Weekly Update

Dear Friends, welcome to the New Year. 
Do join us at  9am and 10.30am where we will be starting 2022 by looking at Faith, Hope and Love from 1 Corinthians 13.
Sunday 9am and 10.30am services in church. You can also join us as usual every Sunday at 10.30 am on our live stream. Just follow this link: https://www.christchurchware.co.uk/live-stream.html
If you have missed any of our services or want to watch them again do subscribe to our You Tube channel for all the latest updates and past video’s www.youtube.com/ChristChurchWare
Please note that due to the latest government guidance please wear a face covering in church unless you are exempt.  We will update you when we receive further guidance.

Save the date - Saturday 26th February 2022
Our church Away Day (at home this time!!) returns, with times of worship, encounter, teaching, fun and laughter. There will also be a Children’s and Youth programme for the day.
Our guest speaker is the Reverend Nicola Moy. She is the vicar of Christ Church W4 in Chiswick, a ministry partner of CPAS, a speaker at Lee Abbey and was on the leadership team of New Wine. She loves travel and has ministered in India, Africa and Asia, but not yet South America! She is married to Richard, the new National Director of SOMA UK, and they have 3 school aged children and a dog!! Prior to ordination she was an RE teacher. Further details in the New Year.


Inter-church Quiz – Saturday 22nd January 2022
Christ Church will be hosting the Inter-church Quiz on Saturday 22nd January at 7.30 p.m.  Interested teams (maximum 8 people) should register with Christ Church Office by phone (01920 487267) or email ([email protected]).  Any individuals not in teams can be grouped on the night.  We will not be providing food this year, so please bring your own nibbles and drinks (alcoholic drinks allowed).  We will provide tea and coffee.  All money raised will be going to Tearfund in Rwanda.  The suggested donation is £5 per head.  Please use the following link for more information and to donate:   https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/wareinterchurchquiz


SEVEN worship team
If you would like to be involved in one of the worship teams for our Sunday evening Seven service, then we will be gathering on Saturday 8th January at 9.30 am to worship together and create the worship teams for 2022. Please email [email protected] for further information and to confirm attendance.


Finding out about faith
Interested in exploring faith?  Or finding out about Christianity? We are offering two
informal opportunities to find out about what it means to know and follow Jesus.
The dates are Mondays 24th and 31st January between 8 pm and 9.15 pm These sessions will be held in church. Please contact the office to register your interest and for further details.
 

Parish Administrator
Congratulations to Hayley Murdoch who will be taking over from Elaine in the office from the middle of January.


Giving at Christ Church
All our ministries are generously supported by members of this church community. If you would like to join them in giving, you can do that here.
or you can give by via bank transfer:
Account name: Christ Church Ware PCC  Account Number: 00086783   Sort Code: 40 52 40


Christmas Clear Up
We would welcome volunteers to help with Christmas ‘clear up’, take down Christmas tree and so on.  We plan to do this on Wednesday 5th January.  If you can help please call the office on 01920 487267 or email [email protected]


God bless,
John and the Christ Church Team.