Xpressions Cafe: 'It's Church, Jim, But Not as We Know It'

Every First Sunday at for 2 hours
Chedgrave: All Saints
Off Hardley Road Chedgrave Norfolk, NR14 6NQ, United Kingdom

Xpressions Café opens at 10:00 and closes at about 12:00. Downstairs in the All Saints Church Centre we have Xpresso, where Fairtrade tea and coffee are served (as much as you like) and there are cakes and Sunday papers. We do not do anything "˜religious' in Xpresso.

Upstairs in the Church Centre we have Xpressions, running from 10:00 to about 11:10. This is mainly for children and families but everyone is welcome. There are craft activities, games, food-making, songs, stories, prayers and so on.

In the medieval church we have Xplore, which is in two parts. From 10:30 to 11:00 Xplore Further will take up the theme of the day and explore in, perhaps by discussion, perhaps by group activity (last Café the group wrote a letter from St Paul to "˜the saints in the Chet Valley), or maybe with prayer stations or other reflective activity. At 11:30 we invite everyone to join together in church for Xplore Together, a multimedia interactive session which develops the theme of the day (drawn from one of the day's lectionary readings).

In practice it's very flexible: people wander from session to session as they choose and the informality is part of our DNA.

Chedgrave: All Saints

Welcome to All Saints, Chedgrave. We are a lively church with a range of services from traditional Prayer Book communion to a monthly Fresh Expression of Church. We are a family-friendly congregation with the services on the first and  third Sundays, Xpressions Café and All Together Worship, being especially suitable for families and newcomers.

Until recently, we have been posting a new Sunday service every week on our Chet Valley Churches YouTube channel. We started in March 2020 and continued until Easter Day 2023.  They are all still available to watch or to use as an aid to worship. We have also made congregation-friendly videos of nearly 550 hymns and songs, all of which are also on our channel. These have been viewed and used in over 150 countries across the world.

There will be a service of Holy Communion for the Third Sunday of Easter at 09:30 in All Saints, Chedgrave on Sunday 23rd April 2023.

The church will be open for private prayer during daylight hours.

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Xpressions Cafe: 'It's Church, Jim, But Not as We Know It'

Every First Sunday at for 2 hours
Chedgrave: All Saints
Off Hardley Road Chedgrave Norfolk, NR14 6NQ, United Kingdom

Xpressions Café opens at 10:00 and closes at about 12:00. Downstairs in the All Saints Church Centre we have Xpresso, where Fairtrade tea and coffee are served (as much as you like) and there are cakes and Sunday papers. We do not do anything "˜religious' in Xpresso.

Upstairs in the Church Centre we have Xpressions, running from 10:00 to about 11:10. This is mainly for children and families but everyone is welcome. There are craft activities, games, food-making, songs, stories, prayers and so on.

In the medieval church we have Xplore, which is in two parts. From 10:30 to 11:00 Xplore Further will take up the theme of the day and explore in, perhaps by discussion, perhaps by group activity (last Café the group wrote a letter from St Paul to "˜the saints in the Chet Valley), or maybe with prayer stations or other reflective activity. At 11:30 we invite everyone to join together in church for Xplore Together, a multimedia interactive session which develops the theme of the day (drawn from one of the day's lectionary readings).

In practice it's very flexible: people wander from session to session as they choose and the informality is part of our DNA.