There have always been very close relations between the local church and school. This is seen today in a number of ways:

• several church members serve as School Governors
• the School holds special services at the church four times a year (Harvest, Christmas, Easter and the Leavers’ service in July)
• the Minister leads collective Worship in school once a week
• many children visit the church as part of their RE

Apart from these formal links some children from the School also attend one of the groups for children and young people at the church. Details of these can be found by phoning the Minister on 394185.

Christ Church began in St John’s Church School. The original design of the School included worship space and there was a chapel in what is now the Conference Room. This continued for 20 years with chairs being put out every Sunday morning for the service. Actually there were two churches in the early years, St John’s (Church of England) and St Barnabas (United Reformed Church). When these two churches joined together to become Christ Church there was the vision and support from the denominations to build a separate church and community centre. This was available to be used all day, every day, and many activities take place there for people from the local community. At this time the Methodist Church joined the partnership so that Christ Church is a now a Local Ecumenical Partnership between three denominations.
Services are held every Sunday at 10am and always include activities for children. These either take place in age groups or everyone joins together for All Age Worship. Why not join us one Sunday?

Rev. Ian Pullinger