The star of the show at St Columba’s Festival of Light was a seven foot tall knitted Christmas Tree. It had taken months of work to knit hundreds of woollen squares of different shades of green, which were hung on a wooden frame of branches. The tree also featured knitted baubles, ornaments, toys, tinsel and […]
Operation Christmas Child 2012
Children in poorer parts of the world will benefit again this year from Operation Christmas Child. St Columba’s Church again supported Samaritan’s Purse’s appeal by donating hundreds of shoeboxes, filled with Christmas gifts. The boxes were brought to church on Sunday 18 November, to be blessed before being sent on to a local collecting […]
Remembrance Sunday 2012
St Columba’s Church celebrated Remembrance Sunday at the morning service on 11 November. The service included the two minutes silence, the formal laying of a poppy wreath below the war memorial, and reflections on war and peace. There was also an opportunity for members of the congregation to lay poppies and crosses on a larger […]
Harvest 2012
Caring and Sharing was the theme of a family celebration of harvest festival at St Columba’s Church on 30 September. Rainbows, Brownies, Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Youth Club, Toddlers and Junior Church were all involved in all-age worship on the Sunday morning, as the colourful service began with a parade of flags and banners from the […]
350th Birthday
St Columba’s Church celebrated its 350th anniversary with a historical exhibition on 25-26 August. The exhibits which attracted the most interest were some photographs from the 1940s of the cup-winning Northumberland Square Presbyterian Church AFC. We were grateful to Tyne & Wear Archives Service for their help in making these items available for display. The […]