CHCC Diary July-Aug 26. Please join us when you can

• Fri 3rd July – Coffee & Chat at The Osier, 10:30am
• Sun 5th July, 10.30am – Service with Communion – speaker Bev Rowe
• Tue 7th July – Meetup at Grace Cook School, evening with TWAM – 7:30pm
• Sun 12th July 10.30am – Service with commissioning of Ben Ince as new leader at CHCC – speaker Chris Miles
• Tue 14th July – Home groups at 7:30pm
• Sun 19th July, 10.30am – ‘Jesus in the OT – Judges’ speaker Jon Steed
• Tue 21st July – Home groups at 7:30pm
• Sun 26th July, 10.30am – All-age service ‘Making the most of every opportunity’ speaker Peter Taylor
• Tue 28th July – Home groups at 7:30pm
• Sun 2nd Aug, 10.30am – Service with Communion ‘Jesus in the OT – 1 Kings’ speaker Jon Steed
• Tue 4th Aug – Meetup at Grace Cook School, Pray and Plan starting at 7:30pm
• Fri 7th Aug – Coffee & Chat at Nareys, 10:30am
• Sun 9th Aug, 10.30am – Service with speaker Paul Law
• Tue 11th Aug – Home groups at 7:30pm
• Sat 15th Aug – ‘Footprints’ Walking Group, 10:30am – meeting point to be confirmed.
• Sun 16th Aug, 10.30am – Service theme ‘Jesus in the OT – 2 Kings’ speaker Jon Steed
• Tue 18th Aug – Home groups at 7:30pm
• Sun 23rd Aug, 10.30am – Service – Speaker and theme TBC
• Tue 25th Aug – Home groups at 7:30pm
• Sun 30th Aug, 10.30am – All-age service – Speaker and Theme TBC
• COMING UP: Christianity Explored Course at Jon and Julie’s home starting 22nd Sept 2026.

New Leader appointed at CHCC

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Ben Ince as our new leader with responsibility for children, teens and families at CHCC. Ben and his wife Jess and little son Levi will join us from Sunday 5th July 2026 in this new and exciting role to help us develop our relationship with local schools, organisations and young families in the area. Ben has been working as youth leader at Battisford Free Church for the last five years so joins us with great experience in this area – and doesnt even have to move house! Ben will immediately be getting involved in our outreach activities and regular church calendar and is keen to start looking at new ways to serve our local community and share the good news about Jesus. He will be commissioned during our 10:30am service on Sunday 12th July and we will be organising an afternoon welcome service as soon as we can. Watch this space!

Summer Quiz for The Cogwheel Trust

Please join us on Saturday 15th August 2026 for our General Knowledge Fun Quiz to raise funds for the Cogwheel Trust for Children, a small but very effective charity who have strong links to Suffolk churches and who work with children in Uganda and India. More info about CWT can be found at https://cogwheelinternational.org/

We welcome teams of up to 6 to join us for this fun evening in the hall at Grace Cook School. Suggested donation £5 per person. There will be a BBQ in the playground at 6pm with the quiz starting at 7:00pm in the hall. Please bring your own food and drink if you’d prefer. Everyone welcome. Please register your team via chiltonhallchurch@gmail.com or call 07444 309347.

Coming Up!!… Christianity Explored Course starts 22nd Sept 26

We will be running the seven week Christianity Explored course from 22nd Sept through until the end of October in Jon & Julie’s home starting each week at 6:30pm for food and 7:30pm for the course itself. Please watch the video above and register your interest by emailing us at chiltonhallchurch@gmail.com telling us you would like to attend.

Weekly CHCC Services at Grace Cook School – Sundays, 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.
• Sunday Club sessions running at the same time in the schools lovely library and led by two DBS certificated helpers. Our Sunday Club currently focuses on KS1 primary aged children but KS2 can be accommodated by the provision of age-related resources and supervision.
• 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.

Sunday Club every Sunday morning

We are delighted that we now have Sunday Club up and running at the same time as our morning service at Grace Cook School every week. Catering for primary KS1 aged children with DBS cleared leaders, fun activities and utilising the lovely library space in the school. All children welcome.

Thank you to all who joined us over Christmas & Easter

We had a very busy but wonderfully blessed time at both Christmas and Easter with lots of visitors on site for our variety of events. At Christmas we were joined by the Stowmarket Concert Band. An angel, Mary, Joseph, Simeon and King Herod all made appearances too as we asked the question ‘Jesus – faithful or traitor?’ Then at Easter we had services on Good Friday and Easter Sunday with a lovely family event on Saturday when so many children and families joined us for the family fun event that we ran out of Easter eggs. Thank you to all who came and joined in. Next year we will order more eggs!

More info about life at CHCC

We fill this page with recent news, photos and events detailing life at CHCC but there is more to give you a flavour of church life on a new page called Gallery where you can see 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 ‘All Church Meetup’ at Grace Cook Primary School on the first Tuesday of every month.

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.

Christian MP Shares Gospel with Parliamentarians

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