Weekly Update #144 – 19 February

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #144 19th February, 2023 From the Minister                           What’s your vision of God? What do you think of this picture and what’s your picture of God? This Sunday is Transfiguration Sunday. On this Sunday lots of churches remember the occasion when […]

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Weekly Update #143 – 12 February

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #143 12th February, 2023 From the Minister           Why Does God Let That Happen? At the time of writing more than five thousand people are reported killed in the earthquake which has hit Turkey and Syria. That figure […]

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Weekly Update #142 – 5 February

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #142 5th February, 2023 From the Minister                     Salt and Light Jim* was on kitchen duty for the after-service tea and coffee at Beatitude Place URC*. He switched on the boiler, put out the tea, coffee and biscuits, and refilled […]

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Weekly Update #141 – 29 January

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #141 29th January, 2023 From the Minister                                       Jesus and People Like Us?        There’s a long tradition of artistic representations of Jesus which portray him and his followers as ‘people like us’, whoever ‘us’ may be. Laura James, an African American […]

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Weekly Update #140 – 22 January

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #140 22nd January, 2023 From Andrew               Week of Prayer for Christian Unity This Sunday comes in the middle of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.  At his last supper, Jesus prayed that all Christians would be united with each […]

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