Directions to Chiang Mai Community Church & Homeschool Co-op

This is a little confusing, so I hope I can make this clear enough, but you may have to read it a couple of times.

Here is the link to the website of Chiang Mai Community Church  http://cmcchurch.org/wordpress/?page_id=8. This is another English-speaking church here, which meets 4.30pm on Sundays, in case you want to visit it. It has a lovely English pastor and reminds me of a 'not so boisterous' Anglican church in England, although it is actually interdenominational and very international. It is not aircon. Our very limited experience is that childcare is not always available, particularly during the summer. 

CMCC sends out the classifieds ad each week to 2500 subscribers.

They also run Raintree Resource Center near the church- which has the only English public library that I know of in CM, run by volunteers. This is really a small room with some shelves of books and videos. I would try not to think of the National Library in S'pore while you are there. The only other English libraries I know of are found in schools. For homeschoolers, we use Grace a lot since we are registered with ESD. ( I don't know what the library policy of Chiang Mai International School (CMIS) is, which is the other Christian international school here.)

For details of Raintree, click on that tab on the CMCC website.

CMCC meets in the building of First Thai Church in Chiang Mai, on Charoenrat Road, near the Nawarat Bridge.  All taxi drivers will know Narawat bridge, and you can just show them the map. 

Please print this map and bring it along.

The homeschool co-op also meets in this church, but in a different building, and on Mondays.

To get to co-op, take the SECOND vehicular entrance into First Thai Church in Chiang Mai. That leads to a four-storey building where co-op is held.

You will see a group of mothers sitting around and kids outside doing PE, playing basketball, etc.

Location of English-speaking church in Chiang Mai, House of Praise

The website of the English speaking church that we currently go to is http://www.cochouseofpraise.com/location

It is called House of Praise, COC. COC is an Australian church group that sets up churches around the world. 

The English speaking congregation is made up of mostly Western missionaries. Many are involved in work over the border, or run orphanages, etc.  And the Thai congregation has no white faces at all. Such a segregation, but common in Thailand.

It meets at 9am on Sundays. Yes, we struggle to get there on time.

Very friendly church (once you get to know people by going along to the ladies nights etc) with lots of opportunities for the kids to do outreaches and ministry work. Children's work is run by a straight talking, humorous Irish lady, "I am not a baby sitting service! I want to train your kids to be world changers and history makers!" 

The first Sunday of each month, the kids will be in the worship in the main service and leave after that during the announcements. Other Sundays they go straight to their classrooms.

The main (air-con) auditorium is on the 2nd floor (Singaporean 2nd floor). There is a lift just after the staircase on the ground floor. We usually sit on the right hand side in the auditorium, but I am often in the nursing room behind if I can't keep or toddler quiet. 

Childcare for kids aged 2 to 6 can be found downstairs in the preschool classroom whereas kids aged 6 and older are upstairs on the 3rd floor with Transformers.

Pastors are really lovely, sociable and warm. 

To get there, please print off the map in the weblink above and give it to your taxi driver. 

There is coffee downstairs after the service, which ends at 10.30am. People often stay to chat till 11 or 11.30am.

Once a quarter, the service is trilingual -so in Thai, English and Burmese.