We warmly invite you to join us at any of our services this Christmas-time. Sunday 23 December at 10.45 am Peace amid the busyness – Spend a peaceful hour of readings old and new, and singing carols, with coffee or tea to follow. Suitable for all ages! Christmas Eve at 6.00 pm Join us for mince […]
Waddington Street Fallen
1914-1918 1939-1945 Download printer friendly version (29 Mb file) WW1 MEMORIAL DEDICATION Excerpt from the Durham Chronicle dated 29 October 1920 DURHAM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Memorial Tablet Unveiled On Sunday, the Rev. A. R. Paton M.A., of Seaton Delaval, returned to his old charge and preached both morning and evening in the […]
Waddington Street Church Projects
“Making a difference in today’s world” Since 2010 the church meeting has voted annually to financially support Christian Aid and at least one charity or community project each year in addition to any other commitments. The total raised now exceeds £45,000. The activities undertaken to raise the money have brought real benefits to the members […]
Halloween Students Night
Halloween saw this year another of our student nights: some twenty international students from the university braved the ghouls and the darkness to walk done the hill and spend an hour or two with church members, keen to share with them some of our seasonal pursuits and activities. There was bobbing for apples and, looking […]
Notices test
Waddington Street United Reformed Church, Durham Sunday 12th November 2017 Morning Worship is led by Revd Ruth Crofton After the service, please stay for refreshments in the hall FORTHCOMING PREACHERS 19th November Revd John Christie 26th November Revd Tony Haws 3rd December Pauline James 10th December Revd John […]
Coffee Morning for Blind Mission
A fund-raising coffee morning realised over £350 – part of our church’s support this year for The Christian Blind Mission (CBM). According to the figures on the CNM website, that one coffee morning should be the means to restore the sight of fifteen individuals through cataract surgery. And what’s more, for all who attended it was […]
Weekly notices
Material from notice sheets circulated in church in recent weeks will be posted on this page 12th November – Remembrance Sunday REFORM MAGAZINE – It is time to order Reform for 2018. The printed edition costs £28 per year, the digital edition costs £18 per year, and the joint edition (printed and digital) costs £34 […]
Walking in Weardale
It was the end of the second week of October, and the leaves were turning a glorious colour. A small group of us met at the wonderful Saxon Church at Escomb, just beyond Bishop Auckland, for a splendid morning walk that took us into quite unfamiliar parts of Weardale. Unfamiliar to most us, that is: […]
Student Evenings
The second of our evenings welcoming overseas students to Durham took place on August 8th, which must have been the wettest day of the summer. Despite the rain, more than 20 students found their way to Waddington Street, mainly on foot and walking down from the hill colleges. For most of them this was still […]
Working on the Web
Half a dozen church members, keen to share the life of our church more widely, had a one-day session on getting our website up to speed. iChurch supermo Rebecca Gudgeon (right in the pic) gave us the low-down on how to bring the site upto speed, and challenged us to think more creatively on what […]