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St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, W odseats<br />
Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA<br />
Tel: (0114) 274 5<strong>08</strong>6<br />
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WELCOME to Impact - the magazine of St Chad’s Church,<br />
Woodseats. Impact is published every two months and distributed<br />
to over 5,000 homes in S8.<br />
St Chad’s Church is committed to serving you - the people of<br />
Woodseats, Beauchief and Chancet Wood. To find out more about<br />
St Chad’s, visit our website at www.stchads.org or call the church<br />
office on 0114 274 5<strong>08</strong>6.<br />
Here’s where to find us:<br />
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Linden Avenue<br />
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Abbey Lane<br />
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Outside, it is bright, sunny and hot. However as<br />
the forecast promised that it would be overcast all<br />
day the children have all gone to school without<br />
suncream on. Once again I have been caught out by<br />
the British weather.<br />
It has been said that whereas the rest of the world<br />
has climate, Britain has weather. And as the global<br />
climate inexorably changes, so we have been having<br />
more of it. The British experience, and fascination,<br />
with its weather comes from our unique position as<br />
an island between the vast continental landmass of<br />
Europe-Asia and the Atlantic Ocean. We are aware<br />
now, in a way that our ancestors could never have<br />
guessed, that changes in the Gulf Stream and the Jet<br />
Stream or the eruption of distant volcanos can bring<br />
devastating drought or storms. This year, the El Nino<br />
phenomenon (warming ocean waters in the South Pacific) will also be<br />
thrown into the mix, with who knows what results.<br />
Sometimes our weather can be a source of amusement (I’m sure that<br />
the famous British quality of irony comes from the experience of planning<br />
outdoor feasts and fetes only to have them suddenly rained upon);<br />
sometimes it can be a course of frustration - cricket and tennis fans will be<br />
particularly aware of this; and of course sometimes, as we have seen with<br />
recent floods, it can have terrible consequences.<br />
As a vicar, I am sometimes asked to “have a word upstairs” about the<br />
weather, or I have been retrospectively blamed for the barbecue being<br />
rained upon. Given that it hailed on my wedding day and that I have<br />
wasted many hours staring at leaden skies over Headingley, hoping that<br />
play will start sometime soon, I can assure that I am given no special<br />
treatment in that department. In fact, Jesus points out in his Sermon on<br />
the Mount that God “causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and<br />
sends rain on the righteous and unrighteous” (rain being a good thing in<br />
this case!).<br />
We live in a complex interconnected world where selfish and sinful acts<br />
in one place (excessive carbon emissions, felling of rain forests, polluting<br />
the seas) cause floods and droughts elsewhere. More than ever we<br />
are aware that, whilst we cannot (and perhaps should not try) to micromanage<br />
the climate, we can affect it in ways that are not<br />
always foreseeable. The evil and the good both suffer as<br />
a result of our thoughtlessness.<br />
Perhaps instead of blaming God (or the vicar, or<br />
anyone else) for the drizzle on our barbecue or the<br />
floods in Bangladesh, we need to think a little more<br />
about our own impact on our world and it’s weather.<br />
In the meantime, Amy is rushing downstairs to get the<br />
washing in. It’s started to rain.<br />
Rev Toby Hole, Vicar,<br />
St Chad’s Church, Woodseats<br />
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St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA<br />
Tel: (0114) 274 5<strong>08</strong>6<br />
email: office@stchads.org<br />
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