Weekly Update #164 – 9 July

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #164      9th July 2023 Hello again everyone, from John. Writing this on Monday morning, the main news seems to be about the riots in France, followed by rail strikes and energy prices. I find it difficult to condone the […]

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Weekly Update #163 – 2 July

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #163      2nd July 2023 From Andrew                                  Flourishing Churches The United Reformed Church’s General Assembly meets this weekend.  One of the papers that caught my eye amongst more than 300 pages of reports and resolutions was one arising from the […]

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Weekly Update #162 – 25 June

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #162         25th June 2023 From the Minister                           For All Those In Peril On The Sea At the time of writing, the news is full of the search for missing Ocean Gate submarine which was visiting the wreck of the Titanic in […]

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Weekly Update #161 – 18 June

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #161          18th June 2023 From the Minister                           Entertaining Strangers Take a look at the picture of the three people dining at the table. It’s by the medieval Russian painter, Andrei Rublev (c.1360-c.1430). It portrays the event described […]

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Weekly Update #160 – 11 June

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #160          11th June 2023 From the Minister                Après moi, le déluge …                 I imagine you have seen pictures of the Kakhovka dam in […]

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