At St Columba’s, we have celebrated Holy Week with a series of services and events. There was evening communion on Maundy Thursday, remembering the first Last Supper. On Good Friday, the weather stayed fair for Churches Together’s open air services and procession of witness from Northumberland Square to Bedford Street and back. We heard messages […]
Our Mother Church
Mothering Sunday was a little different this year at St Columba’s. In our all-age morning service on 11 March, we began by thinking about the things that plants need to grow: water, sunshine and food. Then we reflected that we too need these things, along with love, time for each other, and sometimes to say […]
Daft as a Brush
In our church service on Sunday 14 January, a presentation was made to local cancer charity Daft as a Brush of the £750 raised at our Festival of Christmas Trees last month. The charity, which has 300 volunteers taking cancer patients to medical appointments in their distinctive minibuses, was thankful for this gift, and appealed […]
Happy Christmas!
A smaller congregation gathered at St Columba’s on Christmas morning to light the fifth candle in our Advent wreath, and celebrate the birth of our Saviour, Jesus Christ. We sang some Christmas Day carols, showed some presents, played pass the parcel, and remembered in prayer those for whom Christmas may be a difficult time. […]
Christmas Eve carols by candlelight
On Christmas Eve, the candlelit church was packed, with a good number in the gallery. We enjoyed a service of Christmas carols, readings, prayers and reflections, with many of our young people and some our seniors taking part. A collection was taken for a local charity, the East End Youth & Community Centre. It was […]