March 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
Friday 31 March, 7:00pm: Stations of the Cross, The Immaculate Conception & St Norbert (FB)
Wednesday 29 March, 12:00pm: Lent Lunches (£6) supporting Christian Aid, St Michael & All Angels, Langtoft (FB) in The Ness Group (FB) ACNY
Tuesday 28 March, 2:00pm: Mothers' Union Lady Day service, All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY
Tuesday 28 March, 7:00pm: Compline, St Laurence, Surfleet (FB)
Tuesday 28 March, 7:00pm: Public meeting, Gosberton Youth Centre (FB). See also Community Spirit (April 2011, April 2012)
Saturday 25 March, The Annunciation
Saturday 25 March, 9:00am: Mass, The Immaculate Conception & St Norbert (FB)
Saturday 25 March, 10:00am: Craft Fair, Crowland Methodist (FB) (Peterborough Circuit)
Saturday 25 March, 10:00am: Coffee Morning and Emporium Sales, Gosberton Methodist (FB)
Saturday 25 March, 10:00am: Lectio Lent Course, Dunsby Village Hall (PE11 0UB); more info via the Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB)
Saturday 25 March, 12 noon: Churches Together in the Deepings (FB) Lent Lunch at Open Door Baptist church Deeping St James (FB)
Saturday 25 March (started 25 February), 12 noon: Lent Lunches at All Saints, Holbeach (FB)
Saturday 25 March, 2:30pm: 'God's Church' Five Star service at Wisbech Baptist (FB) PE13 1DB; more info via Long Sutton Baptist (FB) / Sutton St James Baptist (FB)
Saturday 25 March, 4:30pm: Mass, The Immaculate Conception & St Norbert (FB)
Friday 24 March, 7:00pm: Stations of the Cross, The Immaculate Conception & St Norbert (FB)
Thursday 23 March, 2:00pm: Prayer Gathering organised by Churches Together in Elloe East at Sutton St James Baptist, PE12 0EF
Wednesday 22 March, 12:00pm: Soup Lunch, St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge (FB) ACNY
Wednesday 22 March, 12:00pm: Lent Lunches (£6) supporting Christian Aid, St Michael & All Angels, Langtoft (FB) in The Ness Group (FB) ACNY
Wednesday 22 March - Sunday 30 April: 'Threads Through Creation' by Jacqui Parkinson Textiles at Peterborough Cathedral (FB)
Tuesday 21 March, 7:00pm: Compline, St Laurence, Surfleet (FB)
More Lent courses, lunches, coffee and cake and further Lenten events starting 1 March (below)
Mothering Sunday, 19 March
9:00am: Informal Holy Communion, Broad Street Methodist (FB)
9:00am: Mother's Day at Lighthouse (FB)
9:00am: Mass, Holy Trinity Holbeach
9:15am: Mothering Sunday at St Laurence, Surfleet (FB)
9:15am: Mothering Sunday Holy Communion, St Paul's (FB)
10:00am: Mothering Sunday at All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY (Elloe Stone group)
10:00am: Mothering Sunday at Deeping St Nicholas, (FB) (see also 'Craft', 18/3)
10:00am: Mothering Sunday at St Guthlac's (FB)
10:00am: Mothering Sunday at St John's Holbeach Fen (Elloe Stone group)
10:00am: Holy Communion, St Peter & St Paul, Gosberton (FB)
10:00am: Morning Worship, St Gilbert & St Hugh, Gosberton Clough (FB)
10:00am: Mothering Sunday at St John the Baptist, Hawthorn Bank (FB)
10:00am: Mothering Sunday, St Firmin's, Thurlby in The Ness Group (FB)
10:00am: Mothering Sunday, St John's, Baston in The Ness Group (FB)
10:00am: Holy Communion Mothering Sunday, St Michael and All Angels, Langtoft (FB) ACNY
10:15am: Mother's Day at Spalding Baptist (FB)
10:30am: Mothering Sunday All Age Holy Communion, at All Saints, Holbeach (FB)
10:30am: Mothering Sunday at Broad Street Methodist (FB)
10:30am: Mother's Day at Calvary Baptist (FB)
10:30am: Meeting for Worship, Friends Meeting House (Quakers)
10:30am: Mothering Sunday at Gosberton Methodist (FB, FB2, FB3) (Circuit website)
10:30am: Mothering Sunday service, Gosberton Clough Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)
10:30am: Mother's Day at Harvest Church (FB)
10:30am: Mothering Sunday with the Brigades, Spalding United Reformed Church (FB)
10:30am: Sung Holy Communion, St Mary, Long Sutton (FB) ACNY
10:30am: Mothering Sunday at St Mary's, Whaplode (FB) ACNY
10:30am: Family Communion, St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)
11:00am: All Age Eucharist for Mothering Sunday, St Bartholomew's, West Pinchbeck (FB)
11:00am: Mothering Sunday at St Luke's, Holbeach Hurn, coffee and cake
11:00am: Mothering Sunday school service, Tydd St Mary (FB) ACNY
11:00am: Morning Prayer, St Mary Magdalene, Gedney (ACNY)
11:00am: Mothering Sunday at via St Michael & All Angels, Uffington ACNY (FB) Group (FB)
11:00am: Family service, St Nicholas, Lutton ACNY
11:00am: Mass, The Immaculate Conception & St Norbert (FB)
11:30am: Mother's Day at Lighthouse (FB)
2:30pm: Mothering Sunday at Bourne Evangelical Church (FB)
3:30pm: All Age service, St John the Baptist, Hawthorn Bank (FB)
6:00pm: Mothering Sunday at St James, Moulton Chapel (FB) (Elloe Stone group)
6:30pm: Evensong, St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)
6:30pm: Beltisloe Lenten Deanery Evensong, Bourne Abbey ACNY
Saturday 18 March, 10:00am: Coffee, Cake, Chat, Spalding URC, (FB)
Saturday 18 March, 10:00am: Lectio Lent Course, Dunsby Village Hall (PE11 0UB); more info via the Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB)
Saturday 18 March, 12 noon: Churches Together in the Deepings (FB) Lent Lunch at Our Lady and St Guthlac, Deeping St James
Saturday 18 March, 2:00pm: Craft - special cards for Mothers, materials supplied; Deeping St Nicholas, (FB)
Friday 17 March, 11:45am: Lent Lunch, St Michael & All Angels, Uffington ACNY (FB) Group (FB)
Friday 17 March, 6:30pm: Stations of the Cross, The Immaculate Conception & St Norbert (FB)
Friday 17 March, 7:00pm: St Patrick's Day Quiz & Puddings, All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY
Thursday 16 March for one week: Mothers Day Remembrance Tree, Crowland Abbey St Mary & St Bartholomew & St Guthlac (FB) ACNY
Wednesday 15 March, 12:00pm: Lent Lunches (£6) supporting Christian Aid, St Michael & All Angels, Langtoft (FB) in The Ness Group (FB) ACNY
Wednesday 15 March, 12 noon: Community Soup Lunch in the church hall, Sutton St James
Wednesday 15 March, 3:30pm: Warm Spaces at St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge (FB) ACNY
Tuesday 14 March, 7:00pm: Compline, St Laurence, Surfleet (FB)
Tuesday 14 March, 5:00pm: Sacrament of Reconciliation, The Immaculate Conception & St Norbert (FB)
Monday 13 March: Commonwealth Day
Sunday 12 March, 3:00pm: Messy Church at Tallington Village Hall; more info via St Lawrence of Rome, Tallington (FB) ACNY
Saturday 11 March, 10:00am: Lectio Lent Course, Dunsby Village Hall (PE11 0UB); more info via the Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB)
Saturday 11 March, 12 noon: Churches Together in the Deepings (FB) Lent Lunch at Deepings Methodist (Circuit) (FB)
Saturday 11 March, 3:00pm: Horologe Voices Concert at St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)
Friday 10 March, 7:00pm: Stations of the Cross, The Immaculate Conception & St Norbert (FB)
Friday 10 March, 7:30pm: Alasdair Paine at Sleaford Keswick (FB)
Wednesday 8 March, 12:00pm: Lent Lunches (£6) supporting Christian Aid, St Michael & All Angels, Langtoft (FB) in The Ness Group (FB) ACNY
Tuesday 7 March, 2:00pm: Friendship Group Easter Crafts, Spalding United Reformed Church (FB)
Sunday 5 March, 3:00pm: Service of Light, Broad Street Methodist (FB)
Sunday 5 March, 3:00pm: Stations of the Cross, Holy Trinity Holbeach
Saturday 4 March, 10:00am: Lectio Lent Course, Dunsby Village Hall (PE11 0UB); more info via the Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB)
Saturday 4 March, 12 noon: Churches Together in the Deepings (FB) Lent Lunch at Priory church, Deeping St James (FB), ACNY
Saturdays (starting 25 February), 12 noon: Lent Lunches at All Saints, Holbeach (FB)
WWDP, Friday 3 March: 'I have heard about your faith', Taiwan; services include:
10:30am: St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)
10:30am: Thorney Abbey, PE6 0RA (FB)
11:00am: St Mary's, Whaplode (FB) ACNY
2:00pm: Pinchbeck Baptist (FB)
2:00pm: Sacred Heart & St Gilbert, Bourne
2:30pm: Deepings Methodist (Circuit) (FB)
tba, St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge (FB) (ACNY)
See also WWDP service list/map
Lent Lunches, groups and events
Daily Devotional - 'Confidence' with the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (FB) - via Spalding Baptist (FB)
Saturdays starting 25 February, 12 noon: Churches Together in the Deepings (FB) Lent Lunches; more info via St Guthlac's (FB)
Saturdays starting 25 February, 12 noon: Lent Lunches at All Saints, Holbeach (FB)
Fridays in March, 10:00am: 'The Faces of Easter', followed by Lent Lunch; organised by Churches Together in Bourne - at Bourne Salvation Army (FB)
Friday 3 March, 7:00pm: Stations of the Cross, Holy Trinity Holbeach
Friday 3 March, 7:00pm: Stations of the Cross, The Immaculate Conception & St Norbert (FB)
Fridays in Lent from 24 February until 24 March (not 3 March), 11:30am: Lent Lunches in the Fraiser Room; more info via St Laurence, Surfleet (FB)
Thursdays in Lent, 12 noon: Lent lunches £6, St John's, Baston in The Ness Group (FB)
Thursdays from 23 February, 12 noon: Lent lunches and at 2:30pm: Lent Course based around the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Lent book for 2023 'Failure: What Jesus Said About Sin, Mistakes and Messing Stuff Up' Priory church, Deeping St James (FB), ACNY
Thursday 2 March, 6:00pm: for an hour: Ecumenical prayer meeting for the wider church and community, hosted by Broad Street Methodist
Thursdays in Lent, 11:00am, Lent Course 'Serving God', St John the Baptist, (FB); repeat from Wednesday evenings
Wednesdays and Thursdays starting 1 & 2 March: A Time to Change Together Lent course at All Saints, Holbeach (FB)
Two Lent Groups covering a course written by the diocese relating to Time to Change Together. The course will run at 10:30am on Wednesday mornings (after morning Holy Communion) and 7:00pm on Thursday evenings in the Mary Bass Room, beginning on the 1st and 2nd of March and lasting five weeks
Wednesdays in Lent (starting 1 March), 10:30am: Godly Conversation Lent Group, St Mary & St Nicolas (FB); see also Tuesday 28 February: Taizé Lent Prayer
Wednesdays in Lent (starting 1 March with personal reflection), 7:30pm, Lent Course 'Serving God', St John the Baptist, (FB); repeated Thursdays, 11:00am
Wednesdays in Lent from 15 March - 5 April, 10:00am: Lent Bible Space 'The Prayers of Jesus', repeated from Tuesdays online; Broad Street Methodist (FB)
Wednesdays in Lent (starting 8 March), 7:00pm: Growing Together Lent Course at the Vicarage, Langtoft; more info: The Ness Group (FB) ACNY
Wednesdays in Lent (starting 1 March), 12 noon: Lent Lunches, All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY
Wednesdays in Lent (starting 1 February) then 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29 March, 7:30pm: Finding Faith Today, Crowland Methodist (FB) (Peterborough Circuit)
Wednesdays (starting 22 February) 1 March, 12:00pm: Lent Lunches (£6) supporting Christian Aid, St Michael & All Angels, Langtoft (FB) in The Ness Group (FB) ACNY
Tuesdays in Lent from 14 March - 4 April, 7:00pm: Lent Bible Space 'The Prayers of Jesus', online, repeated Wednesdays, 10:00am in church; Broad Street Methodist (FB)
Tuesdays starting 28 February, 7:00pm: Journey through Lent; more info via St Andrew's, Billingborough (Gilbertine Benefice) ACNY
Tuesdays in Lent from 28 February, 7:00pm: Compline, St Laurence, Surfleet (FB)
CTSD Ecumenical Lent [home] groups (tbc)
