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, […]
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 […]
Festival of Lights
The star of the show at St Columba’s Festival of Light was a seven foot tall knitted Christmas Tree. It had taken months of work to knit hundreds of woollen squares of different shades of green, which were hung on a wooden frame of branches. The tree also featured knitted baubles, ornaments, toys, tinsel and […]
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 […]
Remembrance Sunday 2012
St Columba’s Church celebrated Remembrance Sunday at the morning service on 11 November. The service included the two minutes silence, the formal laying of a poppy wreath below the war memorial, and reflections on war and peace. There was also an opportunity for members of the congregation to lay poppies and crosses on a larger […]