July 2024

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

🏖️Tuesday 30 July, 10:00am: Go for Gold holiday club with an Olympic theme at the Church Hall, Bells Drove, Sutton St James (Summer Church Club FB); more info via Sutton St James Baptist (FB) or Sutton St James, ACNY, (Gedney Hill FB) (Elloe Fen group); also 23/7, 6/8 & 13/8

Tuesday 30 July: Prayer Walking in Spalding town centre; more info from Harvest Church (FB)

Sunday 28 July, 11:00am: All Age service, Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY (poster) (Churches Together in Crowland)

Sunday 28 July, 2:15pm: Patronal Festival afternoon tea followed by 3:00pm service in St James, Aslackby (Gilbertine Benefice / ACNY); more info via Village FB

Sunday 28 July, 6:30pm: Peterborough City Praise (FB) at St Mark's, Lincoln Road, PE1 2SN

🎵Sunday 28 July, 7:00pm: Back Two - Paul Hayward and Sally Rose, £10, Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY

☕🍰Saturday 27 July, 10:00am: Coffee and Cake, Priory church, Deeping St James (FB), ACNY

☕Saturday 27 July, 10:00am: Refreshments, books and more, Pinchbeck Baptist (FB)

☕Saturday 27 July, 10:00am: Coffee Morning and Emporium, Gosberton Methodist (FB)

Saturday 27 July, 11:30am: Lunch, £5; more info via St Mary's, Sutterton,  (FB) ACNY

🌷🥂Thursday 25 - Sunday 28 July: Flower Festival "Music in Bloom', St Mary Magdalene, Gedney (ACNY) PE12 0BU; Sunday 28 July, 6:30pm: Hymns and Pimms

🎵Saturday 27 July, 12:00pm: Ayscoughfest Music Festival, Ayscoughfee Hall and Gardens, PE11 2RA

🏖️Holiday Clubs also in August

🏖️Thursdays from 25 July to 15 August, 10:30am: Go for Gold holiday club with an Olympic theme, St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge (FB) (ACNY) 

Thursdays from 2 May, 7:00pm: Alpha with Rev Sherine Angus and Rev Paul Carey-Slater; venues and sign up via flyer/poster/Facebook; more info via , All Saints, Holbeach (FB) or St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge (FB) (ACNY)

🎵Thursday 25 July, 7:30pm: Music in the Aisles - An Evening with the Korros Ensemble, flute, clarinet & harp, £16/£14; more info via St Firmin's, Thurlby in The Ness Group (FB)

🏖️Wednesday 24 - Friday 26 and Sunday 28 July: Holiday Club Up and Alive, £1 per day, Bourne Baptist (FB)

🏖️Wednesday 24 July, 10:00am and 1:00pm: Child's Play, £1, Broad Street Methodist (FB) (Circuit website); see also 7, 14, 21 & 28 August

🏖️Tuesday 23 July, 10:00am: Go for Gold holiday club with an Olympic theme at the Church Hall, Bells Drove, Sutton St James (Summer Church Club FB); more info via Sutton St James Baptist (FB) or Sutton St James, ACNY, (Gedney Hill FB) (Elloe Fen group); also 30/7, 6/8 & 13/8

Tuesday 23 July: Prayer Walking in Spalding town centre; more info from Harvest Church (FB)

Sunday 21 July, 11:00am: Licensing of Rev Jane Sivers by the Archdeacon of Boston, St John the Baptist, Whaplode Drove (Schoolroom FB) (Gedney Hill FB) ACNY (Elloe Fen group) 

Sunday 21 July, 12:00pm: Hog Roast, £12 & £6, £30 family, pre-booking, Priory church, Deeping St James (FB), ACNY

🎪Sunday 21 July, 2:00pm: Church Fête, St John the Baptist, Whaplode Drove (FB) PE12 0TN

Sunday 21 July, 6:00pm: Farewell service for Rev Ruth Charlesworth, Bourne Methodist (FB) (Stamford Circuit)

Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 July: Bicker heritage weekend (St Swithin's church group FB)

☕🍰Saturday 20 July: Open Day, St Peter & St Paul, Gosberton (FB)

🎨Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 July: Art Exhibition in the Walsingham Hall, Holy Trinity Holbeach (part of The Parish of Our Lady of Walsingham, South Holland (FB))

Saturday 20 July, 9:30am: Who let the Dads Out? Crowland Methodist (FB) (Peterborough Circuit)

☕Saturday 20 July, 10:00am: Coffee morning raising funds for 3Generate, Broad Street Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)

🍰🥪Saturday 20 July, 10:00am: Cake and bacon butty morning, St Michael and All Angels, Langtoft (FB) - The Ness Group (FB) ACNY

Saturday 20 July, 2:00pm: Messy Church at Broad Street Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)

☕🍰Saturday 20 July, 2:00pm: Afternoon Tea and Quiz, £12pp, teams of up to four, St Mary's, Weston (FB)

Saturday 20 July, 2:30pm: Messy Church in The Green School, St Guthlac's, Market Deeping (FB)

🥪🎵Saturday 20 July, 3:30pm: Barbecue and music, £5 at Spalding United Reformed Church (FB)

Friday 19 July, 7:00am: Stations of the Cross at the Grotto, St Norbert's in The Parish of Our Lady of Walsingham, South Holland (FB)

Friday 19 July, 1:00pm: Card Making in the Maples Room, £10; more info via St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)

🍰Friday 19 July, 2:00pm: Drop in Centre at Tydd St Mary village hall; more info via Tydd St Mary (FB) ACNY (Gedney Hill FB) (Elloe Fen group)

🎨Friday 19 - Monday 22 July: Art Exhibition, Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY

Thursday 18 July, 7:30pm: Alpha introductory  talk and meal, Bourne Baptist (FB)

Wednesday 17 July, 3:30pm: Cool Space, St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge (FB) (ACNY)

🎵Wednesday 17 July, 7:30pm: Mirinesse presents Songs for Summer, £6, Holbeach Baptist Church (FB)

Tuesday 16 July: Prayer Walking in Spalding town centre; more info from Harvest Church (FB)

Monday 15 July, 7:30pm: Welland Local Mission Partnership (LMP FB), The Green School, St Guthlac's, Market Deeping (FB) 

🌏Sea Sunday 14 July; Matthew Flinders weekend 12/7-14/7; see also 16/3

Saturday 13 July, 12:00pm: Party in the Park, Donington (FB)
Saturday 13 July, 2:30pm: Reinterment of Matthew Flinders service led by the Bishop of Lincoln at St Mary & the Holy Rood, Donington ACNY PE11 4UA; livestream to the marquee in Flinders Park, Donington, also via YouTube (FB)
Sunday 14 July, doors open 10:00am for 11:00am: Holy Communion with the Bishop of Grantham, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Donington ACNY

🥪Sunday 14 July, 9:00am: Breakfast Fellowship, Broad Street Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)

Sunday 14 July, 9:00am: Mass, Holy Trinity Holbeach

Sunday 14 July, 9:00am: Lighthouse Pentecostal (FB)

Sunday 14 July, 9:00am: Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB) Eucharist at  St Andrew's, Haconby (FB

Sunday 14 July, 9:15am: Informal All Age service, St John the Baptist, Hawthorn Bank, (FB)

Sunday 14 July, 9:15am: Eucharist, St Laurence, Surfleet (FB) ACNY (The Glen Group)

Sunday 14 July, 9:15am: Morning service, St Paul's (FB)

Sunday 14 July, 9:30am: Morning Prayer, Deeping St Nicholas, (FB) ACNY

Sunday 14 July, 10:00am: Holy Communion, All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY (Elloe Stone group)

Sunday 14 July, 10:00am: Morning service, St John's, Baston (FB) in The Ness Group (FB)

Sunday 14 July, 10:15am: Morning worship, Spalding Baptist (FB)

Sunday 14 July, 10:30am: Praise in the Park at the Wellhead; more info via Bourne Baptist (FB)

Sunday 14 July, 10:30am: Worship, Broad Street Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)

Sunday 14 July, 10:30am: Worship at Calvary Baptist (FB)

Sunday 14 July, 10:30am: Joint service with Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY at Crowland Methodist (FB) (Peterborough Circuit) (Churches Together in Crowland)

Sunday 14 July, 10:30am: Meeting for Worship, Friends Meeting House (Quakers)

Sunday 14 July, 10:30am: Sunday at Harvest Church (FB)

Sunday 14 July, 10:30am: Morning service, Pinchbeck Baptist (FB)

Sunday 14 July, 10:30am: Morning service, Spalding United Reformed Church (FB)

Sunday 14 July, 11:00am: Holy Communion, Tydd St Mary (FB) ACNY; refreshments from 10:45am 

Sunday 14 July, 10:30am: Parish Eucharist, St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)

Sunday 14 July, 10:45am: Holy Communion, St John the Baptist, Hawthorn Bank, (FB)

Sunday 14 July, 11:00am: Mass, St Norbert's in The Parish of Our Lady of Walsingham, South Holland (FB)

Sunday 14 July, 11:30am: Sunday worship, Lighthouse Pentecostal (FB)

🍰Sunday 14 July, 2:00pm: Village Treasure Hunt concludes (started 9 June); more info via St Firmin's, Thurlby (FB) or The Ness Group (FB)

🥪Sunday 14 July, 3:00pm: Outdoor service and Barbecue, St John the Baptist, Hawthorn Bank, (FB)

🎵Sunday 14 July, 3:00pm: Desert Island Castaways, Peterborough Community Orchestra (FB), £10, Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY

🥪Sunday 14 July, 3:30pm: Jelly Church and summer Barbecue, St Mary's, Sutterton (FB) ACNY (also advertised as 13/7)

Sunday 14 July, 4:00pm: Celtic Evening Prayer, St Guthlac's, Market Deeping (FB)

Sunday 14 July, 6:00pm: Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB) Evening Prayer at St John the Baptist, Morton (FB)

Sunday 14 July, 6:30am: Choral Evensong, St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)

See our Church Listings pages for links to more churches across the area

🎨Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 July, 11:00am: 'Flour & Flowers' Art and Craft Bash at St John's, Baston (FB) in The Ness Group (FB

🥪Saturday 13 July: Men's breakfast, £5 at Spalding Baptist (FB)

🍰Saturday 13 July, 10:00am: Age UK Coffee and Cakes Morning at Open Door Baptist church Deeping St James (FB) (WP)

Saturday 13 July, 10:00am: Community Coffee Morning, St Mary's, Whaplode (FB) ACNY (Elloe Stone group) 

🎪Saturday 13 July, 2:00pm: Summer Fayre in the hospital grounds, Friends of Johnson Community Hospital (FB)

🎪Saturday 13 July, 2:00pm: Garden Fête, more info via St Guthlac's (FB)

🎵Saturday 13 July, 3:30pm: Summer Concert, £12; more info via St Andrew's, Folkingham South Lafford ACNY

🎵Saturday 13 July, 7:00pm: The Tuneless Choir, £10, St Andrew's, Haconby (FB / PCC

Saturday 13 July: Messy Church in Crowland (FB) takes a break in July and August; more info via Crowland Methodist (FB) (Peterborough Circuit) (poster) (Churches Together in Crowland)

🌷Friday 12 - Sunday 14 July: Flower Festival 'Community', refreshments, Sutton St James Baptist (FB); Sunday 14 July, 3:30pm: Flower Festival/Five Star service 'Running the Race for God - Peter and John' PE12 0EF; see also 21/4, 12/5, 9/6 & 18/8 (listing also via Wisbech Baptist)

Friday 12 July: Quiz Night, £5 & £2 at Spalding Baptist (FB)

🌷Thursday 11 - Sunday 14 July: Flower Festival 'Sutton Bridge through the Ages', St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge (FB) (ACNY) PE12 9SA

Wednesday 10 July, 7:30pm: Rural mission and ministry webinar; more info via CTE or CTAL

Tuesday 9 July, 7:00pm: Taizé at Holy Trinity, Gedney Hill (ACNY) (FB); organised by Churches Together in East Elloe PE12 0NN

Sunday 7 July, 10:00am: Holy Communion joint service, Broad Street Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)

Sunday 7 July, 10:00am onwards: Farewell to Lt Sarah O'Grady, Bourne Salvation Army (FB); new appointment in Newark

Sunday 7 July, 10:30am: Bourne Evangelical Church (FB) (previously meeting at 2:30pm at Bourne United Reformed Church)

🎪🎵Sunday 7 July, 1:30pm: Garden Party, Haverfield Road, Spalding; more info via  Lighthouse Pentecostal (FB)

Sunday 7 July, 2:30pm: Chapel Anniversary, Gosberton Clough Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)

Sunday 7 July, 3:00pm: Youth Brass 2000, £10 at Stamford Methodist Church, (Stamford Methodist Circuit)

Saturday 6 July: Gazebo in the Market Place, Spalding; more info from Harvest Church (FB)

🎪🎨Saturday 6 July, 10:00am: Morton Village Fête; Art exhibition and tea & coffee at St John the Baptist, Morton (FB) Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB)

Saturday 6 July, 10:00am: Scarecrow and Nature Trail, Moulton; more info via All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY (Elloe Stone group)

Saturday 6 July, 10:00am: Craft Destash sale, Crowland Methodist (FB, FB public group) (Peterborough Circuit)

Saturday 6 July, 11:00am: Lithuanian Mass at St Norbert's; more info Lithuanian FB (see also The Parish of Our Lady of Walsingham, South Holland (FB))

Saturday 6 July, 2:00pm: Open Day at Stamford Methodist Church, (Stamford Methodist Circuit)

🎪Saturday 6 July, 2:00pm, Summer Fayre, St John the Baptist, Hawthorn Bank, (FB)

Saturday 6 July, 2:00pm: Praise Festival, Deeping St Nicholas, (FB) ACNY

🎪Saturday 6 July, 2:00pm, Garden Fête, more info via St Gilbert & St Hugh, Gosberton Clough (FB) ACNY

☕🍓🍰Saturday 6 July, 2:00pm: Strawberry Tea, £5, Sutterton Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)

🎶🥂Saturday 6 July, 4:00pm: Hymns and Pimms with Jeff Woods and Rob Little, £5, Pimms on sale, St James, Moulton Chapel (FB) (Elloe Stone group)

🍰Friday 5 July, 2:00pm: Drop in Centre at Tydd St Mary village hall; more info via Tydd St Mary (FB) ACNY (Gedney Hill FB) (Elloe Fen group)

Thursday 4 July: General Election

🔵🔴🟡🟢⚪Resources from Churches Together in Britain and Ireland "including a 'Hosting a hustings' guide from The Joint Public Issues Team and briefings from Operation Noah and NCLF - National Church Leaders Forum; https://churcheselection.org.uk"
Resources from the Catholic community: https://www.cbcew.org.uk/election24/
Resources via the Baptist Union: https://jpit.uk/elections
Hustings include 18 June at Open Door, Deeping St James and 20 June at Hobeach Methodist, 23 June at Centenary Methodist Boston, 24 June at St Wulfram's, Grantham, 27 June at St George's Stamford 

Thursday 4 July,  6:00pm: for an hour: Ecumenical prayer meeting for the wider church and community, hosted by Broad Street Methodist (FB); see also Prayer for Spalding (FB)

☕🍓🍰Tuesday 2 July, 2:00pm: Strawberry Tea - Friendship Group at Spalding United Reformed Church (FB)