Canning Road Evangelical Church

Christmas 2025 at Canning Road

It’s CHRIIIIIISTMAS! 🌟 We’ve got loads going on this winter season. Take a look at our activities and get-togethers below.

Messy Christmas - 29th Nov

Our next Messy Church is on Saturday 29th of November, from 2-4pm, and it’s going to be a Messy Christmas! ⛄

Autumn 2025 at Canning Road

Autumn. Yum. A time to wrap up, get cosy, and be grateful for the good things in life. One of those good things is being with people so why not come and chill with us? 🍪🍂

Reflective Prayer - 29th July

Messy Church BBQ - 7th of June

Messy Church - 5th of April

On Saturday 5th of April, 2-4pm, we are gearing up for Easter with an Easter-y themed Messy Church.

Messy Church - Saturday 1st of February

Get ready for Messy Church on Saturday 1st of February, 2-4pm! This time our theme is the wise and foolish builders (“the wise man built his house upon the rock”!) 🏡

Christmas 2024

This Christmas at Canning Road:

Messy Church is coming - Saturday 5th October

Get ready for our next Messy Church on Saturday 5th October, 2-4pm! We’ll be celebrating the theme of harvest with fun activities and crafts for all ages. As usual, we’ll finish up with a snack time featuring fruit, biscuits, and more.

A fun family day - June 29th

Despite the wet weather, our planned Neighbourhood BBQ turned into a fantastic Family Fun Day indoors! We had a great turnout, with families enjoying a bouncy castle, face painting, and BBQ food. The church was also open for reflection and prayer, where people enjoyed discovering our bright and open worship space.

Christmas 2023 at Canning Road

Christmas is about Jesus - God, born for us on Earth, to show the way home to our Heavenly Father. Come and join the celebration of a God so good and so humble, that he would be born in a feeding trough!

Did you know we've been renovating?

Date Change - Messy Church - 22nd July 2023

On Saturday, 22nd of July we are having Messy Church from 2pm til 4pm.

We're looking for a Kids, Youth, and Schools Pastor

We are looking for someone with a passion to see Jesus transform the lives of kids and young people in High Park!

Messy Church - February 2023

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! We had a great time over this Christmas and New Year with our Carols by Candlelight service, Christmas service, and of course, wonderful time with family and friends. We hope you did too.

Lightzone 2022

Messy Church - October 2022

This Saturday, 1st October we are having Messy Church with the theme “Jesus the miracle worker” from 2pm til 4pm.

Messy Church - June 2022

On Saturday 25th June we are having Messy Church with the theme “Servant King” at 4 til 6pm.

What a Jubilee!

High Park Jubilee Street Party

On Saturday 4th June from 2-4pm we’re hosting a street party (really a car park party) for all of High Park, to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee 👑

Carols by Candlelight 2021

We are celebrating the Christmas season with our annual Carols by Candlelight service, which will be on Sunday 19th December at 6pm. We’d love to see you there for 12 carols and 12 readings that tell the Christmas story. It’s a beautiful, peaceful service and a great way to ring in Christmas.

Enter the Light Zone

We are open for Sunday morning worship

COVID Update - 4th April 2021

We're closed for two weeks

Due to icy conditions, and the Government’s latest advice to “Stay at Home”, the Elders have decided it’s safest that Canning Road be closed for the next two Sundays (10th and 17th of January).

Church at Home - 22nd November - John Sutton Smith

This video will be released on Sunday morning at 6:45am so that you can watch it anytime, morning or evening.

Church at Home - 8th November - Faithful and Fruitful

This video will be released on the morning of Sunday 8th at 6:45am so that you can watch it anytime, morning or evening.

No in-person services in November

Due to the new national lockdown, there won’t be any worship services in the church building in November.

Resuming weekly services from 6th September

Regular Services

August 23rd Service - "A breath of fresh air"

Watch “A breath of fresh air”

Back to the building, and online! 9th August

Back to the building

Sunday video - What's the gospel?

Watch Canning Road Online 5th July 2020

The video will start at 6pm.

Watch Sunday Online 21st June 2020

The video will start at 6pm.

Watch Sunday Online 7th June 2020

The video will start Sunday at 6pm.

Watch Sunday Online 24th May 2020

Tonights video will start at 6pm.

The Marriage Course Online

Response to COVID-19 (Coronavirus)

Update - 4th April 2021

Alpha is coming

Alpha is starting at Canning Road on Monday 29th April at 7pm! Alpha is an opportunity to explore life and the Christian faith in a friendly, open and informal environment.

Messy Church with a Centurion!

On Saturday 10th November, we are doing Messy Church, looking at the story of Jesus and the Centurion (that’s a Roman Solider). We will be making crafts, singing songs, and hearing what this soldier thought Jesus could do for him…

Did you enjoy the neighbourhood BBQ?

Messy Church Soon

This Saturday, we are doing Messy Church with a focus on Mothers’ Day! There will be loads of opportunities for kids to make crafts for their Mums, and we will also be hearing all about what it was like to be the mother of history’s most important man…

Our first indoor picnic of 2018

From time to time, we like to share lunch together as a church. There are loads of good reasons to do this, like:

Carols a big hit

Carols by Candlelight is back for 2017

Our Carols by Candlelight service is on the 17th December 2017 at 6pm!

Our Halloween Witness

It’s tricky to know how to handle Halloween as Christians and as the church. We don’t want to participate in a festival that celebrates darkness and evil, but ideally we don’t want to be hidden away in our homes with the lights off - after all, that’s not much of a witness from a people whose life, hope, and strength is in Jesus.

Weekend away 2017

At the beginning of October, around twenty of us from the church went to Thornleigh Christian Centre in Grange-over-Sands for our annual weekend away. We had a really nice time together, sharing meals and getting teaching from Stuart and Katherine, who have been missionaries in many different countries.

Different names, but all for Jesus

A lot of people talk about “denominations” which means “different names for types of churches”. That could be ‘Anglican’ or ‘Methodist’ or ‘Reformed’ or ‘Baptist’, etc, etc… but those names don’t really matter. Christian churches believe: