May 2024
A selection of events as advised by churches across the area along with services replacing or in. addition to their usual services; 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
Sunday 26 May, 10:30am: Holbeach Baptist Church (FB) at Holbeach Methodist (FB)
☕🍰Saturday 25 May, 2:00pm: Cream Tea, £8, £3, St John the Baptist, Hawthorn Bank, (FB)
🌷Friday 24 - Monday 27 May, Flower Festival, 'Life Events' St Mary's, Whaplode (FB) ACNY PE11 6TE
🌷Friday 24 - Monday 27 May, Flower Festival, All Saints, Holbeach (FB) PE12 7LL; preview concert 23/5, 7:30pm: "Songs for a Summer Evening" £10, South Holland Singers
Friday 24 May: Stamford Circuit Wesley Day at Bourne Methodist (FB)
Monday 20 May, 7:30pm: Welland Local Mission Partnership (LMP FB) meeting; more info via St Guthlac's, Market Deeping (FB)
🔥Pentecost Sunday, 19 May
Party in the Park - including Harvest Church (FB) tbc
10:30am: Family Communion with Ven Justine Allain Chapman, St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)
11:00am: Morning Prayer, St Mary Magdalene, Gedney (ACNY)
11:30am: Stamford Circuit weekend away at The Farm
3:00pm: Holy Communion, Bicker Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)
3:00pm: Churches Together in the Deepings (FB) in the Gardens; more info via Priory church, Deeping St James (FB), ACNY
🎵7:30pm: Musical Madness, an evening of musical theatre with members of the Café Church group in the church hall, Deeping St James Priory Church (FB)
🌷Saturday 18 May: Flower Festival, Holbeach St Mark's ACNY (Friends group FB) near PE12 8DZ
☕Saturday 18 May: Afternoon Tea, talk on John Clare; more info via Priory church, Deeping St James (FB), ACNY
☕Saturday 18 May, 10:00am: Fair and Craft Café, St Michael and All Angels, Langtoft (FB) ACNY
☕🍰Friday 17 May, 2:00pm: Drop In Centre, Tydd St Mary Village Hall (FB) ACNY
🎵Friday 17 May, 7:00pm: Choir Concert, St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)
Thursday 16 May, 7:00pm: Colin Young of Golding Young Auctioneers, £6 Gosberton Methodist (FB)
🕯️Sunday 12 May, 10:30am: Baby Loss service, Holbeach Methodist (FB)
Sunday 12 May, 10:30am: Festival Praise, Spalding United Reformed Church (FB)
☕🍰Sunday 12 May, 2:00pm: Refresh Café - Craft Market, St Firmin's, Thurlby in The Ness Group (FB) PE10 0EH
Saturday 11 May (Parade) and Sunday 12 May (Events continue): Spalding Flower Parade 'Movies' (FB)
☕🍰Churches open for refreshments on Saturday 11 May include:
Broad Street Methodist (FB), Spalding Baptist (FB), Spalding United Reformed Church (FB), St Mary & St Nicolas (FB) - and Harvest Church in the sports field (FB) and also Spalding Lithuanian Community FB
☕🍰Spalding United Reformed Church (FB) serving refreshments on Sunday 12 May, 10:30am; more details on our Flower Festivals page
🌷Friday 10 - Monday 13 May, Flower Festival, 'Sporting Events', All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY; Friday 10/5: Elloe Stone singers concert PE12 6QB
Saturday 11 May, 2:00pm: RoadHog (FB) new bus launch at Boston Rugby Club PE21 7PB
🎵Saturday 11 May, 3:00pm: Flute Concert with Bedfordshire Flutes, £10, St Andrew's, Horbling (Gilbertine Benefice) ACNY NG34 0PE
Saturday 11 May, 4:00pm: Messy Church in Crowland (FB) at Crowland Methodist (FB) (Peterborough Circuit)
Thursday 9 May: Ascension Day
Thursday 9 May, 5:30am: Dawn Eucharist followed by 🍳breakfast, St Andrew's, Haconby (FB) Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB)
Thursday 9 May, 9:30am: Mass, St Norbert's, The Parish of Our Lady of Walsingham, South Holland (FB)
Thursday 9 May, 6:00pm Rosary and Benediction; 7:00pm: Mass, Holy Trinity, Holbeach, The Parish of Our Lady of Walsingham, South Holland (FB)
Thursday 9 May, 7:00pm: Holy Communion, St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)
Thursday 9 May: Fashion event; more details via St Mary Magdalene, Gedney (ACNY)
Wednesday 8 May, 7:00pm: Vigil Mass of the Ascension, St Norbert's, The Parish of Our Lady of Walsingham, South Holland (FB)
🎵Thursday 9 May, 7:30pm: Music in the Aisles - An Evening of Jazz, £15, St Firmin's, Thurlby in The Ness Group (FB) (Sold out 20/3)
Thursday 9 May, 7:00pm: Holy Communion, St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)
Tuesday 7 May, 2:00pm: 'Strange Tales of Family History' - Friendship Group at Spalding United Reformed Church (FB)
🌷Monday 6 May, 10:00am: Spring Craft Fayre, £1, Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY
☕Monday 6 May, 10:00am: Coffee Morning supporting Christian Aid, Pointon Mission - Christ Church in the Gilbertine Benefice (FB friend) ACNY
🌷Sunday 5 May: Moulton Chapel Tuliptime Village Festival and Parade (FB) PE12 0XQ
Sunday 5 - Monday 6 May: Scarecrow Festival; more info via St Michael & All Angels, Uffington ACNY (FB) Group (FB)
🌷Sunday 5 - Monday 6 May: Flower Festival 'The Word of God', Holbeach Baptist Church (FB) PE12 7DN; Sunday 10:30am: Songs of Celebration
🌷Sunday 5 May, 10:30am: Flower Festival service, Sutterton Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)
🌷Saturday 4 - Monday 6 May: Flower Festival, Fleet Baptist PE12 8LL - cancelled (April 2024)
🌷Saturday 4 - Monday 6 May: Flower and Craft Festival, St Mary Magdalene, Fleet PE12 8AW
🌷Saturday 4 - Monday 6 May: Flower Festival, St John the Evangelist, Weston Hills, PE12 6DQ (near PE12 6DS)
🌷Saturday 4 - Sunday 5 May: Flower Festival 'Recycling', St Peter & St Paul, Wigtoft; more info via ACNY; also 27 & 28 April
☕🍰Friday 3 May, 2:00pm: Drop In Centre, Tydd St Mary Village Hall (FB) ACNY
🎵Friday 3 May, 2:00pm: Sue Hubbard, Flatlands - part of the Deepings Literary Festival, £15 including wartime tea and Forties singer Rachel Bea - at the Priory church hall, Deeping St James (FB) ACNY
🌷Friday 3 - Friday 10 May: Flower Festival 'Celebrating Lincolnshire', St Mary & the Holy Rood, Donington ACNY PE11 4UA
🌷Friday 3 - Saturday 5 May: Flower Festival 'Lincolnshire', Sutterton Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)
🌷Friday 3 - Tuesday 7 May: Flower Festival 'The Swinging 60's', St Mary's, Long Sutton, (FB) ACNY
🌷Sunday 5 May: Moulton Chapel Tuliptime Village Festival and Parade (FB) PE12 0XR
🌷Thursday 2 - Monday 6 May: Flower Festival 'People and Places', Moulton Chapel Methodist PE12 0XL
🌷Thursday 2 - Monday 6 May: Flower Festival 'All things bright and beautiful', St James Moulton Chapel (Elloe Stone group) PE12 0XQ
🌷Thursday 2 - Monday 6 May: Flower Festival 'Hands Together', Gosberton Methodist (FB); Sunday 5 May, 4:30pm: Songs of Praise with Rev Angy Long and Rev Luke Smith, Gosberton Methodist (FB)
🌷Wednesday 1 - Monday 6 May: Flower Festival, St Bartholomew's, West Pinchbeck (FB) PE11 3QG
🌷Wednesday 1 - Monday 6 May: Flower Festival 'A Night at the Theatre', St Mary's, Pinchbeck (FB) ACNY, (The Glen Group); 🎵Saturday 4 May, 7:00pm: Festival concert 'Pavanotti and Friends'
🌷Saturday 27 April - Monday 6 May: Flower Festival 'Take a Walk on the Wild Side', Café - and Sunday lunch (£8.50), 12:00pm 5/5 in the Fraiser Room - more info and advance bookings via St Laurence, Surfleet (FB) ACNY (The Glen Group)
Christian Aid Week
Thursday 2 May, 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)
🎵Wednesday 1 May, 1:00pm: Jill Crossland piano recital, light lunch from 12 noon, retiring collection St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)
