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We conduct regular thanksgivings, baptisms (christenings), weddings and funerals at Christ Church. Please read the relevant section below and then get in touch. We would love to hear from you. We also have a churchyard for burials and hold an annual thanksgiving and memorial service to remember loved ones.

Thanksgivings & Baptisms

Many people wish to give thanks to God for their children, but do not want to make promises regarding their faith for themselves or for their children. Sometimes they do not feel comfortable making baptism promises about their faith themselves or sometimes they would rather their children were free to decide once older. We offer a special service of thanksgiving for these families on particular Sundays each year as part of our regular Sunday worship.

As part of the Church of England, we also baptise people of all ages at Christ Church. We do this in the same services as for thanksgivings, so as to welcome those being baptised into the family of the church. For young children, parents and godparents make promises on behalf of those being baptised as well as for themselves. Those who are older make promises for themselves.

We meet with all those interested in thanksgivings and baptisms. Please contact the church office for more details. There is no fee for thanksgivings or baptisms.

Weddings

We really like celebrating weddings at Christ Church! More than a quarter of all marriages in England take place before God in Church of England and we do have a traditional building here dating from 1790!

However, there are certain limitations on who can get married where. New, more relaxed, laws have recently been introduced. For further information, you can check on the Church of England website or get in touch with the church office.

If you are getting married elsewhere and need your banns to be read here, then please contact the Church Office

Funerals

At a time of loss, funerals are an opportunity for friends and family to express their grief and to give thanks for a life. At Christ Church, we seek to give you appropriate space to do this in a way that is personal for you, in the presence of God. We can also offer a certain amount of pastoral care for those who want and need it at times of bereavement.

If you would like to arrange a funeral here, particularly if you live in this parish or have connections with the church, then please ask your funeral director to contact us, or you can contact us yourself.

Funeral Directors: Please contact the Vicar to arrange funerals or the Verger to arrange burials in the churchyard from elsewhere.

The Churchyard

Christ Church churchyard is the only current burial ground in Alsager. We do our best to maintain it for the benefit of all those who remember loved ones there, using a combination of paid and voluntary help. There is not much space left and so we restrict new graves to those who are from this town. For all enquiries regarding the churchyard, including searches and fees, please contact our Verger.

Thanksgiving & Memorial Service (Annually)

6.30pm on Remembrance Sunday.

We hold an annual thanksgiving and memorial service for all those who would like to remember a loved one who has died. This could be someone you have lost recently or many years ago. It is a simple service including an opportunity to light a candle in their memory and to pray - giving thanks to God for their life. You do not need to be "Church of England" or a "regular churchgoer" to come. Anyone is welcome.