Saturday 19th February 2011
Northern Synod Carpet Bowls Competition
St. George’s U.R.C. in Morpeth was represented in the annual Northern Synod Carpet Bowls competition on Saturday February 19th which this year was held at Ashington URC. Twelve teams took part and St. George’s found themselves up against Warkworth, Kingston Park and Newbiggin in their ‘round-robin’ group. The Warkworth match was quite close but St. George’s finished on the wrong side of a 6 shots to 4 result; the foursome from Kingston Park were beaten fairly convincingly by 7 shots to just 2.
However, considering St. George’s score at Newbiggin in a full match recently, they were optimistic about the result of their last of three matches. The optimism was unfortunately rather misplaced and St. George’s lost by 6 shots to 2. Nevertheless, it was an enjoyable day, and the eventual winners of the competition were one of the two teams from Wideopen.
The whole event was well organised, the matches were generally played with a good spirit and we look forward to taking part in a similar event in 2012.
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SPECIAL “ACCORDING TO JOHN” SERVICE - Sunday 20th March
Morning Worship on Sunday 20th March this year was rather special. It was entitled “According to John” and concentrated on the reading of thirteen short, but important parts of John’s Gospel. A narrator served to join many of the sections together. In addition, members of the church acted out the stories of the Woman at the Well and the Man at Bethesda Pool and youngsters from St. George’s Junior Church told the story of the Feeding of the Five Thousand.
Just two hymns only were taken from the hymn book and Rev. Stuart Brock arranged the format of the service and composed the additional hymns. Rose Reeve composed most of the incidental music for the St. George’s Orchestra which was sung by the church choir.
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“THE WAY WE WERE” – Saturday 26th March.
The event celebrated the end of the 150th year of the current St. George’s URC building and was based around various events in Morpeth connected with the church itself. There were short humorous sketches relating to events in the 150 years between the congregation’s move from the former Cottingwood Chapel in the 1860’s to the present building right up to the flooding of the church in September 2008.
The hall was fully booked and an appreciative audience watched, listened and laughed throughout the evening. There was also an excellent three-course meal provided by lady church members included in the price of the ticket.
Though delayed by about three months, due to the December weather, the evening was well worth waiting for.
Originally planned to be performed just before Christmas last year, but postponed due to the horrendous weather conditions at the time, the long awaited “The Way We Were” evening eventually took place in St. George's URC hall, Morpeth, on Saturday 26th March. 
