Weekly Update #239 – 2 March

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #239 – 2nd March 2025 From the Minister                           The End of Lent?   Back in the 1980s I watched a very able URC minister come unstuck when giving a talk to a group of teenagers who were members of a […]

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Weekly Update #238 – 23 February

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #238 – 23rd February 2025 From the Minister          What’s Love Got To Do With It? A couple of weeks ago I asked our organist, Paul to play a specific piece of music after the service. I […]

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Weekly Update #237 – 16 February

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #237 – 16th February 2025 From the Minister               Six Thousand Two Hundred and Forty-Nine Last Sunday we had a meeting after the morning service. Fuelled by tea, coffee and cake, more than thirty of us had a conversation about “our Galilee.” […]

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Gethsemane Reflection

Maundy Thursday 2024 – Reflection 2 Mark 14:32-46   ‘They went to a place called Gethsemane; and he said to his disciples, ‘Sit here while I pray.’ He took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be distressed and agitated. And he said to them, ‘I am deeply grieved, even to death; remain here, […]

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Weekly Update #191 – 18 February

St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #191 – 18th February 2024 1st Sunday of Lent Hello again everyone, from John. We seem to have had quite a lot of rain lately, indeed we could imagine that we have had more than our fair share. In […]

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