On 24th May 1821, the congregation met at the Old Brig chapel, and walked down Wharf Street to the new church. Christ Church was built on land purchased from Timothy Bates. Due to the commitments of the Archbishop of York the church opened for public worship under licence, it was a further two years before Archbishop Edward Venables Vernon could make it to Sowerby Bridge to dedicate the building to the worship of God.As part of our celebrations marking 200 years of Christ Church the Archbishop of York, the Most Revd. and Rt Hon. Stephen Cottrell will be preaching in church on Sunday March 20th. He will be joined by the Ven. Bill Braviner, the newly appointed Archdeacon of Halifax.Our service of Parish Communion starts at 10:30 and lasts about 90 minutes.Our service will be live steamed via our YouTube channel
In 2018 Christ Church held it's first light up with love this Mothering Sunday. With over 250 candles being lit for mums, grans, aunties, sisters in fact anyone who has been like a mum to us.For the 4th year, we will again be lighting church with love on Mothering Sunday (27th March 2022)Each candle costs £1.00 and all proceeds will go towards our sound and vision equipment that we installed last year.Our Service on Mothering Sunday service starts and 10:30. We will be displaying the names of all who have had a candle lit for them.To add a name to our list, either call into church on a Tuesday or Saturday during our coffee morning, go to our Mothering Sunday Page alternatively see our post on Facebook and donate thereYou can also make your dontaion using your Smart Phone, just follow the below QR code and chose the amount you would like to donate
Ecclesiastical Movement for Good awards have returned. £1,000 could make a big difference to the work we do in Sowerby Bridge.The awards are designed to give eligible charities in the UK and Republic of Ireland the financial assistance they need to help them make a real difference. In total, 500 charities stand to gain £1,000 and we’d love to be one of them. If we did win, we would be able to put this towards the new sound and vision system we have installed in church.It’s quick and easy to nominate us. Just visit https://bit.ly/CCSB12daysofGiving Scroll down and fill in your details, The more nominations we get, the greater our chance of winning, so please spread the word to your friends and family.Thank you in advance for your time and support.
At the start of the National lockdown in 2020 we had to put a stop to our coffee mornings, however we did carry on meeting on our ever popular virtual coffee morning, which were held via zoom.Now that lockdowns have, for the time being anyway, have come to an end, the church council have decided that now is the right time to reintroduce them.From 16th November our coffee morning time table is:Tuesday Morning, 10am till 1120 am, will be our new digital cafe, if you are having any sort of issues, or want to learn something new, then why not call in for a brew and a natter, whilst also asking our friendly team a question or two on any IT related issues you maybe experiencing Saturday Morning, 10am till 12noon, is our usual coffee morning, again why not call in for a drink, or maybe a look around the buildingBoth our coffee mornings are still keeping social distancing measures in place.If your still not up for venturing out, then we are carrying on with the virtual coffee morning's again via the link below, they will run from 10am till 11am, so a good way to keep in touch with everyone and still have a catch up, you just need to bring your own coffee.The link to join this is https://bit.ly/CCSBCoffeeMorningFor anymore information, please use our contact us form at https://bit.ly/CCSBsayHello
