Reepham Benefice

I don’t know how many of you were in church this time ten years ago. Can you remember it: Celebration 2000, a start of a new millennium. Can you remember that great event? Up there in the chancel and sanctuary we had the secondary school, all the musicians stuffed in.

Remember we had the stage reaching right out across the the firs three pews? Do you remember the Guides, the Brownies, the Beavers, the Rainbows, the Scouts with their broomsticks. Can you remember the Methodist Youth stuffed at the back of the church? The Reepham singers: Jolyon here in the pulpit holding it here together as we traced God’s action through from the start of God’s creation right through the bible and over the last 2,000 years... And now we have reached this new millennium. And at the end, with hundreds of people coming each time to see the performances. At the end of each performance was Ruth, standing with these expectant hopeful words: let there be respect for the earth, peace for its people, love in our lives, delight in the good, forgiveness for past wrongs....and from now on, a new start.

So what has happened? Is it true we have lost a lot of our hope and confidence in the future over the last 10 years? What happened?

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