It’s a busy year for the Stevenette family.
Last weekend saw the wedding of Thomas Stevenette and Rachel (Rae)Cordon at St Mary’s Attenborough near Nottingham. All the Nottingham church family, choir, bellringers and flower arrangers were there and supported in every way. The Vicar […..]
We have now received further advice from our Garden advisor on ideas for the East-West Section of the Jubilee Memorial Garden. This section presents a number of more complex challenges than the completed one.
The proposals seek to address a number of issues […..]
John’s funeral and Simon’s compassionate leave
We are enormously grateful for all the love and prayers we have received since John/ Dad’s death on 7th May. We had a wonderful funeral service with Holy Communion at St Leonard’s Sunningwell last Monday. All the family were […..]
A letter from Simon
My father John died peacefully at Princess Lodge Nursing Home, Swindon on Saturday 7th May at 8.20pm aged 91 years old. Thank you for your support, kindness and prayers especially over the last two and half years whilst […..]
Grass Management at Christ Church
Some of our grass areas are being managed as part of a wider Land Management Plan.They will not be cut until later in the Summer to encourage the development of more, native, wildflower species. The longer grass […..]
The A.P.C.M. is the Annual Parochial Church Meeting. It is actually two meetings the ‘Vestry Meeting’ when we elect Churchwardens for the coming year and the APCM itself which is the business meeting of the Church – like an AGM. This year’s […..]
After the lull of Covid, there is a lot beginning to happen in and around Christ Church.
We remain committed to balancing our Eco strategies with good communications. and so avoid printing unecessary paper where we can.
We have produced a downloadable leaflet on our […..]
The weather was fine ( but a bit cold!) but we welcomed a good number of families along with our Mayor Cllr Perkins, his wife Abnet, and Sir Robert Buckland our MP to our commissioning event on Sunday. The Mayor and Sir Robert unveiled a beautiful oak sign made by […..]
Mission Giving at Christ Church with St Mary’s
All our Mission Giving today will be shared between Marie Curie and Swindon Food Collective. Both charities work locally to support our community in different ways. Please use a gift aid envelope and mark it with […..]
Our drive to becoming a more eco aware church continues, following our intial award of Bronze certification from the A Rocha organisation.
You can read the latest update from Phil Mansfield who leads our efforts here.
It shows […..]
We are looking forward to our annual Old Town Partnership Confirmation which will be on Sunday 8th May at 10am Bishop Viv, Bishop of Bristol will be confirming, along with Mark and Robert at Bath Road Methodist Church.
We will run a Confirmation preparation […..]
For your diary: The Partnership Lent Study will run for five weeks: March 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th and April 5th at Bath Road Methodist Church and begin at 7.30pm and each session will finish by […..]
