  Special services of Commemoration are listed on our April Diary page
 Covid-19 update, 26 March 2021 - via +Sarah Mullally on Palm Sunday, Holy Week and Easter celebrations 'From Palm Sunday, congregations will be able to sing in the church grounds, and a small group of singers may now sing indoors'; more from the CofE website https://www.churchofengland.org/resources/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-churches
Churches reopening for Easter include Spalding Baptist; see our Easter service listings
Clergy moves: a warm welcome to Rev Greg & Rev Sophie Bannister on 22 February at St John's; previously at the church of the Holy Sepulchre, Holborn (FB) Apologies for early publication of this news on Sunday 31/1 - and thanks to those who advised the news was embargoed until Monday 1/7; sorry to all affected Rev Capt Paul Whiteley will be moving from St Paul's, Fulney to All Saints Paston in May and Mike Chesher is to be house for duty priest in the Culworth benefice in March
A warm welcome to Rev Paul Carey-Slater as priest in charge, St Matthew's Sutton Bridge (FB) in June and his wife Micki as Deanery Youth and Children's worker (7/3, Diocese notification) Retirements: Rev Rosamund Seal (All Saints Holbeach and Rural Dean, Elloe East), 31 July Local churches are opening their doors for private prayer and reflection, growing listing on our Diary page for 23 March
Listing of local Lent groups and events on the February page of this website. There's also an archive of CTSD ecumenical Lent Lectures over the last decade.
Ecumenical Lent groups: Steve Weatherly-Barton (CTSD chair) writes that the Lent Lectures 'did not happen because no streaming facilities could be made available' (25/3).
Flower Festivals 2021
St Mary’s Flower Festival 2020
The Life and work of St Mary’s [Long Sutton] 850th Anniversary: It was reluctantly and disappointingly recognised that it will not be possible to hold this year’s Flower Festival in April because of Covid 19. As a lot of the work has already been prepared next year’s Festival will use the same theme of the 850th Anniversary of St Mary’s. A decision has been made to plan the Flower Festival provisionally for the early autumn around the time of the Patronal Festival from the weekend of Saturday 4th September to Sunday 12th September. Many of the planned events for 2020 850th Anniversary will transferred to 2021 including the planned royal visit to formally open our new welcome area and hospitality area blessed by Bishop Nigel Assistant Bishop of Lincoln in September 2020.' St Mary's/ACNY (FB 4/2/2021)
Churches postponing or cancelling plans for Flower Festivals in 2021 include:
St Laurence, Surfleet (9/4)
All Saints, Holbeach (and others in East Elloe deanery)
St Peter & St Paul, Gosberton (11/2)
Gosberton Baptist, awaiting a clearer picture of how the pandemic will progress (12/2)
The Church Flower Festivals Facebook page has been looking through the archives daily since lockdown in 2020
  Flower Festivals 2021: due to Covid-19 restrictions, churches have said it is unlikely they will be hosting Flower Festivals in church this spring; more info to follow
Details awaited for the January Preacher Exchanges and CTSD AGM
Covid-19 update, 5 January 2021 - public worship may continue and church buildings may remain open for private prayer in line with current regulations. Further info:
Government website: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus and Places of Worship
Spalding church services update, 6 January; several churches have announced temporary closure following the latest developments; please check with individual churches direct for changes. Apologies for errors or omissions
Broad Street Methodist (FB): (Circuit website) 9:30am: online service; 10:30am church open for public worship on 10/1 and 17/1 only (8/1, 18/1); online only from 24/1
Friends Meeting House (Quakers): temporarily closed (10/1)
Harvest Church (FB): Zoom
South Holland Community Church (FB - private group): update awaited
Spalding United Reformed Church (FB): temporarily closed
St Mary & St Nicolas (FB): remaining open, 10:30am service (7/1)
The Immaculate Conception & St Norbert (FB): remaining open, 11:00am Mass (8/1)
Churches in surrounding towns and villages which have announced temporary closure on Sundays following the latest changes on 5/1/21, please check latest details direct with the church. Apologies for errors and omissions
Sunday 3 January: Spalding church services; please check with individual churches direct for changes. Apologies for errors or omissions
Calvary Baptist (FB): 11:00am, livestream
Friends Meeting House (Quakers): 10:30am
Harvest Church (FB): Zoom
South Holland Community Church (FB - private group): 10:30am at The Vista; see also Ground Level
Spalding United Reformed Church (FB): 10:30am with guest preacher Brian Shenk
St Mary & St Nicolas (FB): 10:30am
The Immaculate Conception & St Norbert (FB): 11:00am Mass, also available livestream midweek as well as weekends
Churches in surrounding towns and villages - a selection of churches open for worship or private prayer in recent weeks; see also Googlemap. Some churches are temporarily closed following the latest changes on 5/1/21, please check latest details direct with the church. Apologies for errors and omissions
Bourne Abbey ACNY; Churches Together in Bourne
Bourne and Deeping Catholic churches
St Mary & the Holy Rood, Donington ACNY
Fleet Baptist
Gedney ACNY
Gosberton, Gosberton Clough Methodist (Circuit website)
Holy Trinity Holbeach (see also St Norbert's FB)
Holy Trinity, Gedney Hill, ACNY
St Polycarp's, ACNY
Open Door Baptist church Deeping St James (FB)
Pinchbeck Baptist (FB)
Ringstone in Aveland Group (FB), Morton & Rippingale
St Peter & St Paul, Wigtoft ACNY
Wednesday 30 December 2020: CofE update following Tier 4 changes
The Government has announced a formal tiering review, whereby more areas have been elevated to tiers 4 and 3. The guidance for places of worship within tiers has not changed at this time, and public worship may continue in all tiers, in line with the Government guidance and advice; more detail on CofE website
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