2004

A renewed Covenant of Churches Together in Spalding and District was signed on 3 February 2004 by the following churches:St John the Baptist

St Mary & St Nicolas

St Paul

The Church of the Immaculate Conception and St Norbert

Spalding Baptist

United Reformed Church

Broad Street Methodist

South Holland Community Church

St Thomas's Road Methodist, and

The Religious Society of Friends

The love and the prayers of the following two churches were recorded as Observers at the signing:

Spalding Evangelical Church

Lighthouse Pentecostal Church

'We ... declare that we are united in pilgrimage as Churches which acknowledge God's revelation in Christ and confess the Lord Jesus as God and Saviour according to the scriptures.

'We recognise that we are bound by the love and will of Christ so to respond to his prayer that, in the spirit of repentance for our divisions we may be led by the Holy Spirit into fellowship and common prayer.

'And we seek hereby to fulfil our common mission to the world by witness and service together in proclaiming the gospel to the glory of God, Father, Son & Holy Spirit.'

Please see also 1991 and 1996.