Christmas 2014

Christmas services, concerts and events advised by churches across the area, in addition to their usual service times and diary events for November and December:

(Please see our Church Listings pages for church locations) Italics = awaiting confirmation; all due apologies for errors and omissions.

First Sunday in Advent: 30 November

10am–12 noon: Christmas workshop for children aged 3 to 11 years, 50p per child. Please book in advance via St Margaret's church hall, Quadring - cancelled, 24/11/201410:00am: United Benefice service for the first Sunday in Advent with Moulton & Moulton Chapel, Holbeach St John at St Mary's, Whaplode

4:00pm: Advent Carols at St Peter & St Paul; organised by CT Gosberton

6:30pm: Elloe East Deanery Advent service, All Saints, Holbeach

6:30pm: Advent Carols, St Mary's, Pinchbeck

6:30pm: Carols for Advent Sunday, St Mary & St Nicolas

Thursday 4 December

7:30pm: Carols at the Duke of York, Gosberton Risegate; organised by CT Gosberton

Friday 5 December

From 3:15pm - around 6pm: Messy Church™* for Christmas at Gosberton Clough Methodist (FB)

Saturday 6 December

10-3pm: Christmas Tree Festival and Fayre, donations from festival for AGAPE foodbank plus 10-12: crafts for children; Broad Street Methodist (see also 29 November)

Daily, 6th-27th, 10am-4pm: Christmas Tree Festival, all proceeds to various charities, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Donington; more pictures on Facebook

11-5pm: Christmas Tree Festival, Ss Peter & Paul, Gosberton2-5pm: Open House Exhibition at Wykes Manor, PE11 4SD: Arts & Crafts, mulled wine and mince pies

Sunday 7 December

11-5pm: Christmas Tree Festival, Ss Peter & Paul, Gosberton; pictures on Facebook

2-5pm: Open House Exhibition at Wykes Manor, PE11 4SD: Arts & Crafts, mulled wine and mince pies

3:00pm: Christingle; Broad Street Methodist

3:00pm: Christingle service, St Bartholomew, West Pinchbeck

Monday 8 December

3:00pm: Christingle service, St Mary's, Cowbit

Tuesday 9 December

6:30pm: Boston College Carol Concert with the Church of England Parish Day School Choir, St Mary's Singers, the Belleplate and Hand Bell ringing teams at the Red Lion Quarter

6:30pm: Carol service for St Mary's school in St Mary's church, Cowbit

Thursday 11 December

11:00am: Matt's Mums Party, St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge

3:00pm: Christingle, Tydd St Mary's

Friday 12 December

Daily, 6th-27th, 10am-4pm: Christmas Tree Festival, all proceeds to various charities, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Donington

7:00pm: Carols by Candlelight, Gosberton Baptist; mince pies and coffee

Saturday 13 December

10am - 12 noon: Coffee Morning with Christmas Draw, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Donington

11-3pm: Christmas Tree Festival and Fayre, Gosberton Baptist11-5pm: Christmas Tree Festival, Ss Peter & Paul, Gosberton

11:30am-3:00pm: Christmas Tree Festival & Christmas Fayre, Pinchbeck Baptist

1-5pm: Christmas Tree Festival, St Mary's Weston

2-4pm: Messy Church, All Saints', Moulton

7:30pm: Holbeach Town Band Christmas Concert at All Saints church, Moulton; spiced apple juice and mince pies; retiring collection

7:30pm: A Christmas Cantata with the South Holland Singers, St Mary & St Nicolas, £8, students free

tbc: Children's Christmas Party, South Holland Community Church, Ayscoughfee School, PE11 2TE

Sunday 14 December

10:30am: Carol service, Moulton Chapel Methodist

10:30am: Junior Church Festival service, followed by lunch, Spalding United Reformed Church

10:30am: Christingle Family Service, St Mary's, Pinchbeck

11:00am: Family Christmas Celebration - Drama, Dance & Choir, Lighthouse Church

11-5pm: Christmas Tree Festival, Ss Peter & Paul, Gosberton

1-5pm: Christmas Tree Festival, St Mary's Weston

2:00pm: Christingle, St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge

2:30pm: Carols service at Gosberton Risegate Methodist church

3:00pm: Christingle service, All Saints', Moulton

3:00pm: Christingle, St John's, Weston Hills

4:00pm: Christingle, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Donington

4:00pm: Carols by Candlelight, Tydd St Mary's

5:30pm: Carol service, St James, Moulton Chapel

6:00pm: Carols at St Gilbert & St Hugh, Gosberton Clough, with St John's choir

6:00pm: Carol service, St Paul's

Wednesday 17 December

Daily, 6th-27th, 10am-4pm: Christmas Tree Festival, all proceeds to various charities, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Donington

7:00pm: Sacrament of Reconciliation, Holy Trinity, Holbeach

Thursday 18 December

7:00pm: The Christmas Miracle, a performance of the Nativity in song and tableau, St Bartholomew, West Pinchbeck

7:30pm: Christmas Concert with Simply Sing, King's Lynn and Sutton Bridge Community Gospel Choir, St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge

Friday 19 December

7:00pm: Carol service, refreshments and Retrospekt, Holy Trinity, Holbeach

7:30pm: Carol Concert with Holbeach Town Band, tickets £5.00, inc Mulled wine & mince pies, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Donington

Saturday 20 December

Daily, 6th-27th, 10am-4pm: Christmas Tree Festival, all proceeds to various charities, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Donington

11:30am-3:00pm: Christmas Tree Festival with refreshments, Pinchbeck Baptist

1-5pm: Christmas Tree Festival, St Mary's Weston

Sunday 21 December

10:00am: Family Nativity followed by refreshments, Broad Street Methodist10:30am: Morning worship for Christmas, Gosberton Baptist

10:30am: Christmas service followed by early afternoon Christmas meal (please book with South Holland Community Church, Ayscoughfee School, PE11 2TE)

10:30am: Christmas Family Service, Spalding Baptist

10:30am: Carol service, Spalding United Reformed Church

1-5pm: Christmas Tree Festival, St Mary's Weston

2:30pm: Carols at Gosberton Clough Methodist church

2:30pm: Carol service, Holbeach Drove Methodist

2:30pm: Christmas celebration, Moulton Methodist

3:00pm: Carol service, St Bartholomew, West Pinchbeck

3:00pm: Carol service, St John's, Weston Hills

3:00pm: Carol service, Sutterton Methodist

4:00pm: Carol service, St Laurence, Surfleet

5:30pm: Christmas Communion, St James, Moulton Chapel

6:00pm: Traditional carol service with All Saints church choir, All Saints', Moulton; spiced apple juice & mince pies

6:00pm: Candlelit carol service, Bicker Methodist

6:00pm: Carols service at Gosberton Methodist

6:00pm: Traditional Carols by Candlelight - Drama, Dance & Choir, Lighthouse Church

6:00pm: Carols by Candlelight, St Margaret's, Quadring

6:00pm: Carols by Candlelight, St Mary's, Weston

6:00pm: Carol service, St Thomas's Road Methodist

6:30pm: Carols by Candlelight - nine lessons and carols - in St John's school hall, Hawthorn Bank, PE11 1JQ

6:30pm: Carols for all, Holbeach Methodist

6:30pm: Town carols with Holbeach Town Band (All Saints)

6:30pm: Carols by Candlelight, Pinchbeck Baptist

6:30pm: Carols by Candlelight, Spalding Baptist

6:30pm: Christmas Carol Service, St Mary & St Nicolas

6:30pm: Carols by Candlelight, St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge

6:30pm: Casual Carols, Tydd St Mary's

Tuesday 23 December

Daily, 6th-27th, 10am-4pm: Christmas Tree Festival, all proceeds to various charities, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Donington

6:00pm: Carols around the Christmas Tree at All Saints, organised by Churches Together in Holbeach

Christmas Eve, Wednesday 24 December

10:30am: Quiet said Mass for Christmas Eve, St Guthlac's, Market Deeping

10:30am: Crib service, St Mary's, Whaplode

2:00pm: 'Quiet Christmas', St Mary & St Nicolas

3:00pm: 'Celebration' Crib service, All Saints', Moulton

3:00pm: Family Nativity service, St Margaret's, Quadring

3:00pm: Crib service, St Mary's, Cowbit

3:00pm: Christmas service, Sutterton Methodist

4:00pm: Nine lessons and carols, St Guthlac's, Market Deeping

4:00pm: Crib service in St John's school hall, Hawthorn Bank, PE11 1JQ

4:00pm: Crib service - for little children and their families, St Mary's, Pinchbeck

4:00pm: Almost Christmas, 'A Mighty Wonder', St Mary & St Nicolas

4:00pm: Crib service, St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge

4:00pm: Family Nativity service, Ss Peter & Paul, Gosberton

4:00pm: Crib service, Tydd St Mary's

4:30pm: Family service, Moulton Chapel Methodist

4:30pm: Children's Mass, St Norbert's RC

6:00pm: Carols around the tree - with mulled wine and mince pies, Spalding United Reformed Church

6:30pm: Carols by Candlelight, traditional nine lessons and carols, St Mary's, Pinchbeck

7:30pm: Candlelight Carols followed by refreshments, Broad Street Methodist

8:30pm: Carols, followed by:9:00pm: Midnight Mass, Holy Trinity, Holbeach

10:00pm: Midnight Mass, Tydd St Mary's

11:15pm: Midnight Communion, Bicker Methodist

11:30pm: Midnight Mass, All Saints Holbeach

11:30pm: Midnight Communion, Pinchbeck Baptist

11:30pm: Midnight Mass, St Guthlac's, Market Deeping

11:30pm: Midnight Mass in St John's school hall, Hawthorn Bank, PE11 1JQ

11:30pm: Midnight Mass, St Margaret's, Quadring

11:30pm: Holy Communion, St Mary's, Cowbit

11:30pm: Christmas Midnight Mass, St Mary's, Pinchbeck

11:30pm: Midnight Mass, St Mary's, Weston

11:30pm: Midnight Mass, St Mary's, Whaplode

11:30pm: Midnight Mass, St Mary & St Nicolas

11:30pm: Midnight Mass, St Mary & the Holy Rood, Donington

11:30pm: Midnight Mass, St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge

11:30pm: Midnight Mass, Deeping St Nicholas

11:30pm: Carols, St Norbert's RC

11:30pm: Midnight Mass, St Paul's

11:30pm: Joint Anglican, Baptist and Methodist Communion service at Ss Peter & Paul, Gosberton

11:45pm: United Communion service with Broad Street and ... at Spalding United Reformed Church

12:00am: Midnight Mass, St Norbert's RC

Christmas Day, Thursday 25 December

8:00am: Holy Communion, St Mary & St Nicolas

9:00am: Communion service, St Gilbert & St Hugh, Gosberton Clough

9:00am: Mass, St Norbert's RC

9:00am: Group service for St Mary & the Holy Rood at Bicker

9:15am: Holy Communion, St John's, Weston Hills

9:30am: Mass, Holy Trinity, Holbeach

9:30am: Family Communion, St Matthew's, Sutton Bridge

9:30am: Quick communion with carols, St Paul's; bring a present to show

10:00am: Christmas Day Praise, Gosberton Baptist, followed by lunch - please let the church know if you'd like to stay for lunch

10:00am: Worship for Christmas morning, Gosberton Methodist

10:00am: Worship for Christmas morning, Holbeach Methodist

10:00am: Family service, Pinchbeck Baptist

10:00am: All Age Eucharist with blessing of Christmas Gifts, St Guthlac's, Market Deeping

10:00am: Communion for all, St John's church lounge, PE11 1JQ

10:00am: Family Communion, St Mary & St Nicolas

10:00am: United Worship for Christmas morning with Broad Street at St Thomas's Road Methodist

10:30am: Christmas Day service at Spalding Baptist

10:30am: Informal family service, Spalding United Reformed Church

10:30am: Christmas Day at St Mary's, Whaplode

11:00am: Christmas Morning worship for just an hour, Lighthouse Church

11:00am: St Mary's, Weston, informal worship for Christmas morning

11:00am: Mass, St Norbert's RC

11:00am: Family Communion, Tydd St Mary's

5:00pm: 'Christmas is Free', open to people of any faith or denomination or none at all; at Connect, The Vista

Sunday 28 December

10:30am: United service with Broad Street at St Thomas's Road Methodist

Wednesday 31 December

7-11pm: Church New Year's Eve party followed by Worship and Communion to see the New Year in, Lighthouse Church

11:45pm: Prayer at New Year, St Mary & St Nicolas

Page created 16 September, populated and edited throughout December