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 […]
Coronation Festival
St Columba’s Church held a successful festival in celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the Queen’s coronation. The doors were open on Saturday 1 June, to serve coffee, light lunches and strawberry scones. There were also some stalls and a tombola. The church and hall were decorated in red, white and blue for the occasion, […]
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 […]
Harvest 2012
Caring and Sharing was the theme of a family celebration of harvest festival at St Columba’s Church on 30 September. Rainbows, Brownies, Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Youth Club, Toddlers and Junior Church were all involved in all-age worship on the Sunday morning, as the colourful service began with a parade of flags and banners from the […]
Easter Baptism
St Columba’s Church celebrated a baptism as part of the Easter weekend this year, echoing the traditions of the early centuries of the Christian church. The weekend began with evening communion on Maundy Thursday round a table in an upper room, the Lishman Hall. This commemorated Jesus’ last supper, as told in all four Gospels. […]