November 2023
A selection of events as advised by churches across the area; please contact us to add or update details. Services, events, dates and times are subject to late changes - please check with the church for latest details, reserving or booking places or tickets, See also our News pages and Facebook page 'Hope4Spalding'. Apologies for errors and omissions. Bold = ecumenical events supported or organised by churches working together; Entries in italics = awaiting confirmation
First Sunday in Advent, 3 December
Thursday 30 November, 6:00pm: Patronal Festival, St Andrew's, Rippingale (FB) in the Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB)
🎄Thursday 30 November, 7:00pm: Christmas Wreath workshop, mince pies, mulled wine, £20 proceeds to the Samaritans, All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY
Tuesday 28 November, 2:00pm: Out of the Ordinary - Advent Reflections, Sutterton Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)
🎄Sunday 26 November, 10:30am: Christmas Trees, Broad Street Methodist (FB)
Sunday 26 November, after the 10:00am service: Fairtrade stall in The Green School; more info via St Guthlac's, Market Deeping (FB)
Sunday 26 November, 10:00am: Christingle, St Michael and All Angels, Langtoft (FB) - The Ness Group (FB) ACNY
Sunday 26 November, 11:00pm: All Age service for Christ the King, Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY
🎄Sunday 26 November, 12:00pm: Free Family Activities, St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)
🎄Sunday 26 November, 4:30pm: Carol service amid the Christmas Trees, Gosberton Methodist (FB)
Sunday 26 November, 7:00pm: City Praise at Peterborough Cathedral (FB) (Shire & Soke Churches Together)
Sunday 26 November: World Youth Day; more info via The Immaculate Conception & St Norbert (FB)
Saturday 25 November: Spalding Christmas Celebration in the town centre (SHDC article)
Saturday 25 November: Harvest Church (FB) in the Market Place
🎄Saturday 25 November: Open churches include: St Mary & St Nicolas (FB), 10:00am: Free Family Activities, also celebrating Christ the King
🎄Saturday 25 November, 10:00am: Christmas Fair at the start of the Christmas Tree Festival, Broad Street Methodist (FB)
🎄Saturday 25 November, 10:00am: Christmas Fair, Spalding United Reformed Church (FB)
🎄Saturday 25 November, 10:00am: Brigades coffee morning, Spalding Baptist (FB)
🎄Saturday 25 November, 10:00am: Christmas Market, Pinchbeck Baptist (FB)
🎄Saturday 25 November, 10:00am and 1:00pm: Christmas Wreath workshops, £30, St John's, Baston in The Ness Group (FB)
🎄Saturday 25 November, 11:00am: Festive Coffee Morning in the Walsingham Hall, Holy Trinity Holbeach
Saturday 25 November, 10:00am: Advent Retreat: The Nature of Hope and Hopeful Waiting, £16, Bring Your Own Lunch, Edenham Regional House, Edenham ACNY (FB)
🎄Saturday 25 November, 12:00pm: Christmas Wreath making workshop in the Village Hall; more info via St Mary's, Cowbit ACNY (FB)
🎄Saturday 25 November, 10:00am: Christmas Bazaar, St Mary's, Sutterton (FB) ACNY
Saturday 25 November, 11:00am: Christmas Fayre, Long Sutton Baptist (FB)
🎄Saturday 25 November, 3:00pm: Christmas at Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY - with Father Christmas, mulled wine, wreaths, mince pies
🎄Saturday 25 November, 7:00pm: Christmas at Morton House; more info and tickets (£25) via the Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB)
Saturday 25 November: Towards Advent, St Luke's RC, Peterborough, PE2 5XS (FB)
Fridays including 24 November, 4:30pm: Youth Group at St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge (FB) (ACNY) (check dates with St Matthew's)
🎄Friday 24 - Sunday 26 November: Christmas Tree Festival, Gosberton Methodist (FB); also 2 December
🎄Friday 24 - Sunday 26 November and Saturday 2 - Sunday 3 December, 10:00am: Christmas Tree Festival, St Peter & St Paul, Wigtoft; more info via ACNY
🎄24 November - 10 December: Christmas Tree Festival, St John's, Stamford (dates subject to change) (CCT St John's)
🎄Friday 24 (6:00pm) and Saturday 25 November, (10:00am): Winter Fair '23, Priory church hall, Deeping St James (FB)
🎄Friday 24 November, 6:00pm: Christmas Tree Festival Carol service, St Peter & St Paul, Wigtoft; more info via ACNY
Friday 24 November, 10:00am: Warm Hub reopens at Bourne Salvation Army (FB)
Wednesday 22 November, 10:00am: Warm Hub reopens at Bourne Baptist (FB)
Wednesday 22 November, 7:00pm: Sung Mass, St Cecilia, Holy Trinity Holbeach; see also The Immaculate Conception & St Norbert (FB)
Monday 20 - Thursday 23 November: Christmas Unwrapped, Spalding Baptist (FB)
Sunday 19 November, 2:00pm: CTAL Remembrance service for everyone, remembering those who have lost their lives on Lincolnshire's roads, St Botolph's, Boston
Saturday 18 November, 10:00am: Christmas Coffee Morning, St Bartholomew's, West Pinchbeck (FB)
Saturday 18 November, 10:00am: Craft and Gift Fair, St Mary Magdalene, Gedney (ACNY)
Saturday 18 November, 10:00am: Mental Health Friendly Church Training Day by Kintsugi Hope (FB) at the Queen Mary Centre, Wisbech, PE13 2PE (FB), £15; more info via The King's Church, Wisbech (FB)
Saturday 18 November, 2:00pm: Christmas Fayre, St John the Baptist, (FB)
Friday 17 November, 9:30am: Friday Crafting in The Green School (£5); more info via St Guthlac's, Market Deeping (FB)
Friday 17 November, 7:30pm: Holbeach Town Band concert at Holbeach Methodist (FB), £5
Thursday 16 November. 3:30pm: Warm Space, St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge (FB) ACNY
Thursday 16 November, 5:00pm: Operation Christmas Child shoebox send-off at Sutton St Edmund Village Hall (Village Life FB/Freedom church FB)
Wednesday 15 November, 7:30pm: David Hughes 50yr anniversary of ministry celebration at Bourne Baptist (FB)
Monday 13 November, 2:30pm: Mothers' Union trip to Burtey Fen (£10); more info via St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)
Monday 13 November, 7:30pm: Churches Together in the Deepings meeting; more info via Deeping St James (FB)
Sundays 12 - 19 November: Inter-faith week
Remembrance Sunday
Sunday 12 November, 9:00am: Remembrance Mass, Holy Trinity Holbeach
Sunday 12 November, 9:00am: Holy Communion, St Guthlac's, Market Deeping (FB)
Sunday 12 November, 9:15am: Remembrance service, St Paul's (FB)
Sunday 12 November, 9:30am: Service of Remembrance, St Mary's, Sutterton (FB) ACNY
Sunday 12 November, 9:30am: Family Communion, St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)
Sunday 12 November, 10:00am: Remembrance service, Gosberton Methodist (FB), then to village War Memorial
Sunday 12 November, 10:00am: Remembrance service, St John's, Baston in The Ness Group (FB)
Sunday 12 November, 10:00am: Remembrance Sunday service, St Margaret's, Quadring (FB)
Sunday 12 November, 10:15am: Remembrance Day service and parade, St Andrew's, Billingborough (Gilbertine Benefice) ACNY
Sunday 12 November, 10:15am for 10:30am: Royal British Legion parade from Pinchbeck village hall; service at 10:45am, St Mary's Pinchbeck (FB) ACNY
Sunday 12 November, 10:30am: Remembrance Sunday, All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY (Elloe Stone group)
Sunday 12 November, 10:30am: Remembrance Sunday, Deeping Baptist (FB), (non-CTiD)
Sunday 12 November, 10:30am: Remembrance Sunday service, Deeping St Nicholas, (FB) ACNY PE11 3ET
Sunday 12 November, 10:30am: Remembrance Sunday United service with Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY at Crowland Methodist (FB)
Sunday 12 November, 10:30am: Remembrance at Holbeach Baptist Church (FB)
Sunday 12 November, 10:30am Parade in Holbeach and 11:30am: Remembrance United service with Holbeach Methodist (FB) at All Saints, Holbeach (FB)
Sunday 12 November, 10:30am: Remembrance Sunday United service with Moulton Chapel Methodist at St James, Moulton Chapel (FB) (Elloe Stone group)
Sunday 12 November, 10:30am: Remembrance Sunday, Spalding United Reformed Church (FB)
Sunday 12 November, 10:30am: Remembrance Sunday service, St Guthlac's, Market Deeping (FB)
Sunday 12 November, 10:30am: Remembrance service, St Laurence Surfleet (FB)
Sunday 12 November, 10:30am: Remembrance Sunday, St Mary's, Whaplode (FB) ACNY (Elloe Stone group)
Sunday 12 November, 10:30am: Remembrance services at Haconby, Kirkby Underwood, Morton and Rippingale in the Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB)
also: 6:00pm at Dunsby
Sunday 12 November, 10:45am: Remembrance Day in the Memorial Gardens followed by 11:10/11:20am service in Bourne Abbey ACNY; Abbey open from 11:00am; other churches joining include Bourne Baptist (FB)
Sunday 12 November, 10:45am: Act of Remembrance, Gosberton War Memorial
Sunday 12 November, 10:45am: Remembrance Sunday, St John the Baptist, Hawthorn Bank (FB)
Sunday 12 November, 10:45am: Remembrance Sunday, St John's, Holbeach Fen, St John (Elloe Stone group); War Memorial for 11:00am
Sunday 12 November, 10:45am: Act of Remembrance, War Memorial, Sutton St Edmund (Village Life FB)
Sunday 12 November, 10:45am: Remembrance Sunday, St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge (FB) ACNY
Sunday 12 November, 10:50am: Remembrance service, St Firmin's, Thurlby in The Ness Group (FB)
Sunday 12 November, 10:50am: Act of Remembrance at the War Memorial; more info via St Mary's, Sutterton (FB) ACNY
Sunday 12 November, 10:50am: Remembrance and Communion, St Mary Magdalene, Gedney (ACNY)
Sunday 12 November, 10:50am: Remembrance service, St Michael and All Angels, Langtoft (FB) ACNY in The Ness Group
Sunday 12 November, 10:50am: Remembrance Day service, Tydd St Mary (FB) ACNY
Sunday 12 November, 10:55am: Remembrance Sunday at the War Memorial, Ayscoughfee Gardens; more info via St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)
Sunday 12 November, 11:00am: Remembrance Mass, The Immaculate Conception & St Norbert (FB)
Sunday 12 November, 2:00pm: Christmas Craft Fair / Refresh Café, St Firmin's, Thurlby in The Ness Group (FB)
Sunday 12 November, 2:15am for 3:00pm: Remembrance service starting at United Charities' garden, Church Street, then to Deeping St James (FB)
Sunday 12 November, 2:45pm: Remembrance service at the Memorial, followed by 3:00pm church service with Holbeach Town Band, Holbeach, St Mark with St Matthew (Friends group FB) (Mid Elloe group)
Sunday 12 November, 3:00pm: Remembrance service, Bicker Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)
Sunday 12 November, 3:00pm: Remembrance service at the War Memorial followed by service at Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY
Sunday 12 November, 3:00pm: Service of Remembrance at the Memorial; more info via Gosberton Clough Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)
Sunday 12 November, 3:00pm: Service of Remembrance with tea, St James the Great, Aslackby in the Gilbertine Benefice ACNY
Sunday 12 November, 3:30pm: Jelly Church - including Christmas Decoration making, Sutterton, St Mary's (FB) ACNY
Sunday 12 November, 6:30pm: Evensong, St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)
Saturday 11 November, 10:30am: Coffee Morning in The Green School; more info via St Guthlac's, Market Deeping (FB)
Saturday 11 November, 10:50am: Remembrance Day service at Bicker War Memorial, followed by refreshments at Bicker Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)
Saturday 11 November, 2:30pm: Rt Rev Stephen Conway enthronement in Lincoln Cathedral; see also Lincoln Diocese
Saturday 11 November, 3:00pm: Messy Church at Greatford Village Hall; more info via St Thomas of Canterbury, Greatford (FB) ACNY
Fridays including 10 November, 4:30pm: Youth Group at St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge (FB) (ACNY) (check dates with St Matthew's)
Sunday 5 November: 9:00am: Dr John Andrews, Lighthouse Pentecostal (FB)
Sunday 5 November: Church Anniversary with Charles Pinchbeck of Heckington, Gosberton Methodist (FB)
Sunday 5 November, 10:00am: Memorial service, St Laurence Surfleet (FB)
Sunday 5 November, 10:00am: All Saints / All Souls service, Deeping St Nicholas, (FB) ACNY PE11 3ET
Sunday 5 November, 10:15am: Church Anniversary with Rev Nick Ashton, Spalding Baptist (FB), followed by bring and share lunch
Sunday 5 November, 11:00am: Morning Prayer, Tydd St Mary (FB) ACNY
Sunday 5 November: 11:30am: Dr John Andrews, Lighthouse Pentecostal (FB)
Sunday 5 November, 1:30pm: Lithuanian Mass The Immaculate Conception & St Norbert (FB)
Sunday 5 November, 3:00pm: All Souls' service, Deeping St James (FB)
Sunday 5 November, 3:00pm: Annual Memorial service, St Mary's Pinchbeck (FB) ACNY, The Glen Group
Sunday 5 November, 4:00pm: All Souls Memorial service, St Andrew's, Billingborough (Gilbertine Benefice) ACNY
Sunday 5 November, 4:00pm: In Memoriam, St Guthlac's, Market Deeping (FB)
Sunday 5 November, 4:00pm: All Souls service, Tydd St Mary (FB) ACNY
Sunday 5 November, 4:00pm: All Souls Memorial service, St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge (FB) ACNY
Sunday 5 November, 4:30pm: All Souls service, All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY (previously noted as 4:00pm)
Sunday 5 November, 6:30pm: All Souls service, Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY
Sunday 5 November, 6:30pm: All Souls service, St Firmin's, Thurlby in The Ness Group (FB)
Saturday 4 November, 10:00am, Autumn Fair, St Mary Long Sutton church hall, (FB) ACNY
Saturday 4 November, 10:00am, Winter Craft Fair, Bourne Salvation Army (FB)
Saturday 4 November, 3:00pm: All Souls Memorial service, St Peter's, Ropsley (FB) ACNY
Friday 3 November, 5:30pm: Light Party and Fireworks, Priory church hall and garden, Deeping St James (FB)
More Light Parties in October
Thursday 2 November, 6:00pm: for an hour: Ecumenical prayer meeting for the wider church and community, hosted by Broad Street Methodist
Thursday 2 November, 7:00pm: In Loving Memory, St John the Baptist, Morton in the Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB)
Thursday 2 November, 7:00pm: All Souls Memorial service, All Saints, Holbeach (FB) ACNY
Thursday 2 November, 7:00pm: All Souls Memorial service, St Mary Magdalene, Old Somerby ACNY
Wednesday 1 November, 1:30pm: Coffee and Cake, St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)
Wednesday 1 November, 7:00pm: All Souls service, St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)
