St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #254 – Trinity Sunday 15th June 2025 From the Minister Celebrating Rather Than Explaining I am not preaching this Sunday. Some might allege that this is because it is Trinity Sunday. It’s a standing joke that some ministers […]
Past, Present and Future
St Columba’s held a very successful strawberry fayre on Saturday 7 June. The strawberry scones proved so popular, that we sold out! Alongside the fayre, we also hosted an exhibition of the church: past, present and future. Displays showed the history of the church going back to 1662, as well aspects of its current life […]
Weekly Update #253 – 8 June
St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #253 – Pentecost – Sunday 8th June 2025 From the Minister Mind Your Language At my secondary school everyone had to learn French, or at least try to do so. I was not an outstanding linguist. I still remember my […]
Eco Matters: Global Warning 2025
This is the sixth in a series of articles from the Eco Church Team at St Columba’s, which are also published in our church magazine. Deep in the compost heap, something is stirring A movement, a settlement, secret, unseen We rats are a-crawling, and squeaking and mauling. We’re creatures of night and the warmth and […]
Weekly Update #252 – 1 June
St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #252 – Sunday 1st June 2025 Image: St Paul and the Philippian Jailer, by Harold Copping, via Wikimedia Commons. Published in JS Howson’s “Scenes from the Life of St Paul and their Religious Lessons”, 1909 edition. Worship Sunday 1st […]