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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 fi nd out more about
St Chad’s, visit our website at www.stchads.org or call the church
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A
few years ago I received an email out of the blue
from a Toby Hole who lived in Australia and felt an
urge to contact a fellow Toby Hole (there are not
many of us!). He had been googling his name and
discovered me, living across the other side of the
world and emailed to say hello. Given that almost all the
Holes come from a small area of north Devon I suppose that
in some way we are probably related. I didn’t ask whether
his ancestors had travelled to Australia voluntarily or were
sent there at Her Majesty’s pleasure - given that the Holes
have had their fair share of vicars and villains, the question
would have been indelicate!
Modern technology has made the world smaller than
ever before. With a few clicks of a mouse or taps on a
smartphone we can connect with people in a moment. I
can remember as a young solicitor working on a deal
simultaneously with companies in Brazil and Japan, the emails quite
literally spanning the world.
June/July 2015
This new connectivity gives us a greater spread of relationships as well
as a greater knowledge of the world which we inhabit. A lawyer once
asked Jesus “who is my neighbour?” and Jesus told him a story about a
Samaritan - a foreigner - and a man beaten up by muggers. What might
his answer be to us today, in a world where we may have more dealings
with someone in Dubai than in Doncaster?
For the same smartphone that enabled one Toby Hole to connect with
another, was quite possibly made in a Chinese factory where workers
suffer working conditions that should appal us. The fossil fuels that we use
to power our industries and sustain our lifestyles are directly contributing
to the change in the world’s climate that is causing desertifi cation in parts
of Africa and fl ooding in Asia. Where do our responsibilities end? Is there
anyone on our planet who is not truly our neighbour?
One of the strengths of being part of Jesus’ church is the emphasis that
Christians place on worldwide concerns. My neighbours are not simply
the Baptists or the Methodists in Woodseats; my neighbours are also the
Christians being terribly persecuted in the Middle East and Pakistan as
well as those living as Jesus’ disciples in South Africa, South America and
everywhere else in the world.
For this reason, St Chad’s has recently joined the TearFund Connected
Church project, allowing us to link directly with a Christian project in the
developing world so that we can better understand their needs, pray
for them and assist them. More details about the project
(Sahaara, in Mumbai) can be found in this edition of Impact
on pages 24 and 25. Their work is inspiring and I hope it
will inspire many of us to fi nd out more about this vital work
amongst children and young women.
Sometimes I hear it said “charity begins at home.” I
couldn’t agree more. My home is this planet. I have seven
billion neighbours, three or four of whom even share my
name.
Rev Toby Hole, Vicar,
St Chad’s Church, Woodseats
Making a Connection
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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.
June 1
M:eating Place
Beauchief Baptist Church
12.30-2pm
Three-course home-cooked meal
and an opportunity to meet new
friends. Cost: £3.50 per person.
Call 0114 327 3255 to book.
June 7
Messy Church
Beauchief Baptist Church
3.30-4.30pm
Craft, story telling, games, quizzes,
activities and light tea.
All the family are welcome to just
turn up on the day.
June 7 & 21
Abbeydale Miniature Railway
Abbeydale Road South
1-5pm
The regular open days at
Abbeydale Miniature Railway.
June 13
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.
June 14
Nether Edge Farmers’ Market
Stalls and entertainment in the
streets around the old Nether Edge
Market Place.
June 19
And We, We Did Our Bit
Greenhill Library
7pm
An illustrated talk by Sylvia
Dunkley on Sheffield’s women
workers in the First World War.
Tickets, costing £5, are available
from the library reception.
June 21
Story Tent - Sheffield Children’s
Festival
Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet
Stories in the new Story Tent as
part of Sheffield Children’s Festival
2015 with The Story of Little Mouse
at 12pm and Mr Huntsman, the
Clockmaker at 2pm.
July 5
Escafeld Chorale in Concert
St Andrew’s Church, Psalter Lane
7.30pm
A concert with an American theme
to celebrate the foundation of the
United States of America.
July 5
Messy Church
Beauchief Baptist Church
3.30-4.30pm
Craft, story telling, games, quizzes,
activities and light tea.
All the family are welcome to just
turn up on the day.
July 5 & 19
Abbeydale Miniature Railway
Abbeydale Road South
1-5pm
The regular open days at
Abbeydale Miniature Railway.
July 6
M:eating Place
Beauchief Baptist Church
12.30-2pm
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January 30 - February 5
AEGON British Tennis Tour
Graves Three-course Tennis home-cooked and Leisure Centre meal
World and ranked opportunity players to compete meet new
alongside friends. Cost: local £3.50 Sheffield per players. person.
Call Call 0114 0114 283327 9900. 3255 to book.
July 10-12
February Woodseats 5 Festival
Book This Sale year is the tenth Woodseats
36 Festival Crawshaw and events Grove, will Beauchief include:
10am-12pm • 70s Disco Extravaganza on
Good Friday, quality July 10 second-hand from 7.30-11pm books at
for Woodseats sale in aid Working of the Alzheimer‟s Men’s Club;
Society. • Car Donations Boot Sale on of paperback Saturday,
novels July 11 or from biographies 10am-1pm in good - see
condition www.woodseatsfestival.org.uk are welcome (but not for
larger updates; books due to space
limitations).
• Family Fun Day at Woodseats
School from 12-4pm. The parade
will take place from Abbey Lane
February 5
School to Woodseats School where
Free
there
Environmental
will be a fun fair
Activities
with rides and
Millhouses stalls, raffle, Park tombola, face painting,
10.30am-12.30pm
singing, dancing, craft fair and food
Obstacle stalls. For course more and information stream go to
dipping www.woodseatsfestival.org.uk
activities for 8 - 13 year
olds.
Call 0114 263 4335.
Anderson Tree Services
Ecclesall Woods Sawmill
10.30am-12.30pm
Nature quiz trail, stream dipping
and
July
bug
11&12
hunting activities for 8 - 13
Cliffhanger
year olds.
Millhouses Park
Call 0114 235 6348.
The annual event featuring elite
competitions and demonstrations
February in rock climbing, 20 orienteering,
Why mountain Not Try biking, A Bike running and more.
Greenhil Park
10am-2pm July 12
Rediscover Archaeology your in Action cycling skills in
Greenhill Abbeydale Park. Industrial The rangers Hamlet will
provide 11am - 4pm a bike, helmet and
instruction. Find out about Meet local at the archaeology Bowls
Pavilion,
and see the
Greenhill
changes
Park.
that have
been made at the hamlet as part of
Booking is essential.
the Festival of Archaeology.
Call 0114 283 9195.
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In the Beginning God Created...
‘‘A
new theory could answer
the question of how life
began – and throw out the
need for God” began a
recent article that caught
my eye in a national newspaper.
If such a theory proved
true - would it really get rid
of the requirement for God?
Is God just an explanatory
framework? As the gaps in
our understanding diminish - is
there less room for God?
On one level, I wouldn’t fi nd
such a discovery particularly
troubling. Christians claim that
our God is the “maker of all
that is, seen and unseen”. As
science reveals more about the universe,
there is maybe just a little less that’s
unseen - not less room for God.
On another level - there is something
that might trouble us Christians. We
believe that God has inspired the books
of the Bible. Are its claims about creation
true?
Over the years I’ve rather inevitably
had to take an interest in
this sort of thing. It partly
stems from my days at
university. When people
learned that I was both
doing a geology degree
and an active member of
the Christian Union, I came
to expect the upcoming
questions: what did I think of
“Creation v Evolution”? Can
they be reconciled or are
the two entirely incompatible? Clearly the
universe hasn’t been created in both six
days and just under 14 billion years – has
it?
Sometimes an alternative viewpoint
helps to challenge our assumptions.
Around the beginning of the 5th century
AD, a Christian bishop called Augustine
took interpreting the creation account
very seriously. He wrote a book called
‘The Literal Meaning of Genesis’.
He insisted that the Bible’s earliest
chapters could be interpreted
both literally and fi guratively but
that our understanding must
also be informed by other
excerpts from scripture on
creation to form a coherent
whole.
Augustine’s literal
interpretation might
surprise you. He
suggested that the six
‘days’ of creation could
be one overlapping
‘As science
reveals more
about the
universe, there
is maybe just a
little less that’s
unseen - not less
room for God’
or recurring, timeless ‘day’, seen from
God’s perspective beyond time. In those
‘days’, Augustine proposed, God creates
the potential and causes that lead to
“future perfections” to be “manifest during
the ages at the appropriate time”. He
envisaged an initial moment of creation
- with time, formless matter and space
appearing together - out of nothing - and
developing from there.
Over 1,600 years since it was written,
much of Augustine’s book still seems to
me fresh and very relevant. Of course
some of it now seems outdated but in
reading it you can sense his humility and
wonder. That’s a good starting position,
either for engaging with scripture, science
or both.
Augustine’s account of creation was
by no means a majority view in the early
church and it would be wrong to portray
him as too closely anticipating modern
theories. He saw God as ultimately
in control - even in things seemingly
random. Nevertheless, I believe he left a
potential theological framework that offers
Christians engaged in natural sciences
considerable freedom to fully explore
where evidence leads them.
David Green
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Separated by a Common Language
When I meet new
people and they
(quickly) discover
I’m an American,
they often ask
what the biggest differences are
between our two countries.
I’ve always fumbled around for
an answer, talking about things
like how everything’s
bigger in America
or about the
weather. But I
think the answer
really comes from
the reason they
so quickly realised
I wasn’t ‘from this
side of the pond’
in the fi rst place
– the language
I speak. Yes, I
speak English, but
many Brits I speak
to have been quick
to clarify that it’s
not really English; some
would prefer to call it ‘Americanese’,
I think! And it’s true. I can
try my hardest to fi t in in so many
ways – I’ve learned to drive the
English roads and manoeuvre the
roundabouts, I’ve learned to walk
often instead of always driving
places, and I’ve learned to go out
in the rain (sometimes!). But no
matter how I adapt my lifestyle
to the British culture, I cannot
change the way I speak.
I have had to learn new
meanings for words I thought I
knew. ‘Pants’ is an obvious and
potentially embarrassing one: to
me, a pair of pants is a modest
piece of clothing that covers my
legs rather than the more private
article that should stay covered
by one’s ‘trousers’! Then there
are chips. I like mine crunchy,
but have learned to call
those ‘crisps’ and to call
my fries ‘chips’
instead.
When I was a
nanny in London
I never could get
the name right
for what we call a
‘stroller’. I would be
proud of myself for
remembering to call it
a pushchair when the
little girl would protest,
“It’s not a pushchair,
it’s a buggy!”
And the variations
don’t just extend to vocabulary.
Pronunciations are almost more
important if I don’t want to be
immediately exposed as an
American. I’ve tried to pronounce
my ‘t’s a little more sharply, but I
just can’t get myself to lose the
strong ‘r’ that comes at the end
of words. And it’s a toss-up when
I say ‘tomato’. Should I make the
effort to pronounce it TO-MAH-
TOW and risk sounding and
feeling very silly, or should I just
forget it and say my usual TUH-
MAY-DOW?
More and more I’m
learning to speak
the way I speak
rather than
feeling silly trying
to speak like
someone else!
Rebecca Bell
I
fi nd my youngest daughter’s
fascination with Captain
America, Avengers and
X-Men fi lms slightly ironic.
The Marvel and DC comics
they sprang from were a major
part of my early reading, and I was
often lost in the strange worlds
presented by ‘Sinister Tales’
and the like. I graduated to HG
Wells, Jules Verne, and American
Science Fiction, as well as the
distopian visions of Aldous Huxley
and George Orwell.
Television brought me Supercar,
Stingray and Fireball XL5 – and
of course the fi rst glimpse of the
Daleks…
By the age of ten I’d discovered
and devoured The Hobbit, moving
on to Lord of the Rings in my
teens, but not visiting Narnia
until my fi rst child drew me in –
incidentally, do you know CS
Lewis’ Interplanetary Trilogy? A
treat in store if you enjoy science
fi ction.
The worlds of Tolkien and
Lewis are now accessible to new
generations through the genius
of fi lm-makers, to say nothing of
the ‘strange new worlds’ offered
by Star Trek and Star Wars, which
we can now explore interactively
via computer gaming, along with
new virtual worlds – a source
of amazement to someone who
recalls a silver-haired, slightly gruff
William Hartnell as the original
Doctor Who!
Quite apart from the sheer
excitement and inventiveness
offered by SF and fantasy with
their alien life-forms and bizarre
settings, these stories work on a
deeper level.
When men and women are
placed within a totally unfamiliar
environment, their humanity comes
into sharper focus, and we can
refl ect on what it is to be human,
or evaluate our own society by
comparison with an imagined
world. Against an alien backdrop,
courage and loyalty shine out more
clearly, while greed and cruelty
take on a sharper edge.
Oddly, the Bible, written
thousands of years ago, also offers
glimpses of other worlds.
The Old Testament speaks of
Sheol, the world of the dead, a
dreary shadowland or underworld,
whose inhabitants are scarcely
aware of their own existence.
But at the end of the New
Testament we see a heavenly city
of unimaginable splendour coming
down to a renewed earth. The river
of life fl ows through it, with the tree
of life on its banks.
God promises a life without
sickness, sorrow, pain or death
to all who come to live there. The
only visa or entry requirement is
that we put our faith in Jesus while
we still live in this world.
Ken Goodier
A Glimpse of Other Worlds
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The world is your oyster
Meaning - if you have the opportunity and
the ability, it’s possible to go anywhere
you want to go and do anything you ever
dreamed of doing in your life.
Derived from - Shakespeare’s words in
The Merry Wives of Windsor published in
1602. Falstaff says to Pistol, one of his
followers, “I will not lend thee a penny”,
to which the man replies, “Why then, the
world’s my oyster which I will, with sword,
open”. Oyster shells are incredibly hard
but once the adductor, the muscle which
contracts to close the shell, is cut then
the shell falls open easily. It can reveal a
very beautiful and highly prized pearl. The
saying used to relate to wealth alone and
of course, those born into wealthy families
grew up in a life of privilege where anything
was possible. Today the phrase is taken
to mean all of life’s richness instead and is
used to inspire and encourage confi dence.
So, if the world is your oyster, the world is
yours to enjoy to the full – but you have to
grasp the opportunity with both hands.
“I
look upon all the world
as my parish; thus
far I mean, that, in
whatever part of it I
am, I judge it ... my
bounden duty to declare unto all
that are willing to hear, the glad
tidings of salvation…” So wrote
John Wesley (1703-1791) as he
fi rmly declined advice to settle
down.
Although raised in a Christian
home, Wesley found his church
faith ineffective to win
people while he
was ministering in
Georgia – one of the
Southern colonies
in British America.
But on board ship
he encountered
a live faith in
Jesus Christ
through meeting
with Moravian
Christians.
At Aldersgate,
London Wesley felt his
heart “strangely warmed”
as he studied and prayed in
a meeting. He became aware
of Jesus Christ’s love. God had
forgiven him for everything that
was wrong in his life and granted
him eternal life. Wesley set about
stirring up people to experience
the saving love of God as he
had. Despite opposition from the
Established Church, Wesley’s
passion for this revelation did not
abate to his dying day.
Usually on horseback, Wesley
rode up and down the country
preaching two or three times a
day. He covered about 250,000
miles, donated £30,000 and
preached over 40,000 sermons.
In 1779 he preached in
Paradise Square in the centre
of Sheffi eld to the largest
congregation he ever saw on a
weekday. In his journal he also
recorded preaching in other
parts of Sheffi eld and Derbyshire
including Woodseats. His
connection with Woodseats was
mainly due to Elizabeth Booth, a
believer through the preaching
of John Taylor of Sheffi eld. Her
husband, Jonathon Booth, a
sicklesmith, had a farm with fi elds
along what is now Fraser Road,
the lower part of Holmhirst
Road and out onto
Chesterfi eld Road.
The fi rst preachers
of Methodism, John
Wesley; his brother
Charles, a hymn
writer; George
Whitfi eld, whose
“voice startled
England like a
trumpet blast” and
who preached in
the Booths’ orchard;
William Grimshaw,
vicar of Haworth; John
Nelson, a stonemason; other
men; Mrs Green of Rotherham;
Mrs Crosby and Miss Hosmer of
Leeds, used the Booth’s home
as a preaching house and resting
place before entering Sheffi eld to
preach.
The infl uence of the Wesleys
and their friends was remarkable
across this country. John
Wesley awakened the church
and empowered the poor as he
strategically set up Bible home
groups and preaching circuits.
To fi nd out more read
Methodism in Sheffi eld by James
Everett, visit the Archives and
Local Studies libraries in Sheffi eld
or look up John Wesley online.
Claire Goodier
‘The World is my Parish’
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
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Taking a
Tour of the World
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‘‘In 1492, Columbus sailed
the ocean blue.” My history
teacher told me so in the
1950s – and she was right.
However, she also said
he was the fi rst person to discover
America and that people in those days
believed that the earth was fl at - but
she was wrong. Research has shown
that the Vikings reached America
long before and, way back in the 4th
century, Aristotle deduced that the
earth was a sphere.
Our ancestors were smarter than we
give them credit for! Centuries ago
they were making hazardous journeys
to conquer, and settle in, other lands.
They explored new areas of the world
and returned with rich pickings which
they could trade.
These were not holidays. The word
“holiday” didn’t feature in anyone’s
vocabulary in centuries past – life
was hard, you worked from sunrise
to sunset with little time, if any, for
leisure. Only the upper classes could
enjoy the pleasures of travel. In the
late 17th century many embarked on
‘The Grand Tour’ of Europe in pursuit
of art and culture, but the majority of
people just had to content themselves
with ‘holy’ days when they were free to
enjoy a day of rest.
The invention of the fi rst steam
locomotive, and the gradual
development of a railway system
throughout Britain, completely
revolutionised our lives. In 1841, a
man called Thomas Cook organised a
day’s rail excursion from Leicester to
Loughborough for
the princely sum
of one shilling a
ticket. From this
humble beginning
grew a company
devoted to
enabling people
see the world.
Foreign travel was
still only available
Thomas Cook to the wealthier
class but now
there was plenty of opportunity for the
less wealthy to see more of England.
Steam ships crossed the Channel and
gradually people gained a taste for
more exciting travel.
The fi rst purpose-built cruise ship
was launched in 1900 and took 240
people on their maiden voyage.
Today The Allure of the Seas, the
largest cruise liner in the world,
has a staggering capacity of 6,296
The Allure of the
Seas – the
largest cruise
liner in the
world
passengers – it also has, amongst
many other attractions, an equally
staggering 12,000 mature trees on
board! A few years ago, my husband
and I were lucky enough to spend
three months cruising around the
world on a small ship with 400 others
- but no trees! We were able to visit
isolated atolls and exquisite little
islands which were completely offlimits
to any ship larger than ours …
and all for a fraction of the price!
In 1952, the fi rst passenger jet
service was launched and foreign
package holidays became popular in
the ’60s and ’70s. Long haul fl ights
in the ’80s meant that the more
adventurous could travel worldwide
– and how different our world looked
from the air! Almost 700 people,
having paid up to £155,000, are
waiting for a two-hour journey on
Virgin Galactic’s Spaceship 2. Could
holidays in space become a reality in
the future? Instead of gazing at the
moon, maybe people will be awestruck
by the beauty of this
little planet, Earth, which
we are pleased to call
“home”.
Chris
Laude
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
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Services at St Chad’s
the 10.30am Service
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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The Thursday 10am Service
Traditional in style
The
The
Thursday
Thursday 10am
10am Service
Service
• 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
June Sunday,
Ash 18,
30
Wednesday 7.15-8pm
and February July 2813 at 7.30pm
Service
Ash Wednesday, March Service 9 at 7.30pm
Ash at 8pm
Service
• To be held on Monday June 20 and Monday July
• An evening service of prayer and contemplation
• A contemplative and meditative form of worship
Wednesday, with the theme March Seeking at Stillness 7.30pm with Jesus .
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March 20
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Meet at the Bowls Pavilion.
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March 27
Grass Sledging
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building of the new centre as well as
working closely with the project team to
provide detailed advice and support on
the development of the plans.
Charles Johnston of Sport England
said: “First-class, local facilities are vital
to getting more people playing sport
regularly and the new Graves tennis and
leisure centre will be a great addition to
the city.”
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The World and Music
There are no activities that
break down political and
other barriers more than
sport and music. This
makes them truly worldembracing.
In sport, it was so good to see
the Russian gymnast hug the
Ukrainian gymnast who’d just
beaten him to win the European
Championship gold medal
recently, and in cricket it was so
good to see the Afghanistan team
competing in this year’s world cup
in Australia and New Zealand.
Music can also transcend any
notional differences, and Holst’s
Planet Suite is a good example
of this. This piece of music is
not, as commonly believed, about
astronomy, because Earth is
not included; it is instead about
astrology.
Holst became a good friend of
Clifford Bax, the brother of the
composer Arnold Bax (and later
the librettist for Holst’s opera The
Wandering Scholar). Clifford Bax
was an astrologer; he introduced
Holst to the concepts of astrology
by using a book called The Art of
Synthesis by Alan Leo, in which
each chapter is based on a planet
and describes the astrological
characteristics of them. This was
probably the basis for Holst’s
Planet Suite; in fact, ‘Neptune, the
Mystic’ is given the same title in
both the book and the suite!
According to Holst, the suite
deals with the “seven influences
of destiny and constituents of our
spirit”. The astrological pattern
is clear; the order symbolises the
unfolding experience of life from
youth to old age. Who in the
world is exempt from this cycle?
Mars, the Bringer of War - the
selfishness of the will, the desire
for action and the chaotic energy
of rebellious youth;
Venus, the Bringer of Peace -
peace can only come when the
power of Mars has spent itself,
allowing friendships to prosper;
Mercury, the Winged Messenger
- with peace, the mind can be
developed;
Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
- a feeling of happiness and
abundance;
Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age
- everything is a test for truth,
and personal wisdom is gained,
bringing with it greater ease;
Uranus, the Magician - after the
resigned serenity of Saturn, this
brings confidence, enthusiasm,
humour and originality;
Neptune, the Mystic -
timelessness - one is face-to-face
with the eternal spirit.
As Christians we believe that
only Jesus can reach into these
mystical places and set us free
from them.
Simon Kilner
I am indebted to Raymond Head
for his notes on this subject.
The summer of 1914 seemed
fair to continue without a
cloud on the horizon. Old
folk basked in the glory
of Empire and the young
ones danced to new tunes on the
gramophone. Rumour had it that
some obscure archduke and his wife
had been shot dead in a country
few had even heard of, but no-one
could have dreamt that this incident
would draw half the youth of the
world into a conflict which would
rage throughout Europe to Egypt,
Mesopotamia and even Africa. One
day the sky was cloudless, the next
the streets were filled with marching
feet and all roads led to France.
As well as the much-quoted war
poets, other famous people went
to war including CS Lewis, JRR
Tolkien, Basil Rathbone and Nigel
Bruce (Holmes and Watson) and
Ralph Vaughan Williams. Few came
back alive and none unscathed.
What then was gained or learned
from all this carnage? On the face of
it very little it seems – for 20 years
later the world was at war again.
But if we look beneath the surface,
although the world was changed
forever it was not all for the worse.
Doctors and nurses learned to deal
with wounds unimagined before
the war and, building on the work
of Harold Gillies, modern plastic
surgery and operating theatre
techniques were born. From World
War Two we gained penicillin and
modern antibiotics and Archibald
McIndoe pioneered reconstructive
surgery for burned Spitfire pilots and
bomber crews enabling them to face
the world again.
The soldiers of the First World War
never spoke of their experience and
much of what we know today has
been gleaned from the art, poetry
and music of the time. Elgar, who
was too old to fight, spent much of
the war at Brinkwells, a cottage in
West Sussex, from where he could
hear the guns across the Channel.
From here he wrote his War Music,
the Cello Concerto and the Piano
Quintet. Both works look back with
aching regret to a world and friends
from both sides now lost forever.
Vaughan Williams ‘incubated’ his
Third Symphony in the trenches
of 1916 while waiting with the
ambulance wagon to carry away
the wounded. The sound of a bugle,
faint and other worldly at first,
echoes across the fields followed
by a soprano’s unearthly, wordless
lament. And, if you listen carefully,
you might hear Vaughan Williams’
friend Harry Steggles playing his
mouth organ further along the
trench. Perhaps RVW’s most famous
work is The Lark Ascending. Written
in 1914, it lay forgotten in a drawer
until he came home from the war.
He then revised it. The same lark
gladdened the heart of the soldiers
on both sides – their trenches being
only yards apart. As the singing lark
ascends heavenwards, it carries with
it the souls of their dead and dying
companions.
From the Second World War
we have Benjamin Britten’s War
Requiem, written in 1962 for the
rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral
– now a centre for peace and
reconciliation for the whole world.
Among the poets now confined to
the dustbin by the critics is Laurence
Binyon who wrote the immortal
words we hear every Remembrance
Sunday. The rest of the poem is
seldom heard nowadays but here is
the final stanza:
“As the stars that shall be bright
when we are dust, Moving in
marches upon the heavenly plain,
As the stars that are starry in the
time of our darkness, To the end, to
the end, they remain.”
From For The Fallen by Laurence Binyon
Sylvia Bennett
World of Wars
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Projections of the World
What does the world look like?
What makes a good map
of the world? Our world is a
globe, and it is impossible to
accurately plot a (roughly)
spherical world onto a fl at piece of paper.
So how can we do it best?
The problem of mapping the world onto
a flat map has occupied cartographers for
many centuries, and the different systems
for mapping the globe onto a fl at surface
are called projections. Many people think
of the world looking something like this:
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This is a Mercator projection of the
world. It’s one of the oldest projections
around, and has been in use for nearly
500 years. It’s useful for navigating,
because the map axes correspond to
compass points. A version of this is still
used in many places, including Google
Maps, but it really isn’t ideal. What’s the
problem? Looking above, you can see that
Greenland appears to be at least twice
the size of Australia. In reality, Australia
is about 3½ times the size of Greenland.
The Mercator projection badly distorts the
relative sizes of countries, and all the more
so as you move towards the poles.
There are, however, a couple of
projections that don’t do this. One of the
common ones is the Sinusoidal projection,
shown above.
It looks different to the world maps
we’re used to seeing, but is in many ways
more accurate. The scaling is much better
(compare Greenland and Australia again),
but outside of the central area it distorts
the shapes of the countries.
But there is a map that manages to
avoid distorting shapes, and scales
pretty accurately. The Waterman
Butterfl y projection was developed
in 1996, but looks quite different
from other maps. It converts the
globe into a polyhedron, and then
lays this polyhedron out flat. It’s
unusual, but far more accurate
than other projections at accurately
representing the world on a piece of
paper.
The example shown right is also a
Pacifi c-centred, rather than Atlanticcentred
map, making it look more
different. The projection works well
Atlantic-centred though.
The only other thing to note is that there
is no good reason why north should be
‘up’ on a map, and south ‘down’. It is only
convention that serves this purpose. But
the world certainly looks different when it’s
viewed upside down!
Rev Duncan Bell
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St Chad’s Connecting
with the World
At St Chad’s we have always
believed that those of us
who are relatively affl uent
should give generously to
support those who have
the daily experience of poverty and
deprivation – whether in this country
or further afi eld.
Jesus encouraged all Christians to
give to the poor and many of us have
adopted a principle of giving a tenth of
our income away.
St Chad’s also gives a tenth of our
voluntary income away, meaning
that each year we are able to give
between £8,000 and £10,000 to
projects that explicitly bring the hope
of the Gospel to places where there
often seems very little good news. We
give our money to Mission Partners
– sometimes individuals, sometimes
larger organisations – and a list of these
partners is available in church.
For a number of years now we have
given to TearFund, a Christian charity
that works in developing countries
throughout the world to bring relief for
poverty and to provide training for people
in those countries so that they can
better provide for themselves and their
communities.
Most of the projects work directly
with local churches, so the the
chain of accountability is very
short.
St Chad’s has now
decided, through
TearFund, to work with
one particular project
to which all our funding
(presently £1,000 a year)
will go. This project
is based in Mumbai
(India) and is called
Sahaara. Sahaara works
to free children and young
women from the evils of
the sex trade and human
traffi cking in one of the biggest,
and poorest, cities in the world.
Sahaara aims to provide
medical care for sex workers
and their children – HIV/AIDS in
India is increasing rapidly. Many
sex workers are from the lowest
castes and are effectively ‘nonpersons’
with no legal identity
enabling them to claim benefi ts
or free medical care. Sahaara
represents these people and helps
them gain a legal status in society.
On top of this women and girls are
educated (most are illiterate) and trained
in skills such as tailoring and jewellerymaking.
This enables them to work for
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money away from the dangerous world
of the sex trade.
Sahaara helps more than 300 women
and 50 girls a year grow in self-esteem,
education and skills, giving them a future
that they would otherwise not have had.
The £1,000 that St Chad’s is able to give
to the project goes a long way in Mumbai
and we hope that this (and more) will
enable many other vulnerable women
and children to live in hope and not fear.
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House Rules
by Jodi Picoult
ISBN 978-0340979075
In this book Jodi Picoult
explores some of the
challenges experienced
by the family of a child
with Asperger’s syndrome.
This condition is part of the
Autistic Spectrum where the
sufferer is high functioning but
experiences many difficulties
related to social skills, the
formation of relationships and
an overpowering compulsion for
routine.
The story is set in Townsend,
Vermont where Emma Hunt, a
single mum, lives with her two
sons Jacob and Theo. The only
support she receives from the
boys’ father is a monthly cheque
for their keep.
Jacob is the eldest at 18 and
has Asperger’s syndrome. In
order to maintain equilibrium
for him Emma keeps to a
structured schedule. Jacob feels
comfortable only when all of his
daily activities are planned. Any
lack of structure or unexpected
events causes him to feel
anxious.
Emma creates house rules
for everyone to adhere to which
stipulate the following: Clean up
your messes, tell the truth, brush
your teeth twice a day, don’t be
late for school, and take care of
your brother – he’s the only one
you’ve got.
Jacob’s present obsession is
forensic science and this is all
consuming. A police scanner in
his room clues him in to crime
scenes, and he often shows up
and tells the police what to do
and how to solve the crimes.
Much to their
annoyance he is
frequently right.
Theo is 15
and struggles
with the
‘differentness’
of his life that
by necessity
revolves around
his brother’s
needs. In order
to experience
‘normal’ he
begins sneaking
into other
people’s houses
when they are
out.
The family’s
world is turned upside down
when Jacob’s social skills tutor
goes missing, her body is found
later in strange circumstances.
Jacob comes under suspicion
and is accused of her murder.
The book follows the struggle
to get a fair trial for Jacob and
while Emma constantly protests
her son’s innocence there is a
nagging doubt in her mind “Is my
sons capable of murder?”.
I have no personal experience
of living with a child with an
Autistic Spectrum Disorder and
found this book to be thought
provoking. I have no doubt that
it presents many stereotypes
and exaggerations and if read by
someone with a more subjective
view point it would be found
wanting.
Nevertheless it is a good read
(if a little drawn out) and keeps
the reader gripped and keen to
know the outcome.
Jane Jones
St. Chad’s 3rd Age Book
Group
Book Review
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Registers 2015
Baptism
April
19 Harrison Nathan Joseph Hurst
Funeral
March
24 Andrew Richard Foster (58)
For Weddings
and Funerals
You don’t have to be a churchgoer
to have a wedding in church or
be ‘religious’ to have a dignifi ed 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 offi ce. For funerals please tell
your funeral director that you would like
to have a church service.
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Services during June & July 2015
Holy Communion:11.00am
Sun 7th June 11.00am
Sun 14th June 11.00am
Sun 28th June11.00am
Sun 5th July 11.00am
Sun 12th July 11.00am
Sun 26th July 11.00am
Evensong ( third Sunday):
Sunday 21st June 3pm
Sunday 19th July 3pm
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