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“Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!” Matthew 21:9

Events this month:

There are still a few places left for the Women’s day conference ‘Flourish’ in Biddulph on Saturday 14^th. To book and for more information please click HERE.

This month our family service will be held on Mother’s day, 15^th March at 10.30, with drinks and cookies to follow the service.

Nourish this month is on Friday 20^th. Please contact us if you wish to book a place and for more information see our webpage HERE.

We will be hosting Congleton Unplugged on the 21st March, all proceeds from refreshments will go to charity. See more about this event HERE.

Upcoming Events in April

Our Spring Fair will be held on the 11th April, all proceeds to charity. More details on our webpage HERE.

Donations of clothing, shoes, books, toys and bric-a-brac gratefully received but please bring these AFTER Congleton Unplugged on the 21st of March.

Congleton Bible Week dates have just been announced too! Running 11th-14th of June this year with this years theme “Living successfully in a dangerous world” and with guest speaker Stephen Gaukroger.

Happy New Year!

All our activities that paused for the Christmas holidays will resume from Monday the 5th of January.

Dates for your diary:

Nourish – Friday 16th January – click HERE for more information

Annual AGM- Sunday 18th January, this will follow our morning service.

Baptism Service – Sunday the 25th January at 10.30am. If you are interested in being baptised yourself, please do get in touch.

We are still busy planning next years events, but early in the year we will be having our Annual Spring Fair. So if you are having a spring clear out, maybe put some unwanted items aside for our fair. We’ll confirm the date shortly.

Wishing you all a joyful 2026!

Summer holiday time!

And a big thanks to everyone who contributed to our Summer fair – a total of £632.27 was raised which will be given to “World of Worth” (see https://www.wowuk.org/)

Upcoming August Events

Church picnic in the park – Sunday 10th August (weather permitting – final decision to be made 6th August) – bring a packed lunch to the Sunday morning service for our picnic in the park together.

Family Service – Sunday 24th August

We are also planning on having a working party on Wednesday 13th August and Saturday 23rd August to give our church building a summer ‘spring clean’, anyone that can help out, please get in touch.

Summer Break

Most activities at Cross Street will also take an August break, but Sunday morning and evening services will continue as normal.

Prayer meetings on Wednesday and Bible studies on Thursday will stop for August, and there will be no Nourish in August. Prayer meetings and Bible study will restart the first week of september.

Children’s activities (already stopped for the summer break) will restart in the second week of September (Toddlers and Lighthouse).

Coming in September…

Coming up in September we are planning a “Christianity Explored” course – date to be confirmed soon!

We’ve had a break over the summer from our mid week activities but everything is restarting again the first week of September:

Wednesdays, 10.00 – 11.30 a.m. – Toddler Group
Wednesdays, 1.00 – 2.00 p.m. – Prayer meeting
Thursdays, 7.15 p.m. – Bible study
Fridays, 5.30 – 7.00 p.m. – Lighthouse

Our next Family service will be Sunday 8th September

Nourish will be on Friday 20th September at 12.00 noon, £4 contribution towards food.

Sunday 29th September, 10.30 a.m. will be our Harvest service and Harvest lunch. We will be having homemade soup together with Andrew’s amazing apple crumble (gluten free and diabetic options also available). Please let us know if you wish to come for catering purposes.

Our next fair has now been announced, save the date! – this will be on 2nd November 9.30-2pm.

Happy Easter!

Our next baptismal Service will be on Sunday 21st April 10.30 – 11.45 a.m. All welcome!

Events in October:

Saturday 14th, 1.00 p.m. – The Wedding of Gareth Snelson and Jennifer Bright
Next Nourish – Friday 20th, 12.00 noon
Autumn Fair – Saturday 28th, 9.30 a.m. – 2.30 p.m. We will be collecting pre-loved clothes, bric a brac, Christmas decorations, books etc. and of course if you are able to bake a cake for the cake stall that will be greatly appreciated. Proceeds will be going to the children we sponsor.

Lighthouse breaks up for the half term for a couple of weeks 20th and 27th of October.

If anyone missed any of Congleton Bible Week sessions – they are available on youtube to catch up here: https://www.youtube.com/@congletonbibleweek838

Or you can also watch them from our website here: https://crossstreetchurch.co.uk/congleton-bible-week-21st-24th-september/

Coming soon in November:

Sunday 5th, 10.30 – 11.15 a.m. – All age Family Service
6.00 p.m. – Evening of Prayer for the persecuted church with Keith Davies (C.S.W. – Christian Solidarity Worldwide)
Nourish – Friday 17th, 12.00 noon
Safeguarding Sunday – Sunday 19th
Health and Wellbeing Day with Rachel David – Saturday 25th, 10.30 a.m. – 2.30 p.m.
Sunday 26th, 10.30 a.m. – Guest speakers: Andy & Rachel David (WOW – World of Worth)