March

Monday 28 March, 8:00pm: CTSD Lent lectures Opening the Bible: 'How to get the most from reading the Bible'. All welcome at Spalding Baptist church PE11 1BT. Poster attached below. Series continues on 4 & 11 April

Wednesday 23 March, 7:30pm: 'Presence' quiet service: 'All will be well', Julian of Norwich. At St John's, Hawthorn Bank, Spalding

Monday 21 March, 8:00pm: CTSD Lent lectures Opening the Bible: 'How the Bible was made available to all'. All welcome at Spalding Baptist church PE11 1BT. Poster attached below

Tuesday 15 March, 7:30pm: CTSD Meeting, Spalding URC, PE11 1QD

Monday 14 March, 8:00pm: CTSD Lent lectures Opening the Bible: 'How the Bible came about'. All welcome at Spalding Baptist church PE11 1BT. Poster attached below

Sunday 13 March, 6:30pm: 'I was hungry and you fed me', with Judy Perry, Christian Aid representative; first in the Holbeach Methodist church Lent talks series

Friday 11 March Free lecture 7:30pm at Lincoln University; Professor Robert White FRS on "Climate Change: The Scientific, Ethical and Moral Challenges." Map and poster ("Bob") attached at the foot of this page.

"Should we be worried about climate change, or is it just so much hot air? In Britain, 2010 started and ended with bitter cold winters, yet globally 2010 was one of the hottest ever on record. How can we make sense of this, and what could or should be done to mitigate or adapt to climate change? This lecture will look at the science and evidence behind global climate change, the likely future effects and the moral and ethical issues that arise."

Robert White is Professor of Geophysics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is editor of the book: “Creation in Crisis: Christian Perspectives on Sustainability”, SPCK, ISBN: 978-0-281-06190-7 (2009).

Ash Wednesday 9 March: 6:30pm Eucharist with Imposition of Ashes; St Mary & St Nicolas

Friday 4 March: Women's World Day of Prayer, theme How many loaves have you? written by the women of Chile; local speaker: Lesley Pemberton10:30am service at Broad Street Methodist church, Spalding

2:30pm service at All Saints, Holbeach (with speaker Rev Margaret Barsley)

7:30pm service at United Reformed Church, Pinchbeck Road, Spalding

See also the Preparation Day on 4 February

28 February - 13 March: Fairtrade Fortnight. See also the South Holland Fairtrade Group website