Past Events at Christ Church

 

A big thank you to all who cooked, wrote, danced, laughed, acted and generally came along to enjoy our evening.

Thank you for supporting this fun event and also raising funds for our church community.

We look forward to Pantomime 2027!

We will soon post the 2026 pictures, but for now, please enjoy the photos from previous years.

 

We welcomed many people to our 2025 Christmas services, regular worshipers at Christ Church, regular worshipers from elsewhere and those that enjoys attending the services during this special period.

We enjoyed an Advent Carols Service, a candlelit service of Advent Carols and Readings, a Family Christingle followed by a party, Nine Lessons with Carols, a Family Crib Service, Midnight Holy Communion and then our Christmas Day Services .

At our services the collections supported our 3 chosen charities for the period. The charities were nominated by members of our congregation and then 3 were chosen representing a local, national and international charity.

During the 2024 Christmas period we supported:

• St Michael’s Hospice
• The Ellen MacArther Cancer Trust
• Médecins Sans Frontières
• Christ Church

We want to thank everyone that played a part in the services and celebrations, those that sung and played music, wardened, provided food and drinks, prepared the church the decorations and flowers, provided technical support, drove the bus, served during the services, welcomed and so much more.

We also want to thank everyone that came along to the services.

 

A big thank you to all who donated, volunteered and came along to our Christmas Fair.

We raised over £1,700 so a big thank you to everyone involved.

As well as raising funds, it was a lovely event with stalls selling beautiful items, perfect for Christmas presents….Father Christmas even came to join the fun and give out some early Christmas gifts to the children that went to see him.

All this along with refreshments and festive live music from our Church musicians.

If you missed the event, hopefully you can join us next time!

 

We want to thank everyone that played a part in the remembrance service this year.

 

We celebrated and thanked God during our Harvest Worship.

We received many kind donations of dried and tinned food for our Harvest Collection which has been divided between the Harrogate Homeless Hostel and the Harrogate Foodbank.

The Flower Team produced some beautiful arrangements of Harvest Flowers and our Junior Church created some wonderful and colourful Harvest Banners to decorate our Church.

Thank you to everyone that was involved in the celebrations and for the generous donations to Harrogate Homeless Hostel and the Harrogate Foodbank.

 

We have a very active Choir and Music Group at the Church. 

Congratulations to the choristers who have recently passed various levels of RSCM singing exams.

The choir often take part in combined choir evensong at different Harrogate churches. The children have performed brilliantly in solo verse – choral singing is alive and well in Harrogate!

To find out more about music at the our Church, please visit the Choir and Music Groups page of our website.

An annual event which usually takes place of the Vicarage during August.

Sometimes the Garden Party has been relocated from The Vicarage Garden to the Parish Centre due to the weather! When this happens is doesn’t dampen spirits as the hall is transformed into an inside Garden Party with gazebo, deck chairs and a bowling green!

At the last event, over 100 people attend and enjoyed scones, jam and cream and delicious cakes.

A great time was had by all!

We say a big thank you to all those who baked, delivered/moved or arranged garden furniture and tents, taxied, served and most of all everyone that attended and had fun.

Thanks to all the made a donation to help us raise some additional funds for the Church too.

 

We have a very active Junior Church & Creche at the Church. 

Recently the younger members of our Church have been getting creative at our Harvest Celebrations, Rogation Service and Easter Club.

To find out more please visit the Young People at Christ Church page of our website.

 

A service of readings and prayers for Rogationtide and World Environment Day. This took place at a number of locations around the Church. Whilst the congregation listened to readings and prayed for our community and environment, the Junior Church got creative in the outdoors. They made models to represent our service using plasticine, Lego and pipe cleaners.

It was a lovely service helping us to think about our local surroundings and be thankful. We were also very thankful of the beautiful sunshine!