A home for all we do, in mission, service and building up of the body. A place to find community and serve the community.
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Capital Campaign Progress
£1.1m raised of £4.5m goal
£0£1.4m Phase 1£2.5m Phase 2£4.5m goal
Who We Are
Since 2003, a vibrant city centre church family
Since 2003, Christ Church Liverpool has grown into a vibrant city centre church family, training and sending people across Liverpool and beyond. Church planting and training is at the very core of who we are. By God's grace, we've planted or helped revitalise six churches, and we partner with other organisations who seek to equip the church.
The Problem
Not having our own building is stunting our impact
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At Capacity
We've reached capacity → no room for new people causes diminished impact.
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Fragmented
Separate/multiple venues → fragmented community, limited weekday ministry, wasted time and resources.
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Renters, Not Owners
No security and stops long‑term investment. We could lose our venue on very short notice.
A Home For...
Everything God has called us to do
Encounter
A daily, welcoming place where people can meet Jesus, worship, pray and explore faith. Not just on Sundays.
Discipleship
Rooms designed for learning, mentoring, youth work, training, and pastoral care — helping people grow in faith for life.
Community
A family table for meals, midweek groups, celebrations, coffee, connection, and genuine belonging.
Mission
A visible, accessible base from which we can serve Liverpool with consistency, compassion, and hospitality.
Multiplication
Space to gather, train, and send new leaders and church‑planting teams across Liverpool and beyond.
The Future
A foundation for the fig tree to blossom. A space not only for now, but for future generations until Jesus returns.
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Location
Why Edge Lane?
The site is located on Edge Lane, a major artery into the heart of the city. Alongside the University of Liverpool, Royal Liverpool Hospital, and Cancer Research centre. Accessible, visible, and spacious — with room for a 450-seat auditorium.
The Numbers
Costs & Phasing
This project is for £4.5 million. This includes a £1 million purchase, full refurbishment totalling £1.5 million, and building a 400-seat auditorium for £2 million.
Our Story
Christ Church Liverpool
Founded 2003
A gospel-centred church for a city in regeneration
Christ Church Liverpool (CCL) was founded in 2003. As Liverpool City Centre entered a sustained period of regeneration, a group of bible believing Christians saw the need for a gospel centred bible church for believers moving into the centre. There is now a regular gathering on Sundays of 200 adults and 50 children attending, and 140 members.
CCL affiliates with Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches (FIEC) and the North West Gospel Partnership. In addition, we partner with North West Church Resources to maintain facilities for theological training, providing a training site for Union School of Theology. The church also provides an office and base for the Alliance for Transatlantic Theological Training (AT3), a young charity seeking to link US and UK churches.
Our Impact
Planted, revitalised, and sent
Since then we've planted or helped revitalize six churches, and we continue to train and send leaders for new works (including our next revitalisation in Kirkby). People have gone abroad to bring the gospel to people who have not heard it — we are the sending church for 2 people currently serving in North Africa, and we support workers in Australia, France, Argentina, and Sheffield.
Mindful of the Great Commission, Christ Church is determined to invest in the city centre to engage with the culture of Liverpool in all walks of life. It's also committed to training to prepare people to serve and promote church planting and revitalisation.
Edge Lane is the next step: a permanent home that secures training, sending and city-wide hospitality for the long term.
The Challenge
Here's our challenge...
We want to reach more people with the Gospel. And that means we need more churches, more people trained and sent, more outreach and ministries. But not having our own building is stunting this impact.
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Capacity
We literally can't fit more people in on a Sunday! This means we are unable to grow to a size of church which can sustain further staff, expanding ministries or new ministries. Without a growing membership, we cannot train and resource more teams to plant or revitalise.
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Ownership
We need a home to help us have a bigger impact for the city. Our lack of ownership limits our investment in our spaces, equipment, furniture, signage, and it weakens our sense of identity. The temporary and split site setup means our spaces aren't as visible, inviting or functional as we'd like. It creates a fragmented church experience and weakens our identity.
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Tenancy Means Insecurity
As renters, not residents, we're at risk of needing to find a new venue. We could not have somewhere to meet on very short notice with no other viable alternatives in the city. Being renters not home owners is frustratingly limiting and inefficient.
With your help, we have the solution
What This Achieves
What this building means
A permanent home at Edge Lane will turn weekly logistics into daily ministry. It will give us space to encounter Jesus, grow disciples, deepen community, serve Liverpool, multiply churches, and build for future generations until Jesus returns. Not just on Sundays, but all week long.
A Home for
Encounter
Liverpool is a city full of people longing for meaning, connection, and hope. A substantive home gives us a set-apart space where people can meet Jesus, grow in faith, and experience the presence of God without limits. No more borrowed rooms or constrained schedules — a place where worship, prayer, and community can take root every day of the week.
A building becomes more than walls; it becomes a place of encounter that leads to transformed lives.
A Home for
Discipleship
We believe growth happens best in consistency. A substantive base allows us to build rhythms of learning, training, and mentoring that shape disciples for a lifetime. With rooms for courses, youth gatherings, pastoral care, prayer ministry and leadership development, we can invest deeply in people — not just programs.
A building gives us the space to deeply serve Liverpool. Believers, leaders, and culture‑shapers for our city.
A Home for
Community
Christ Church Liverpool has always been a family — but a family needs a kitchen table. A building gives us a space to gather, eat, celebrate, support one another, and open our doors to anyone who needs belonging. From midweek groups to family events to student dinners, it becomes the heartbeat of our shared life in a way we've never had before.
A substantive home strengthens community and makes room for every person who walks through our doors.
A Home for
Mission
We exist not just for ourselves, but for Liverpool and the whole world. A substantive home allows us to serve our city with consistency and compassion. From welcoming asylum seekers to walking with people through Explore, training believers in the Word, and partnering with churches across our region, this building gives us room to deepen the ministries that shape and send people out.
It becomes a visible, stable presence of hope in the city, a light on a street that people know they can turn to. A building anchors our mission and multiplies our impact.
A Home for
Multiplication
For 23 years, Christ Church Liverpool has planted new churches, revitalised struggling ones, and equipped leaders to take the gospel into new places — from launches here in the city to helping spark new work in Manchester, and now investing deeply in our next revitalisation in Kirkby. Multiplication isn't a side project for us; it's part of who we are.
A permanent building becomes the base that strengthens this calling. A building fuels our long‑term vision: not just to build one church, but to keep multiplying healthy churches across our region.
A Home for
The Future
This building marks a new season of growth, stability, and long‑term vision for our church. It provides the space and capacity we've never had before, allowing us to grow, to adapt, and to dream beyond the limitations we've previously faced. And if God grows us beyond this building one day, this is the foundation that will make the next step possible.
A building secures our future and amplifies everything God has called us to do next.
Outward Impact
Giving back to Liverpool
Grow & Send
Making room to grow means we can train leaders, build ministries and send new churches for decades to come, multiplying gospel impact across our region.
Serve The City
A stable, designed-for-purpose hub strengthens our identity and hospitality, opening more opportunities for consistent community outreach (e.g. courses, youth, meals, Hope Cafe).
Security for Generations
Moving from renting to ownership frees us from instability and inefficiency, giving the church a secure launchpad for long-term mission.
Shared Calling
Partner with us
This is a shared calling and a long-term investment in God's mission. As a church family, we believe that a substantive home on Edge Lane will help us welcome more people, grow disciples, send leaders, strengthen community and serve Liverpool throughout the week.
We're trusting God to provide all we need, and to do it through us. It's not about equal gifts, but equal sacrifice as we each play our part.
By God's grace we have already raised £1m for the purchase of the building. Now we need to raise a further £3.5m to bring it to life.
Help us take these next steps by:
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Faithfully Praying
Intercede with us for this project in your regular prayer life.
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Sharing Widely
Tell others about what God is doing in Liverpool through CCL.
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Generously Giving
One-off or pledged over five years — every gift matters.
Two ways to give
We're deeply grateful for both. If you are discerning between the two, here's how to think about the impact:
One-off Gift (today)
One off gifts help significantly with up front costs (purchase and initial works), and go further in real terms because they aren't eroded by future inflation; they also reduce the risk of cost increases over time.
Pledge Over 5 Years
5-year pledges enable broad participation and sustainable planning, spreading the journey across many seasons.
What it could take to get there
No single gift carries this. Here's a picture of how 500 acts of generosity, at every level, add up to the remaining £3.5m we need.
Equal sacrifice, not equal gifts
Students / Early-Career Adults
For students and those early in their careers, your capacity will look different, but your participation deeply matters. A small, regular pledge over five years is a powerful way to say: "I'm part of this story." Even £20-£40 a month is genuine sacrifice in this season and sets lifelong patterns of generosity.
Consider:
A simple monthly pledge
A one off gift at a meaningful moment
Offering "first fruits" when employment begins
Half of our church were not here ten years ago. This is your moment to shape our future.
Young Professionals / Singles
For those in stable work but without large family costs, this may be a season where you can lean in. A consistent monthly gift, perhaps stretching to the point you feel it, could help lay foundations for ministry and mission far beyond this building.
Consider:
£30-£100/month
A one off "first big generosity step"
Committing a work bonus or annual pay rise uplift
What you give may not be huge in scale, but it can be huge in faith.
Families
For families, life is stretched. Childcare, mortgages, rising costs. This building will serve your children and the next generation until Jesus comes again. A thoughtful monthly pledge, perhaps by adjusting lifestyle costs together as a family, is a meaningful act of shared sacrifice.
Consider:
£50-£200/month depending on means
Involving children: a family "giving jar" or shared decision about sacrificing a holiday upgrade or subscription
A five-year pledge aligned with existing family budgets
Your sacrifice is measured in love, not in comparison with others.
Established Givers / Empty-Nesters
For those with reduced financial pressures or increased capacity, this could be a once-in-a-generation moment to accelerate our mission growth. We invite you to consider a leadership level gift, not out of pressure, but as worship and vision.
Consider:
£200-£1,000+/month depending on capacity
Larger one-off gifts that anchor planning
Multi-year structured commitments
Some of you have been entrusted with more in this season. If the Lord leads, your generosity could unlock ministry beyond our city, until the Lord returns.
We know our seasons and circumstances differ. Faithfulness isn't measured by the size of the gift, but by the depth of the sacrifice. Please give prayerfully, in line with your means, with joy and realism over the coming years.
Before you give, please take time to pray, to talk at home, and to ask: What would sacrificial participation look like in my season?
Faithfully Praying
We would love for you to participate in this project by praying faithfully with us over the coming months and years. If you're a regular at CCL then we would love you to join our weekly prayer meeting. Join this WhatsApp group to find out more details.
Praise God for his faithful provision of the building. Give thanks for a smooth completion process recently.
Pray for wisdom and discernment about next stages of development (i.e. initial refurbishment etc).
Pray for God to work powerfully in people's hearts to give generously.
Pray for us as a church that God will continue to cultivate an attitude of being content in the uncomfortable, for the sake of the Gospel.
The Location
Why Edge Lane?
145 Edge Lane is right along one of the main arteries of the city at the edge of the city centre. It offers a unique opportunity to secure a long-term, practical home for Christ Church Liverpool in a location that works for people from all over the city. A perfect place to gather people across Liverpool to then be sent out for God's glory.
145 Edge Lane, Liverpool
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Prominent and Highly Visible
Situated on one of Liverpool's major routes into the city centre, the building sits where tens of thousands of people pass by every week. Christ Church Liverpool would become instantly visible to commuters, students, residents and visitors entering the city.
Easy to Reach from Across the City Region
Highly accessible for those who live across Liverpool. Edge Lane provides excellent transport links and is easy to travel to by car.
Room to Grow
The detached building offers two main floors of usable space, plus a top-floor former flat that can be adapted. As the site stands in its own grounds, we can expand without restrictions. This allows us to create a dedicated church centre, as well as meeting rooms, midweek space, offices and more.
Space for a New Worship Hall
The land beside the building provides enough room to build a large, purpose-built hall seating around 450 people. A one-site home for Sundays and the wider ministries of the church.
A Long-Term Asset
Although the building requires full refurbishment to meet 2026 standards, once renovated it will have the same lifespan and reliability as a new build does.
In Summary
Edge Lane gives us visibility, accessibility, space to grow, and the opportunity for a full one-site solution in a strategically significant part of the city.
The Building
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Expenses and Costs
To bring 145 Edge Lane into full long-term use
The project is divided into clear phases. The actual timing of these works will depend upon fundraising. Our dream would be to do all the works at the same time, so as to maximise efficiencies and cost savings.
Phase 1
Purchase & Essential Works
£1.4m
£1.0m purchase + £0.4m initial works. This phase brings the building into immediate operational use, including key repairs, essential ground-floor refurbishment, and initial compliance work.
Phase 2
Full Refurbishment
£1.1m
Additional cost (total building refurbishment: £1.5m). This includes roof replacement, lift installation, improved energy efficiency, electrical upgrades, air-conditioning replacement, staircase safety works and full internal finishes.
Phase 3
New Worship Hall Build
£2.0m
A purpose built hall seating around 450, enabling the whole church to meet on one site with room to grow.
Total Estimated Project Cost: £4.5m
By comparison, demolishing the existing building and constructing a fully new complex would be approximately £5.8m, making this approach a strong and cost-effective investment.
Good to Know
These phases allow us to begin using the site quickly, complete the building systematically, and create a sustainable home for Christ Church Liverpool. Once completed, the building will provide a long-term, high quality, flexible space for church life and midweek ministry.
Commonly Asked Questions
FAQ
Bigger capacity. More people means affording more staff, interns, trainees, future missionaries and church plants.
Secure (can't be kicked out, a stable base).
Designed (better equipment, rooms designed for us, have spaces we don't currently have i.e. library, study space, use of the 3rd floor flat for people to stay).
Much less time and effort spent on logistics. More time investing in people. The "tools of ministry" are always ready.
Helps to cultivate and build a CCL culture. Temporary spaces means we're more fragmented and go off to other places more quickly. More people hanging around creates opportunities for spontaneous discipleship.
Visibility and prominence. If we are sending people out, having a stable hub makes it easier and more impactful when people signpost to us. Much harder invite when people don't know who we are or where we are.
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