Weekly Update #104 – 17 April

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #104 17th April 2022 He is RISEN!!!!   Mary and the other 2 ladies at the open tomb James Group Studios Inc. /Dreamstime.com Happy Easter everyone, from John. The picture shows an empty tomb emitting bright light, the rolled away stone, […]

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Good Friday 2022

After a break of two years, owing to the Coronavirus pandemic, Churches Together in North Shields met again this Good Friday for an open air service and procession of witness. However, with renovation works in progress in Northumberland Square and Howard Street, we took a different route this year. We assembled for a hymn and […]

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Weekly Update #103 – 10 April

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #103 10th April 2022 From the Minister                        Palms or Passion ? So, it’s Palm Sunday, or is it? Yes, of course it’s Palm Sunday, celebrating Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem, […]

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Sermon: Lavishness in the Midst of Poverty

A sermon preached by the Revd Dr Trevor Jamison for Saint Columbia’s United Reformed Church, April 3rd 2022 John 12:1-8 ‘You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.’ (12:8) That’s Jesus’s answer to what I think is a reasonable question, one which comes from Judas Iscariot. Six days before […]

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