2025
Brief diary dates for 2025; more details to be added to the diary pages for the month as they are made available. Entries in italics = awaiting confirmation
December: Christmas Day, Thursday 25 December
November: First Sunday in Advent, 30 November
October: Harvest Festivals, Preacher Exchange;
September: Harvest Festivals
August: Feast of the Assumption, Thursday 15/8; Holiday Clubs
July: Sea Sunday 13/7
June: Flower Festivals; Pentecost Sunday 8/6
May: Flower Festivals; Spalding Flower Parade; Thy Kingdom Come; Ascension Day, 29/5; Christian Aid Week
April: Palm Sunday, 13/4; Good Friday, 18/4; Easter Day, Resurrection Sunday, 20/4; Flower Festivals
March: WWDP 'I made you', Cook Islands, Friday 7/3 "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made, Psalm 139:14"; Ash Wednesday 5/3; Ecumenical Lent groups (tbc)
February: Candlemas, Sunday 2/2, World Day of Prayer (WWDP) preparation day, 7/2; Snowdrop walks
January: WPCU, 18-25 January - 'Do you believe this?' WCC: "prepared by the brothers and sisters of the monastic community of Bose in northern Italy. 2025 marks the 1,700th anniversary of the first Christian Ecumenical Council, held in Nicaea, near Constantinople in 325 AD. The theme for the week, “Do you believe this?” (John 11:17-27 - v 26), takes its cue from the dialogue between Jesus and Martha when Jesus visited the home of Martha and Mary in Bethany following the death of their brother Lazarus" (World Council of Churches) see also CTBI; Racial Justice Sunday; CTSD AGM, Preacher Exchange
Jubilee Year 2025
See also our Churches Together Facebook page Hope4Spalding for further news and links
Ecumenical prayer meetings are on the first Thursday of each month at 6:00pm for an hour, hosted by Broad Street Methodist (FB); see also Prayer for Spalding (FB)