December 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 , November, Christmas and Facebook page 'Hope4Spalding'. Apologies for errors and omissions. Bold = ecumenical events supported or organised by churches working together; Entries in italics = awaiting confirmation
Sunday 31 December, 10:30am: South Holland Methodist Circuit Covenant service with Holy Communion at Holbeach Methodist (FB)
Christmas Day, Monday 25 December
Church service listings available
Fourth Sunday in Advent, Christmas Eve
Sunday 24 December - Crib services and other services and events this week - and Midnight Mass
Third Sunday in Advent
Sunday 17 December; services and events this week - listing available
Second Sunday in Advent
More services and events listing available
Thursday 14 December, 7:00pm: Carols on the Green with the East Elloe Community Choir; more info via All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY
Tuesday 12 December, 12 noon: Light Lunch, Gosberton Methodist (FB)
Monday 11 December, 6:00pm: Deanery Safeguarding Networking Meeting for The Elloes on Zoom; more info via Lincoln Diocese
🎄Sunday 10 December, 10:00am: Christmas Tree Festival, Thorney Abbey PE6 0QA (FB)
Sunday 10 December, 9:30am: Freedom Kids moves to the Village Hall, Sutton St Edmund Free Methodist Church (FB); (Sutton St Edmund Village Life FB); 9:45am: Refreshments in the Village Hall, Sutton St Edmund Free Methodist Church (FB); (Sutton St Edmund Village Life FB) - then: 10:30am: Freedom Worship in the Village Hall, Sutton St Edmund Free Methodist Church (FB); (Sutton St Edmund Village Life FB)
Sunday 10 December, 1:00pm: NFU Young Farmers Tractor Run
🎄Sunday 10 December, 2:00pm: Refresh Café - Christmas wreath and candle making, St Firmin's, Thurlby in The Ness Group (FB)
Sunday 10 December, 3:00pm: Messy Church at West Deeping Village Hall; ACNY FB
Sunday 10 December, 3:30pm: Jelly Church Christmas Party, Sutterton, St Mary's (FB) ACNY
🎄Saturday 9 December, 10:00am: Christmas Fayre, Bicker village hall; more info via Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)
Saturday 9 December, 10:00am: Advent Retreat: Storytelling, Communication and Faith, £16, Bring Your Own Lunch, Edenham Regional House, Edenham ACNY (FB)
🎄Saturday 9 December, 10:00am: Christmas Fayre, Sacred Heart & St Gilbert, Bourne (FB)
🎄Saturday 9 December, 10:00am: Christmas Fayre, St Mary's, Whaplode (FB) ACNY (Elloe Stone group)
🎄Saturday 9 December, 10:00am: Christmas Tree Festival, Thorney Abbey PE6 0QA (FB)
🎄Saturday 9 December, 11:00am: Festive Christmas Fayre in the Community Hall, The Immaculate Conception & St Norbert (FB)
♫ Saturday 9 December, 5:00pm: Christmas Party and Pantomime, Spalding Baptist (FB)
♫ Saturday 9 December, 7:30pm: Tinderbox, light musical entertainment for Christmas, £10, Bourne Abbey ACNY
♫ Saturday 9 December, 7:30pm: It came upon a midnight clear - concert with the South Holland Singers, £10, St Mary Magdalene, Gedney (ACNY) PE12 0BU
Friday 8 December, 4:30pm: Youth Group at St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge (FB) (ACNY) (see also September, October and November)
♫ Friday 8 December, 7:30pm: Louth Male Voice Choir Christmas Concert, £10, at St Laurence Surfleet (FB) PE11 4AB / PE11 4DA
🍷Friday 8 December, 7:30pm: Wine Tasting in The Green School, £15, pre-booking essential, 18+; more info via St Guthlac's, Market Deeping (FB)
♫ Friday 8 December, 7:30pm: Dr Andrew Gant, Spalding Gentlemen's Society Christmas Lecture (£5) at Broad Street Methodist (FB)
Thursday 7 December, 6:00pm: for an hour: Ecumenical prayer meeting for the wider church and community, hosted by Broad Street Methodist
Wednesday 6 December, 7:00pm: Advent Discussion, Deeping St Nicholas, (FB)
♫ Tuesday 5 December, 7:00pm: Village carol concert with Swineshead Silver Band, St Mary's, Sutterton (FB) ACNY
☕Monday 4 December, 2:00pm: Warm Welcome at St John's, Baston in The Ness Group (FB), Mondays in December
First Sunday in Advent
More services and events listing available
🎄Sunday 3 December: Churches Together in the Deepings (FB) Stall and Nativity at the Christmas Market; more info via St Guthlac's, Market Deeping (FB)
🎄Sunday 3 December, 10:00am: Christmas Fair and Santa's Grotto, St Mary and the Holy Rood, Donington
🎄Saturday 2 December, 10:00am: Christmas Tree Festival and Craft Fayre, All Saints, Holbeach (FB)
🎄Saturday 2 December, 10:00am: Christmas Fayre, Holbeach Methodist (FB)
🎄Saturday 2 December: Churches Together in Bourne Living Crib (Bourne Christmas Lights switch on)
🎄Saturday 2 December, 11:00am: Crib fest - Nativity scenes, Bourne Baptist (FB)
🎄Christmas Tree festival, Bourne Methodist (Stamford Circuit) (FB)
☕Saturday 2 December, 11:00am: Christmas Café, Lighthouse Pentecostal (FB)
♫ Saturday 2 December, 7:30pm: Christmas is coming, Bourne Choral, £10; Bourne Abbey ACNY
🎄Saturday 2 December: Christmas Tree Festival, Gosberton Methodist (FB); also 24 - 26 November
🎄Saturday 2 - Sunday 3 December, 10:00am (Sunday 11:00am): Christmas wreath festival, St Matthew's, Eye PE6 7UU (FB)
🎄Saturday 2 - Sunday 3 December, 10:00am: Christmas Tree Festival, St Peter & St Paul, Wigtoft; more info via ACNY; also 24 - 26 November
🎄Saturday 2 December, 11:30am: Christmas wreath workshop with the Lithuanian priests at The Immaculate Conception & St Norbert (FB) (Lithuanian FB)
Saturday 2 December, 12:00pm: CTAL Remembrance service at The Memorial Garden with the Bishop of Grantham
♫ Saturday 2 December, 7:30pm: St Peter's Singers, Deeping St James Priory Church (FB)
🎄Friday 1 December: Christmas Tree Festival, open daily until January, Deeping St James (FB)
♫ Friday 1 December: 7:30pm: Christmas concert with Holbeach Town Band, Tydd St Mary (FB) ACNY
