2015-08
August/
September
2015
Welcome to Impact - the magazine of St Chad’s Church,
Woodseats. Impact is published every two months and distributed
to over 5,000 homes in S8.
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Woodseats, Beauchief and Chancet Wood. To find out more about
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The pear tree that grows in the church
grounds by my study keeps me in tune
with the seasons. Barren in winter, it
slowly re-grows its leaves throughout
March and April before bursting into white
blossom for a week or so in May. Then from May
to September it slowly grows the buds that will
eventually become pears. In September and
October we frequently end up with more pears
than we know what to do with (though a friend
made some very nice perry out of them last year).
The abundance of fruit that autumn brings is
quite marvellous - as you will know if you’ve ever
walked through an orchard just before the apple
harvest.
Yet, despite nature’s seeming generosity in
her provision, most fruit-bearing plants and trees
need to be carefully tended if their fruit is to be
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enjoyed. In my previous house we had a wild vine growing up one of
the walls. The grapes looked very attractive, but they tasted horrible.
Our pears are useful for stewing but not particularly nice to eat off the
tree. Growing good fruit is a perfect combination of nature’s wizardry
and human endeavour.
Perhaps this is why fruit becomes such a helpful metaphor for our
own growth and development. We bear fruit in our own lives from
a mixture of our own inherent personal traits as well as our own will
to change. Jesus recognised that the fruit that we bear in our lives
comes from something much deeper within - a good tree bears good
fruit, a bad tree, bad fruit. You are known and judged by the fruit that
you bear.
If this sounds a little too much like folk-wisdom for our sophisticated
tastes, then it’s worth spending a little time thinking about our lives
and how we project ourselves to others. Are we like my pear tree
seemingly full of fruit, but actually of very little substance, or like my
wild vine - attractive on the outside but sour on the inside?
Or are we instead like a well cultivated orchard bearing
good fruit from good lives?
The Bible recognises that none of us is perfect, and
that the fruit that we bear is rarely as perfect as we
would like to think. Nevertheless through following
Jesus our lives can be changed and become more
fruitful. What fruit are you bearing right now?
Being Fruitful
Rev Toby Hole,
Vicar,
St Chad’s Church, Woodseats
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A teacher asked
her Sunday
School group to
draw pictures of
their favourite
Bible stories. She
was puzzled by
Patsy’s picture
which showed
four people on an
airplane, so she
asked her which
story it was meant
to represent.
“Mary and
Joseph’s flight to
Egypt,” said Patsy.
“I see ... and
that must be
Mary, Joseph
and Jesus,” the
teacher said. “But
who’s the fourth
person?”
“Oh, that’s Pontius
– the Pilot.”
“Do you think it would be possible for you to turn
the wine back into water?”
An old lady was sending
her ancient family Bible
to her brother who lived
abroad.
“Is there anything
breakable in here?”
asked the man in the post
ofice.
“Only the Ten
Commandments,” she
answered.
What happens
if you sit on a
grape?
It gives a little
wine!
What did the
carrot stick say
to the crisp?
Do you want to
go for a dip?
Just for Laughs
Why did the banana go to
the doctor?
Because it wasn’t peeling well.
Why did the man at the orange
juice factory lose his job?
He couldn’t concentrate!
Why did the
pineapple
go out with a
prune?
Because he
couldn’t find a
date!
Mon/Fri 9am - 12
Tue/Wed 9am - 2:45
Fri 12 - 3pm
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What’s On
If you have an event you would like
to see included in our What’s On
section, email impact@stchads.org
Health Walks
•Mondays - 10am: Graves Park.
Meet outside the Rose Garden
Cafe;
•Tuesdays - 10.30am: Ecclesall
Woods. Meet at downstairs in
Jack’s Bar, car park entrance, at
the Beauchief Hotel;
•Thursdays - 10.30am:
Lowedges. Meet at the Gresley
Road Meeting Rooms, Gresley
Road, Lowedges.
) Call 0114 203 9337 for
details.
August 2, 16, 30 and 31
Abbeydale Miniature Railway
Abbeydale Road South
1-5pm
The regular open days at
Abbeydale Miniature Railway.
On August 16 there will be
a teddy bears picnic event
fundraising for the Children’s
Hospital Charity with all ticket
receipts going to the charity.
For details visit www.
sheffieldsmee.co.uk
August 5, 12, 19 and 26
Make Your Own Wednesdays
Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
Go along to the hamlet every
Wednesday during the school
holidays for a make and take
activity and learn new crafts and
skills.
Email ask@simt.co.uk for more
details.
August 29
Book Sale
36 Crawshaw Grove, Beauchief
10am-12pm
Second-hand books for sale in
aid of the Alzheimer’s Society.
Donations of good condition
paperback novels or biographies
are welcome.
September 6
Messy Church
Beauchief Baptist Church
3.30-4.45pm
Craft, story telling, games,
quizzes, activities and light tea.
All the family are welcome to just
turn up on the day.
September 7
Luncheon Club
Beauchief Baptist Church
12.30-2pm
A three-course home-cooked
meal and the opportunity to meet
new people. Cost £3.50.
) Call 0114 327 3255 to book.
September 10-13
Heritage Open Days
Beauchief Abbey
The abbey will be open on
Thursday and Friday from 11am
until 4pm to view and find out
information. On Saturday from
11am to 4pm and on Sunday from
1pm (after the morning service)
until 4pm, refreshments will be
available and there will be guided
tours and books, plants and cards
for sale.
September 12
Have A Go Fruit and Veggie
Show
Church House, 56 Abbey Lane
St Chad’s will be holding its
second Have A Go Show to
display the work and talents
of our community. There will
be various categories to enter
including fruit and veg, baking
and crafts.
Schedules are available from
St Chad’s or by calling 0114
2745086 or emailing office@
stchads.org
See page 19 for more details.
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January 30 - February 5
AEGON British Tennis Tour
Graves September Tennis 13 and and Leisure 27 Centre
World Abbeydale ranked Miniature players compete Railway
alongside Abbeydale local Road Sheffield Southplayers.
1-5pm Call 0114 283 9900.
The regular open days at
February Abbeydale 5 Miniature Railway.
Book For details Sale visit www.
36 sheffieldsmee.co.uk
Crawshaw Grove, Beauchief
10am-12pm
Good
September
quality second-hand
13
books
for
Nether
sale in
Edge
aid of
Farmers’
the Alzheimer‟s
Market
Stalls, entertainment and various
Society. Donations of paperback
activities held in the streets
novels or biographies in good
around the old Nether Edge
condition
Market Place.
are welcome (but not
larger books due to space
limitations). September 17
Lunchtime Piano Recital
February Sheffield 5 Cathedral
Free 1.15-2.15pm Environmental Activities
Millhouses Bill and Ed Park from the Sheffield
10.30am-12.30pm
Royal Society for the Blind
Obstacle (SRSB) course will be and performing stream a joint
dipping piano recital. activities for 8 - 13 year
olds.
Call 0114 263 4335.
Anderson Tree Services
10.30am-12.30pm
Nature quiz trail, stream dipping
and September bug hunting 19 activities for 8 - 13
year
Book
olds.
Sale
36 Crawshaw Grove, Beauchief
Call 0114 235 6348.
10am-12pm
Second-hand books for sale in aid
February
of the Alzheimer’s
20
Society.
Why Not Try A Bike
Greenhil September Park 26
10am-2pm Community Fun Day for all the
Rediscover Family your cycling skills in
Greenhill Beauchief Park. Baptist The Church rangers will
provide 11am - 2pm a bike, helmet and
instruction. A fun day which Meet is at run the by Bowls the
Pavilion, church, Scouts, Greenhill Cubs, Park. Beavers,
Booking Pre-school is essential. and after school clubs.
Admission Call 0114 is 283 free. 9195.
Beauchief Abbey Abbey holds holds a variety a
of variety services of services. and anyone For is more
welcome information to attend. see page For 29. more
details see the Abbey notice
board.
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Woodseats Community
The idea of turning an area
of council-owned land into
a community orchard was
conceived by Woodseats
residents Richard and Sue
Lee, recently retired and with time and
energy to spare.
Their idea was to transform the
driveway from Camping Lane to the
Woodseats allotment site from an overgrown
and weed-choked eyesore into a
productive orchard which will ultimately
provide fruit for local residents and
allotment tenants.
Josie Wright, president of Woodseat
Allotment Society was supportive from
the outset and immediately promised to
donate some fruit trees. The Allotment
Officer from the council was also very
supportive and promised help in the
form of Bob, the allotment Ranger, to
help with the clearing of the site.
A working-day was
scheduled for October
2013. In a matter
of hours Bob
and his team
of enthusiastic
volunteers
grubbed out all
the brambles,
bushes and
weeds and
dumped the
lot on Sue’s
recently winterdug
allotment ready
for burning. Over
winter Richard worked
steadily from one end
of the newly cleared site to
the other turning over the soil and
removing the remaining tree-roots.
National
Allotments Week
takes place from August 10 to
16 this year. Woodseats Allotment
Society is supporting the National
Society of Allotments and Leisure Gardens
by opening its site to the public on Saturday
August 15.
If you have ever wondered what is behind
those big metal gates off Camping Lane, now is
your chance to find out! Visitors will be able to
walk around the site. Several plots will be open
to visitors and tenants at hand to answer
questions and to show people round.
The society hut will be open for
refreshments and garden supplies.
Cakes, preserves, produce
and plants on sale.
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Orchard
By February 2014 the ground was
ready and 19 trees were planted.
Against the wall there are pears and
cherries, and between the wall and
the driveway there are eating apples,
cooking apples and plums.
The pears and cherries are being
trained to grow flat against the wall
(plums horizontal and cherries in a
fan-shape). The remaining trees will be
pruned in such a way as to keep them
from growing too high.
Anderson Tree Care provided the
mulch (shredded wood) to keep the
weeds down and the trees were left to
grow.
In late autumn 2014 Sue planted 350
mixed daffodil bulbs between the trees
and a mixture of bulbs at the Camping
Lane end of the site. These looked
great when they flowered this spring.
Hopefully they will spread over the
years and eventually provide an annual
daffodil spectacular.
The project has already provided a
great deal of satisfaction. Allotment
tenants and local residents have all said
how much better the entrance to the
Allotment Site looks. But the best is yet
to come. The trees have all blossomed
well this spring and we hope they may
yield a small harvest this year! The
trees, and the fruit they bear, are for
the community to enjoy. It is our wish
that over time, a great many people
will benefit from Woodseats Allotment
Society’s decision in 2013 to turn their
site entrance into a community orchard.
For more information about Woodseats
Allotments please visit our website at
www.woodseatsallotmentsociety.btck.
co.uk
Sue Lee
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
Email: info@theabbeysheffield.co.uk
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Banking on the Future
Have you ever visited
the garden centre and
been spoilt for choice,
spending endless time
trying to decide on which
variety of what to buy?
But what about the number
and varieties of plants and fruits
that were around when you were
growing up but we no longer see?
This could just be that the kind
of apple we ate at home 20, 40
or 80 years ago is not stocked by
our multi-national superstores - or
it could be that it no longer exists.
Today, 60,000 to 100,000
species of plant are faced
with the threat of extinction.
The Millennium Seed Bank
Partnership - coordinated by the
Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew -
is the largest plant conservation
programme in the world. It looks
at wild plants faced with the threat
of extinction and those of most
use for the future.
The seeds saved are conserved
in seed banks in case they
become extinct in their native
habitat.
Working with a network of
partners in 80 countries across
the world, over 13 per cent of the
planet’s wild plant species have
been banked and the partnership
is aiming to save a
quarter of species with
‘bankable’ seeds by
2020 - a total of 75,000
species. The team
initially aimed to store
seeds from all of the
UK’s native plant species
and it has now achieved
this, apart from a handful
of species that are either
very rare or whose
seeds are particularly
difficult to store.
The Seed Bank Partnership
targets plants and regions most
at risk from the impact of human
activities, including land use and
climate change.
Seeds are collected by Kew’s
partner organisations around the
world and preserved by careful
drying before being stored in large
underground frozen vaults in
temperatures of -20 deg c.
Where possible, collections
of seeds are duplicated in seed
banks in the country where they
were collected.
The idea is that they are given
a ‘best before’ or expiry date –
some in a few decades, others for
over 1,000 years – and are then
planted and geminated before this
date arrives.
The new seeds are then taken
from the plant and re-stored. If
the species becomes or nears
extinction, the seeds are used to
repopulate the wild.
A spokesman for the partnership
said: “Each day the world’s plants
are more and more at risk. If we
continue on our current path, we
will lose one species a day for the
next 50 years.
“We can’t afford to let these
plants, and the potential they
hold, die out.”
Photo courtesy of RBG Kew
A Milennium Seed Bank scientist at work
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With this edition of
Impact having the
theme of fruit, we
though we’d test
your brain cells with
a few fruit questions.
The answers are at the bottom of
page 23.
1. What colour is a custard
apple?
a) Red b) Green c) Yellow d)
Orange
2. What percentage of a
watermelon is actual water?
a) 60% b) 75% c) 82% d) 92%
3. Which of these is not a fruit?
a) Apple b) Rhubarb c) Tomato
d) Grape
4. Which of these football clubs
has the nickname ‘The Cherries’?
a) Swindon Town b) Bristol City c)
Charlton Athletic d) Bournemouth
5. Which of these fruits is radioactive?
a) Mango b) Banana c) Orange
d) Pomegranate
6. Approximately how many
vineyards producing wine are
there in England and Wales?
a) 24 b) 110 c) 252 d) 450
7. Which of these fruits has the
fewest calories?
a) Plum b) grape c) strawberry
d) peach
8. Which is the world’s fourth
largest fruit crop?
a) Olive b) Banana c) Apple d)
Grape
9. What is the sugar in fruit
called?
a) Lactose b) Glucose c)
Fructose d) Sucrose
10. Why are stone pineapples
often found on gateposts?
a) Sign of wealth b) They
are grown there c) Symbol
of hospitality d) Owner is an
aristocrat
11. Which is the world’s most
popular fruit?
a) Banana b) Grape c) Pineapple
d) Tomato
12. Kiwi fruit is native to which
country?
a) New Zealand b) China c)
South Korea d) Australia
13. The cherry blossom flower
is the national symbol of which
country?
a) Japan b) Thailand c) China d)
Philippines
14. Which of these fruits may
help to relieve hay fever because
of its high queritin content?
a) Blueberry b) Raspberry c)
Cranberry d) Apricot
15. Which fruit has particular
significance for the Jewish faith
because it is said that it has as
many seeds as the number of
commandments in the Torah?
a) Strawberry b) Fig c)
Pomegranate d) Raspberry
Fruity Teaser
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The Heavenly Man
by Brother Yun with Paul Hattaway
ISBN 185424597X
T
his is a remarkable and true
story of a Chinese Christian
brother called Yun.
It presents like a modern day
parallel to the book of Acts in the
Abbey Lane Primary School’s year six
School
spotlight
other than his memory and God, he
started to take the good news of
Jesus to the people of China via
illegal house churches. This gentle
man brought many people into a
relationship with the Lord.
Yun suffered inhuman and
horrendous torture when captured by
the „Public Security Bureau‟. He
fasted for 72 days, having no food or
water, living only by God‟s grace.
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
Bible: spiritual warfare, the power of
badminton the Holy team Spirit, put visions, in an outstanding dreams,
performance
miracles,
at
near
the U11
death
Primary
experiences,
Schools
Festival, held at Abbeydale Park
torture and escaping from impossible
Badminton Club in May.
situations.
Tom Broadhurst, Josh Ward and Sam
Wooldridge
Brother
were
Yun
champions
experienced
and
all
Adam
these,
Khalil, after Henry following Edey and God‟s Ed calling Purshouse since the
came third. age of Well 16. done Through boys, illegal a fabulous house
achievement. churches he helped spread
Pictured Christianity right are: back through row – China, Tom Broadhurst, whilst
Josh Ward evading and Sam the Chinese Wooldridge; authorities front row who –
Adam Khalil, saw him Henry as Edey a dangerous and Ed Purshouse criminal.
After his conversion, Yun fasted for
100 days on just a bowl of rice,
praying for a chance to
glance at a Bible; his During unobserved May, the and whole walking school after his legs
family were concerned celebrated were so Arts severely Week broken with the (he was theme told of
for his sanity. To be The he 1960s. would be crippled for life after this
found with a Bible would The punishment). children undertook many
have meant serious creative Whatever activities Yun including experienced, learning God
consequences and about repeatedly the moon demonstrated landing, looking his at
punishment. God interior faithfulness design never features leaving of that him era or his and
honoured this fast and singing family popular to cope songs alone. of We the will time from
prayer sending Yun a a popular probably boy never band, experience The Beatles! this kind of
Bible. He immediately
Pictured persecution are but some this Y1 book children is testimony
read and memorised
proudly to the wearing incredible their power freshly of God tie-dyed and his
Pictured left to right are: Evie Exton, Emilia t-shirts and holding a model of a Lowry
chapters from the Bible. Holy Spirit.
Salmer-Bower, Charlotte Dalton, Freddie Scott theme with a factory background and
With few resources
Sian Mann
and Billy Dawson
stick figures.
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all about trying to
be a good person.”
Over the years many
different people have
“It’s
said this or something
similar to me when we’ve been
talking about what it means to
be a Christian. But this idea is
radically different to the Bible’s
idea of what it means to be a
Christian, and why a
Christian might seek
to be “good”.
In St Paul’s letter
to the Galatians,
Paul talks about the
“fruit of the Spirit”.
He says, “The fruit of
the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, forbearance,
kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness and
self-control.” Paul describes
these virtues not as things that
are to be achieved in order to
be considered a Christian, but
rather as “fruit of the Spirit”. It is a
fascinating metaphor. Christians
believe that the Holy Spirit is
God dwelling in all Christians,
shaping and changing them to
be more like Jesus. Displaying
the virtues that St Paul lists is not
a prerequisite to believing, but
should be a result of believing in
Jesus, just as fruit trees naturally
produce fruit.
This is not to claim that people
who aren’t Christians don’t
sometimes display these virtues;
clearly many people who wouldn’t
call themselves Christians can
demonstrate these virtues, often
more than some of us Christians
do!
But for a Christian, these virtues
should flow out of a transformed
life. In our back garden, we have
a couple of small apple trees.
They haven’t been in long, and
do not yet bear much fruit. But we
trust that as the years go on, they
will continue to grow and will give
an ever increasing crop of apples.
As apple trees naturally produce
apples, so the Christian should
naturally produce the fruit of the
Spirit.
For a Christian, a fruitful life
is measured not
by success, or
respect, or wealth.
It is measured by
how much we are
being transformed
to be more like
Jesus, the one who
demonstrated all
of these virtues in
the ultimate and
complete way.
To be a Christian is not to be
good enough for God, it is to
be forgiven by God and to be
changed by him to display the fruit
of the Spirit.
Rev Duncan Bell
‘The fruit of the
Spirit is love, joy,
peace, forbearance,
kindness,
goodness,
faithfulness,
gentleness and
self-control’
Being Fruitful
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Remember those wonder days
when the first strawberries of
the year appeared in the shops,
heralding the start of summer?
Times have changed -
now strawberries from all over
the world are on sale all
year round!
I began working in
the old Castlefolds
Market, next to the
“Rag and Tag” Market,
way back in 1959.
Within a year it had
moved to new premises
by the Parkway. The
short strawberry season,
beginning about June 12
and lasting only three to four
weeks, was an exceptionally
busy time for us. We were up at 3am
to unload the lorries. Our strawberries
came in 1lb punnet, or ‘chips’, made of
woven strips of thin wood, which were
packed in wooden boxes – a far cry from
today’s universal cardboard and plastic
packaging! The boxes were returnable
to the growers in Lincolnshire and
Cambridgeshire.
Market traders and local shopkeepers,
from about a 50-mile radius, came to buy
from the 100 or so stalls like ours. The
market opened at 6.30am, by which time
a huge queue of vans and lorries had
built up. Herbert Salvin of Woodseats
was nearly always the first to arrive in
the queue - and he usually bought his
strawberries from us, too!
Our tomatoes started arriving in
early May from heated greenhouses in
Norfolk. They were individually wrapped
in coloured tissue paper according to
size and quality, and were packed in
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World at the Market
quarter bushel wooden boxes. For
the benefit of our younger readers, a
bushel of tomatoes weighed 56lbs or
a little over 25kgs - so you can work
out what a quarter weighed. We
even sold misshapen ones,
though I doubt that these
would be acceptable in
supermarkets today.
Since I left the market,
I have become an
allotment holder and I
can see “the other side
of the coin”. I grow
my own tomatoes now,
peaking two years ago
with 26 varieties. Not
content with just growing
traditional tomatoes which are
always red, I’ve experimented very
successfully with other colours, growing
yellow, green, orange, black, brown and
even stripey ones!
Apples were our principal fruit.
Worcester Permains were the first
of the early English
apples to arrive -
beautiful apples
which were best
eaten within
two to three
weeks of being
picked. Like the
tomatoes, apples
came wrapped
in tissue paper
and packed
into returnable
wooden boxes. Next came Lord
Lambournes which were also delicious
eaten fresh. The two most popular
late varieties were Laxton Superbs and
Coxes - some were sold straight away
in the shops, but most were kept in cold
storage so that they could be brought
out in the winter months. Cooking
apples like Bramleys, Lord Derbys and
Grenadiers were the same. It’s sad
that so many varieties which were once
household names, have disappeared
from supermarket shelves today.
The growth of supermarkets meant
that small shops were disappearing, so
trade was diminishing. I used to think
that I could have a job for life, yet that
wasn’t to be - and not just for me, but
for others, too. The world was changing
fast. By 1989 the time had come for me
to retire from the market and seek other
employment.
David Laude
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Services at St Chad’s
Informal and relaxed in style
An emphasis on families
Sunday Services
Sunday
Services
Includes music, led by a band
Includes refreshments before the service
The 9am Service
● Traditional in style
The
The
9am
9am
Service
Service
Includes Traditional Holy in style Communion, a sermon & hymns
● Traditional in style
Includes refreshments Holy Communion, afterwards
a sermon & hymns
● Includes Holy Communion, sermon hymns
Taken Includes from refreshments Common Worship: afterwards Holy Communion
● • Includes Monday refreshments to Thursday afterwards at 9am
Taken from Common Worship: Holy Communion
● Taken from Common Worship: Holy Communion
Morning Prayers
Lifted, Evening the Prayers 11am Service
Lifted, the • Monday
● Informal to
the and 11am
11am
10.30am Thursday
relaxed Service at
Service in style Service 5pm
An Informal emphasis and relaxed on families
in style
● Informal and relaxed in style
Includes An emphasis music, on led families by a band
● An emphasis on families
• Refreshments Includes Traditional music, in served style
led by from a band 10.15-10.45am
● Includes music, led by band
• Refreshments Includes Taken from refreshments Common served from before Worship: 10.15-10.45am
the Holy service Communion
● • Refreshments Includes Holy served Communion, from 10.15-10.45am
a sermon & hymns
• Held in the Lady Chapel at the back of church
The Thursday 10am Service
Weekday Services
Weekday
Services
Morning Prayers
Morning Prayers
Prayers
Monday to Thursday at 9am
•• A To Monday Monday half-hour be held to
to service on Thursday Monday
Thursday of prayer at June 9am
at 9am and 20 and Bible Monday readings July
18, 7.15-8pm
• Every Monday to Thursday at 9am
• A contemplative and meditative form of worship
• Held in the Lady Chapel at the back of church
with Monday the theme to Thursday Seeking at 5pm Stillness with Jesus .
• Monday to Thursday at 5pm
Monday to Thursday at 5pm
Evening Prayers
Evening
Evening Prayers
Prayers
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Traditional in style
The
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Thursday
Thursday 10am
10am Service
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• Taken Traditional from in Common style Worship: Holy Communion
Traditional in style
• Includes Taken from Holy Common Communion, Worship: a sermon Holy Communion
& hymns
Taken from Common Worship: Holy Communion
• Held Includes in the Holy Lady Communion, Chapel at the a sermon back of & church hymns
Includes Holy Communion, sermon hymns
• Held in the Lady Chapel at the back of church
Held in the Lady Chapel at the back of church
Other Services
Other
Services
Prayer and Praise
Prayer Contemplative
Sunday, and February Praise Night 13 at 7.30pm Prayer
Prayer and Praise
Sunday, February 13 at 7.30pm
Ash Tuesday, Sunday, 18, Wednesday 7.15-8pm February September 13 at 7.30pm
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Ash at 8pm
Service
• To be held on Monday June 20 and Monday July
•• An A contemplative evening service and of meditative prayer and form contemplation of worship
Wednesday, with the theme March Seeking at Stillness 7.30pm with Jesus .
Wednesday, March 9 at 7.30pm
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Tomatoes may be a fruit,
but would you put them in
a fruit salad..?
It is a murky world out
there and things are not
always what they seem. Take
the strawberry for example. To
the simple amongst us anything
which has the word ‘berry’ in it,
such as strawberry, raspberry
and blackberry must be a berry
– right? – but no, things are not
that simple. Another example
would be the humble rhubarb
plant. Because we eat the plant
itself and not the seed-bearing
part – the fruit - then it must be a
vegetable – yes, and confusingly
no – it all depends on where you
live.
In the USA, in 1947, it was
decided that rhubarb was a fruit,
partly because of its acidic taste
but also because it is used in
a fruit like way in puddings etc.
However, by my definition it is
definitely a vegetable as we eat
the plant itself and not the part
which bears the seeds.
But what about the berry
conundrum? Officially a berry is a
fleshy fruit produced from a single
seed, having one fruit stemming
from one flower with one ovary
and often several seeds. By this
definition tomatoes are a berry as
are watermelons, cucumbers
and bananas – confused? –
join the club. The strawberry
is actually an ‘accessory fruit’
because it grows from a part of
the plant other than the flower
– watch one as it develops
and you will see what I mean.
If you examine a strawberry
you will find that the seeds
are on the outside and in fact
each seed is a fruit – so it is a
fruit of fruits. It might look like one
fruit but is actually many fruits
from one flower. To add to the
mix raspberries and blackberries
are ‘aggregate fruit’ because
they are lots of fruits aggregated
into one ‘fruit’ – I told you it was
confusing. Other languages don’t
get themselves into this sort of fix
because they don’t lump so many
types of fruit under one general
name.
Guess whose fault this all is?
You guessed it, ours – well, our
ancestors anyway. The word berry
is derived from the Old English
word for grape. As time went on
anything which hung in bunches
like grapes had the general term
‘berry’ attached to it, and then it all
went downhill from there.
Whatever they are called they
all taste amazing, and I like
nothing better than going down
to the allotment early in the
morning to pick the strawberries,
raspberries, blackberries,
blackcurrent and redcurrant and
then hotfooting it home to have
them on my cereal not fifteen
minutes later. Often there is more
fruit than cereal. Strangely I have
never been tempted to have
rhubarb on my cereal – maybe
because it’s a vegetable. I shall
have to give it a go.
Steve Winks
Fruit or Veg?
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Have A Go Fruit and Veggie Show
Saturday September 12
St Chad’s Church House
56 Abbey Lane
The second St Chad’s
Have A Go Show will
be held at Church
House, Abbey Lane, on
September 12.
The aim of the Have A Go
Show is to display the work and
talents of the local community.
Everyone is encouraged to enter,
even if this is your first year of
growing, making and baking –
and especially if you have never
entered a show before.
Judging will take place and
certificates will be awarded to
add a bit of fun to the event and
to reward efforts. General public
viewing of the exhibits will take
place from 12.30 to 2.30pm.
All other information and
instructions for the show can be
found in the schedule which can
be obtained from St Chad’s church
office on 0114 2745086 or by
emailing office@stchads.org
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The Pleasure of Chutney
Contentment is … opening
the door on the cellar
head, in the autumn,
and seeing chutney,
jams and pickles staring
back at me from the shelves.
The jars represent months of
work – sowing, planting, weeding,
picking and preparing the fruit
and vegetables before they are
jammed, pickled and chutneyed.
This is a labour of love and
great to have enough to share
with friends and family throughout
the months when fresh fruit and
veg are in short supply in the
allotment. A taste of summer fruit
on freshly baked bread or tangy
pickle with cheese is a real treat
in the winter months. All the jars
on the cellar head will last for
at least a year and only natural
ingredients!
Beetroot ChutneyRecipe
Ingredients:
2lb raw shredded or grated
beetroot
1lb onions skinned and chopped
1 and a half lbs apples, peeled
and chopped
1lb seedless raisins
2 pints malt vinegar
2lb sugar
half an ounce of ground ginger
Method:
Place all ingredients in a pan,
bring to the boil and simmer until
soft and pulpy (about an hour)
Put into warm, sterilised jars and
seal. Keep for at least one month
before eating
Tips when using screw-topped
jars:
zzOnly use jars with dimple safety
button screw tops.
zzKeep the correct lid with the jar,
this makes for a better seal.
zzFill hot jars with hot jam or
chutney and put the lid on straight
away. This means you don’t have
to put anything on top of your
jam/chutney such as greaseproof
paper discs. As the contents cool
the dimple button will be sucked
down as a vacuum forms making
a popping sound. This never fails
to make me smile – I can hear
it wherever I am in the house –
sometimes the simplest things
give the greatest pleasure.
Happy preserving!
Joy Winks
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The thing about growing
fruit and vegetables is that
you never stop learning,
experimenting, trying
something new.
Mysteries remain unsolved. We
have lived in our house for over
25 years now. Two apple trees
continue to produce a bounty of
fruit every year. One is a Bramley,
the other James Grieve. Bramleys
store in the shed for up to 6
months. A single redcurrant bush
also thrives after all this time. A
gooseberry bush, which struggled
in the garden, now excels at the
allotment. So at least 30 years of
fruiting.
Yet, my newer bushes produce
plenty of leaves but little fruit.
Netting is needed on gooseberries,
red and black currants, to stop the
birds eating the buds and fruit,
while I get raspberries from July
to October with no netting at all. I
have an end plot which means I
have to keep cutting back trees,
but also means I get brambles
producing blackberries. My two
favourite fruit are blackberries and
rhubarb. They can be frozen and
used to accompany any other fruit
in a crumble or pie. Our favourite
at the moment is rhubarb and
strawberry.
Fruit plants are low maintenance,
compared to vegetables. Perhaps
this is why, in their perverse logic,
the council insist that allotment
holders contract to grow more
vegetables than fruit. Permission
has to be sought if you want to
plant a fruit tree. Fruit comes
along every year at the same
time with little effort, but with
vegetables, it seems a constant
battle to nurture them. Wouldn’t
it be great if all vegetable plants
were perennial so you just had to
wait and pick them, instead of regrowing
every year.
But that would defeat the main
objectives of gardening which are
to get yourself plenty of fresh air,
sunshine on your back, healthy
exercise and peace and quiet. A
flask of coffee, the sound of Radio
4. What bliss!
Our allotments have quite a
diverse group of growers now. Old
men no longer predominate. There
are probably more females than
males now and lots of families. I
have to admit that I tend to prefer
the quiet and tend to visit during the
week when the kids are at school.
However, I hope I am a sociable
person, and I enjoy a chinwag with
fellow growers. Sometimes you
can’t get away if someone prefers
talk to work! We don’t seem to get
the politics or fallings-out witnessed
in other allotment areas.
During my allotment experience I
have seen lots of sharing of ideas,
offloading of spare vegetables,
loaning of tools and equipment
and a great deal of mutual respect.
Long may it continue.
David Manning
Cultivating Fruit
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Fruits of Creation
We have a magic
basket at home
which sits at the top
of our stairs. It really
is quite amazing.
My children and I regularly drop
our worn or dirty clothes into
this basket, and as if by magic
our clothes then reappear in our
wardrobes, washed and ironed!
I wonder if you are lucky
enough to have such a magic
basket. I guess that at my house
we are particularly lucky, because
we also have a magic kitchen.
When my children and I get
home from work and
school, we find that
delicious hot, healthy
and homemade food
magically appears
on our plates for
us to eat. It’s quite
fantastic! Not only
that, but we have a
magic vacuum-cleaner, a
magic window-cleaner, some
magic polish, a magic garden that
is magically tended and a magic
fridge, freezer and pantry.
I wonder if we ever stop to think
about all the wonderful magical
things in our lives, and where they
come from. When we next drink
a glass of cold fresh water, dip
some freshly baked bread into a
bowl of steaming hot soup, get
into a warm clean bed, put on nice
clean clothes, I wonder if we stop
for a moment to think about the
magic behind it all – who made
it, and where it came from. Or do
we just take it all for granted; all of
those everyday, ordinary things,
so simple and yet so important.
I wonder too if we stop often
enough to think about those who
have so little of this magic in their
lives, so little of the comforts that
we have in this country in such
abundance. I wonder if perhaps it
might be time to be more mindful,
more grateful, and to express our
thankfulness.
The magic behind my washingbasket
is of course a person,
my wonderful wife, to whom my
children and I will from now on
I hope be more mindful of her
labours of love and express
this in thankfulness. Perhaps
we should all take a moment,
maybe at the end of each day,
to be more mindful of all
the good things we
enjoy in God’s good
Creation. To express
our thanks, we might
join the Psalmist who
wrote: “He makes
springs pour water
into the ravines; it
flows between the
mountains. They give
water to all the beasts of the
field; the wild donkeys quench
their thirst. The birds of the sky
nest by the waters; they sing
among the branches. He waters
the mountains from his upper
chambers; the land is satisfied by
the fruit of His work. He makes
grass grow for the cattle, and
plants for people to cultivate –
bringing forth food from the earth:
wine that gladdens human hearts,
oil to make their faces shine, and
bread that sustains their hearts …
All creatures look to You to give
them their food at the proper time.
When You give it to them, they
gather it up; when You open your
hand, they are satisfied with good
things …” (from Psalm 104, the
Holy Bible).
Daren Craddock
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Simple Fruit Cake
Ingredients:
175g sultanas
25g walnuts
175g margarine
100g caster sugar
20g clear honey
Three eggs
225g self raising flour (wholemeal
or white)
The finely grated zest of one
large orange
3 - 4 tbsp orange juice
Method:
Preheat the oven to 170c or gas
mark 3. Grease and line a 7”
(18cm) round cake tin.
Roughly chop the walnuts.
Cream the margarine and caster
sugar together until light and
fluffy, then beat in the honey.
Whisk the eggs and beat into the
creamed mixture, adding a little
sieved flour to prevent curdling.
Stir in the sultanas, walnuts and
orange zest, then fold in the
remaining flour. Add sufficient
orange juice to give a dropping
consistency.
Place in the prepared tin,
smooth over the top and bake for
one-and-a-quarter to one-and-ahalf
hours until golden in colour.
Leave in the tin for 10 minutes
until cool.
Fruity Recipe
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A is for Apple ... but wh
A
is the start of the alphabet and
apple is often the first word a
child will learn. If Eve had not
eaten the fruit in Genesis 3,
the story of Eden would have
looked drastically different. The Hebrew
Bible mentions six types of tree fruit,
many of which appear dozens of times:
grape, fig, olive, pomegranate, date and
apple.
However, today, for a whole new
generation the word Apple means
something totally different! iPhone, imac,
ipod, iwatch, ipad and so on. The link
between technology and fruit does not
stop there. How many companies or
technological products can you think of?
Blackberry: The once default
smart phone choice for the go-getting
executive.
Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango”: the
codename for a major software update
for Windows phones.
Raspberry Pi: A very modest piece
of kit that allows children to build their
own PC at home.
Orange: Who has ever been on a two
for one Orange cinema visit? Now part
of EE Orange was once a major mobile
network provider.
Cranberry Smart Client: Back
in 2007 this clever device was an
alternative to a full PC.
Tangerine: A world wide provider of
mobile teacher assessments for reading
and writing.
The expression ‘what’s in a name’ – or
the slightly more poetic ‘a rose by any
other name’ – means, essentially, that a
name doesn’t matter. It suggests that it’s
the attributes of a person or object that
will dictate what it truly is and how it is
seen by the world.
So why then are so many
electronic devices and technology
firms named after fruit? Maybe no matter
what age you are we can all relate to
fruits? Fruits are delicious, colourful and
beautiful shapes. We can eat them and
even drink them in a variety of ways. We
see them every day, outside and inside.
We are told they are very good for us
and indeed are encouraged to eat five a
day.
Are the technology companies then
cleverly using psychology to make us
desire their products? Those who have
not grown up with the smartphone
revolution often find them over complex
and difficult to operate. Does the
device named after a fruit provide word
association almost convincing the user
that the device is simple and easy to
use?
Why not though name devices after
vegetables or flowers? These are natural
and would convey a simple message.
But do we associate vegetables are
dirty as that come from the ground, and
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names?
When asked, “Why Apple?” Steve Jobs
said, “I like apple a lot!” (Jobs used to
live near an Orchard) and that, “Apple
came before Atari in the phonebook!”
(The company he worked for before
creating Apple)
Blackberry say they named their first
device after a Blackberry because the
keys looked like seeds.
I hope that this has given you food
or rather fruit for thought. Love them
or loathe them some may say life may
have been much simpler and less
complicated if God had commanded
man not to create the apple devices and
their contempories than the actual piece
of fruit!
To end on a lighter note,
Two maggots are in an apple going on
to the ark when Noah stops them and
says:
“Sorry guys you can only come in
pears!”
David Selwood
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The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets
by Eva Rice
The story is set in the
1950s when England
is recovering from the
Second World War.
Penelope and Charlotte
are the main characters and
the story revolves around their
eccentric families.
It is mid-November and
extremely cold and the first
encounter between the two girls
is when Charlotte asks a group
of people standing at a bus stop
“Does anyone want to share a
taxi?”. Charlotte is wearing a long
sea green coat, which plays its
own part in the story. Penelope is
a massive fan of Jonny Ray and
her main ambition in life is to go to
a concert and meet him.
The story unfolds with the
unusual connection
between the two families;
there is Aunt Claire and
Harry, Inigo and Talitha
Orr – very unusual
names.
There seems to be no
shortage of champagne
at the various dinner
parties and there is even
a mention of a member of
the royal household.
I nearly forgot the
handsome American and
he is oh so charming, but sadly
too old for Penelope.
This is a very intriguing story
with an unusual end, definitely
one for the suitcase for that
relaxing holiday. All our book
group members enjoyed this one.
Happy reading!
Chris Carr
St Chad’s Third Age Book group
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For Weddings
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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.
• If you have 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
between the two services and give
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Beauchief Abbey Lane S8 7BD
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Services during August &
September 2015
Holy Communion:
Sun 2nd August 11.00am
Sun 9th August 11.00am
Sun 23rd August 11.00am
Sun 6th Sept 11.00am
Sun 13th Sept 11.00am
Sun 27th Sept 11.00am
Matins:
Sun 30th August 11.00am
Evensong ( third Sunday):
Sunday 16th August 3pm
Sunday 20th Sept 3pm
Heritage open days:
September 2015
The Abbey will be open
Thurs 10th 11.00am - 4pm
Fri 11th 11.00am - 4pm
Sat 12th 11.00am - 4pm
Sun 13th 1.00pm - 4pm
All Welcome
Our Services are based on the Book of
Common Prayer & Refreshments
are served afterwards
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Contacts @ St Chad’s
Church Office 9 Linden Avenue 274 5086
S8 0GA
Term time office hours:
Mon - 10am-1pm; Tues - 9.30am-1pm;
Thurs - 9.30am-1pm; Fri - 9am-11am
Church Office Administrator
Helen Reynolds
email: office@stchads.org
Vicar Toby Hole (Vicarage) 274 9302
email: toby@stchads.org
Curate Duncan Bell 274 5086
email: duncan.j.bell@gmail.com
Assistant Minister for the elderly Yvonne Smith 274 5086
Readers
Daren Craddock, Pauline Johnson
and Yvonne Smith 274 5086
Youth Worker Nick Seaman 274 5086
email: nick@stchads.org
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Darren Coggins 07875 950170
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Church Wardens Jimmy Johnson 274 5086
Linda McCann 274 5086
Deputy Wardens Ann Firth 274 5086
Ann Lomax 274 5086
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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