October 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

A selection of Harvest Festival posters

October: Preacher Exchange

Thursday 31 October, 9:30am: The Rosary, 10:00am: Mass, Sacred Heart & St Gilbert, Bourne (FB)

Thursday 31 October, 9:30am: Mass, St Norbert's, The Parish of Our Lady of Walsingham, South Holland (FB)

Thursday 31 October, 10:00am: BCP Eucharist, Bourne Abbey ACNY

🍽️Thursday 31 October: Community Lunch, pre-booked £8 at Sutton St James Baptist (FB)

💡Thursday 31 October, 4:30pm: Light Party, Holy Trinity Church Lounge, Boston (FB)

💡Thursday 31 October, 5:00pm: Light Party, £1; bookings and more info from Bourne Baptist (FB)

💡Thursday 31 October, 5:00pm: Holbeach Baptist Church (FB) open for treats, no tricks 

🕯️Thursday 31 October, 7:00pm: Vigil Mass of All Saints, Holy Trinity, Holbeach The Parish of Our Lady of Walsingham, South Holland (FB) 

🕯️Thursday 31 October, 7:00pm: Vigil Mass of All Saints, Sacred Heart & St Gilbert, Bourne (FB)

Tuesday 29 October, 10:00am: Ecumenical Bible Study at Broad Street Methodist (FB)

🌽Sunday 27 October, 10:45am: Harvest Festival, Sutton St James Baptist (FB)

Sunday 27 October, 11:00am: Group Eucharist, St Mary & All Saints, Kirkby Underwood in the Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB)

Sunday 27 October, 2:00pm: Repair Café at Thurlby Methodist church hall; more info via St Firmin's, Thurlby (FB) in The Ness Group (FB)

Sunday 27 October, 3:00pm: Worship, Fleet Baptist

🕯️Sunday 27 October, 3:00pm: Service of Light, Holbeach Methodist (FB)

Sunday 27 October, 3:00pm: Group BCP Evensong, St John the Baptist, Morton (FB) Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB)

💡Sunday 27 October, 4:00pm: Light Party, All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY (Elloe Stone group)

🕯️Sunday 27 October, 4:00pm: All Souls service, St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge (FB) (ACNY)

🎵Sunday 27 October, 5:00pm: Benefice Choir Concert, Sutton St Edmund ACNY (Elloe Fen Group) (see also Sutton St Edmund Village Life FB)

❓Sunday 27 October, 6:00pm: Café Church does Alpha, fourth Sundays in the church hall, Deeping St James Priory Church (FB)

Sunday 27 October, 6:30pm for 7:00pm: Peterborough City Praise (FB) at St Mark's, Lincoln Road, PE1 2SN

Saturday 26 - Sunday 27 October, 10:00am: Craft and Gift Fayre, St Mary Magdalene, Fleet PE12 8AW 

☕Saturday 26 October, 10:00am: Emporium, Gosberton Methodist (FB)

☕Saturday 31 August, 10:00am: Refreshments, books and more, Pinchbeck Baptist (FB)

☕🍰Saturday 26 October, 10:00am: Coffee and Cake, Priory Church Hall,  Deeping St James Priory Church (FB)

🎵Saturday 26 October,  6:30pm for 7:00pm: Melody Flyte Gig Night, £15/£0 (under 16) cash only, St Andrew's, Haconby (FB) Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB)

🎨Saturday 26 - Sunday 27 October: Art at the Priory,  Deeping St James Priory Church (FB)

🌽🍴Friday 25 October, 12:00pm: Light Lunches for Harvest supporting Water Aid, All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY (Elloe Stone group)

Friday 25 October, 1:00pm: Card Making in the Maples Room, £10; more info via St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)

Thursday 24 October, 9:30am: Mass, Holy Trinity, Holbeach The Parish of Our Lady of Walsingham, South Holland (FB)

Thursday 24 October, 10:30am: Half Term Fun for Kids, St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge (FB) (ACNY) cancelled 11/10

🍽️Thursday 24 October, 11:30am: Parish Lunch, £6; more info and bookings via St Mary's, Sutterton (FB) ACNY

Wednesday 23 October, 2:00pm: South Holland Methodist Circuit Bible Study - The Romans Course at Holbeach Methodist (FB); also 31/7, 14/8, 28/8, 11/9, 25/9, 9/10, 6/11, 20/11 & 4/12

Tuesday 22 October, 10:00am: Ecumenical Bible Study at Broad Street Methodist (FB)

Tuesday 22 October, 2:00pm: Mothers' Union, All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY (Elloe Stone group)

Tuesday 22 October, 7:00pm: Journey of Faith programme continues at St Norbert's, The Parish of Our Lady of Walsingham, South Holland (FB)

Monday 21 October, 10:00am: Poppy workshop, All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY

🌽Harvest Festivals, Sunday 20 October

Apologies for errors or omissions; please check with the churches direct for any late changes or bookings for lunches

🌽9:15am: Harvest Eucharist, St John the Evangelist, Weston Hills

10:00am: Ness Group Holy Communion, St Firmin's, Thurlby (FB)

10:30am: Café Church 'Journey Down the Road to Emmaus', Bourne Baptist (FB)

🌽10:30am: Harvest Festival, St Andrew's, Boothby Pagnell ACNY (North Beltisloe Group)

🌽🍴10:30am: Harvest Festival, St Mary's, Whaplode (FB) ACNY (Elloe Stone group), followed at 12:00pm Bring and Share Harvest supper

10:30am: South Holland Methodist Circuit service reflecting on the Away Day at Broad Street Methodist (FB)

11:00am: Holy Communion and Re-dedication of the window with the Bishop of Grantham, Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY

🌽11:00am: Harvest Communion with Archdeacon Gavin Kirk, St Andrew's, Folkingham South Lafford ACNY

🌽☕🍴3:00pm: Harvest Tea followed by Thanksgiving, St James the Great, Aslackby, Gilbertine Benefice (Village FB) ACNY

6:00pm: United service at St Guthlac's, Market Deeping (FB) PE6 8AN/PE6 8DA, organised by Churches Together in the Deepings (FB) 

Saturday 19 October, 9:30am: Who let the Dads Out? Crowland Methodist (FB) (Peterborough Circuit)

Saturday 19 October, 9:30am: Being Church: neither option nor obligation - half day teaching workshop with Paul Davies at Bourne Baptist (FB)

Saturday 19 October, 9:45am: Fenlands Hub Meeting with speaker Peter Dunn, £5 at Sutton St James Baptist (FB) PE12 0EF - cancelled 12/10

☕🍴Saturday 19 October, 10:00am: Autumn Fair and Craft Café, St Michael and All Angels, Langtoft (FB) ACNY

Saturday 19 October, 10:00am, South Holland Methodist Circuit Away Day at Gosberton Clough Methodist (FB)

☕🍴Saturday 19 October, 10:30am: 'Is God calling you?' with Rev Lynne Smith, warden of lay ministry; more info via Deeping St Nicholas, (FB) ACNY

Saturday 19 October, 11:00am: Who let the Dads out? Bowling and Sheddys; more info via St John the Baptist, Hawthorn Bank, (FB)

Saturday 19 October, 12:00pm: : CTAL Remembrance service for everyone, remembering those who have lost their lives on Lincolnshire's roads, Road Victim's Memorial Garden, Wyberton, Boston, PE21 7JA

Saturday 19 October, 2:00pm: Messy Church (with crafts and experiments related to pumpkins) at Broad Street Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)

Saturday 19 October, 2:30pm: Messy Church in The Green School, St Guthlac's, Market Deeping (FB)

🌽Saturday 19 October, 7:00pm: Harvest Festival, £12 / £8 pre-booked, St John the Baptist, Morton (FB) Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB)

🎶Saturday 19 October, 7:00pm: Ceilidh, £8/£4, St John the Baptist, Hawthorn Bank, (FB)

Saturday 19 October, 7:30pm: Everyone puts their trousers on one leg at a time - with Darren Rawnsley, Priory Church Hall,  Deeping St James Priory Church (FB)

Friday 18 - Sunday 20 October: Art at the Priory, Deeping St James (FB), ACNY - see also 25-27/10

🌽🍴Friday 18 October, 12:00pm: Light Lunches for Harvest supporting Water Aid, All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY (Elloe Stone group)

☕🍰Friday 18 October, 2:00pm: Drop In Centre in the village hall; more info via Tydd St Mary (FB) ACNY (Elloe Fen group)

Friday 18 October, 6:30pm: New Horizons for the young people of SSJBC and those in years 6-13, Sutton St James Baptist (FB)

Thursday 17 October, 7:00pm: Open Parish Meeting with members of the Polish, Syro-Malabar and Lithuanian communities, two ecumenical members from CT East Elloe as well as parishioners, planning for the Jubilee Year 2025, St Norbert's, The Parish of Our Lady of Walsingham, South Holland (FB)

Tuesday 15 October, 10:00am: Ecumenical Bible Study at Broad Street Methodist (FB)

🌽Tuesday 15 October, 8:00pm: Auction of Harvest Produce at the White Horse, Baston (FB), supporting the Rural Support Network and St John's, Baston (FB) in The Ness Group (FB)

Monday 14 October, 4:00pm: Pet service, St Mary Magdalene, Fleet

Monday 14, Tuesday 15, Wednesday 16 and Thursday 17 October, various times: St John the Baptist, Hawthorn Bank, (FB) ACNY open during Baby Loss Awareness Week

🌽Harvest Festivals, Sunday 13 October  and throughout October

Apologies for errors or omissions; please check with the churches direct for any late changes or bookings for lunches

9:00am: Breakfast Fellowship, Broad Street Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)

9:00am: Freedom Kids in the Village Hall, Sutton St Edmund Free Methodist Church (FB); (Sutton St Edmund Village Life FB)

9:00am: Eucharist and Baptism with the Bishop of Grantham, St Andrew's, Haconby (FB) Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB)

🌽10:00am: Harvest Festival, Deeping St Nicholas, (FB) ACNY

🌽10:00am: Harvest Festival, Sutton St Edmund ACNY (Elloe Fen Group) (see also Sutton St Edmund Village Life FB)

🌽10:00am: Harvest Festival, St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge (FB) (ACNY)

10:30am: Morning service, Broad Street Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)

10:30am: Brigades Anniversary service with Rev Clare Davison, Spalding United Reformed Church (FB)

10:30am: Freedom Worship in the Village Hall, Sutton St Edmund Free Methodist Church (FB); (Sutton St Edmund Village Life FB), refreshments from 9:45am

🌽10:30am: Harvest Festival, Humby chapel ACNY (North Beltisloe Group)

🌽11:00am: Joint Harvest Festival with South Lafford; more info via St Andrew's, Billingborough (Gilbertine Benefice) ACNY

🌽11:00am: Harvest Festival, Tydd St Mary (FB) ACNY (Gedney Hill FB) (Elloe Fen group)

🌽11:00am: Harvest Eucharist, St Mary's, Weston (FB)

🌽11:00am: Harvest Holy Communion, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Donington ACNY (Haven Group)

☕🍰2:00pm: Refresh Café (FB) planning for 14 & 15 December Festival of Kings, St Firmin's, Thurlby in The Ness Group (FB) 

3:00pm: Harvest Festival with Jean James of Holbeach Baptist Church (FB) accompanying the singing of well-known harvest hymns at Fleet Baptist 

🌽3:00pm: Harvest Festival with the Bishop of Grantham, All Saints, Dunsby in the Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB)

3:00pm: Messy Church in Braceborough village hall; more info via St Michael & All Angels, Uffington ACNY (FB) Group (FB) 

3:30pm: Jelly Church with pumpkins, St Mary's, Sutterton (FB) ACNY 

🌽🍴3:30pm: Harvest Festival followed by Harvest Supper £10/£5/£0 at the Memorial Hall, Holy Trinity, Gedney Hill (ACNY) (FB)

4:00pm: Messy Church, Deepings Methodist (Circuit) (FB)

🎵🍷4:00pm: Jazz at the Priory with the James Romaine Quartet, £12,  Deeping St James Priory Church (FB)

4:00pm: Songs of Praises, St Guthlac's, Market Deeping (FB)

☕🍰4:00pm Coffee and Cake before Praise@4:30pm, St Mary's, Whaplode (FB) ACNY (Elloe Stone group)  

6:00pm: Evensong with the Bishop of Grantham, St John the Baptist, Morton (FB) Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB)

🌽☕6:00pm: Harvest Festival, St Mary Magdalene, Old Somerby ACNY (North Beltisloe Group)

Saturday 12 October, 11:00am: Spalding Pumpkin Festival, town centre

☕🍰Saturday 12 October, 10:00am: Pumpkin crafts and activities during the Pumpkin Festival (SHDC FB), Broad Street Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)

☕🍰Saturday 12 October, 10:00am: Coffee Morning in aid of MWiB Methodist Women in Britain, Broad Street Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)

☕🍰Saturday 12 October, 10:00am: Coffee Morning, St Mary's, Whaplode (FB) ACNY (Elloe Stone group)

☕🍰Saturday 12 October, 10:30am: Coffee Morning in The Green School, St Guthlac's, Market Deeping (FB)

Saturday 12 October, 2:00pm: Inaugural Messy Church, Bourne Abbey ACNY

🎵☕🍰Saturday 12 October, 2:00pm: Musicake '24, an informal afternoon of music, chat, tea and cake, St Michael & All Angels, Uffington ACNY (FB)

Saturday 12 October, 4:00pm: Messy Church in Crowland (FB) at Crowland Methodist (FB) (Peterborough Circuit) 

☕🍰Saturday 12 October, 4:00pm: Harvest Festival Tea, pre-booked, £8, Sutterton Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)

🍴Saturday 12 October, 7:30pm: St Mary's Quiz at St Augustine's church hall, £10 including ploughman's style supper; more info via St Mary's, Stamford (Benefice of St Mary & St Martin) (FB) ACNY

🌽🍴Friday 11 October, 12:00pm: Light Lunches for Harvest supporting Water Aid, All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY (Elloe Stone group)

Friday 11 October, 4:30pm: Youth Group Cake Decorating Contest, St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge (FB) (ACNY)

Friday 11 October, 7 for 7:30pm: Spalding Gentlemen's Society (FB) Lecture: Dictators Despots and Tyrants in the Contemporary World; £5 at Broad Street Methodist (FB)

Friday 11 October, 7:00pm: Pot Luck supper, Sacred Heart & St Gilbert, Bourne (FB)

🌽Friday 11 October, 7:00pm: Harvest Festival, St Mary & All Saints, Kirkby Underwood in the Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB)

🎵🌽🍴Friday 11 October, 7:30pm: Ploughman and the Crow, Harvest Concert and supper, pre-booked tickets £8; more info via Tydd St Mary (FB) ACNY (Elloe Fen group)

🌽Thursday 10 October, 7:00pm: Harvest Festival followed by refreshments, Holbeach, St Mark's (Friends group FB) 

Wednesday 9 October, 2:00pm: South Holland Methodist Circuit Bible Study - The Romans Course at Holbeach Methodist (FB); also 31/7, 14/8, 28/8, 11/9, 25/9, 23/10, 6/11, 20/11 & 4/12

Tuesday 8 October, 9:30am: Chapter meeting with Rev Ian Cowling at Deeping St Nicholas, (FB) ACNY

Tuesday 8 October, 10:00am: Ecumenical Bible Study at Broad Street Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)

Tuesday 8 October, 7:00pm: Journey of Faith programme starts; more info via St Norbert's, The Parish of Our Lady of Walsingham, South Holland (FB)

🌽Harvest Festivals, Sunday 6 October

Apologies for errors or omissions; please check with the churches direct for any late changes or bookings for lunches

🌽🍽️ 9:15am: Harvest Service of the Word, St Laurence, Surfleet (FB) ACNY (The Glen Group); pre-booked Harvest lunch £12

🌽9:15am: Harvest Eucharist, St Mary's, Cowbit ACNY (FB)

🌽9:15am: Harvest Festival, St Paul's (FB)

🌽🍽️10:00am: Harvest service and lunch (£5, £3), St John the Baptist, Hawthorn Bank, (FB)

10:15am: Morning worship with Believer's Baptism, Spalding Baptist (FB)

🌽🍽️10:30am: Harvest Festival with Rev Dr Andrew Stobart, followed by lunch, Gosberton Methodist (FB)

🌽🍴10:30am: Harvest Festival followed by Bring and Share lunch, Open Door Baptist church, Deeping St James (FB) (WP)

🌽🍽️10:30am: Harvest Festival, followed by lunch £15, supporting Christian Aid St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)

🌽🍴11.00am: Harvest Festival followed by Ploughman's Lunch, St Bartholomew's, Ingoldsby ACNY (North Beltisloe Group)

🌽🍽️12:00pm: Harvest Festival lunch £10 / £4 supporting Water Aid, Priory church, Deeping St James (FB), ACNY

2:00pm: Šv. Mišios lietuvių / Lithuanian Mass, The Immaculate Conception & St Norbert (FB) (Lithuanian FB)

🌽3:00pm: Harvest Festival, St Peter's, Lenton ACNY (North Beltisloe Group)

🌽☕3:00pm: Harvest Festival and 4:00pm: Harvest Tea, St Peter & St Paul, Wigtoft; more info via ACNY

Praise at 4:30pm: All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY (Elloe Stone group)

4:30pm: Baptism: Holbeach Baptist Church (FB)

🌽6:00pm: Harvest Festival, St James, Moulton Chapel (FB) (Elloe Stone group)

🌽6:00pm: Harvest Festival, St John the Baptist, Whaplode Drove (Schoolroom FB) (Gedney Hill FB) ACNY(Elloe Fen group)

🌽🍴6:30pm: Harvest Festival, St Mary Magdalene, Gedney (ACNY) (Mid Elloe Group) followed by harvest supper £8.50 / £4

🌽6:30pm: Sung Evensong, St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)

🌽7:00pm: Harvest Festival, St Nicholas, Sapperton ACNY (North Beltisloe Group)

Saturday 5 - Sunday 6 October: Holbeach Marsh Annual Working Weekend; more info via Vintage Tractors (FB) or Holbeach, St Mark's (Friends group FB) 

🍳Saturday 5 October, 9:00am: Men's Fellowship Breakfast meeting in the Vine House Farm Café; more info via Deeping St Nicholas, (FB) ACNY

Saturday 5 October, 9:30am: Who let the Dads Out?!  More info via St John the Baptist, Hawthorn Bank, (FB)

☕Saturday 5 October, 10:00am: Coffee Morning, seed swap and Poppy workshop, All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY

Saturday 5 October, 10:00am: Toddler Network meeting for Boston Archdeaconry at the Church of the Ascension, Grantham; more event info via Lincoln Diocese Youth and Children (FB)

Saturday 5 October, 4:00pm: Gone too Soon - for all who have lost a baby or child, St Firmin's, Thurlby (FB) in The Ness Group (FB)

🎵Saturday 5 October: St Peter's Singers, £15, St Mary's Stamford (FB)

🌷🌽Friday 4 - Sunday 6 October: Flower Festival, Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY; Harvest Festival 6/10

🌷🌽🍽️Friday 4 - Sunday 6 October: Harvest Flower Festival,  St Laurence, Surfleet (FB) ACNY (The Glen Group); pre-booked Harvest lunch £12, 6/10

🌷🌽🍽️Friday 4 - Sunday 6 October: Flowers for Harvest; 6/10: Harvest lunch, £15; more info via St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)

🌽Friday 4 October, CAFOD Harvest Fast Day

🌽🍴Friday 4 October, 12:00pm: Light Lunches for Harvest supporting Water Aid, All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY (Elloe Stone group)

☕🍰Friday 4 October, 2:00pm: Drop In Centre in the village hall; more info via Tydd St Mary (FB) ACNY (Elloe Fen group)

🌽Friday 4 October, 6:00pm: Harvest Festival, St Andrew's, Rippingale (FB) in the Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB)

🎵Friday 4 October, 7:30pm: Aled Jones at the South Holland Centre

Thursday 3 October,  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 1 October: Licensing of Rev Canon Darren McFarland; more info via St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)

Tuesday 1 October, 2:00pm: Friendship Group 'A Coach Tour of Lincolnshire' talk with slides, Spalding United Reformed Church (FB)

🎶Tuesday 1 October, 7:30pm: Spalding Encore Orchestra (FB) starts, £5, meeting at Broad Street Methodist (FB)