Platinum Jubilee

St Columba’s celebrated the Queen’s platinum jubilee with a very well-attended special coffee morning on Saturday 4 June, followed by a service of thanksgiving and a faith lunch on Sunday 5 June.  Ways were found to include even those who could not attend. Members had been hard at work beforehand baking cakes and scones and […]

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Weekly Update #111 – 5 June

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #111 5th June 2022  From the Minister                           A Right Royal Jubilee My father began work when he was fourteen years old and retired when he was sixty-five: fifty-one years in employment. That’s not unusual for those of his […]

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Weekly Update #110 – 29 May

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #110 29th May 2022 From the Minister                                     61, 370, 400, 000 bits of plastic Along with some others at Saint Columba’s, and in […]

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Weekly Update #109 – 22 May

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #109 22nd May 2022 From the Minister                                       Service or Hospitality? Najla Kassab (pictured left) is a minister in the Presbyterian Church in the Lebanon and Syria. She is also the President of the World Communion of Reformed […]

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