It’s been a rollercoaster two years at Christ Church. We’ve lost dear congregation members, some of whom to Covid itself, and we’ve had to react to gov- ernmental regulations and balance different views of how we safely worship. But there’s also been lots of wonderful positives, which are easy for us to lose sight of, especially in light of how this pandemic is leaving many of us frustrated and exhausted. The Spirit has been moving in Christ Church over the past two years – remember those wonderful out- door services last year, the zoom spiritual commun- ions that are still going strong, podchurch services that continue to have as many people listening as are coming to our building, lively and fun funky church online, in the car park, and now in the hall, and, of course, all the other events have kept us connected during these strange times – we’ve hun- dreds of people online over both Christmases, we had wonderfully peaceful Holy week services, we explored our Bibles together for 8 months on Zoom, we met an American church online for St David’s Day, and then are also the everyday and weekly work our teams are carrying out, from the chatter- box group, J-walkers youth group to our pastoral outreach, and so on.
