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The Big 2025 – What a result!

Thank you to all who contributed to our Big Give Campaign at the start of December. We reached our target that was match funded to give a total of £31,500. There was additional Gift included on some of the donations. Thank you again to all who have contributed.

The Big Give 2025

Date for your diaries! ECFC is taking part in the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2025 between 2nd and 9th December 2025. We’re trying to raise £31,500 to fix our leaking roof and insulate it from the cold. This will ensure we can be a welcoming place for our community, including our refugee community, for many years to come. Everything you give through this link between the 2nd and 9th December 2025 will be DOUBLED! Please give generously and add gift aid if you can. Thank you.

New windows, doors, cladding & cavity wall insulation, Summer 2025 – We did it!

Over summer 2025 we successfully completed major building work costing over £255,000 providing us with fabulous new windows, doors, cladding and cavity wall insulation. We are really happy with how both the fundraising and work itself has gone. Check out below photos of the poor state of some of the old windows and what a great difference the new ones make. Before – old windows and doors nearly falling out After – wow! what a big improvement – both aesthetics and thermal comfort

Bristol Cable article about ECFC

A reporter visited ECFC recently and wrote about it in an article for the Bristol Cable. Read here: https://thebristolcable.org/2025/09/easton-christian-family-centre-a-sacred-space-reimagined/

Baraka Cafe Interview on Bristol Cable

Recently a reporter visited ECFC and an article appeared in the Bristol Cable, a local community newspaper. As part of the process the reporter, Bergonya Miranda, interviewed the staff of Baraka Cafe. You can listen to the interview here. (n.b. there is a silent period before it starts.)

Weaving memories

There is currently and exhibition on in the Baraka Cafe sharing the experiences of refugees in Bristol. It is a a collaoration between various groups including Bridges for Communities and the University of Bristol. This video gives more information about the back ground Weaving Memories video (from Dropbox)

Easter at ECFC – 2025

We have something happening each day during Holy Week. Sunday 13th April10:30amPalm Sunday ServiceMonday 14th April7:30pm – 9pmSpace to reflect and pray on Jesus’s journey to the Cross, our journey in his footsteps, including pictures, words and music.Tuesday 15th April7:30pm – 9pmSpace to reflect and pray on Jesus’s journey to the Cross, our journey in his footsteps, including pictures, words and music.Wednesday 16th April7:30pm – 9pmA conversation to help us distil, and be able to tell the story of what we do at ECFC.Thursday 17th April7:30pm – 9pmMaundy Thursday Service, including simple Communion. Reflecting and praying in the light of Jesus’ Last Supper with his disciples.Friday 18th April10:00amGood Friday All Age Worship11:00amWalk of Witness along Stapleton Road, with other local churches. Meeting at St Nick’s of TollentineEaster Sunday 20th April5:30amSunrise Worship at St Anne’s, Greenbank, BS5 6JN with fire and Holy Communion.10:30amEaster Sunday Worship with Communion at ECFC

The Big 2024 – We did it!

Thank you to all who gave to the Big Give this last week. Our target was £14,000, but you gave a total of £15,100 towards the second phase of our building refurbishment. If you missed the chance to give through the Big Give, you can still contribute by going to our main project page Building Refurb Project Thank you again!

Christmas at ECFC

Sunday 15th Dec. 10:30amAll-Age No-Rehearsal Carol Service. Please come dressed as a character from the Christmas Story, or looking Christmassy! Friday 20th Dec 6 – 9pmYalda CelebrationWe celebrate with our Iranian members this winter festival Sunday 22nd Dec. 10:30am Morning Service with Children’s party (during the service) Wednesday 25th Dec.10:30am Christmas Morning Celebration

The Big Give 2024

Between 3 December until 10 December 2024 your donation to Easton Christian Family Centre will be doubled! That means that for every £5 you give to us, we get £10. This will be matched up to £7,000 meaning we could get £14,000. This money will go towards warming up our building and fixing our leaking roof. Our total goal for the building is over a million pounds and we are a quarter of the way there. If you are able to give a gift to ECFC you will helping to keep ECFC a safe and warm place to so many across Bristol. One of our regular members has been in the UK, with his two sons, for five months. Tragically, he lost his wife 3 years ago. This is the reality for so many refugees in Bristol – life is incredibly tough. Families like his spend most of their time during the week sitting in hotels waiting for a government decision on their asylum claim. This is happening for hundreds of people in Bristol. He says that he loves coming to church every week because it’s like heaven, he just…