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 […]
Christmas Tree Festival
Hundreds of visitors enjoyed a Festival of Christmas Trees at St Columba’s Church. The display took place on Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 December. The church was filled with decorated Christmas trees of all sorts and sizes – including artificial ones of pink and silver. Each tree had been chosen and decorated by a different […]
Christmas 2010
Worshippers were not put off by snow at our Christmas services in 2010. Despite several weeks of snow and ice, St Columba’s Church was fairly full for the traditional carols by candlelight on Christmas Eve. During the penultimate carol, Silent Night, the electric lights were dimmed, and Christingle candles lit for a memorable start to […]
Christmas Lights
When the Christmas lights were switched on in North Shields, St Columba’s played its part. North Tyneside Council held a competition amongst local schoolchildren, and the winner was a 14-year-old pupil at St Thomas More Roman Catholic High School. The winning design, which was made from light-emitting diodes for energy efficiency, features Rudolph the red-nosed […]