West End United Reformed Church in Newcastle took part in the Great Get Together on Saturday 17 June, in memory of the late Jo Cox MP, who was murdered as the victim of a hate crime a year ago. The object of the events was to bring communities and people together, something that was close […]
communityThe congregation at our Waddington Street, Durham church welcomed the Assembly Moderator on June 11th. The Revd Kevin Watson, born and brought up in County Durham, returned to his home turf to preach and preside at the church’s quarterly communion service. But it was a special Sunday in more than one sense, as one of […]
Ray Anglesea, minister of St Andrew’s Dawson Street Local Ecumenical Partnership reports It was a wonderful and exciting day when the present moderator of the URC General Assembly together with his wife paid a pastoral visit to the chapel, the first such visit in the life of the LEP. The Revd Kevin Watson explored with […]
The sun shone, the pigeons cooed and over a hundred people across the generations and churches welcomed the long and eagerly awaited stunning new time line which is now in place outside in the peace and reconciliation garden beside Crookham United Reformed Church. This time line with the “Wow” factor depicts five hundred years of […]
We have been asked to publicise hustings being organised by churches in the north east, and will update this post as we learn of more. Friday 19 May, 7.00 pm, St John’s Church, Church Street, Shildon DL4 1DW Monday 22 May, 7.00 pm, St Peter’s Church, York Avenue, Jarrow NE32 5LP Tuesday 23 May, […]
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NIM is one of a number of ecumenical charities supported by Synod mission grants To learn more, visit their website http://www.northumbrianindustrialmission.org/ See also their latest briefing NIM Report May 2017 and an article on Firefighters’ Memorial Day NIM firefighters article
missionThe picture shows the congregation who toiled up the hill above Low Row in Swaledale on the first Friday in May, to commemorate once again their own chapel’s origins, and the history of dissent in the Dale and the wider region. The short act of worship was led by synod moderator Revd David Herbert, after […]
Synod has supported the work of the regional ecumenical body, North East Churches Acting Together (and its predecessor organisations), for many years, and recently agreed to continue this through mission grants at its meeting on 11 March 2017. Here NECAT reports on its work over the last year. NECAT report 2016
ecumenism, mission, refugeesIt’s time to be getting the garden sorted. Time to get down to your local garden centre and gather up those trays full of bedding plants (but don’t plant them out until the frosts are past!), packets of exotic seeds, and everything else to turn your little plot into a family paradise garden. And while […]