Ketton and Tinwell Benefice
Welcome to the Churches of St Mary’s, Ketton and All Saints, Tinwell. All are welcome at our events and services.
The benefice is currently in an inter regnum (since our last vicar Olwen Woolcock retired in November 2023). Please click “inter regnum” for news of progress towards getting a new vicar.
In the meantime, please contact the churchwardens with any queries.
Ketton:
Sara Mann saramann50@gmail.com
Alex Woodfield alex@ketton.org
Lay Pastoral Minister – Julia Freeman at juliafreeman@tiscali.co.uk
Tinwell:
Bryan Yule bryan.yule766@gmail.com
Please see the notices below for current information.
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More news on the historic front for Ketton church. You may already know this but the Ketton Historical Society has a web site (which seems to be preserved in aspic from 2019) but it has some great stuff on it.
http://www.kettonvillagehistory.co.uk/religion.html
Services for the next two weeks are as follows:
Sunday 10 March
Sunday 17 March
LENT COURSE (CHURCHES TOGETHER)
The Churches Together Lent Course which continues at 10.30am on Tuesday 12 March at Ketton Methodist Church.
PRAYERS FOR ST MARY’S KETTON AND ALL SAINTS TINWELL –
Prayers will be held in St Mary’s on Saturday 9 March at 9.00am (for half an hour) for the future of St Mary’s, Ketton and All Saints, Tinwell.
Julia will also be holding weekly prayers at 8 Braithwaite Close regularly on a Thursday afternoon at 2.30.
Vacancy / inter regnum
Another week goes past and yes more progress towards our goal of a full time vicar. Now is the time for the real hard work to begin to gather the funds we will need. We have a joint meeting of Ketton and Tinwell PCCs on 11 March which is part of this formal process. More information to follow.
Church Spire Lighting
This has become a little less well supported post COVID and it is such a nice idea. We are going for a relaunch in the next month. Do please have a think if you would like the spire lit for a special occasion or an anniversary of something or someone special. We want to fill that diary. The current rate is £10 per week which we will honour for all bookings made before May 1st.
Please pray this week for:
If you do need to get in touch then please do so at alex@ketton.org or 07712 043 282.