Church Building Project  After many twists and turns and false dawns,  a sub-committee of the Building Committee met with the architect and the contractors on Thursday 8 February. The works […]

URC Minister David Coleman works as chaplain to Eco Congregations Scotland and has provided videos for each week of Lent to encourage ecological discipleship.  You can see his material here

The TLC ensemble, the musicians who have been practicing at Christ Church for around 3 years, held a concert in aid of our Building Project yesterday. There were guest musicians […]

This Sunday, worship will start at 11am (not the usual 10am). It will be an All-Age, easily accessible worship celebrating Harvest, followed by lunch and a very short ‘ideas generating’ […]

Memory Worship celebrated its 1st anniversary yesterday. This is a joint venture with Rayleigh Methodist Church. A monthly short worship designed for people living with dementia and their carers followed […]

The annual Harmonie Christmas Concert will be at 3pm on Sunday 11th December. Go to the Harmonie Christmas page for booking details. Only two weeks to go!

Thursday 24th November sees the start of our Warm Space as part of the national Warm Welcome scheme and in collaboration with other Rayleigh churches. Alongside our usual Thursday morning […]

The Assistant Minister, Dexter, visited Memory Worship at Wesley Methodist, Leigh on Sea, for research for the new Memory Worship in Rayleigh, which started in October. Our next Memory Worship […]

On 5 October 1972 the United Reformed Church came into being. Yesterday, along with Harvest Festival we celebrated the URC’s birthday in its jubilee year.

Memory Worship – a specially designed, short worship service followed by craft activities for people living with dementia and their carers and friends, starts at 2pm on Tuesday 6 September […]

Christ Church is featured briefly in the August edition of Vision Magazine on page 23. It mentions two of our latest activities to try to combat loneliness as we come […]

For the month of June, Christ Church will be hosting the District tapestry created in 1997 for the URC’s 25th anniversary. Some members of Christ Church helped create the Faith […]

Our monthly Art Club created a 50th jubilee banner with 50 URC fish from the 153 fish used as a sermon illustration a few weeks ago! It is on display […]

A special service for the Queen’s 70th Jubilee and the Church 112th anniversary also celebrated the silver, golden and diamond wedding anniversaries of several church members which we weren’t able […]

At 10am on Sunday 5th June, we will have a special service to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee, the church anniversary (112 years), Pentecost (the coming of the Holy Spirit to […]

The Concord Ladies Club celebrated the Queen’s 70th Jubilee in style with a street party style afternoon tea and a sing-a-long.

The sun shone on our new ‘coffee’ (other drinks available!) and chat morning. A number of of sat outside and we were joined by family and new people and serenaded […]

From 18 May, every Wednesday 10am – 12pm the church will be open for people to stop in for a drink and a chat. Feeling lonely and want to meet […]

WE ARE A DROP-OFF SITE FOR  SUPPLIES FOR UKRAINE please see our Facebook page for more details: Christ Church FB

Due to the weather, tomorrow’s Open Day and Fairtrade ‘Big Brew’ will be postponed to next Saturday, 26 February, 10am to 3pm. Come and join us next week for hot […]

We are now officially listed with The Welcome Directory welcoming people leaving prison.

Arrive early before all the wonderful craft creations and bargains are gone! Cushions, table runners, handmade cards, lavender bags, paintings, jewellery… and second-hand items – perfect for Christmas gifts. Home-made […]

A four week Advent Bible Study joint with Rayleigh Methodist Church will start on Tuesday 23 November. There will be two sessions – 2.30pm at Rayleigh Methodist and 7.30pm on […]

As an Eco Church we believe strongly in re-using things and recycling, so our seasonal Poppy banners this year are made from single-use plastic bags. We also have our usual […]

Our More Tea Vicar, Open Day event is on 18th September, 1-5pm. The church will be open for people to drop in and find out more about us and what […]

Don’t forget our new Art for Fun starts at 10am this Saturday 4 Sept.

Our new monthly, ‘just for fun’ Art Club will start on Saturday 4 September, 10am – 12pm. FREE, no talent or materials needed. For adults and children. Come and meet […]

Our special, café-style, Climate Sunday service is this Sunday at 11am, followed by a vegetarian lunch. Come and hear what we can do to protect God’s Creation – modern, specially […]

A reminder of our Art Exhibition this weekend. Friday August 13th, 4-7pm, Saturday 10am – 3pm and available after Sunday Worship on the 15th . Sales of art are to raise […]

The URC has become a founding member of a new coalitions of over a 100 UK groups calling for kinder and fairer support of people fleeing war, persecution and violence. […]

Next week is Holy Week. There will be a five-minute, daily reflection available each day from 10am, by a different Rayleigh clergy person, via YouTube: Monday – Rev Scott Williamson, […]

Christ Church has joined the national register of Sight Loss Friendly Churches. If you would like to read more about their work, please visit the website.

Christ Church has formally become part of the Inclusive Church Network: Inclusive Church is a network of churches, groups and individuals uniting together around a shared vision: “We believe in […]

And so the final day of our church Advent Calendar! A nativity scene of course (courtesy of Traidcraft), which also featured in the Rayleigh Posadas. MERRY CHRISTMAS! A montage of […]

Another stellar window from one of our younger members!

Another angel for the 4th Sunday in Advent (all the Sundays have been angels)

THE HOLLY and the IVY Our connection with holly and ivy goes back before the carol we sing at Christmas, which was written in the1700’s, to our pagan/celtic origins before […]

The Rayleigh Ecumenical service of 9 Lessons and Carols is available to view from 6pm on Saturday 19th December.  This is a collaboration between various churches in Rayleigh and features […]

Amazing how Dexter, the minister’s dog gets everywhere!!

Merry Christmas from one of our younger members

Angels for the 3rd Sunday of Advent

On our descent after a wild weather walk (scary at times) over Whernside, one of Yorkshire’s three peaks, the weather started to clear and looking northwards a glow appeared until […]

Today is Christmas Jumper Day! Sandy is wearing a Christmas Jumper to raise money for Save the Children. Please support her if you can.

Our Christmas Appeal has raised £2,838 so far, shared equally between Hopeworx and Home-Start. This is amazing, especially in these challenging times when most people have not been able to […]

From one of our younger members!

Illumination Street Week, is declared a ‘National Calendar Campaign’ to help combat those shorter days and cloudy skies.  This is a celebration to help build relationships and create memories with […]

An angel for Sunday, Advent II

International Soil Day! Bit random, I know, but we are an Eco-Church!

Today is another ‘international’ day! And the Christmas trees are up at the church – hurrah!

Today’s Advent window.

Welcome to our church Advent Calendar. Each day we will post a calendar ‘window’ created by a church member, and put a picture in the church windows. Some of the […]

From Tuesday 1 December look here each day for the new Advent Calendar day. And in the church windows and front door. Some of the days in December are ‘international’ […]

Christ Church has been mentioned in the Dec/Jan issue of Reform the national magazine of the URC (again!). Extra points if you can find it! No prize, just a nice […]

Join us live via our Facebook page at 10.45am this Sunday for the Remembrance Sunday Service including the two minute silence and the Last Post.

This wonderful photo was taken last night by Roger Farrow who lives near Christ Church.

Because 2020 has been such a strange and awful year for people and many more people will have slipped from just coping to really struggling, we have an extra appeal […]