Weekly Update #262 – 10 August

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #262 – Sunday 10th August  2025 From The Minister         A Temporary Measure Coming Towards its End The first edition of our church’s Weekly Update appeared on 22nd March 2020. We were experiencing the first “lockdown” of the COVID era, and we […]

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Weekly Update #261 – 3 August

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #261 – Sunday 3rd August  2025 From The Minister          Why Am I Doing This? How would you like to go and knock on a stranger’s door and offer them a copy of Luke’s Gospel to […]

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Eco Matters: Some friendly tips!

This is the seventh in a series of articles from the Eco Church Team at St Columba’s, which are also published in our church magazine. Shaving foam can be used to clean mirrors, especially in the bathroom when they are fogged up.  The foam can also clean chrome fixtures, grout, remove stains from clothing, carpets […]

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Weekly Update #260 – 27 July

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #260 – Sunday 27th July 2025 From the Minister        It just falls out of the sky? I see that some parts of the UK now have hosepipe bans in place. One of the water companies imposing such a ban is […]

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Weekly Update #259 – 20 July

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #259 – Sunday 20th July 2025 From the Minister        General Church / Local Church From the 4th to the 7th of July I was at the United Reformed Church General Assembly, which was meeting at a conference centre in Derbyshire. In […]

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