Christ Church Manchester - 5th October 2010

"We are a church on the east side AND in the centre / south of Manchester"

We are a church on the east side AND in the centre / south of Manchester. We do a lot of stuff here is a far from comprehensive list of all that we do.

Before you read it please remember that we are a church that currently gathers a mere 80 ish people across two meetings on a Sunday

CCM:East - Every other Tuesday Stu and Kirsty Gosling (solid gold legends, although Stu loves AC/DC but we shall let him off that) are gathering a crowd of people to meet, pray, worship and seek God for the east side of Greater Manchester. They have a facebook page. We want to see God break out in very tough part of our City so if you are on the side of the city and want to get involved (why wouldn’t you?) then get in touch with .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). So that is pioneering/groundbreaking/missional/mind-blowing project number 1.

CCM:India - Sue and Clare are tearing up the Subcontinent as we speak. So Christ Church Manchester sends people out on international mission. They have a facebook page. So that is pioneering/groundbreaking/missional/mind-blowing project number 2.

CCM:Gorton - Every Wednesday we gather a group of people in Gorton to eat curry, pray and worship together. This is no ordinary small group (thank goodness, I went to an ordinary small group once and set fire to my shoes just so we could have something interesting to talk about. Fact!*). Gorton is a broken place with high levels of drug abuse, alcoholism, unemployment and a billion other problems so what do we need to do? We need to make sure church thrives there and Jesus is the most well know person in Gorton. They have a facebook page. So that is pioneering/groundbreaking/missional/mind-blowing project number 3.

CCM:Eden - Eden is our Urban youth work that Steve and Liana Roast run. They have recently been joined by the Fleet family and four students from The Messages Genetik programme. Guess what? They have a facebook page. So that is pioneering/groundbreaking/missional/mind-blowing project number 4.

CCM:Youth - We have a youth group. I got stuck in a field with these guys at Newday and I didn’t end hating any of them. I cannot pay them a bigger compliment. You know what? They have a facebook page. So that is pioneering/groundbreaking/missional/mind-blowing project number 5

Pause for breath. Get a cup of tea. Ready?

CCM:City - Every Sunday we run our evening meeting at Luther King House from 6pm. This week I nearly had my ear drums by Kelani’s drumming. We rock hard and God shows up. What more could you ask for? A facebook page? Here you go. Oh and these guys have a blog. So that is pioneering/groundbreaking/missional/mind-blowing project number 6.

CCM:Chapel - The Chapel is the community of CCM:City. The Chapel is CCM:City at play. So we run an Open Mic after every evening meeting so that we can hang out and play music. We plan to run some dubstep nights and I really really want to run a punk night (humor me). The Chapel shares a facebook page with CCM:City. So that is pioneering/groundbreaking/missional/mind-blowing project number 7.

I haven’t mentioned a whole bunch of small groups, the worship team, the set up, the kids work, the worship conference or that loads of you help out at Oasis.

I was once a part of a church that had 700 members. That church did 10% of what CCM does. I am not even joking**.

So if you find yourself praying this week then that lot should keep you going.

Christ Church Manchester - 5th October 2010

We are a church on the east side AND in the centre / south of Manchester. We do a lot of stuff here is a far from comprehensive list of all that we do.