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The Knitted Bible is coming to St Columba’s!
Come and see the wonderful knitted Bible on display in the church during the Victorian Christmas Market weekend, on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 December. It has to be seen to be believed! There are 33 scenes from Bible stories, knitted by our sister church, St George’s United Reformed Church in Hartlepool. If you can’t […]
Nativity Festival
Hundreds of people enjoyed the Nativity Festival at St Columba’s Church in North Shields. Members and friends worked hard to produce another spectacular display of Christmas trees, flowers, thoughts, and crafts. The exhibition was themed on the Nativity story, and featured crib scenes of all shapes and sizes. Some of the children had coloured in […]
Festival of Lights
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 […]