Harvest Festival 2015

St Columba’s Church was fuller than usual for harvest festival on Sunday 4 October, with beavers, cubs, scouts, rainbows, brownies, guides and friends augmenting the congregation. The children and young people played an active part in the service, acting out a dramatic re-telling of the parable of the sower, competing to make mashed potato, and […]

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Harvest Festival

St Columba’s Church was packed on Sunday 28 September for harvest festival, which was also combined with Back to Church Sunday, Parade Sunday, and a baptism. The service included traditional harvest hymns, with a more modern song.  There were also a couple of short videos, a dramatic presentation of a Bible story, and a quiz, all […]

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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 […]

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Harvest Festival 2011

It was back to church for a traditional Harvest Festival with a difference on Sunday 25 September. St Columba’s Church welcomed nearly two hundred members and visitors for the all-age celebration service.  The children and young people of the 1st North Shields Brownies and Rainbows and the 4th Tynemouth (Congers) Beavers, Cubs and Scouts paraded […]

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Harvest Festival 2010

It was back to church for Harvest Festival on Sunday 26 September.  St Columba’s Church was packed with about two hundred members and visitors for the all-age celebration service.  The children of the 1st North Shields Brownies and Rainbows and the 4th Tynemouth (Congers) Beavers, Cubs and Scouts paraded their colours as they joined the […]

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