Annual Good Friday service at nature reserve is a religious highlight of Easter
One of the religious highlights of Easter in the Louth and Horncastle area has been organised for Good Friday next week on April 3.
It is the annual Good Friday Service of Witness at the Red Hill Nature Reserve, run by the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, at Stenigot Top in Stenigot.
The congregation is invited to meet at 9.30 am at the bottom of Red Hill for the start of a procession, or at 10 am in the nature reserve for the service itself.
The service has been arranged by the Parish of the Asterby Group, which is situated in rolling, peaceful countryside within the Horncastle Deanery, to the south of Louth, north of Horncastle and east of Lincoln.
The Good Friday event will be led by the Rev Mark Holden, who is rural dean and the minister with oversight for the Asterby Group. He is also vicar of Wragby, and accompanying him will be the Rev Andrew Roberts, who is rector in the Fen and Hill Group of parishes.
The venue can be found at the postcode, LN11 9SN, or via the Ordnance Survey map reference of TF264806. Its What3Words are: organisms. users. tonality.
The Asterby parish group consists of eight beautiful churches located within several villages and hamlets, as well as St Mary’s Church in Horncastle.
Worship in the churches is shared on a rota basis, with some parishioners travelling from their own villages to worship together, while others attend formal worship only when it is held in their particular village church.
Over Easter, the parish is also hosting an Easter Day service with Holy Communion on Sunday, April 5 at St Helen’s Church in Burgh on Bain, which is the venue for a village coffee morning the following day (Tuesday, April 6) from 10 am to 12 midday.
For full details of all the upcoming services and events, you can visit the Parish of the Asterby Group website at www.asterbygroup.org
The Red Hill Nature Reserve, on Asterby Lane, north-east of Goulceby, spans 1.6 hectares (four acres) of steep chalk escarpment grassland with some scrub, 1.6 hectares of old plateau grassland and a disused quarry with a famous exposure of red chalk which is rich in fossils.