Christ Church Charleroi was founded over 100 years ago to serve the then substantial English-speaking community of Charleroi, the town being a French-speaking industrial and mining town in the southwest of Belgium, some 40 kms south of All Saints’ Church, Waterloo. Over the last thirty years, with the significant adverse changes in the economic fortunes of the town, the English-speaking community has shrunk dramatically and, with it, the membership of Christ Church. There are now only four or five members attending regularly. It is a mission under the guidance of All Saints’, Waterloo.
Services are held in the building of the Protestant Temple in Charleroi at 15.45 on the second and fourth Sundays of every month. On the second Sunday, the Rector holds a service with Eucharist, and on the fourth Sunday, a licensed worship leader (and member of All Saints’), leads Evensong. In December each year a festival of lessons and carols is held.
Financially, Christ Church is entirely independent and receives no grants or support. There are adequate funds to survive some years and the collection generates just about enough to cover the running costs.
The regular attendees are aged between 66 and 79, and in the winter months they often meet in each other's houses rather than at the church building.
The church is located at Boulevard Audent 22, 6000 Charleroi.