Christ Church Birkenhead

20/05/2026

REMINDER APCM AND APM MEETINGS SUNDAY 24TH MAY
AND
CHURCH REOPENING UPDATES
***AN UPDATE FROM THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF CHRIST CHURCH BIRKENHEAD***

Dear friends,

Greetings in Christ!

Following the 10.45am Family Service at St Saviour’s Church, Oxton, the Christ Church Birkenhead Annual Parish Meeting and Annual Parochial Church Meeting meetings will take place consecutively on Sunday 24th May.

This is a significant time in the life and governance of the parish, as we reflect on the year gone by, review the mission and ministry of the church, and prayerfully look ahead to the future direction of parish life.

We also want to acknowledge that the anticipated reopening date for has unfortunately had to be pushed back. We are now hopeful that the church will reopen on Sunday 20th June.

We recognise that this news will be disappointing and frustrating for many, and we share in that sadness. We know how much people are longing to return home to Christ Church, and we are deeply grateful for the patience, understanding, encouragement, and prayers that have been shown throughout this period. Our hope remains that these works will help secure and strengthen the future life and ministry of the church for many years to come.

It remains the clear priority of the PCC to ensure that the church can reopen safely and responsibly as soon as possible. In the meantime, as previously communicated, we kindly ask that nobody enters the church building without the explicit written consent of the PCC, whilst works and safety processes continue.

We are also deeply grateful to everyone at St Saviour’s, and especially to Fr Marc and his team, for the warmth, generosity, and hospitality they have shown to our church family during this time. It has been a real joy to continue worshipping alongside you, and a gift to rekindle old friendships whilst also forming many new ones within the life of the church community.

As part of the APCM and APM meetings, a number of important parish officer are to be prayerfully discerned and filled. If you feel called to serve the church in one of these capacities, or would simply like to find out more ahead of the meetings, please do speak with any member of the PCC.

The following positions are currently vacant:

🔹 SAFEGUARDING OFFICER
To help oversee and support the safeguarding life of the church, including safer recruitment processes, DBS coordination, training compliance, policy updating and implementation, and working alongside the diocese to help ensure that Christ Church remains a safe and welcoming place for all.

🔹 CHURCHWARDENS x2
To share in the legal, practical, pastoral, and spiritual responsibilities of senior lay leadership within the parish, including the management and care of the church building and its fabric, participation in the governance and statutory responsibilities of the parish, support of the clergy and congregation, and encouragement of the wider mission and ministry of Christ Church.

🔹 PCC SECRETARY
To support the governance and administration of the PCC through the preparation of agendas, recording of minutes, management of correspondence, and helping ensure the smooth and effective running of parish meetings and procedures.

🔹 TREASURER
To oversee the financial administration of the parish, including budgeting, financial reporting, Gift Aid, and helping ensure the church’s finances are managed responsibly and transparently.

Please continue to pray for the life of Christ Church, for wisdom, unity, and for those whom God may be calling into these important ministries.

Please do help us by sharing this update so that as many people as possible are aware of the meetings, vacancies, and church reopening information.

07/05/2026

Our Vicar, Revd Dan Harris joined the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Sarah Mullally, on her pilgrimage to Rome last week. Click the youtube link to find out more!🇻🇦✨

We are so proud of him and all that he continues to do in representing our church, parish and diocese. Please keep Revd Dan, Archbishop Sarah, and our church family in your prayers. 🙏

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

14/04/2026

***AN UPDATE FROM THE PAROCHIAL CHURCH COUNCIL OF CHRIST CHURCH BIRKENHEAD***

Dear friends,

Greetings in Christ!

Following the PCC meeting held on Thursday 9th April, the PCC discussed the ongoing challenges relating to our church building.

It was agreed that our aim is to have the building open again on Sunday 24th May. This time frame allows for the necessary work by external contractors to be completed. Our priority throughout is a clear commitment to safety during these works and to ensuring that the building can be reopened safely.

This will also be the date of our APCM and Parish Meeting. More information about these will be shared in the coming weeks.

We recognise that this is later than the date originally hoped for, and that this may be disappointing or challenging. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

During this period of work, it is important that no one enters the building without prior go authorisation from the PCC, as has been previously communicated. This is an important part of maintaining safety while work is ongoing.

We are especially grateful to Peter, our Churchwarden, who has been working tirelessly with external contractors to help bring us back into the building safely. We also extend our thanks to the parish of St Saviour Oxton for their warm welcome, and to Father Mark for his support and generosity. We also thank St Saviour’s for their ongoing openness to hosting us during their services while we are unable to use our building. We are mindful that they have recently experienced similar challenges with their own church building and are therefore able to understand this situation well.

As we reflect on this season, we are reminded of what it has meant to remain joined together in prayer, in faithfulness, and in walking alongside one another while our building has been closed. It has been a powerful reminder that the Church is not simply a building, but a people, a community gathered in Christ.

We have been greatly encouraged by the ways in which, as a church family, we have continued to support and uplift one another. As a PCC, we warmly encourage our church family to continue in this spirit of generosity, care, and fellowship in the weeks ahead.

If there are any changes, we will ensure that you are informed as promptly as possible.

This coming Sunday, the service at St Saviour will be a joint service with Bishop Julie visiting at 10am. We look forward to seeing everyone there as we worship together.

Thank you for your continued patience and understanding.

Please do feel free to share this message so that as many people as possible are informed.

With every blessing,
Christ Church Birkenhead PCC

05/04/2026

👋✝️✨ Reverend Dan’s Easter message of Hope!

Today, as we celebrate the reality of the risen Christ, we do so not in denial of the world as it is, but in full view of it.

We are not shielded from the headlines. We feel the tremors of conflict, the threat of war, the uncertainty of economies, and the fragility of peace. We know what it is to live with questions that have no easy answers. And closer to home, we feel the disorientation of our own church building being temporarily closed, though we hope, God willing, to reopen in the week following the 19th of April.

And yet…

Even here, even now, I find myself deeply encouraged.

Encouraged by all of our church family. By your faithfulness, your gentleness, your quiet perseverance. By the way you have continued to walk together, pray together, and hold one another through this Lenten season. You have embodied a simple but profound truth. The Church is not just a building. The Church is a people. A people that are alive, attentive, and rooted in Christ.

And this is where Easter meets us.

Because the Easter message is not a refusal to acknowledge suffering. It is not an escape from the darkness. It is not a sentimental optimism that ignores reality.

It is something far more radical.

It is the proclamation that within the suffering, within the uncertainty, within the darkness, death does not have the final word! It cannot.

Hopelessness is not the deepest truth of our existence.

Love is.

The risen Christ, the one who is love, who walked out of the tomb, who stood among his frightened disciples, who spoke peace into their chaos, has not stopped doing so. He continues, even now, to overturn the false orders of this world. He continues to love!

He is the Prince of Peace in an age of anxiety.
He is love incarnate in a world that forgets how to love.
He is the way, the truth, and the life, not as abstraction, but as presence.

And he comes to you and as you.

Not as an idea, not as a distant story, but as a living reality.

So however you find yourself today, whether full of faith or full of questions, whether steady or struggling, please know this:

The resurrection is not a fable we remember.
It is a life we are invited into.

Christ has died.
Christ is risen.
And Christ is coming again.

God cannot be overcome.
Love will not be undone.
And peace is not a dream. It is our home.

Happy Easter!

… HE HAS RISEN INDEED!:

26/03/2026

Christ Church Birkenhead sends our prayers and every blessing to Archbishop Sarah Mullally as she begins her ministry as Archbishop of Canterbury. May God grant her wisdom strength and grace in her ministry.

With God all things are possible!

23/02/2026

Happy Monday! ☀️ If you’re reading this today, please know that Christ Church Birkenhead is praying for you this week.

18/02/2026

Join us this evening at Christ Church Birkenhead for our Ash Wednesday Service at 7.30pm.

A quiet, reflective space to begin Lent with the imposition of ashes on the forehead; all are welcome! 🛐🔔✨

17/02/2026

from all of us at Christ Church Birkenhead. ✨

09/02/2026

👋 This Sunday 15th Feb at Christ Church ⛪Bishop Julie will be joining us! Come and say hello 😊 Gathering from 10.15am ☕🙏

02/02/2026

🎄➡️✝️ Candlemas is here! And, yes, that technically means it’s time to take down your Christmas tree. We see you, tinsel warriors.

In many Christian traditions, the tree’s trunk is even fashioned into a cross to point toward the season ahead. Whether you go that far or just recycle it, Candlemas invites us to pause and reflect on the JOY, wonder, and peace of Simeon and Anna meeting the Christ child, and to invite the light of Christ's love and hope to go deeper into our hearts as we prepare for what’s to come.

Wishing you a Candlemas full of the same satisfaction… and maybe a little smug relief as that tree FINALLY leaves your living room. Happy Candlemas from all of us at Christ Church Birkenhead! 🕯️✨