Welcome

The Parish of South Lafford consists of eleven churches covering a rural area between Sleaford and Bourne.  The churches serve fifteen villages, mostly quite small; the total population is a little under 2000.  All our churches are listed buildings.  The Parish is part of the Church of England Diocese of Lincoln. 

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We hope to appeal to most people's spiritual needs by a wide variety of worship, mostly based on the contemporary language Common Worship and the traditional Book of Common Prayer, but with some more innovative services too.  The South Lafford Choir sings at some of our services and rehearses regularly - new members are welcome: see South Lafford Choir page under Our Community tab.

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The Parish is committed to ecumenism and is part of Churches Together in Lincolnshire. The Parish has an inclusive approach to Christian fellowship and a desire to meet the challenges of Christian living in the 21st century with prayer and imagination. 

Services

April 2021

With the gradual easing of Covid-19 restrictions, and the increasing number of people who have been vaccinated, we are beginning to cautiously re-open our churches for public worship, as well as for private prayer. Our plan is that we will re-open on Easter Sunday, with controls on numbers, physical distancing and, as yet, no communal singing.  We will then join online with others from across our Diocese on the 11th of April, and hope to then continue our services in person each week from the 18th April. Our online services continue each week.

Sunday 11th April – 2nd Sunday of Easter (white)

Joining online with a service for the Diocese at:

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The national Church of England service will be available from 9am through https://www.churchofengland.org/more/media-centre/church-online 

Sunday 18th April – 3rd Sunday of Easter (white)

11.00am – St. Andrew, Folkingham

Sunday 25th April – 4th Sunday of Easter(white)

11.00am – St. Peter & St. Paul, Osbournby

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For the latest national information, please see the Church of England website:-    https://www.churchofengland.org/more/media-centre/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-churches

Keeping Safe - Safeguarding 

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Most of the time at church we are like a big happy family. However even in very happy families people can have a bad day and even people we know and trust can upset us. We want to help everyone have good days all of the time. We try to make sure that people who have jobs in the church always behave well and in a way that is helpful to you. We never want anyone or anything in church to frighten you, confuse you or worry you. It is important that you tell us if something is upsetting you or if you are feeling worried about something that’s happening or something somebody is doing. We have specially trained people who you can talk to and who you can ask for help. These people are good at safeguarding. This means they look after everyone’s safety. Caring for people is a very important part of our Christian life.

Please click on the Keeping Safe button below to be taken to the Safeguarding page with contact details and information.

Find out more about our 11 rural churches, by clicking the button below​

• St Denys', Aswarby

• St Thomas of Canterbury, Aunsby

• St Lucia's, Dembleby

• St Andrew's, Folkingham

• St Botolph's, Newton

• St Peter and St Paul's, Osbournby

• St Andrew's, Pickworth

• St Andrew's, Scott Willoughby

• St Mary and All Saints', Swarby

• St Peter ad Vincula, Threekingham

• St Nicholas, Walcot