Above, ordination of our Pastor Steve Falci to the Deaconate Sat. June 14, 2025
Christ Episcopal Church, Portsmouth, NH
| Our Transition is Well Underway! |
| Two important dates to put on your calendar: 🙏 Sunday, November 2, at 10:00 AM, All Saints Day, will be our final Sunday worship 🙏 Wednesday, November 12 at 6:00 PM, Bishop Rob will join us for a very special final liturgy |
The time has come to begin to prepare for our move. We will be gathering to pack up on the dates below. Please contribute to our efforts to help with packing.
If possible, let us know you are coming, especially on Tues. evening. See phone # below
Tuesday October 14 6-8 PM
Wednesday October 15 9:30-11:30 AM
Monday October 20 9:30-11:30 AM
Tuesday October 21 6-8 PM
Wednesday October 22 9:30-11:30 AM
Monday October 27 9:30-11:30 AM
Tuesday October 28 6-8 PM
Wednesday October 29 9:30-11:30 AM
On Tuesday nights we will be serving pizza!
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Please Note:
New Phone number: 603 812-3674 –
Please leave a message.
New Christ Church Mailing Address
PO Box 118 Greenland, NH 03840
The reason for this mailing address change is twofold. First, once construction begins on the Christ Church campus the end of this year, we will not have access to our locked mailbox, so we want our new mailing address already established by then. Also, the Portsmouth Post Office has a narrow range of hours for access to PO boxes, but Greenland access to PO boxes is 24/7/36 so it all makes sense.
OUR CHURCH HAS NOT AND IS NOT MOVED TO GREENLAND!
Safe Church Information
Christ Church Policy for the Protection of Children and Youth
Christ Church Policy for the Protection of Vulnerable Adults
Christ Church Safe Church Contact List
Christ Church Licensed Lay Ministers
We are in transition
We are looking forward to our property development which will provide us a new worship space, 44 Workforce housing units, offices for HAVEN, our local domestic violence prevention and support services agency, and a childcare center, we have much work to do and so have set up some times for some of these tasks.
Please contact us if you would like to help with any of these or have any questions about this.
Christ Church Transition Journal
Dear Christ Church Members and friends. As suggested by Bishop Rob when he was with us on Tues. May 6, we created a Transition Journal, a place for you to express your Hope,Dreams, Concerns, Fears, Reactions and other feeling you are having during our preparation for and Pilgrimage to our new worship space and new community of apartments, HAVEN, and daycare, and our ongoing care for our Memorial Garden and the Slave Cemetery.
Please date your entry. You may add your name if you wish, but it is not required. The link is printed below.
Christ Episcopal Church
Please Note our worship schedule is changing as we are begin our Pilgrimage during the construction of our new worship space
Worship Service Schedule
October Services
o Oct. 19 Worship with Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church at 9:30 AM
o Oct. 26 Michele: Celebrant and Preacher
November Services
o Nov. 2 @ 10 AM: Our last Sunday Eucharist in our current space, Michele Celebrant/Steve Preacher
o Nov. 9 @ 9:30: Worship with Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran where they will have a special welcome for us
o Wed. Nov. 12 @ 6 PM: Final service in current church building
o Nov. 16 @ 9:30: worship on our own in the chapel at Holy Trinity
o Nov. 23 @ 9:30: worship with Holy Trinity for Pastor Lester’s last service
Worship options and times at Holy Trinity for December and beyond will be discussed at the next Worship Committee later this month.
Christ Church Upcoming and ongoing Activities
- Weekly Bible Study: Tuesdays at 10:00 AM on Zoom, for information please contact Weston Cook
- Executive Council, 3rd Monday of the month, 6:30 Zoom
- Social Justice Group: Oct. 23, 7:30 PM on Zoom Contact Betty Lane
- Book Study: The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently. We will have video presentations and a Study Guide. This will be at 6:30 pm on Zoom Weekly stating Wed. Oct. 29, and will be led by Michele. The church has purchased the study guide books. See Steve to get your copy.
You may email the church, to contact any of the above people or for additional information on any of the above.
Christ Episcopal Church is a small, vibrant community serving the Seacoast region of the Diocese of New Hampshire.
We embrace a theology of welcome to all persons, regardless of who you are.
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If you are seeking a spiritual home or exploring a call to social justice within a progressive, Christian faith – with a particular focus on speaking up against all forms of inequality – we hope you will walk with us on that journey of discovery.
We look forward to meeting you!!
A Pilgrimage
We will need to be off of our chruch site on Lafayette Rd. for about 12-18 months during the construction to develop our property into our new worship space, new workforce housing, the offices of HAVEN, and a new daycare facility.
During our Pilgrimage away from our property we will make Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Newington our home for worship. The details of worship plans are still being worked out.
During our Pilgrimage we will use this time to enhance our spiritual life and to begin visioning what our new ministries within our new worship space and our new community will look like.
We strive to live the call of Christ, immersed in justice, compassion, and reconciliation in all that we are and do.
Who We Are
We are a spiritually centered, diverse and inclusive community of seekers growing together in worship, social justice mission, study and fellowship. We have been newly designated a “Gospel Oriented Community” in the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire, part of The Episcopal Church, a member of the worldwide Anglican Communion.
Where We Are; Where We’re Going
We live in a liminal space of expectation. Our 4-acre site on Route 1 is in the early stages of being redeveloped into a campus comprised of four partners: Christ Church, which has a history that stretches back to the mid-19th century; Haven, New Hampshire’s largest agency serving victims of domestic and sexual violence; a day care center; and workforce housing administered by the Portsmouth Housing Authority. We are located between Route 1 and the Urban Forestry Center, near the Sagamore Creek, with all its natural beauty and walking trails. An 18th century slave burial ground, an historical site, is located on our grounds.
Celebrate with us in, with, and through Christ, as we celebrate the lives of women in biblical literature, as we strive for the full equality of all women in our time, as we work for justice, compassion, and reconciliation for all of life.