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
Due to COVID, we were unable celebrate Christmas as we would normally, this also meant that our annual Christmas Fair was unable to take place.As restrictions start to ease for us all, the PCC have decided that they would like to try and bring some normality back to our lives this Christmas. To start with we will be holding our Annual Christmas fair again, this will be held in church on Saturday 4th December between 10am and 3pm.We also want to support any local crafters so if you would like a free stall, please do get in touch, we do however ask for a donation towards the upkeep of the church.Why not bring your family down and see what gift ideas we have in church? Our Church café will also be opening serving drinks and cakess restrictions ease the PCC have decided, that this year, we will be holding our annual Christmas Fair.We look forward to welcoming you and your family this Christmas either to our Christmas Fair or one of our Christmas services.More details on our services over christmas can be found on our Christmas at Christ Church
