May 2025

A selection of events and posters as advised by churches across the area in addition to - or replacing usual service times; 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
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See also the Church Listings pages for links to churches for their usual weekly services 

Saturday 31 May, 9:00am: Thy Kingdom Come - Morning Prayer, All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY 

☕🍰Saturday 31 May: Coffee and Cake, Deeping St James Priory Church (FB)

🍳Saturday 31 May, 9:00am: Men's Fellowship Breakfast meeting in the Vine House Farm Café; more info via Deeping St Nicholas, (FB) ACNY

☕Saturday 31 May, 9:30am: Coffee morning, Bourne Salvation Army (FB)

☕🍰Saturday 31 May, 10:00am: Emporium, Gosberton Methodist (FB)

☕🍰Saturday 31 May, 10:00am: Coffee and Cake, Pinchbeck Baptist (FB)

☕🍰Saturday 31 May, 10:00am: Christian Aid Coffee morning at the vicarage, St Michael's, Edenham ACNY (FB)

🎪Saturday 31 May, 2:30pm: Grand Church Fête, St James the Great, Aslackby, Gilbertine Benefice (Village FB) ACNY

🎵Saturday 31 May, 7:30pm: Songs of the Silver Screen, £5, Priory church hall, Deeping St James (FB)

🎵Saturday 31 May, 7:30pm: Khrisma4, £15, St Mary's, Stamford (FB) ACNY

Friday 30 May, 9:00am: Thy Kingdom Come - Morning Prayer, All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY 

☕🍰Friday 30 May, 12:00pm: Afternoon Tea, Sacred Heart & St Gilbert, Bourne (FB)

🎭Friday 30 May, 7:30pm: Celebrating 800 years: Mettle, wartime play by Nicholas Collett, £12.50, All Saints, Holbeach (FB)

Thy Kingdom Come

Thursday 29 May - Pentecost Sunday 8 June: Thy Kingdom Come; resources

Thursday 29 May: Ascension Day A selection of services; see also our Church Listings pages. Please check with individual churches for any late changes; apologies for errors or omissions

8:00am: Ascension Day service in the tower, St Botolph's, Boston (FB) ACNY

8:45am: Morning Prayer, All Saints, Stamford ACNY

9:30am: Holy Communion, Deeping St James Priory Church (FB)

9:30am: Mass, Our Lady of the Rosary, St Mary's, Boston, (FB)

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

10:00am: Said Eucharist, All Saints, Stamford ACNY, followed by coffee in The Crown

10:00am: Ascension Day BCP Holy Communion, Bourne Abbey (FB) ACNY

10:00am: Communion, St John the Baptist, Hawthorn Bank, (FB) 

10:00am: Mass, St Mary & St Augustine, Stamford

10:00am: The Solemnity of the Ascension, Sacred Heart & St Gilbert, Bourne (FB)

10:00am: Ascension Day Holy Communion, St Michael and All Angels, Langtoft (FB) - The Ness Group (FB) ACNY

10:00am: Low Mass, St Peter & St Paul, Kirton ACNY

10:30am: Fun@The Stump, St Botolph's, Boston (FB) ACNY

11:00am: Said Eucharist for Ascension Day, St Thomas, Boston (Stump FB) ACNY 

11:15am: Sung Mass, All Saints, Fosdyke ACNY 

12:00pm: Community three course lunch, £10, more info and bookings: Sutton St James Baptist (FB)

6:00pm: Mass, St Mary & St Augustine, Stamford

🧀🍷6:00pm: Reflective Holy Communion at St Nicholas, Burton Pedwardine (ACNY), followed by cheese and wine in the churchyard; more info via Living Stones congregation (FB) Heckington Group

7:00pm: Mass, Holy Trinity, Holbeach, The Parish of Our Lady of Walsingham, South Holland (FB)

7:00pm: The Solemnity of the Ascension, Sacred Heart & St Gilbert, Bourne (FB)

7:00pm: Mass, Our Lady of the Rosary, St Mary's, Boston, (FB)

7:00pm Ascension Day Thy Kingdom Come Communion, St Mary Magdalene, Gedney (ACNY) (Mid Elloe Group)

7:00pm Ascension Day service, St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)

7:00pm Ascension Day at Deeping St Nicholas, (FB) ACNY

7:30pm: Holy Communion, Deeping St James Priory Church (FB)

❓Wednesdays from 28 May, 1:00pm: Alpha Course begins in the South Lafford Group ACNY / Gilbertine Benefice ACNY 

Wednesday 28 May, 7:00pm: Vigil Mass, the Solemnity of the Ascension, Our Lady & St Guthlac, Deeping St James, (FB)

Wednesday 28 May, 7:00pm: Vigil Mass of the Ascension, St Norbert's, The Parish of Our Lady of Walsingham, South Holland (FB) 

Tuesday 27 May, 10:00am: Ecumenical Bible Study at Broad Street Methodist (FB)

📽️Monday 26 May, 6:45pm for 7:00pm: Film night 'Entertaining Angels: the Dorothy Day Story',  Sacred Heart & St Gilbert, Bourne (FB)

Sunday 25 May A selection of special services; please check with the individual churches for any late changes; apologies for errors or omissions.  See also our Church Listings pages

10:30am: South Holland Circuit service at Gosberton Methodist (FB)

☕🍰2:00pm: Repair Café at Thurlby Methodist; more info via St Firmin's, Thurlby (FB) in The Ness Group (FB)

🇫🇷5:30pm: Taizé service, All Saints, Stamford ACNY

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

🍴☕Saturday 24 May, 8:30am: Men's Breakfast, Sutton St James Baptist (FB) (Renew FB)

☕🍰Saturday 24 May, 9:30am: Coffee Chat & Cake, Spalding United Reformed Church (FB)

🎨☕Saturday 24 May, 10:00am: Spring Craft Fair, Bourne Salvation Army (FB)

Saturday 24 May, 10:00am: Craft De-Stash Sale, Crowland Methodist (FB) (Peterborough Circuit)

🥣Saturday 24 May, 12:00pm: Christian Aid soup, bread and cheese lunch in The Green School, St Guthlac's, Market Deeping (FB); more info also via Priory church, Deeping St James (FB), ACNY

Saturday 24 May, 2:00pm: Ecumenical Pilgrimmage from Catholic Our Lady of Lincoln to the shrine of Our Lady of Lincoln at the cathedral with Rt Rev Patrick McKinney and Rt Rev Stephen Conway

🎵Saturday 24 May, 7:30pm: Fiddles and Fens with the Greenwood Quire, £6 at Broad Street Methodist (FB); more info and bookings via the Spalding Gentlemen's Society (FB) 

🎵Saturday 24 May, 7:30pm: Hallelujah with the South Holland Singers (FB), £10 (£8 advance), Spalding Baptist (FB)

🌷Friday 23 May - Monday 26 May: *Flower Festival 'Books and Novels - Beauty of Words in Bloom', St Mary's, Whaplode (FB) ACNY PE12 6TA

Friday 23 May, 1:00pm: Card Making in the Maples Room, £10; more info via St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)

Tuesday 20 May, 10:00am: Ecumenical Bible Study at Broad Street Methodist (FB)

Tuesday 20 May, 7:00pm: Mission Lab; more info via Sacred Heart & St Gilbert, Bourne (FB)

Sunday 18 May A selection of services; please check with the individual churches for any late changes; apologies for errors or omissions.  See also our Church Listings pages

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

10:00am: Rev Scott Gardiner farewell, All Saints, Stamford ACNY; see also 23 July

10:00am: Worship Together, St John the Baptist, Hawthorn Bank, (FB), followed by APCM; see also 5:30pm at Holy Trinity, Boston (FB) ACNY

10:30am: United Communion service with Spalding United Reformed Church (FB) at Broad Street Methodist (FB) (Circuit website) 

3:30pm: Afternoon service with Tina Obard, Safe Families/Home for Good, Holbeach Baptist Church (FB)

3:30pm: Resource Area service with Rev Clare Davison at Stamford United Reformed Church; more info via Spalding United Reformed Church (FB)

5:30pm/6:00pm: Joint Worship Evening, guest speaker Lydia Daubney with St John the Baptist, Hawthorn Bank, (FB) at Holy Trinity, Boston (FB) ACNY

Christian Aid Week, 11 - 17 May

☕🍰Saturday 17 May, 10:00am: Craft Café, cake, bacon butties, refreshments, St Michael and All Angels, Langtoft (FB) - The Ness Group (FB) ACNY

🎨Saturday 17 May, 10:00am: Celebrating 800 years: Glasss Fusion, £15 - £40; pre-booking required, All Saints, Holbeach (FB)

Saturday 17 May, 2:00pm: Messy Church at Broad Street Methodist (FB) (Circuit website)

Saturday 17 May, 2:30pm: Messy Church in The Green School, St Guthlac's, Market Deeping (FB)

Saturday 17 - Sunday 18 May: Stamford Methodist Circuit weekend away  at Normanton Lodge Farm what3words LE15 8RW

🍴Saturday 17 May, 6:00pm/6:30pm: Quiz and Fish & Chip / Shared supper, St John the Baptist, Hawthorn Bank, (FB)

Saturday 17 May, 7:00pm: Bandless Barn Dance at Priory church hall, £5, bring your own drinks and snacks, Deeping St James (FB), organised by Churches Together in the Deepings (FB)  

Friday 16 - Saturday 17 May: Healing Rooms Conference (FB) with Bill Johnson at Kingsgate, Peterborough PE1 4YT

Friday 16 May, 7:00pm: Flower Arranging Demo, £10, Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY PE6 0EN

Tuesday 13 May, 10:00am: Ecumenical Bible Study at Broad Street Methodist (FB)

Sunday 11 May - many churches are marking VE Day; see also Thursday 8 May

10:30am: Joint service with Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY at Crowland Methodist (FB) (Peterborough Circuit) PE6 0AN

10:30am: Praise in the Wellhead Park; more info via  Bourne Baptist (FB)

10:30am: Festival Praise, Spalding United Reformed Church (FB)

🎨2:00pm: Craft Fair at the Refresh Café (FB), St Firmin's, Thurlby (FB) in The Ness Group (FB)

2:00pm: Historic church tour with Rev Sonia Marshall, £6, Deeping St James Priory Church (FB)

3:00pm: Messy Church in Uffington Village Hall; more info via the Uffington Group ACNY (FB) Group (FB) 

🥂3:30pm: Jelly Church, St Mary's, Sutterton (FB) ACNY (Haven Group)

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

4:00pm: Walk and pray around the church, St Guthlac's, Market Deeping (FB)

☕🍰4:00pm for Praise@4:30pm at St Mary's, Whaplode (FB)

🇫🇷5:00pm: Taizé service, St James the Great, Aslackby, Gilbertine Benefice (Village FB) ACNY 

Saturday 10 May: Spalding Flower Parade (FB)
Some town centre churches open for refreshments and more - details awaited (9/5)

🌷Float celebrating 150 years, St John the Baptist, Hawthorn Bank, (FB)

🌷Flower Parade includes Spalding Marching Ambassadors (FB); more info via Spalding United Reformed Church (FB)

☕🍰Saturday 10 May, 9:30am: Refreshments, hot drinks, cakes, savouries, Broad Street Methodist (FB)

☕🍰Saturday 10 May, 9:30am: Refreshments, stalls, Spalding Baptist (FB)

🌷☕🍰Saturday 10 May, 9:30am: Flower Festival, Refreshments, Spalding United Reformed Church (FB)

☕🍰Saturday 10 May, 10:00am: Refreshments, craft stalls, church tours, St Mary & St Nicolas (FB)

☕🍰Saturday 10 May: Refreshments, St Paul's (FB)

🌷South Holland Church Flower Festivals

(see also West Lindsey May Churches Festival (FB), 10-11/5 and 17-18/5)

Saturday 10 May, 9:30am: Mass, St Norbert's, The Parish of Our Lady of Walsingham, South Holland (FB) 

Saturday 10 May: Retreat: Spirituality of the Third Age, Edenham Regional House ACNY (FB) 

☕🍰Saturday 10 May, 10:00am: Community Coffee Morning, St Mary's, Whaplode (FB)

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

🎵Saturday 10 May, 1:30pm: Celebrating 800 years: Adrian Richards Organ Recital, £5, light refreshments from 12:30pm, All Saints, Holbeach (FB)

Saturday 10 May, 2:00pm: VE Day Celebrations, Snowden Field (VE Day FB); more info via Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY

🎭Saturday 10 May, 2:00pm: Resurrection Plays by Lincoln Mystery Plays (FB / Group FB), Bishop Grosseteste University Chapel (FB), followed by Q&A

🎵Saturday 10 May, 3:30pm: Pies, Poems and Pasties, Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY PE6 0EN

Saturday 10 May, 3:30pm: Church open for private prayer, St Norbert's, The Parish of Our Lady of Walsingham, South Holland (FB) 

🎵Saturday 10 May, 7:30pm: Glebe Singers concert, Bourne Abbey (FB) ACNY

Saturday 10 May, 7:30pm: Quiz at the village hall; more info via St Bartholomew's, West Pinchbeck (FB)

🪡Friday 9 May - Monday 30 June: 'Threads Through the Bible - Creation + Cross + Revelation' by Jacqui Parkinson Textiles (FB) at Ely Cathedral (FB)

🎵Friday 9 May, 7:00pm: Our Atlantic Roots in concert, £10, All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY; PE12 6QB

🎭Sunday 4 May, 7:00pm: Resurrection Plays by Lincoln Mystery Plays (FB / Group FB), St Mary Magdalene's, Bailgate, Lincoln (FB)

Thursday 8 May: VE Day

A selection of services to mark VE Day; please check with the individual churches for any late changes; apologies for errors or omissions

9:00am: Proclamation at Trinity Bridge (VE Day FB); more info via Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY 

9:00am: VE Day service in the Market Place; more info via, St Denys, Sleaford (FB) ACNY

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

10:45am: VE Day service, St Botolph's, Boston (FB) ACNY

10:50am: VE Day service, St Peter & St Paul, Wigtoft; ACNY

11:00am: VE Day 80th Anniversary service at St Mary & St Nicolas (FB) ACNY

St Paul's (FB) ACNY open for VE Day 

2:00pm: VE Day 80th Anniversary service at the War Memorial; more info via All Saints, Holbeach (FB)

🔔5:45pm: Bells ringing out at St Firmin's, Thurlby (FB) in The Ness Group (FB)

🔔6:30pm: Abbey bells ring out in Celebration (VE Day FB); more info via Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY 

🔔6:30pm: Bells ringing out at St Andrew's, Rippingale (FB) in the Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB)

6:30pm: VE Day service, St Denys, Sleaford (FB) ACNY

🔔7:00pm: Quarter peal in commemoration of VE Day, Bourne Abbey (FB) ACNY

7:00pm: VE Day church service, St Andrew's, Rippingale (FB) in the Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB)

🔥7:00pm: VE Day service at Pinchbeck War Memorial with Spalding Marching Ambassadors (FB); more info via Spalding United Reformed Church (FB)

🎵7:30pm: 1100 anniversary Music in the Aisles Jazz Concert with the Church Street Stompers, £15, early prior booking advised - sold out by 1 May, St Firmin's, Thurlby (FB) in The Ness Group (FB)

🔥7:30pm for 8:15pm: Lantern Parade from Moulton Mill and Lighting of the Beacon; more info via Moulton Celebration Committee (FB)

8:30pm: VE Day service at Bourne Memorial Garden; more info from Bourne Town Council (FB)

🔥9:00pm: Lighting of the Beacon in the Jubilee Playing Fields; more info via St Andrew's, Rippingale (FB) in the Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB)

🔥9:00pm: Lighting of the Parish Beacon; more info via St Mary Long Sutton, (FB) ACNY 

🔥9:30pm: Lighting of the Beacon and Proclamation on Snowden Field; more info via Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY (VE Day FB)

Wednesday 7 May or Saturday 10 May: Lincolnshire Ecumenical Myriad Hub Taster Events; more info via CTAL (FB)  

Tuesday 6 May, 10:00am: Ecumenical Bible Study at Broad Street Methodist (FB)

Tuesday 6 May, 2:00pm: Friendship group 'Aspects of Philately', Spalding United Reformed Church (FB)

🎨Monday 5 May, 10:00am: Craft Fair, Crowland Abbey (FB) ACNY PE6 0EN

🎭Monday 5 May, 2:00pm: Resurrection Plays by Lincoln Mystery Plays (FB / Group FB), The Medieval Bishops' Palace (EH)

🌷Monday 5 May: Flower Festival, St Paul's (FB) ACNY 

Sunday 4 May

See also our 🌷Flower Festival page - with a selection of posters

🍴Sunday 4 May, 6:45am: Lakeside service and shared breakfast at Deepings Lakes Nature Reserve, organised by Churches Together in the Deepings (FB) 

Sunday 4 May, 10:00am: Confirmation service with Rt Rev David Court, Bishop of Grimsby, St John the Baptist, Hawthorn Bank, (FB)

Sunday 4 May, 2:30pm: Resurrection Plays by Lincoln Mystery Plays (FB / Group FB), St Mary Magdalene's, Bailgate, Lincoln (FB)

Sunday 4 May, 4:00pm: Resurrection Plays by Lincoln Mystery Plays (FB / Group FB), Lincoln Cathedral (FB)

🌷Sunday 4 May: Moulton Chapel Tuliptime Village Festival and Parade (FB) PE12 0XQ

🌷Sunday 4 - Monday 5 May: *Flower Festival 'All Creatues Great and Small', Holbeach Baptist Church (FB); opening on the Sunday at 10:30am with Songs of Praise, PE12 7DN

🎶Sunday 4 - Monday 5 May, 11:00am: Village Scarecrow Festival 'Heroes and Heroines' - and Music in Church; more info via St Michael & All Angels, Uffington ACNY (FB) Group (FB)

🌷Saturday 3 May - Monday 5 May: Flower Festival 'Victory', Holy Trinity, Gedney Hill (ACNY) (FB) (Elloe Fen group) PE12 0NN

🌷 Saturday 3 May - Monday 5 May: *Flower Festival 'Wedding Anniversaries', St John the Evangelist, Weston Hills, PE12 6DQ (near PE12 6DS)

🌷Saturday 3 May - Monday 5 May: *Flower and Craft Festival, St Mary Magdalene, Fleet PE12 8AW

🌷 Saturday 3 - Sunday 4 May: Flower Festival 'Wigtoft Past and Present', St Peter & St Paul, Wigtoft; ACNY  PE20 2NJ, also 26 & 27 April

🍴Saturday 3 May, 9:00am: Prayer Breakfast, Open Door Baptist church, Deeping St James (FB)

 Saturday 3 May, 10:30am: Messy Church in the school rooms, St John the Baptist, Whaplode Drove (Schoolroom FB) (Gedney Hill FB) ACNY

🏖️🏰🍴Saturday 3 May, 1:00pm: Family Fun Day, Barbecue, Bouncy Castle, refreshments, Sutton St James Baptist (FB)

🌷Friday 2 - Tuesday 6 May: Flower Festival 'To-day's the Day', St Mary Long Sutton, (FB) ACNY 

🌷Friday 2 - Monday 5 May: Flower Festival 'World of Music', All Saints, Moulton (FB) ACNY; Saturday 3 May: Community coffee morning PE12 6QB

🌷Friday 2 - Sunday 11 May: Flower Festival '1960's', St Mary & the Holy Rood, Donington ACNY PE11 4UA

🌷Friday 2 - Sunday 4 May: Tulip Remebrance; family service on Sunday 4 May, St John's, Holbeach Fen, St John (Elloe Stone group)

🌷Friday 2 - Saturday 3 May: Flower Festival 'Farming', Sutterton Methodist (FB) (Circuit website) near PE20 2EY

Friday 2 May, 7:00pm: Vintage fashion show at St Mary & the Holy Rood, Donington ACNY PE11 4UA

🌷Thursday 1 - Monday 5 May: Flower Festival, Gosberton Methodist (FB, FB2, FB3) Sunday 4:30pm: Songs of Praise; Monday 7:00pm Thanksgiving PE11 4NQ

🌷Thursday 1 - Monday 5 May: Flower Festival, 'All the Fun of Pantomimes', Moulton Chapel Methodist; PE12 0XL

🌷Thursday 1 May - Monday 5 May: *Flower Festival 'Cottage Garden', St James Moulton Chapel (Elloe Stone group) PE12 0XQ

🌷🎵Thursday 1 May - Monday 5 May: *Flower Festival 'Saying it with flowers - Memories', St Mary's, Pinchbeck (FB) ACNY, (The Glen Group) Saturday 3 May, 7:00pm: Tappers, Tunes and Tambourines - concert cancelled; PE11 3UA

🌷 Saturday 26 April - Monday 5 May: *Flower Festival 'A Great Day Out', St Laurence, Surfleet (FB) ACNY (The Glen Group) PE11 4AB/PE11 4DA

🌷Wednesday 30 April - Monday 5 May: *Flower Festival 'A Festival of Flowers', St Bartholomew's, West Pinchbeck (FB); PE11 3QG (Dates printed in the *brochure have been updated on these webpages)

Thursday 1 May, 6:00pm: Ecumenical prayer meeting, hosted by Broad Street Methodist (FB); see also Prayer for Spalding (FB)

❓Thursday 1 May, 7:30pm: Alpha course introductory session; more info via Freedom church (FB), Free Methodist Church South Lincs