Sunday Mornings at Christ Church Manchester
Tim Simmonds
We meet at Hyde Town Hall every Sunday morning from 10:30am until around 12noon. We meet together because we love worshipping, we love spending time with each other and because we love Tameside and East Manchester. Simple really.
On an average Sunday (although, they are far from average!) we turn up have some coffee, catch up with old friends and look out for our new friends. Community is important us. We want to share our lives with each other in real and meaningful ways. Sunday mornings are a small but important part of that.
Once we have had our fill of tea and coffee we will usually have a few songs of praise led by one of our worship leaders and a band of musicians. We have a number of different nationalities represented among us and so our worship can take on a variety of different flavours.
After a couple of songs the kids all go out to take part in various different activities. Kids are as important to us adults, so we like to have a lot of fun with them as well as teach them about Jesus at the same time. We run a crèche for the under 3s, a group for the 3 – 6s, a group 6-9s and a group for the 11 – 14s. We have dedicated leaders (who all have CRB checks and are well trained in child protection) for each of these groups who work hard to make sure that we offer quality kids work to our children and teenagers.
While the kids are out partying hard the rest of us listen to 25 – 35 minutes of teaching. We like to use the bible and we like our teaching to be focussed on God and real life application of the gospel. Most of the teaching is done by people who go to Christ Church but occasionally we get visiting speakers as well.
Once the speaker has finished we spend some more time worshiping together and reflecting on the teaching.
The meeting usually finishes at 12noon. At this point people with kids collect them from the children’s work. We finish off our time together by consuming tea, coffee, cake and biscuits.
Sound good? Come down and check us out.
