2013-06
June/July 2013
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families seek justice”, “Obama
vows ‘full weight of justice’ after Boston
“Hillsborough
bombings”, “Government cuts bring
injustice to thousands”. Just some of the headlines
over the past week concerning that most important,
but also slippery, concept of justice.
From our earliest years we have some idea of
whether something is fair or not. Is our brother or
sister being treated differently from us, why do some
things happen to me, and not to others? As we grow
up, we realise that justice can mean many things.
It can mean the due process of law and order, of
trial and conviction. It can mean making sure that
everyone is treated equally. It can mean, in a more
abstract way, things somehow evening themselves
out – like when a cricketer that nicks a catch is
given not out, only to be then run out next ball. We
also learn that life is not always fair and – if we’re
really honest – we recognise that oftentimes we have benefited from its
unfairness.
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Some philosophies have always been at ease with the strange workings
of fate and justice. Concepts such as karma and reincarnation both seek
to redistribute life’s apparent unfairness so that things even out on the
cosmic scale of things.
That has never been the Bible’s way of dealing with justice. The Bible
recognises that the world is not a fair place. The writers of the psalms
frequently complain that the rich and the wicked thrive whilst the good
and the poor suffer, and they have no qualms about asking God why
that should be. The prophets of the Old Testament were the original
protesters, crying out against the injustice of the judges who take bribes,
the rich who steal the lands of the poor, and the kings who oppress their
subjects. The Bible is at times an angry book. There is very little sense
that everything naturally evens itself out in the end.
Just Justice
But it is the Bible’s insistence on the importance of justice
that makes it so attractive to me. The Bible says that
the world is so unjust, and that God cares about justice
so deeply, that only God could bring true justice about.
Those of us who follow Jesus and his teachings have
a duty to be just in our dealings with others, as well as
working to bring greater justice in the world in which
we live.
Rev Toby Hole,
Vicar,
St Chad’s Church, Woodseats
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA
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The Abbey Public House
We would like to welcome old and new
customers back to the new Abbey.
We now offer:
Home cooked food, locally sourced
A range of great real ales
A welcoming & relaxing environment
Come and try our excellent Sunday
Roast with real roast potatoes and
Yorkshire puddings.
With a variety of special events
throughout the year, come and see what
we have to offer!
Call us: (0114) 274 5374
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pony that
likes arts
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It’s a deal then, an eye for a tooth
and a tooth for an eye!
Two men appeared in
before a magistrate after
fighting in the street. The
JP asked: “Couldn’t this
be settled out of court?”
The men replied: “That’s
what we were trying
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What did
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What’s On
Send details of your event to impact@stchads.org or write to: Impact,
St Chad‟s Church Offices, 15 Camping Lane, Sheffield S8 0GB.
Wing, Lowedges Junior School.
Call 0114 203 9337.
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June 29
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All Saints Church, Ecclesall
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year) and Andrew Carter with
February Sheffield 5 Oratorio Chorus and
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February 12
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1.30-3.30pm
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Nature 7.30pmquiz trail, stream dipping
and VivaVoce bug hunting present activities music for 8 - 13
year associated olds. with perfume including
choral Call 0114 selections 263 4335. from Les
Miserables and West Side Story.
February 12
Free July Environmental 5-7
Activities
Ecclesall Woodseats Woods Show Sawmill 2013
10.30am-12.30pm
The annual event will include
Nature the Woodseats quiz trail, Parade stream and dipping
and schoolyard bug hunting activities activities on the for 8 - 13
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July 6
Escafeld Chorale summer concert
St Andrew’s Church, Psalter Lane
7.30pm
A selection of music associated
with the British Isles, inlcuding
Vaughan Williams’ In Windsor
Forest, and featuring Associate
Soloist Debra Finch.
& Call 0114 236 9548
July 6&7
Cliffhanger
Graves Park
10.30am-6.30pm
Cliffhanger is one of the UK’s
largest outdoor outdoorpursuits
festivals and features
competitions, professional
demonstrations in rock climbing,
orienteering, mountain biking,
running, slacklining, adventure
racing and much more.
& Call 0114 273 6433
July 7
Sheffield Animal Centre Annual
Open Day
Stadium Way S9 3HN
11am-3pm
Sheffield Animal Centre (RSPCA
Sheffield Branch) is holding its
Annual Open Day with a Fun Dog
Show, a Catless Cat Show and
Rabbitless Rabbit Show along
with children’s games, various
stalls and refreshments and a dog
agility display. There will also be a
parade of the centre’s dogs which
are available for adoption and
a chance to have a look around
the centre and meet the staff and
animals.
& Call 0114 2898057 or go to
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July 14
Archaeology in Action
Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
11am to 4.45pm
Get hands-on with the history of
the hamlet as part of the Festival of
British Archaeology. You can take
a tour of the site with living history
character Mr Tyzack.
Admission is free but a small charge
may apply to tours and activities.
& Call 0114 272 2106
What’s On
CALLING THOSE OVER 50 YEARS OF AGE: A new group has started as part
of St Chad’s Third Age Ministry. The TWO (Talking With Others) Group’s are at
Church House on Abbey Lane. All are welcome over 50 years of age. Please
contact the Church Office on 0114 274 5086 if you would like to find out more. We
would love to meet you - all our groups are open to all.
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How we can make a
The subject of Christian Social Justice
is huge and has been studied and
discussed by far greater scholars
than me – I am not a scholar by any
standard – but I do think we over
complicate how we as Christians should
be living.
The Bible says it all – throughout the New
Testament Jesus shows us how to put into
practice what his father had said, which is
set out quite simply in the Old Testament
as the Ten Commandments. The greatest
of these is …to love one another. How
different would our society be if we actually
managed to do this?
Today, I feel, we give responsibility to the
government for looking after everything and
everybody, by taxation and other means,
with no responsibility placed on us as
individuals. The Christian view should be
different, we should be giving of ourselves
out of love not duty.
In 1625 Francis Bacon said “money is
like muck, not good unless it be spread”
and I find it interesting that several hundred
years later that still applies. In the world’s
rich countries where the difference between
the wealthy and the poor is least, there are
lower rates infant mortality, mental illness,
teenage pregnancy, violence, drug misuse
etc. Countries such as Japan and Sweden
fall into that category. You might be able to
guess that the USA has huge inequalities
with high rates of all the previous examples
given, but you might be surprised, as I
was, to find that here in the UK we are not
very different from the USA. Can we as
individuals make a difference?
THE STORY OF SHIMBAKUKU
When American troops captured the island
of Okinawa towards the end of the Second
World War they found it in a state of moral
and social collapse. As they gradually
advanced through the island they came to
the village of Shimbakuku. There they were
met by two men, one of them carrying a
Bible. The soldiers suspected a trap and
entered the village cautiously, but to their
amazement they found everything neat
and tidy, the fields tilled and fertile, and the
whole village a model of order and hygiene,
in total contrast to the squalor and chaos
which reigned everywhere else. One of the
old men who had welcomed them explained
the reason to them.
Some 30 years earlier, an American
missionary had stopped off in Shimbakuku
on his way to Japan. He didn’t stay long
and just two people became followers of
Jesus – the two old men. He taught them
a few hymns and prayers, and left them a
Japanese translation of the Bible, urging
them to model their lives on it. The two
men had no other Christian teaching or
fellowship, but by basing their lives on what
they read in the Bible they transformed their
community, When the American soldiers
arrived, they found no jail, no brothel, no
drunkenness and no divorce. Shimbakuku
was an oasis of love and purity in a swamp
of degradation and despair.
The war correspondent who first brought
the story to light, a man named Clarence
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difference
Welcome
to Beauchief Abbey
www.beauchiefabbey.org.uk
email info@beauchiefabbey.org.uk
Weekly Services are held at Beauchief Abbey
All welcome
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Holy Communion: 11.00am
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3 Sunday Evensong: 3.00pm
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5 Sunday Matins 11.00am
Our church services are based on the Book of
Common Prayer
and refreshments are served after the service.
Hall, quoted his dumbfounded driver: ‘So
this is what comes out of only a Bible and
a couple of old men who want to live like
Jesus! Maybe we’re using the wrong kind of
weapons to change the world.’
For those of you who know the story
of Les Miserables – another example of
the effect one person’s love can have for
another is when the priest gives Valjean
more of his own silver to add to what he
had stolen, Valjean goes on to do great
things for his society – all because of that
act of love and compassion.
I can read about social justice, think
about it and talk about it but what am I
going to do about it today and every other
day? Whose example will I follow, could it
be Jesus? He said “go, love one another,
this is the greatest Commandment”.
(John 15 verse 17) Could my family, my
community, my workplace and my city be
like Shimbakuku? Are we using the wrong
weapons and expecting other people and
institutions such as the Government, the
NHS and Education to change our society
instead of “going” and doing it ourselves?
Joy Winks
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(Shimbakuku story taken from Simon Coupland, ‘A
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Come and celebrate
your marriage...
You are invited to a
Marriage Celebration Service on June 8
at 2pm at St Chad’s Church
For? All couples wishing to celebrate their
marriage whether married in our church or
another place.
Why? The blessing of the couples attending
our Centenary Celebration Service in
2012 for those married in St Chad’s was
appreciated so much that we want to give
other couples living in our parish a similar
opportunity this year.
Is a personal invitation needed? No, this
is your invitation but we would appreciate
notice to give an idea of names and
numbers intending to come. Please call the
Church Office on 274 5086 or email office@
stchads.org
Does it have to be a special celebration?
No! Last year one couple had already
celebrated 70 years and for another couple it
was about 70 days!
If you feel blessed, join us and give
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When thinking of courtroom
justice, several movies
spring to mind – To Kill
a Mockingbird portrayed a white
lawyer successfully defending a
black man in the deep south of the
USA; Anatomy of a Murder, which
starred James Stewart, again as
the last line of defence, and many
more where Hollywood made sure
that it looked grim for the accused
until the last reel when the truth
was revealed with handshakes and
happiness all round.
These films often sprang from
a huge body of literature, which
proves that the reading public is
fascinated by the goings-on in a
courtroom. Many novelists found
that they could spin a good yarn
around a crime story culminating in
a juicy trial.
On TV also, much viewing
time has been spent in the
courtroom. Older readers may
remember Alastair Sim playing a
Mr Justice Swallow, in the 1967-
1971 comedy series Misleading
Cases, written by A. P. Herbert.
It co-starred Roy Dotrice as the
mischievous, bumbling Mr Albert
Haddock, who, weekly, ended up
in court over some comedic, petty
misdemeanour. One case involved
the latter trying to cash a cheque
written on a cow!
Granada Television
(ITV) produced
Crown Court which
ran from 1972
to1984. This
programme was
put on at about
1.30pm and was
a courtroom
drama with each
case taking three
episodes. At
the end of
the third
episode
a jury of “ordinary people” came
to a verdict on the evidence
presented. This idea has been
repeated many times since.
Another famous legal name on
TV was Perry Mason, a US defence
lawyer who, every episode, proved
someone else “did it”, rather than
his client. This was television’s
most successful and longestrunning
lawyer series and ran from
1957 to 1966 starring Raymond
Burr. It can still be seen on one of
the cable channels every week.
These days TV series starring
legal beagles come and go
regularly (Judge John Deed etc)
and all of the soaps will have
included their fair share of time
spent “up before the beak” –
most of the casts of East Enders,
Coronation Street and Emmerdale
seem to have “done time”.
The courtroom is the perfect
arena for drama. The only time I
have ever been in court was whilst
being trained as a juror (and then I
was never called!). It was cramped
and stuffy. However, modern
courtrooms in the USA, where trials
are often televised, seem very
much larger, more comfortable,
informal, and, perhaps, as such,
are less frightening for witnesses
and the accused.
David Manning
Justice in the Courtroom
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA
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At One and at Peace
All couples wanting their baby
to be baptised at St Chad’s
do a three week Saturday
morning preparation course. For
most couples it gives them the
opportunity to ask questions about
life and faith that perhaps they’ve
never really thought through before
and most come away with a much
better understanding of the faith
into which their baby is being
baptised and the significance of
the promises that they have just
made.
One of the most common
questions that I’m asked is “why
did Jesus have to die?” The
crucifixion of Jesus often sounds
a jarring note in the story of God’s
great love. Why does love have
to involve someone suffering a
horrible death? For some people
this alone is enough to put them off
enquiring about faith further.
C.S. Lewis’ story, The Lion,
the Witch and the Wardrobe – a
favourite book and film of many
children – is perhaps the most
well known attempt to make sense
of the story. If you remember,
Edmund has betrayed his friends
in order to taste the White Witch’s
Turkish Delight. By doing so, and
according to the ancient lore of
Narnia, he must die. His brother
and sisters are distraught – is
there nothing that can be done for
their brother? It seems not. But,
as Aslan - the great lion – knows,
there is an older magic that allows
an innocent and flawless victim to
take the place of the condemned
traitor. To the shock and horror of
the children, Aslan allows himself
to be humiliated and killed upon
the Stone Table.
The story, told using fantasy
creatures in a fairytale land,
closely follows the traditional
Christian understanding of Jesus’
death. Having turned our backs
on God and having acted selfishly
towards our fellow humans, we find
ourselves in the place of Edmund:
alienated from God and from each
other. Like bankrupt defendants
in a court of law, we simply don’t
have the capacity to change our
situation. It requires outside
intervention by one who can deal
with not only our selfishness, but
the mess of the whole world. In
short, it requires the action of God.
Justice, in the Bible’s view, is
not a case of everyone getting
their “just desserts” but of God
taking the consequences of our
wrongdoing on to himself. The
death of Jesus Christ on the cross
showed the supremacy of God’s
love over human wickedness, it
defeated death from the insideout,
and it dealt with the besetting
problem of our human nature. The
word sometimes used for this is
“Atonement” which is an Anglo-
Saxon word meaning to make
“at one” - to bring enemies into
friendship.
God’s justice is shown in the
death of Jesus on the cross so that
we can be at one and at peace
with God and with each other.
Rev Toby Hole
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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I
am very pleased to be asked
to write an article for your
magazine as this gives me
the opportunity to introduce myself
and the work of my team here at
Woodseats.
I manage a team of Police Officers
and Police Community Support
Officers and our primary role is to
deal with crime and community
safety issues affecting people’s lives.
A particular priority for my staff is
to manage long term community
issues. If you have any problems,
concerns or issues then please get
in touch.
I am pleased to report that overall
crime and victim-based crime is still
showing a reduction over the past
12 months. This is little comfort for
those unfortunately a victim and I
understand this. However the picture
is not all doom and gloom. There
is also a lot that can be done to
prevent yourself becoming a victim.
Please follow our crime prevention
advice below. A large percentage of
offences are committed at insecure
properties.
• Do not leave your door unlocked
even when you are in. It takes
seconds to open the door and steal
a handbag, Ipad, laptop phone or
other valuables left on display.
• Never leave property on display.
A laptop left on view on the kitchen
table overnight makes easy pickings.
• Never leave your keys in the
door lock and always hide your car
keys out of sight. You would be
amazed how many times car keys
are thrown on the window sill or
hung just inside the door making it
easy for thieves.
• You can protect your items for
free by registering your property
onto the Immobilise website. This
is a national property register and
makes it easier for us to identify who
property belongs to if it is stolen.
www.immobilise.com.
• Good lighting is an excellent
way to deter a thief. Fitting exterior
lighting with dusk to dawn sensors
is a good idea. These are light
sensitive; they come on when it gets
dark and turn off when it gets light.
Using low wattage bulbs means they
can be a very cheap and effective
security deterrent.
• Burglar Alarms are also effective
and can provide you and your family
with peace of mind. Government
statistics show that 60% of
burglaries on homes fitted with
burglar alarms are unsuccessful so
it really is worth investing in a home
security system.
• Own an iPhone, iPad or Mac?
Please download the find my phone
app. It really does work and has
assisted us to recover numerous
stolen goods and arrest those
responsible. Only last week following
a burglary on Bocking Lane this app
led us to an address in Chesterfield
where the stolen property was
recovered and five people arrested.
• Do you have UPVC doors?
Have you got Eurolocks fitted to
them? We have seen an increase
in burglaries where Eurolocks have
been snapped. They can be easily
replaced with snap-safe versions
for as little as £20. If you need more
information please get in touch.
If you want to keep up to date with
what is happening locally then follow
our Facebook Page. It is updated
daily with crime details, arrests
and other crime and community
safety information. It is also a
great way to pass information
to us quickly and easily. I
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take a look. Search for
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Teams.
Thank You for your
support.
Insp Ian Stubbs
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The Justice of Gilbert
The names Gilbert and Sullivan are as
firmly linked together as Morecambe
and Wise or Laurel and Hardy.
They are almost always thought of
as a team but their backgrounds and
personalities were very different. In fact,
for much of the time, they were hardly on
speaking terms.
William Schwenck Gilbert was born
in London in 1836 into a well-off but
somewhat dysfunctional family. His
father was a retired naval surgeon with
a substantial private income and a
well-staffed household. Gilbert’s nurse
however, seems to have been gullible to
put it mildly, as she seemingly handed
over her two-year-old charge to bandits,
who ransomed him for £25 – an event
which Gilbert made use if in several of
his plots.
After graduating from Kings College
London, he studied law at London’s Inner
Temple and became a barrister. He was
however, a singularly bad barrister and
hardly ever won a case. Again, he used
his experiences in his plays.
Arthur Sullivan, by contrast, was born
in 1842 into a happy but poor family.
His father, Thomas, earned a guinea
(£1.05) per week, playing the clarinet in
the orchestra pit of the Surrey Theatre
in Lambeth. When Arthur was three,
Thomas became bandmaster at the
Royal Military College at Sandhurst and
here little Arthur learned to play most of
the instruments in his father’s band and
began composing at the age of eight. He
became a chorister at the Chapel Royal
and at the age of 14 won a scholarship to
study at the Royal Academy of Music.
The two began their collaboration in
1871 with Thespis (now rarely performed)
but whereas Gilbert was bright but lazy,
Sullivan was hardworking and ambitious;
always wanting to be a great composer
like Beethoven. Indeed, he did compose
some serious music, though little of it
survives today – exceptions including
the song The Lost Chord and a couple
of hymns, Onward Christian Soldiers
and Let Us With a Gladsome Mind. The
problem was, serious music brought
little financial reward and it was from the
topsy turvey world of Gilbert’s plays that
the money came. Wherever the setting,
Venice, Japan or Arcadia, the satire
is always English and directed at real
people in really high places. Gilbert did
not care who he poked fun at– the higher
the better, but Sullivan needed friends in
high places to further his musical
career and always blamed
Gilbert for the fact that
he never achieved his
ambition.
The operas are
all about justice,
fairness and equality
turned upside down:
Strephen – the
Member of Parliament
– “carries every Bill
he chooses,” but his
mortal legs cannot follow
where his fairy body and
head lead; Ko-Ko, the
Lord High Executioner
who has never even
killed a bluebottle,
must execute himself
with his “cheap and
chirpy chopper
on a big black
block”, within an
hour, unless a
substitute can be
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miracles, near death experiences,
torture and escaping from impossible
situations.
& Sullivan
Brother Yun experienced all these,
after following God‟s calling since the
age of 16. Through illegal house
churches he helped spread
Christianity through China, whilst
found; and evading the Gondoliers, the Chinese one authorities of whom who
is a king, are saw muddled him as a up dangerous in infancy criminal.
by their nurse After and his as conversion, nobody knows Yun fasted for
which is which 100 days they on run just a republic a bowl of where rice,
everyone is equal. In all praying the plays, for a the chance to
world is unfair and unequal, glance but at that’s a Bible; his
how the real world works family and were equality concerned
is no better because, as for the his Gondoliers sanity. To be
found out: “When everyone found is with somebody, a Bible would
then no-one’s anybody”. have meant serious
In the real world, very consequences few of us and
achieve our dreams, no punishment. matter how hard God
we work. Sullivan didn’t, honoured but in working this fast and
with Gilbert, he changed prayer the face sending of Yun a
musical theatre forever, Bible. and their He immediately shows
are as popular today as read they and were memorised 140
years ago.
chapters from the Bible.
With Sylvia few resources Bennett
During this fast Yun was repeatedly
tortured, humiliated and beaten by
Prison Guards and fellow prisoners. In
prison violent and dangerous men
observed Yun‟s faith and obedience
to God. They realised that he was not
a criminal, just a committed Christian
and came themselves into a deep and
loving relationship with Jesus.
Miraculous and loving interventions
helped Yun for example jumping over
a ten foot wall; walking through the
open doors of a high security prison
unobserved and walking after his legs
were so severely broken (he was told
he would be crippled for life after this
punishment).
Whatever Yun experienced, God
repeatedly demonstrated his
faithfulness never leaving him or his
family to cope alone. We will
probably never experience this kind of
persecution but this book is testimony
to the incredible power of God and his
Holy Spirit.
Sian Mann
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Services at St Chad’s
Sunday Services
The 9am Service
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● Includes Holy Communion, a sermon & hymns
● Includes refreshments afterwards
● Taken from Common Worship: Holy Communion
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Evening Prayers
• Monday to Thursday at 5pm
The Thursday 10am Service
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The name on the court-list
was Mrs Anne Phillips. The
occupation: housewife. The
charge: speeding on the M1. Just
another name on the day’s long
list of motoring offences.
So why was the courtroom
jam-pack full of the world’s press?
Because the lady in question was
none other than Princess Anne.
The Princess didn’t appear in
court. The case was dealt with in
her absence. She was handed a
£40 fine for clocking up 96mph.
But other well-known faces did
appear. People like flamboyant
fighter Prince Naseem, then at the
height of his boxing career, who
received a one-year driving ban
for speeding at 110mph.
Our closeness to the M1 meant
that our court at Alfreton became
Derbyshire’s motorway court, and
an otherwise dull morning session
could become a question of spot
the famous name.
But then life in court was
rarely ever boring. During my 20
years as a JP there was usually
something to enliven the day’s
proceedings.
One defendant made a
desperate bid for freedom, only
to be felled by his rugby-playing
solicitor. Another defendant
escaped from court through a
lavatory window. Then there
was the time when the money
tin containing the morning’s
cash takings was stolen during
the lunchtime recess.
Before becoming a JP, I’d had
plenty of previous experience
of court work. For 20 years I’d
covered court sessions as a local
newspaper reporter – you could
almost say man and boy. Soon
after I started, I recall being
mistaken by a probation officer
for a juvenile offender. Then there
was the time when a defendant
was asked if he wanted to be tried
by the local bench or at the Crown
Court, and he replied: “I want to
be tried by those chaps there” –
mistakenly pointing to the press
bench. Neither he nor I realised
that one day his wish could well
have come true.
People often asked me if I
enjoyed being a JP. I certainly
found it most satisfying and
rewarding.
Having the chance to make a
contribution to the community
while keeping up a fulltime job
was a very worthwhile experience.
But “moonlighting” as a JP
while holding down my work as a
journalist wasn’t easy. My bosses
were happy to let me become
a magistrate, but fitting in the
court sessions and the increasing
number of training events often
meant late nights at the office.
My days in court, however, left
me in full admiration of the British
legal system. I’d advise anyone
with the necessary talents to apply
to become a JP. I wouldn’t have
missed it for the world.
David Hopkinson
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Celebrating 50 Years
This year, Sheffield Samaritans
celebrates its 50th anniversary. It’s
never been more vital for people to
have a safe place where they can talk
about the things that are troubling them, no
matter how big or small.
Sheffield Samaritans came into existence
in 1963 with a handful of volunteers, to
provide confidential emotional support to
people in distress and despair, including
those with suicidal feelings. From humble
beginnings, the service grew rapidly and
today it is much expanded, providing 24-
hour confidential support by telephone,
email and text. People can also call in
to the branch on Queens Road between
10am and 10pm (face-to-face support
is subject to the availability of
volunteers).
Samaritans answers more than
five million calls for help across
the UK and Ireland each year,
and 30,000 of these are taken
by the volunteers at Sheffield
Samaritans.
Andrea Day, Sheffield
Samaritans Director said:
“There’s no typical person
who calls Samaritans’
helpline and there’s no typical problem that
people talk to us about. It doesn’t matter
what kind of problem you have or how big
or small it may seem. What matters to us is
how your life is making you feel.
“Sometimes people get to a point where
they feel they can’t cope, where it all feels
too much to handle. It’s often worse if they
feel they can’t talk to anyone about what’s
weighing on their mind. People can talk to
us about anything that’s troubling them.”
Sheffield Samaritans is a charity,
funded by donations. If you would
like to donate send a cheque
to Sheffield Samaritans at 272
Queens Road, S2 4DL.
Anytime you are struggling to
cope, call Samaritans, they’re
there for you. Phone 0114 276
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909090, email: jo@samaritans.
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Road, Sheffield S2 4DL 10am-
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Having somewhere clean,
safe and private to go to the
toilet is something we take
for granted in the west. We are the
lucky ones…2.5 billion people in the
developing world (or 1 in 3 people
on this planet) don’t have any
access to even the most basic toilet
facilities and are forced to relieve
themselves wherever they can find.
Just think about what that means
for them…every day. Imagine what
that must be like for people who
are ill, old, or disabled, or
pregnant women.
I’m sure you can
understand that lack of
access to sanitation means
that people are exposed
to disease, and robbed of
their human dignity. People
in rural areas also risk
being bitten by snakes or
other animals as they try to
find somewhere in the long
grass.
But did you also
appreciate that in many countries
it means that girls simply drop
out of schooling when they reach
puberty, because there is nowhere
safe and private to go to the toilet.
Development charities all say that
educating girls is the most effective
way to improve the health and
economic growth of a country, so
millions of girls not completing
their education has a devastating
cumulative effect. Even worse than
this, many girls and young women
are vulnerable to attacks and
abuse when they are trying to find
somewhere private to “go”.
Every minute, three children under
the age of five die because of dirty
water and poor sanitation. And, right
this minute, around half the people
in the world have an illness caused
by bad sanitation.
This seems to me to be about as
basic a justice issue as you can get.
Lack of access to sanitation keeps
people locked in extreme poverty,
and tackling it can have profound
effects.
The Christian development charity
Tearfund have calculated that
for every £1 spent on water and
sanitation, £8 is returned through
saved time, increased productivity
and reduced health costs. What a
fantastic return on investment!
Here’s a quote from a mother in
Afghanistan who benefitted last year
from a Tearfund project: “We always
used to drink from streams
and all our children had
diarrhoea,” she said. ‘We
spent half our income
on medical costs to help
them because we didn’t
understand the problems,
but now we do. During
the short time in which we
received a bio sand filter
we saw a big change and
our children are now better
and well. The filter is better
than any other gift.’
How can you help? Raise
awareness, donate, campaign, pray.
To find out more, see the following
websites:
• www.tearfund.org/en/what_we_
do_and_where/issues/water_and_
sanitation/
• www.toilettwinning.org/ yes, you
can donate money and ‘twin’ your
loo with a sustainable facility in
a developing country – thereby
changing people’s lives. The toilets
at St Chad’s have been twinned with
loos in Burundi.
• www.wateraid.org/uk/get-involved/
world-toilet-day
I know that for me, several times
a day, going to the loo provides me
with an opportunity to reflect on
this shocking injustice, and to feel
profound gratitude for my toilet. If
like me, you feel angry and sad that
this situation can exist in today’s
world, please get involved.
Jane Howcroft
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Bringing restoration
First of all a few dictionary terms.
‘Restoration’ is something restored,
replaced or reconstructed and ‘Justice’
is the administration of law according to the
prescribed or accepted principles. So what
is ‘Restorative Justice’?
Various schemes have been tried
through the ages to deal with the problem
of criminality. Some have relied on
punishment including the death penalty
as a form of deterrent. Others have tried
the use of the fear of detection with large
numbers of troops or police. A few have
tried the use of informers and spies to
prevent certain forms of crime, notably
rebellion, sedition and the operation of’
liberation or terrorist’ groups.
None have proved in the long term to
have changed people’s attitudes, although
a few have altered in the short and medium
term people’s outward conformity to the
law. As a result there has been a move
towards rehabilitation and community
based sentencing to try and limit the cost
of prison or other secure accommodation,
prevent the pattern of offending behaviour
continuing to force offenders to confront
their offending behaviour before release of
parole.
Restorative Justice fits within this as it
asks the offender to restore, replace or
reconstruct the item or items damaged.
For example, a graffiti artist/vandal would
meet the property owner and from their
own resources remove ‘tags’ or other
forms of unwanted art either with a blank
wall or a piece of art acceptable to the
owner. Another example might be that
of someone convicted of drink driving.
As well as losing their licence and being
suspended from their job they would
also have to perform community service,
including 40 per cent of their hours at a
drink driving rehabilitation centre as an
unpaid volunteer. A criminal who works in
prison may also see part of their earnings
diverted to those he robbed. They may be
asked at the victim’s request to meet them,
explain, apologise, hear from the victim
how they felt and under the proceeds of
crime legislation have assets confiscated
if they cannot prove they were obtained
lawfully.
In some communities from early Irish to
modern day British, a panel of community
leaders or volunteers would work with the
offender to confront the person with the
crime they had committed. They would
impose a sanction, but also work to mentor
the offender so that they can remain in and
contribute to society. This approach would
also include closed societies or institutions
where ex-offenders, ex-addicts and people
further on in the process act as models,
mentors and sources of hope and resource
so that the person can be restored and the
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and reconstruction
community be a nice place to be.
Restorative Justice not only provides
for the criminal to be punished but also for
the person against whom the crime was
committed to feel that their needs have
also been taken into account. Rather than
the perpetrator simply being removed from
society, they are given the chance to make
amends for their crime and are able to be
reintegrated into society. Not only that but
because the victim has the opportunity to
be involved in the process they also feel
that they are better able to recover from
their experience and move on more quickly
than would otherwise have been the case.
M.J.G.
A bus shelter for a bus shelter
Have you ever passed a smashedup
bus shelter with glass lying
scattered all over the pavement?
What were your reactions? I
usually have two immediate
responses – “This is just so
senseless,” and “Who’s going to
pay for this?” As I didn’t witness
the incident, I can only surmise at
the reason for the vandalism. As
for payment, I guess, it’s all of us
who pay council tax. But is that
fair? Bring in ‘restorative’ justice
and it could change things.
I belong to a nationwide
scheme called Community Justice
Panels (CJP). We all volunteer
our time to bring wrongdoers and
harmed persons together face
to face to sort out the issues.
Its working is simple. If a lowlevel
crime has been committed
- maybe a car is damaged under
the influence of alcohol – the
police refer the wrongdoer to the
CJP. Both parties agree to go
through panel, so avoiding any
criminal record. The co-ordinator
contacts me and I agree to visit
each party in their home to hear
their versions of the incident.
A date is fixed for the panel to
meet. I will be there as facilitator;
both the wrongdoer and harmed
person may have a supporter
present (often a parent if it’s a
young person) and maybe a police
representative. An agreement
has to be reached by the end of
the panel, signed and acted upon
within a stipulated time.
Facing the wrongdoer with the
consequences of his actions at
this low-level actually seems to
work. I’ve been amazed at the
results. Believing we are called by
Jesus to be peacemakers, I always
pray for a reconciliation and so far
this has happened in every case.
I’ve even seen feuding families
in long-running neighbourhood
disputes embrace each other after
the meeting. When that happens
I feel privileged to witness God’s
work of softening hearts and
restoring broken relationships.
Maybe it could even work for bus
shelters?
Jeremy Thornton
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Where’s that from..?
Caught red-handed
Meaning - to be caught in the act of
committing a crime or misdemeanour and with
the evidence of wrong doing there for all to
see, as undeniable proof of guilt.
Derived from - 15th century Scotland,
when violence against fellow men was
commonplace, and other people’s animals
were regularly poached and killed to provide
food for the poor and hungry. It would be fairly
obvious that anyone found to have fresh blood
on their hands would be guilty. The phrase
was first documented in the Acts of Parliament
of James 1, written in 1432, and appeared in
print many times in Scottish legal proceedings
from the 15th century onwards. In 1674, Sir
George Mackenzie wrote, “If he be not taken
red-hand, the sheriff cannot proceed against
him”, in his ‘A discourse upon the laws and
customs of Scotland in matters criminal’.
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not fair!” Most people
who have spent any time
“It’s
around small children will
have heard those words at some
point, quite often when the child
has asked for something and been
told “No”.
That is not the only time I’ve
heard a child use that phrase,
though. When my elder daughter
first started going to other
children’s birthday parties, she
came home and announced
that she was going to share the
contents of her party bag with her
little sister, especially the slice of
birthday cake. I pointed out that
her sister would go to parties and
have her own party bags and cake
as she got older. My daughter
looked at me and said, “But she
hasn’t got any now and I have so
that’s not fair.” I let her share and,
three years later, both girls still split
their piece of birthday cake with the
other when they come home from
a party.
Children are very quick to see
an injustice – when something
“isn’t fair” – and they are usually
very quick to try and find a solution
as well. This instinctive hunger
for justice is often apparent from
a very early age. Hopefully the
same desire for fairness will remain
as they grow older, but I think
many adults lose a child’s simple
approach to making life fairer and
the sense of urgency that goes with
this.
To a child it is simple: if we have
something and somebody else
does not, we should share. I heard
two small children discussing the
lack of food in other countries. Their
solution? Send them some of ours.
When it was gently pointed out that
it wouldn’t last the journey, they
said, “Okay, send them some of our
money to buy some.”
I know it can’t always
be that simple, but I
sometimes wonder if,
while the adults are
busy talking about
fairness, the
children are
busier practicing
it? Jesus said
that to enter
the Kingdom
of Heaven we
have to become
like a little child.
Maybe this
is part of the
reason why.
Kath Dowson
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The Legacy
by Katherine Webb
ISBN 9780062077301
The story begins
in beautiful, turn
of the century
Oklahoma, but soon
moves to the present
time as Erica and
Beth Calcott return
to where they had
spent their childhood
summers in a large
house in England.
The house they
return to is their
legacy following the death of their
grandmother, a woman seemingly
full of bitterness. Both sisters are
unhappy with the legacy. The
house holds unhappy memories
for both of them. The story which
follows unearths two terrible family
secrets which Erica uncovers as
she sorts through
her grandmother’s
belongings. Strange
fragments of family
history emerge
and vivid memories
break through to
the surface for both
sisters. It soon
becomes clear that
their past is affecting
their present and
will affect their future
until everything can
be brought to light.
It is a well- crafted
story with unexpected
twists and turns. The characters
are real .I was intrigued to discover
how it would all end and I wasn’t
disappointed. If you are looking
for an easy summer read I would
recommend this book to you.
Ann Lomax
St Chad’s 3rd Age Book Club
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Old Testament Law and Order
From earliest times the people of
Israel were nomads - the whole
community moved around to find
food and water and shelter for their
flocks. The power of traditional or
tribal law was to keep the community
safe and strong. Disregard for tribal
custom was too dangerous to be
tolerated. There was a deep rooted
respect for custom and order which
survived the move from nomadic ,
to settled communities, the start of
cities, and the power of the Kings. No
one was outside the law.
The first five books of the Old
Testament – Genesis, Exodus,
Leviticus, Deuteronomy and
Numbers – are the books of the
Law commonly called The Torah. In
order to understand the workings of
Law and Order in ancient Israel we
need to remember that there was
no written law, no police force and
no Public Prosecutor. The judges
were the leaders of the community.
All cases were brought by individuals
who thought they had been wronged.
The place of judgement was the gate
of the city. All trials were held at the
City Gate in full view of the crowds
who shouted either their support
or their condemnation. The plaintiff
and the defendant were to appear
in person before the bench at the
gate of the city. There were usually
at least two witnesses (and no doubt
a large crowd). The responsibility
of witnesses was very heavy. If the
evidence of the witnesses resulted in
the death penalty they were to throw
the first stone. If they were found
guilty of being false witnesses, they
themselves were sentenced to the
punishment which fitted the alleged
crime. If there were no witnesses then
the accused had to answer ‘on oath’.
How the judges arrived at their verdict
we do not know, there were some
cases of trial by ordeal (for example in
Numbers 5:11-31) but the result was
held to be the verdict of God Himself
and there was no appeal.
The court never imposed fines
or committed a person to prison.
For the less serious offences, the
guilty person was sentenced to be
beaten with a rod up to a maximum
of 40 stripes, and the punishment
was administered there and then.
For capital offences (to us a strange
collection ranging from murder to a
son’s rebellion against his parents)
the punishment was stoning to death.
The victim was pelted with stones
until completely buried, there and
then.
The most famous rules, for the
ordering of our personal life and our
relationships with other people, are
the Ten Commandments which you
can find in Exodus 20. The first four
speak of our attitude to God, and the
last six of our attitude to one another
(including the command to honour
your father and mother,and ‘you shall
not bear false witness’). All this was
the case in the Community of Israel
until they were conquered first by the
Greeks and then by the Romans.
The foreign power respected the
Jewish system of law and punishment
wherever possible, but it was the
foreign powers which introduced
prison sentences, and reserved to
themselves the right to impose the
death penalty by crucifixion.
Perhaps this will help us
understand what happened to our
Lord Jesus Christ - the charges
brought by Judas, the evidence of
‘false witnesses’,the charges brought
‘outside the city wall’, the penalty to
be flogged (40 stripes save one).
Also the shouts of the crowd egged
on by the priests that he should be
sentenced to death by crucifixion.
Maybe it will also inform our
understanding of our own judgement
at the gates of the heavenly City and
the place of Christ as our Witness
and Saviour.
Rev Canon Peter Wright
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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Registers 2013
Baptisms
March
17 Thomas Allan Edwards
Archie Charles Mosforth
April
7 Harry Nicholas Croft
21 Harriet Rose Corker
Funerals
March
8 Peter Marshall (86)
April
3 Arthur Walker (78)
29 Jean Olive Mace (79)
l If you have recently had a new
baby and would like to celebrate that
baby’s birth with a service in church then
please come to one of our thanksgiving
and baptism mornings at St Chad’s.
The morning will explain the difference
For Weddings and Funerals
You don’t have to be a churchgoer to
have a wedding in church or be
‘religious’ to have a dignified and
meaningful funeral service at St Chad’s.
If you live in the Woodseats or Beauchief
area, St Chad’s would be delighted to help
you, whether it is planning the Big Day or
saying goodbye to a loved one.
For weddings please contact St Chad’s
church office. For funerals please tell your
funeral director that you would like to have
a church service.
between the two services and give
parents an opportunity to ask any
questions.
Please call the church office on
0114 274 5086 if you are interested in
attending and to find out the latest dates.
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Contacts @ St Chad’s
CHURCH OFFICE 9 Linden Avenue 274 5086
S8 0GA
Term time office hours:
Mon 10am1pm; Tues 9.30am1pm;
Thurs 9.30am1pm; Fri 9am11am
Church Office Administrator
Helen Reynolds
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Vicar Toby Hole (Vicarage) 274 9302
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Reader/Assistant Minister Yvonne Smith 274 5086
for the elderly
Youth Worker Nick Seaman 274 5086
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Impact magazine Tim Hopkinson 274 5086
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Church Wardens Malcolm Smith 274 7159
Jimmy Johnson 274 5086
Deputy Wardens
Nigel Belcher
Linda McCann
Buildings Manager Nigel Belcher 274 5086
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Uniformed Groups
Group Scout Leader Ian Jackson 235 3044
Guide Leader Jemma Taylor 296 0555
CHURCH HOUSE 56 Abbey Lane 274 8289
Bookings Helen Reynolds 274 5086
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