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; see also Wolds and Coast churches festival (FB) 6-7/9 and 13-14/9

August: Feast of the Assumption, Thursday 15/8; Holiday Clubs

July: Sea Sunday 13/7

June: Flower Festivals (7, 8 & 9 June, HSM tbc); Thy Kingdom Come; Pentecost Sunday 8/6

May: Flower Festivals; Spalding Flower Parade 10/5; Moulton Chapel Tuliptime Village Festival and Parade 4/5; Thy Kingdom Come; Ascension Day, 29/5; Christian Aid Week; see also West Lindsey May Churches Festival (FB), 10-11/5 and 17-18/5 

April: Palm Sunday, 13/4; Good Friday, 18/4; Easter Day, Resurrection Sunday, 20/4; Spring Harvest 2025: 'No greater story' (FB) 7-11/4 Skegness

March: WWDP 'I made you', Cook Islands, Friday 7/3 "I made you wonderful" (I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made, Psalm 139:14); Ash Wednesday 5/3; 17/3 St Patrick's Day supper, St Gilbert's, Bourne (FB); Ecumenical Lent groups (tbc); Mothering Sunday 30/3

February: Candlemas, Sunday 2/2; Racial Justice Sunday 9/2; World Day of Prayer (WWDP) preparation day, 1/11/2024; 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; CTSD AGM, Preacher Exchange

Jubilee Year 2025;  St Norbert's, The Parish of Our Lady of Walsingham, South Holland (FB) has been nominated as a Jubilee Church

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)

WPCU 2026: The theme for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity for 2026 comes from Apostle Paul’s letter to the Ephesians: “There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling” (Eph. 4:4).