CHCC Diary Jan – Feb 25

• Sun 5th Jan – Vision service for 2025 – Speaker Jon Steed
• Tues 7th Jan – All Church Meetup at the Barn at 7:30pm
• Fri 10th Jan – CHCC Coffee & Chat at The Osier Cafe (10:30am)
• Sun 12th Jan – Service theme ‘How should you pray?’ – Speaker Jon Steed
• Tue 14th Jan – CHCC Monthly Day of Prayer
• Tue 14th Jan – Home groups at 7:30pm
• Sun 19th Jan – Service theme ‘Whose will be done?’ – Speaker Linda Ottewell
• Tue 21st Jan – Home groups at 7:30pm
• Sun 26th Jan – Family Service theme ‘Our daily bread’ – Speaker Linda Ottewell
• Tue 18th Jan – Home groups at 7:30pm
• Sun 2nd Feb – Service theme ‘Forgive…as we forgive’ – Speaker Alan Lancaster
• Tue 4th Feb – All Church Meetup in the Library at the School at 7:30pm
• Fri 7th Feb – CHCC Coffee & Chat at Narys Cafe (10:30am)
• Sun 9th Feb – Service theme ‘Don’t lead us into temptation?’ – Speaker Iain Shaddick
• Tue 11th Feb – Home groups at 7:30pm
• Sun 16th Feb – Service theme ‘Yours…the kingdom, power and glory’ – Speaker Linda Ottewell
• Tue 18th Feb – Home groups at 7:30pm
• Sun 23rd Feb – Family Service theme ‘The Lord’s Prayer?’ – Speaker Jon Steed
• Tue 25th Feb – Home groups at 7:30pm

The Big Quiz 2024

A Big thank you to all who joined us for The Big Quiz 2024 for Tearfund on Saturday 16th November in the hall at Grace Cook Primary School. Around 70 quizzers joined us to raise £470.00 for Tearfund in a fun-filled and brain-straining evening. Congratulations to our winning team ‘Les Quizerables’ but thanks to all who made it such a fun evening. We are already planning to make it four Big Quiz years in a row in 2025.

We meet at Grace Cook Primary School on Sunday at 10:30am

We are very excited to call Grace Cook Primary School our home in Fuller Way, Chilton Leys, Stowmarket, IP14 1GG. It is a lovely facility and we meet every Sunday at 10:30am and we would love you to join us.

Our services usually contain:

• a warm welcome, including tea/coffee and biscuits.
• A Junior Church session running at the same time in the schools lovely library and led by two DBS certificated helpers. Our JC is for primary aged children.
• singing (worship) with live musicians or video with all the words on a big screen
• a prayer led by one of our church family
• teaching from the Bible
• a final song, prayer or sometimes a chat about our theme for the day
• we also have a prayer room for confidential prayer with anyone who would like that.
• after the service we have the opportunity to spend time together as a church family having a catch up and getting to know one another better – and more tea/coffee and biscuits!

There is no dress code, no-one is excluded, no equipment or church experience is necessary and there is no requirement to understand the Christian faith in depth. Please just come as you are.

We now have ‘Junior Church’ every Sunday morning

We are delighted that we now have a ‘Junior Church’ session (Sunday school) up and running at the same time as our morning service at Grace Cook School every week. Catering for primary aged children with DBS cleared leaders, fun activities and utilising the lovely library space in the school. All children welcome.

ReIgnite Worship – Sun 28th July 2024

We were so privileged to be able to host the lastest ReIgnite Worship evening at Grace Cook Primary School. Just managing to fit all the cars in the car park we had approaching 100 people from many local churches who met together for an evening of praise to God. The next one is scheduled for 29th September at a Venue TBC. The videos below give a flavour of the evening…

Christianity Explored Course

We ran this informal course earlier this year in the home of one of our church family on Chilton Hall Estate. Preceeded by a meal together we had a wonderful time on this course exploring the good news about Jesus.
We will be holding another CE course later this year and you can register your interest by emailing us at chiltonhallchurch@gmail.com telling us you would like to attend.

Big Quiz for Tearfund 2024

We will again be hosting The Biq Quiz to raise funds for TEAR Fund on Saturday 16th November. Last year around 70 quizzers joined us to raise money for Tearfund. The winning team was ‘Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore’ but well done to all eleven teams who took part. The total raised in 2023 was exactly £350.00.

Harvest at CHCC

We had a lovely, lively time at both our Harvest Supper on Tuesday 3rd October at ‘The Barn’ and at our Harvest Family service on Sunday 8th October at Grace Cook School. The supper was delicioius and we also enjoyed the entertainment provided afterwards by Steve. Thanks to all involved.

Our family service included childen’s songs and stories, five different craft activities which were enjoyed by all ages, including ice the biscuit and wreath making. Following on from that we looked at the story of Ruth and Boaz in the Bible, even doing some harvesting together as we learned how God encourages us to share what we have with those who need help. We also sang some lovely Harvest hymns together, both old and new. We also had a lovely display of items collected for Stowmarket Foodbank.

Christian MP Shares Gospel with Parliamentarians

Nick Fletcher shares his faith in Jesus Christ with fellow MPs in a debate about the importance of Christianity to society.

More info about life at CHCC

We used to fill this page with recent news, photos and events detailing life at CHCC. This was getting too long for our home page so we have moved that to a new page called Gallery where you can see more about what we get up to.

CHCC Home Groups and Meetups

We currently meet every Tuesday evening from 7:30pm alternating between Home Groups on the estate and a monthly ‘Meetup’ at the Barn at White Cottage Farm on Combs Lane (IP14 3BN)

CHCC Monthly Coffee and Chat

Several friends of CHCC meet up once a month for coffee and a chat on a Friday morning at either Osier at the Church or at Nareys. Please see our diary of events above for more information. Everyone wecome.

CHCC at StowFiesta 2023

We hope to be involved at StowFiesta 2023 on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th May. Looking forward to seeing you there again this year.