St Columba’s held a very successful strawberry fayre on Saturday 7 June. The strawberry scones proved so popular, that we sold out! Alongside the fayre, we also hosted an exhibition of the church: past, present and future. Displays showed the history of the church going back to 1662, as well aspects of its current life […]
Weekly Update #252 – 1 June
St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #252 – Sunday 1st June 2025 Image: St Paul and the Philippian Jailer, by Harold Copping, via Wikimedia Commons. Published in JS Howson’s “Scenes from the Life of St Paul and their Religious Lessons”, 1909 edition. Worship Sunday 1st […]
Weekly Update #251 – 25 May
St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #251 – Sunday 25th May 2025 Image: The Baptism of Lydia, by Marie Ellenrieder, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Worship Sunday 25th May 10.30 a.m. A service led by the URC Northern Synod Moderator, the Revd Kim Plumpton. 6.30 p.m. A service […]
Weekly Update #250 – 18 May
St Columba’s United Reformed Church 30 Northumberland Square | North Shields | NE30 1PW Weekly Update #250 – Sunday 18th May 2025 From the Minister A Quiet Revival? After many decades of numerical decline is the Church in England and Wales beginning to grow again? That’s the finding […]
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 […]