Thanks

Pam would like to thank everyone who helped her celebrate her eightieth birthday recently with cards, gifts and especially joining her at her ‘at home’.   Many thanks to Jane,  Mandie  and  all the family for organising the day and making us all so welcome.

Olive Hurlstone

Olive has not been at all well in these last few months and so it is not surprising that after many years of indefatigable service to Christ Church and its predecessors (Longridge Congregational Church and Longridge United Reformed Church),  she needs to step down from most of her responsibilities.   Indeed we are extremely grateful that she has managed to continue for so long as she has certainly earned the right to an honourable retirement. (more…)

Janet & Jim

We would like to thank all our friends at Christ Church for the wonderful send off that was arranged for us. To Helen for a most memorable service “Going on a journey.” We will never forget it.    To Pam and the catering committee for all the delicious food prepared thank you and to everybody who stayed to help eat it and offer their good wishes to us.  We had much pleasure spending the most generous cheque presented to us. We chose a blue duvet cover, pillowcases and curtains from Laura Ashley. Our bedroom looks beautiful.  Thank you to everybody for everything. (more…)

Biblefresh

In 1608 King James I ordered a team of 50 scholars to translate the Bible into English. Until this time the authorities had usually frowned on making the Bible available in anything but Latin or Greek and most translators were persecuted or even martyred. In 1611 King James had copies Read more…

“A Great Day Out!”

Summer Outing with Churches Together In Longridge (CTL) That was the view of the 30 people including 9 from Christ Church, who went on the summer outing to Lancaster, Heysham and Morecambe. First stop was a guided tour of Lancaster’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, originally St. Peter’s R.C. church. It was Read more…

Kenyan Orphans

Spurgeon’s Charity recently sent me an update on Kibera School which is near to Nairobi. The children are well looked after and learn in classes of 40. The classroom language is English and the children work towards key subjects of English, Maths, Kiswahili, Science and Social Studies. From our church Read more…

Christmas Arrangements

This year the Theme for the Christmas Decorations is Circles. Church Organisations and others are already busy decorating Hoola Hoops to hang around the walls and windows but if you are part of an organisation which would like to contribute, please see Jane Turner or John Spencer as soon as Read more…

Operation Christmas Child 2009

There are many constants in this life, and one of them is that as soon as the schools have gone back, and September is in full swing – the Supermarkets begin to roll out their Christmas Stock! This means, of course, that the panic to get Christmas organised starts earlier Read more…