2026

News from churches across the area and brief notes and links from CTSD council meetings; see also our Facebook page for Hope4Spalding - with further news, events and more throughout the year.  Italics = awaiting confirmation; apologies for errors or omissions

Clergy & Staff News

Ven Jean Burgess to become the next Bishop of Grimsby in 2026; more via the News pages of the Diocese of Lincoln (FB) 10/12

Rev Eleanor Robertshaw to serve as the next Archdeacon of Stow and Lindsey, service of collation 26 January 2026 at All Saints, Gainsborough; more info via Lincoln Diocese

Vacancies

South Holland Methodist Circuit Support Worker, two year contract, 24 hours pw, £15ph; closing date 31 January 2026

Choir leader and Assistant Organist, St Mary & St Nicolas (FB); more info via Chorally

Administrator/Secretary, The Parish of Our Lady of Walsingham, South Holland (FB), 20 hours, £14.17ph; closing date 5 January 2026 

Church changes and Anniversaries

Town Centre development by Lighthouse Pentecostal (FB) - April 2025

Elloe Stone Benefice new website https://www.elloestoneparishes.com

Ringstone in Aveland Group new website https://www.ringstonegroupchurches.info/ - August 2025

St Norbert's and Holy Trinity (Holbeach) new website https://olowsholland.org.uk - August 2025

St Mary & St Nicolas created a new Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61579363330164 - 20 August 2025

The Links page has an updated list of Denominations (29/5/2025)

Churches Together in East Elloe Prayer Group started on Monday 13 October 2025, 7:00pm 

First and Third Tuesdays, starting  2 December, 2:00pm: Still Point and 2:30pm Church Community Café, St John's, Baston (FB) in The Ness Group(FB) 

Diary news events

2026 brief diary page launched 11 July 2025

🌷Snowdrops, Flower Festivals and the Spalding Flower Parade (weekend, 9 & 10 May); Flower Festivals 2026 page launched 31/8/25

Our Googlemap was updated to include Postcodes (18/9/24)

World Day of Prayer  (WWDP) World Day of Prayer 2026 Preparation Day day Thursday 26 November 2025 at Holy Trinity, Holbeach The Parish of Our Lady of Walsingham, South Holland(FB), PE12 7PA) 

Lent

Resources from Churches Together in Britain and Ireland: (FB)

Thy Kingdom Come from Ascension Day 14 May to Pentecost Sunday 24 May

🏖️Holiday Clubs in July and August 

☕Macmillan Coffee Mornings in September

More coffee mornings via https://www.macmillan.org.uk/coffee-morning/events-near-you?pcode=

Heritage Open Days in September

❓Alpha courses

❓St John the Baptist, Hawthorn Bank, (FB) - starting Wednesday 21 January, 7:30pm

Christianity Explored 

A Life Worth Living and other courses

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, 18-25 January - WPCU -  WCC: "prayers and reflections for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity were prepared by the Inter-Church Relations Department of the Armenian Apostolic Church.  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)" (World Council of Churches) see also CTBI Resources

Local WPCU services in the Deepings, Bourne, Holbeach  and Stamford on our January page

WCC Resources for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2026 were published 10 July 2025 and CTBI Resources in September 2025 

Ecumenical prayer meetings are hosted by Broad Street Methodist (FB) (Circuit website) on the first Thursday of each month at 6:00pm

Disability and Accessibility: CTSD churches weblisting being updated ♿ (9/9/24, ongoing - including pictures of Accessible parking spaces at churches in The Deepings (16/10/24), Bourne, Holbeach (20/12/24) and Spalding)

Spalding United Reformed Church Facebook page includes an image of their new Accessible space in the church  (28/9/24)

St Paul's website includes an Accessibility page with photographs of the main door and ramp (18/9/24)

Warm/Welcome Spaces; various churches open during the winter months or longer; please check times and further details with each church:

Mondays: 10:00am - 2:00pm at Broad Street Methodist (FB) (Circuit website) as a 'Welcome Space'; reopens 8 September after the summer break; check for latest times

Tuesdays: [Coffee Morning at Broad Street]

Wednesdays: 10:00am - 1:00pm at Lighthouse (FB)

Thursdays: 12 - 5:30 at St John's (2023)

Fridays: 10:30am - 1:30pm at Spalding Baptist (FB) (Warm Welcome FB)

Second Saturdays: 11:00am: Calvary Cares, Calvary Baptist (FB) (non-CTSD)

Sundays: 12 - 2:30pm at St Norbert's FB (Project St Thomas); see also Hub In Hub Out (FB)

See also HAY Lincolnshire

Cool/Warm/Welcome Spaces; neighbouring churches open including; please check times and further details with each church:

Monday - Friday, 10 - 12: Sutton St James - Baptist (FB)

Monday and Friday, 10:00am - 1:00pm: Pinchbeck Baptist (FB)

Mondays and Thursdays: Market Deeping - St Guthlac's (FB) ACNY

Mondays, 2 - 4: St John's, Baston (FB) - The Ness Group (FB)

Mondays, 12-2: Hub In Hub Out Holbeach (FB) at Holy Trinity Holbeach (see also St Norbert's FB and HIHO Spalding (FB))

Wednesdays, 10:00am at Bourne Baptist

Wednesday 8 October, 3:30pm: Warm Space returns; £1 per family meal, St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge (FB) (ACNY)

Thursdays in Whaplode, 10-1 at St Mary's, Whaplode (FB) ACNY; also other days around Whaplode

Thursdays: 9:30 - 1, Holbeach Methodist (FB) 

Fridays, 11:00am: Warm Space Warm Welcome at The Bell Tavern  Deeping Saint James - in conjunction with DSJ Priory Church

Fridays, 12:00pm, Café Connect and Warm Hub, lunch served most Fridays, Bourne Salvation Army (FB)

See also Midweek and our Facebook page Hope4Spalding. Warm Spaces dates and times subject to changes; please check with the church for the latest

Our News and Diary Archives extend back to 1954; see also 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018