Our Christian Aid DIY Climate Justice Tour Event on 29th October was inspired by the fact that all great movements (like the abolition of slavery or universal adult suffrage) started with conversations, leading to action. Our starting point is that everyone on this wonderful planet is loved equally by God and so it is intolerable […]
Our latest students’ evening went with a bang – or rather a number of bangs, that caused some consternation among other users of the premises at the time. But it was only the sound of indoor fireworks, which finished off our regular presentations and conversations with students from Josephine Butler College. And we are now […]
We warmly welcomed back to Waddington Street, for the first time since Lockdown, St John’s College Chapel Choir, who gave us a splendid concert focusing on works by Vaughan Williams and Parry. The choice of Vaughan Williams was specially appropriate as 1872 is both the 150th anniversary of his birth, and the 150th anniversary of […]
Together members and friends celebrated harvest thanksgiving, 50 years of the United Reformed Church, and 150 years of our church’s life at Waddington Street in a joyful service led by our minister, the Revd Marcus Hargis. Through prayer and reflection we remembered the faithful witness of church members no longer with us, and commended one […]
The sun shone on Flass Vale, just a few hundred yards from Waddington Street, as members and friends of our church gathered for the first of our Anniversary Weekend activities. Our Synod Moderator, the Revd David Herbert, wielded his spade to plant the third of the rowan trees that are our contribution to the late […]
Members of Waddington Street URC were among the many who came together and on-line on Sunday 9th October 2022 at 3.00pm to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the United Reformed Church. The service was held in the beautifully refurbished Jesmond United Reformed Church (Grade II Listed), Newcastle upon Tyne and was led by the General […]
Our Talking Climate Justice Tour will be held at Waddington Street URC at 2.30 pm on Saturday 29th October There are many aspects to the environmental crises and there are many things, big and small, that can be done by us as individuals as well as by schools, universities, charities, councils, governments, business and industry. […]
A fundraising evening concert will be given in our church by St John’s Chapel Choir on Saturday 12th November 2022 at 7.00 pm Tickets £10 (includes buffet supper) Contact: [email protected] 0191 3843702 for advance purchases Proceeds to Disasters Emergency Committee – Ukraine Humanitarian and Pakistan Floods
Friday 14th – Sunday 16th October The synod moderator, the Revd Dave Herbert, will dedicate three trees in Flass Vale Local Nature Reserve, as part of her late Majesty The Queen’s Green Canopy Platinum Jubilee Campaign. Church members and friends are invited to attend, meeting outside the church on Friday 14th October at 11.00 am. The Three Rowan […]
Waddington Street members were delighted to welcome the Revd Fiona Bennett to Durham over the weekend June 17-19, as part of our church’s 150th anniversary celebrations. From July Fiona, who is minister of Augustine United Church in Edinburgh, will serve for one year as Moderator of the General Assembly of the United Reformed Church. Her […]
