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 […]
Messy Church is Coming!
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, […]
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 […]
Sermon: Past, Present and Future
A sermon preached by the Revd Dr Trevor Jamison at Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, 3rd April 2022 Isaiah 43:16-21; Philippians 3:4b-14 It won’t have escaped your notice that there’s some building work going on the middle of North Shields. Northumberland Square has new paving, and the garden is being returned to a […]