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175 Years: Celebrating Our Past, Building For Our Future

This week we have the culmination of our year-long celebrations of our 175th Anniversary, a service where we celebrate our past yet also look forward to building our future. Chris looks at the generations of people whose witness allowed God’s message to flow from a small fenland chapel out into the wider village and beyond and also challenges us as to what we can do to ensure that future generations can also be blessed just as countless people have been before.

Pete leads our sung worship in this special service – stepping out from behind the piano as we experience the styles of worship from decades past, right up to the present day.

Restoration (Ezekiel 47:10)

This week we held our All Age Service for April as Shona leads us in thinking about part of Ezekiel’s vision where the dead sea is transformed from a salty and lifeless body of water into a sea teeming with life like the Mediterranean. We hear testimony from members of the congregation of how God has restored their own “dead seas” into seas full of life.

We end the service with an extended period of sung worship led by Pete and Nick as we welcome the Fuel Cast crew to document the faith stories of several of those in the congregation over the next couple of days.

Can These Bones Live?

Our all age service for February focusses on Ezekiel’s vision of God bringing the dry bones to life. Ant and Chris help lead us through the story where the idea is very simple: even when we feel dry and hopeless God can restore us to life. Pete and Nick lead our sung worship this week.

Year Text in Context 2026

At the beginning of the year we revealed our year text for 2026: “Wherever the river flows, it will bring life”. Now Chris puts this verse in its original context. The Israelites were a divided kingdom (sound familiar?) who had abandoned God (sound familiar?) to worship other idols (you get the idea), and as a result had been handed over to the Babylonians. Ezekiel, writing in the midst of this exile, was shown a vision of the water flowing from the temple, a symbol of the restoration of Jerusalem and the coming of God’s Spirit. A sign of hope that all is not lost!

Andy leads the rest of the service as we hold our first Communion of the year and Mike leads our sung worship.

Vision Service 2026

For our first service of 2026 we hold our annual vision service where Chris gives us the opportunity to look back over how God has blessed us as a church during 2025 and the good things that He has planned for 2026, which just so happens to be our 175th Anniversary year. We also reveal our text for the year: “Wherever the river flows it will bring life”. More on that in a few weeks time!

Susan leads the rest of the service and Pete leads our sung worship.

What Do You Hope For?

God’s final question for us in this series is: What do you hope for?  Ezekiel is challenged to go beyond what is achievable.  In the light of the resurrection we too are called to prayer “Come Holy Spirit” into situations which seem beyond all hope.