A Baptist-Methodist Ecumenical Church in Leicester
News about recent happenings at Christchurch.
The following is taken from the latest newsletter, with some minor edits, and was written by Olwen, who organises the annual Shoebox Appeal for us. Thank you to all those who contributed once again to this appeal! Christchurch was a Drop-Off centre for other local churches and members of the public and we received 144 boxes which were collected on…
Last Sunday we held a commemoration as part of the WW1 centenary. It started with a lunch, attended by about 50 people, with a good veg soup, bread and parkin (no meat – the U-boats are very active in the Atlantic), followed by singing WW1 songs (many of the choruses are still familiar, like “Pack up your troubles in your…
Our Remembrance Sunday service today was led by Mr John Aldridge. John is a local preacher and also a Deputy Lieutenant of Leicestershire. In that capacity he presented a wreath of poppies which is now displayed in the entrance of the church, together with a new banner for Remembrance Sunday made by the banner group. John’s sermon centred on three…
Now paintballing might not be your idea of a traditional church activity. You have to dress up in camouflage style overalls and shoot small balls of paint at other people from implements that look very gun shaped! I prefer to see it as a mixture of hide and seek, cricket, squash and painting activities on a field with trees and…
We held the last of our summer barbeques on Saturday. For most of the time there were 20 to 30 people in the car park, eating, chatting, playing in the bouncy castle (the smaller visitors). We probably served around 100 burgers and hot dogs during the 3 hours. The next one won’t be until May or June, keep an eye…
Contributed by Mark: From 22nd to 25th August many Christchurcher’s and ex-Christchurchers were enjoying and volunteering at the Greenbelt festival 2014. We were all eager to see what the new site at Boughton House was like. It has to be said that the site was visually impressive and relatively easy to get around although some campers had problems in getting…
A group from Christchurch with friends from Walsall and Shropshire recently travelled to the Island of Iona for a week. We stayed in the Bishop’s House, a retreat centre run by the Episcopal Church of Scotland. This is a delightful place to stay, on the coast a short walk from the Abbey, looking across the sound to Mull. We attended…
There was a wedding at Christcurch last Saturday between Sophie Kinchington and Ben Corrigan. Sophie’s mum was a member of Christchurch when Sophie was a young girl in the playgroup (which is still running). They will be making their future life together in Australia. The weather was good, there were lots of guests, and it was a very happy occasion.…