christmas Tree Festival. The church will provide a six foot Christmas Tree for each organisation which wants to Read more…
The safety and wellbeing of everyone who is part of a church is of the utmost importance. Our safeguarding policy has been in place for many years now. It is a substantial document based on the policies of both our parent denominations and requires anyone in our church working with children to be CRB (Criminal Records Bureau) checked. Everyone involved with children at the moment has CRB clearance and this is regularly updated. Anyone volunteering to help with any new provision (such as messy church) will also need to be cleared by the CRB. (more…)
In the New Year we are planning to hold regular ‘prayer walks’. This is a way of combining a gentle stroll with a quiet time to pray for people and organizations in our community and further afield. Each walk will last between an hour and an hour and a half. Read more…
Our weather forecasters didn’t get it quite right. There wasn’t a total deluge on Pentecost Sunday here in Longridge as had been predicted but at least, we were warned that outdoor activities might not be possible. Sadly therefore we were unable to put up the marquee and enjoy ‘Picnic in Read more…