City Church Manchester

Hi! Welcome to

City Church Manchester

As a 21st century Christian community we are learning to love, change, challenge, engage, transform and reform.

CCM life is 24/7/365 - but our regular get-together is the regular Sunday slot: 5pm at the Manchester Conference Centre, Sackville St. (on the Manchester Uni campus)

Latest Articles

Shane Claiborne: Causing a Revolution

It's been a privilege to have Shane Claiborne with us these last couple of days. His message of radical love expressed in everyday life is just the kind of revolution we need. Go to the download section and listen in for yourself. More ...

Whole-life discipleship

It has been said that ‘The gospel has to be continually forwarded to a new address, because the recipient keeps moving.’ More ...

Worship Video Now Online

Watch the video we recorded at 'The Sound' - our monthly worship event. It's inspired by a YouTube video called 'The Message' More ...

Students

City Church is a great environment for students who are looking to belong to a Christian community that is taking on the challenge of contemporary culture... More ...

Upcoming Events

Gathering

5:00pm Sunday 11 May, Manchester Conf. Cntr.

Our Sunday time with each other and with God

Insight

5:00pm Sunday 18 May, Manchester Conf. Cntr.

Getting together to worship and get into God's word.

LifeWorks

5:00pm Sunday 25 May, Manchester Conf Cntr

An interactive teaching environment making room for lively discussion

The Sound

5:00pm Sunday 1 June, Manchester Conf. Cntr.

A music-driven journey to discover the intricacies and intimacies of connecting with God.

Gathering

5:00pm Sunday 8 June, Manchester Conf. Cntr.

Our Sunday time with each other and with God

Insight

5:00pm Sunday 15 June, Manchester Conf. Cntr.

Getting together to worship and get into God's word.

World News

UN to resume Burma food flights
The UN's World Food Programme says it will resume aid flights to Burma despite a row over impounded deliveries.

Teens given life for schoolboy murder
Two youths aged 14 and 17 are given life sentences for the murder of 16-year-old schoolboy Kodjo Yenga in west London.

Widower loses fight to stay in UK
A Filipino man whose wife, an NHS nurse, died after an injection mix-up during childbirth loses his fight to stay in the UK.

Hezbollah takes over west Beirut
Gunmen from Shia militant group Hezbollah take control of western Beirut, driving out government supporters.

Blast house 'targeted earlier'
The house at the centre of a fatal explosion was the target of a vandalism attack hours earlier, police say.

Second terror suspect wins bail
A tribunal has ruled a second Jordanian counter-terrorism detainee, known only as "OO", should be released.

Siege barrister shot five times
A barrister was hit at least five times by police weapons during a shoot-out at his home, an inquest hears.

Woman who poisoned husband jailed
A woman who gave her husband rat poison as she fleeced her mother-in-law is jailed.

BBC admits keeping charity money
The BBC is to broadcast an apology after admitting a subsidiary firm kept £106,000 from charity phone-ins.

Taser parties
Meeting the women shunning kitchen ware for stun guns

News Focus

Police clamp down on Mongolian house churches
China Aid Association CAA has learned that officials from the Arong Qi Security and Religious Affairs Bureau detained two house church ministers last Thursday

Luis Palau hits Jamaica with good news
American evangelist Luis Palau preached the Good News of Jesus Christ to an estimated 150000 people in Jamaicas capital city of Kingston this past weekend

Christians face persecution in popular tourist spots warns Open Doors
Open Doors has urged travellers from the UK to be aware of persecution against the Christian community in their favourite tourist destinations including India

Turkmenistan officials clamp down on church teaching
Officials who raided a Bible class held by the Greater Grace Protestant church in the capital Ashgabad on 11 April have insisted that the church does not have the right to teach its own members without approval from the governments Gengeshi Committee for Religious Affairs

N Ireland Graham Fest biggest evangelistic event in 50 years
More than 30000 fill Belfasts Odyssey Arena to hear Franklin Graham preach message of hope

Call to priesthood to ring out in parishes schools university chaplaincies
The Catholic Church in England and Wales will launch its annual campaign this Sunday to encourage young men and women to consider whether priesthood or religious life might be for them

13 house church leaders detained in Sichuan Province
China Aid Association CAA has learned that thirteen house church leaders were detained at Qu county Sichuan province in China on March 30

Macedonia New religion law fails to solve worship restrictions
As Macedonias minority faiths face obstruction or de facto bans on building new places of worship or extending existing ones the countrys new Religion Law which comes into force on 1 May appears likely to do nothing to help end the problem

Vietnam war rumbles on Christians branded the enemy
Christians in Vietnam are being targeted as agents of America They describe torture and near starvation as the authorities threaten to kill them slowly

Belarus Eighty protesters detained during peaceful rally
More than eighty protesters have been arrested at a rally in Minsk Belarus which was intended to mark the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the Republic of Belarus as an independent country

Weather

Saturday: sunny, Max Temp: 23°C (73°F), Min Temp: 11°C (51°F)
Max Temp: 23°C (73°F), Min Temp: 11°C (51°F), Wind Direction: SE, Wind Speed: 3mph, Visibility: very poor, Pressure: 1018mb, Humidity: 61%, UV risk: moderate, Pollution: moderate, Sunrise: 05:18BST, Sunset: 20:52BST

Sunday: sunny, Max Temp: 20°C (68°F), Min Temp: 11°C (51°F)
Max Temp: 20°C (68°F), Min Temp: 11°C (51°F), Wind Direction: WNW, Wind Speed: 5mph, Visibility: moderate, Pressure: 1022mb, Humidity: 68%, UV risk: moderate, Pollution: moderate, Sunrise: 05:16BST, Sunset: 20:53BST

Monday: sunny intervals, Max Temp: 23°C (73°F), Min Temp: 14°C (57°F)
Max Temp: 23°C (73°F), Min Temp: 14°C (57°F), Wind Direction: SE, Wind Speed: 7mph, Visibility: very good, Pressure: 1022mb, Humidity: 46%, UV risk: moderate, Pollution: moderate, Sunrise: 05:14BST, Sunset: 20:55BST