News & Updates
Christmas 2025 at Canning Road
It’s CHRIIIIIISTMAS! 🌟 We’ve got loads going on this winter season. Take a look at our activities and get-togethers below.
Messy Christmas - 29th Nov
Our next Messy Church is on Saturday 29th of November, from 2-4pm, and it’s going to be a Messy Christmas! ⛄
Autumn 2025 at Canning Road
Autumn. Yum. A time to wrap up, get cosy, and be grateful for the good things in life. One of those good things is being with people so why not come and chill with us? 🍪🍂
Messy Church - 5th of April
On Saturday 5th of April, 2-4pm, we are gearing up for Easter with an Easter-y themed Messy Church.
Messy Church - Saturday 1st of February
Get ready for Messy Church on Saturday 1st of February, 2-4pm! This time our theme is the wise and foolish builders (“the wise man built his house upon the rock”!) 🏡
Messy Church is coming - Saturday 5th October
Get ready for our next Messy Church on Saturday 5th October, 2-4pm! We’ll be celebrating the theme of harvest with fun activities and crafts for all ages. As usual, we’ll finish up with a snack time featuring fruit, biscuits, and more.
A fun family day - June 29th
Despite the wet weather, our planned Neighbourhood BBQ turned into a fantastic Family Fun Day indoors! We had a great turnout, with families enjoying a bouncy castle, face painting, and BBQ food. The church was also open for reflection and prayer, where people enjoyed discovering our bright and open worship space.
Christmas 2023 at Canning Road
Christmas is about Jesus - God, born for us on Earth, to show the way home to our Heavenly Father. Come and join the celebration of a God so good and so humble, that he would be born in a feeding trough!
Date Change - Messy Church - 22nd July 2023
On Saturday, 22nd of July we are having Messy Church from 2pm til 4pm.
We're looking for a Kids, Youth, and Schools Pastor
We are looking for someone with a passion to see Jesus transform the lives of kids and young people in High Park!
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! We had a great time over this Christmas and New Year with our Carols by Candlelight service, Christmas service, and of course, wonderful time with family and friends. We hope you did too.
Messy Church - October 2022
This Saturday, 1st October we are having Messy Church with the theme “Jesus the miracle worker” from 2pm til 4pm.
Messy Church - June 2022
On Saturday 25th June we are having Messy Church with the theme “Servant King” at 4 til 6pm.
What a Jubilee!
A big “thank you!” to everyone who came to our Platinum Jubilee neighbourhood party, and made it such a good time. You all brought really tasty food, and we hope you enjoyed meeting neighbours, old and new!
High Park Jubilee Street Party
On Saturday 4th June from 2-4pm we’re hosting a street party (really a car park party) for all of High Park, to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee 👑
Carols by Candlelight 2021
We are celebrating the Christmas season with our annual Carols by Candlelight service, which will be on Sunday 19th December at 6pm. We’d love to see you there for 12 carols and 12 readings that tell the Christmas story. It’s a beautiful, peaceful service and a great way to ring in Christmas.
Enter the Light Zone
Since 2016, we’ve run a Halloween ‘Light Zone’ outside our house in High Park. It’s a bit of a neighbourhood fixture and lots of people ask me every year “Are you doing hot chocolate again this year? Your house is the best at Halloween!”. This is really fun because we don’t do anything scary at all, but kids and their parents don’t care about that!
Church at Home - 22nd November - John Sutton Smith
This video will be released on Sunday morning at 6:45am so that you can watch it anytime, morning or evening.
Church at Home - 8th November - Faithful and Fruitful
This video will be released on the morning of Sunday 8th at 6:45am so that you can watch it anytime, morning or evening.
Alpha is coming
Alpha is starting at Canning Road on Monday 29th April at 7pm! Alpha is an opportunity to explore life and the Christian faith in a friendly, open and informal environment.
Messy Church Soon
This Saturday, we are doing Messy Church with a focus on Mothers’ Day! There will be loads of opportunities for kids to make crafts for their Mums, and we will also be hearing all about what it was like to be the mother of history’s most important man…
Our first indoor picnic of 2018
From time to time, we like to share lunch together as a church. There are loads of good reasons to do this, like:
Carols by Candlelight is back for 2017
Our Carols by Candlelight service is on the 17th December 2017 at 6pm!
Our Halloween Witness
It’s tricky to know how to handle Halloween as Christians and as the church. We don’t want to participate in a festival that celebrates darkness and evil, but ideally we don’t want to be hidden away in our homes with the lights off - after all, that’s not much of a witness from a people whose life, hope, and strength is in Jesus.
Weekend away 2017
At the beginning of October, around twenty of us from the church went to Thornleigh Christian Centre in Grange-over-Sands for our annual weekend away. We had a really nice time together, sharing meals and getting teaching from Stuart and Katherine, who have been missionaries in many different countries.