Christ Church

read moreBaptism (sometimes also called Christening) and Thanksgiving are both ways that we can offer to celebrate your child in a Church Service setting. One of the purposes of this page is to explain these options to you if you are parents and to help you plan with us the right one for you. Worship should be fun and never more so than when children and young people are involved. Why do we bring our children to be baptised? For many of us, there are probably a number of reasons: giving thanks for the arrival of this precious new member of our family, celebrating the arrival with our extended family and our friends, naming the child, and recognising our child's relationship with specially chosen godparents.

read moreA Church is usually considered to be a group of Christians meeting together and drawn from a local community. In the early Church, these meetings often took place in houses. Our Christian group at Christ Church has a beautiful modern church building in which we can gather for larger meetings and a number of local homes that can be used for house groups and prayer meetings. In 1978 the Anglican parish Church of St. Mary-at-the-Walls got together with the URC congregation in Colchester, and built the new Christ Church building at Ireton Road.

read moreAt Christ Church we are blessed in having a modern building with a flexible space for worship. For most services the space is arranged with the congregation around the Lords table. Worship services at Christ Church usually follow the pattern set out in Common Worship but using a number of the variations allowed according to the theme of the message for that particular week. This second link provides all the contact details of the Safeguarding Team members, should you wish to go directly to them.