Love and Joy Choir at the Greenbelt in Chelthenham

Greenbelt 2007

First Greenbelt Festival was in 1974 on Prospect Farm in Suffolk . In the 70s Greenbelt ’s wholistic take – Bible in one hand and newspaper in the other – had a transforming impact on those attending. It was about a 24/7 faith, it was theology with ‘no-splits’, and it meant, as philosopher and Baptist cleric John Peck, put it, that Greenbelt should help people see “every area of life as moulded by the Gospel.” The festival grew yearly in numbers from its initial 2,000 attendance and by the early 1980s, only 10 years later, there were more than 20,000 people coming to Greenbelt each year.

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Last year Love and Joy Gospel Choir has the privilege opening evening on the main stage, sending an array of shudders down the spines of their audience. Along with Souls Rest the choir had the audience up on their feet singing and dancing and even when it began to rain slightly no one moved, they were completely drawn in by the tremendous talents of those on stage.

We are positive that this year will be even better.

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