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, […]

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Youth Service

More than fifty people came together for a youth service organised by the young people of the Coast Churches. Children’s & Youth Pastor Kevin Waller led worship at St Columba’s on the evening of Sunday 5 May along with a number of young people.  Chorus-singing was led by a young band with guitar, harmonica and […]

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Messy Church

Messy Church returned to St Columba’s this Easter. Good Friday began with an open air service organised by Churches Together in North Shields in Northumberland Square in front of the church.  In spite of the cold and occasional snow flurries (which even led one speaker to wish us all a happy Christmas!), a good crowd […]

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RAF Association

St Columba’s saw a colourful service on the morning of Sunday 27 January, when the Royal Air Forces Association (North Shields Branch) laid up it standard. The flag and supporting standards, accompanied by the Union Flag, were paraded smartly into church by young and immaculately uniformed cadets. During the service, two cadets gave Bible readings, […]

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Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

St Columba’s celebrated the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity with a service with a difference. Worship was led by one of our young people, and began with a video of a rapper telling the Gospel in 4 minutes. The theme came from the Old Testament book of the prophet Micah (6:8b), …what does the […]

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