On 13 August, we had the pleasure of commissioning Andrea Leonard at a special service led by Andy Wooding-Jones (the Archdeacon of Rochester). Andrea is joining the team here at Christ Church as our Community Missioner having worked at St Justus, Rochester for the past 4 years. What’s a Community Missioner? When we were designing …

We are delighted to announce that Andrea Leonard has accepted the invitation to join us as Community Missioner and Priest-in-Charge. Andrea will move to Christ Church in the summer, and we will publish details about the commissioning service soon.

Our Annual Parochial Church meeting is taking place on Sunday 7 April as part of our 10:30 morning worship. We’ll gather as usual and there will be a short break at 11:15, and we’ll start the business meeting at about 11:30am. After the meeting, everyone is welcome to stay for a bring & share lunch …

The Bishop of Rochester would like to appoint a Priest-in-Charge with a particular focus as “Community Missioner” to work with us as we participate in the Missio Dei in this part of Chatham.

Following on from our Away Day in June, we want to carry on thinking about what it means to be a worshipping, missional community. Throughout the Autumn, we will be exploring what it means for us to be a “Deep Church”. The phrase comes from CS Lewis who when asked about the style of church …