Weekly Update #190 – 11 February

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #190 – 11th February 2024 From the Minister King Charles has cancer. We know this because he has told us so. How times change. When the present king’s grandfather, George VI was diagnosed with cancer not only did they not […]

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Weekly Update #163 – 2 July

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #163      2nd July 2023 From Andrew                                  Flourishing Churches The United Reformed Church’s General Assembly meets this weekend.  One of the papers that caught my eye amongst more than 300 pages of reports and resolutions was one arising from the […]

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Weekly Update #162 – 25 June

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #162         25th June 2023 From the Minister                           For All Those In Peril On The Sea At the time of writing, the news is full of the search for missing Ocean Gate submarine which was visiting the wreck of the Titanic in […]

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Weekly Update #161 – 18 June

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #161          18th June 2023 From the Minister                           Entertaining Strangers Take a look at the picture of the three people dining at the table. It’s by the medieval Russian painter, Andrei Rublev (c.1360-c.1430). It portrays the event described […]

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