Sermon: Gift Giving

A Sermon Preached by the Reverend Trevor Jamison for Saint Columba’s United Reformed Church, North Shields, 3rd January 2021 Isaiah 60:1-6; Matthew 2:1-12 ‘Then opening their treasure chests, they offered him gifts …’ (2:11) Well, gift-giving was a bit different in our household this Christmas. Instead of a rush around the shops everything was purchased […]

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Operation Christmas Child 2012

  Children in poorer parts of the world will benefit again this year from Operation Christmas Child. St Columba’s Church again supported Samaritan’s Purse’s appeal by donating hundreds of shoeboxes, filled with Christmas gifts.  The boxes were brought to church on Sunday 18 November, to be blessed before being sent on to a local collecting […]

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Church Sends Love for Christmas

St Columba’s has collected 230 boxes of Christmas presents for children in poor countries. Our church has supported the annual shoebox appeal for 10 years, and 2009 was no exception. Operation Christmas Child is a project run by British charity Samaritan’s Purse.  Last year, over 1.2 million presents, gift-wrapped in shoeboxes, were sent from the […]

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