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I 

wonder whether you are a fan of a good 

murder-mystery book. There certainly is 

a big enough market for crime thrillers, 

with new authors appearing all the time 

and the well established classics - Agatha 

Christie, Ruth Rendell, P.D. James and the 

like - never going out of print. On television 

programmes such as Midsomer Murders, Lewis 

and Grantchester have been supplemented 

by a whole new genre of Nordic Noir, with its 

convoluted and fascinating plots constantly 

leading the transfi xed viewers into blind alleys 

and dead ends. 

i have an untested theory that our fascination with 

the mysterious has increased with our knowledge of the 

world around us. Our ancestors found the mysterious 

worrying with the unknown needing to be placated by 

religion or superstition. Lightning was warded off by 

the ringing of church bells, the interiors of woodland or 

moorland were places haunted by faeries and goblins 

where foul deeds were performed and the normal rules 

of the world temporarily suspended. 

The development of cities, gas lighting and empirical science pushed many 

of these fantasies to the margins of life - not extinguished, but no longer part 

of everyday folklore. Fearful fireside stories were supplanted by the crime and 

detective fi ction that flourished in the Nineteenth Century with Wilkie Collins and 

Arthur Conan Doyle, followed by the paranormal fiction writing of M.R. James. 

Things which were once terrifying could now be safely regarded through the pages 

of a book in your well-lit living room. Mystery had become domesticated. We enjoy 

our murder mysteries, because the mystery almost always gets solved. 

And yet i wonder whether we humans need a certain amount of mystery in our 

lives. To the child, mystery is everywhere. Only as they grow up are they taught to 

suspect the truth of anything that cannot be measured, bottled or formulated. There 

are no desert islands filled with strange creatures left to discover; imagination is 

cherished in the child yet discarded by the adult. 

The writer of the book of the Biblical book of Proverbs, writing in a pre-scientific 

age, said that there were four things that were too amazing for them to understand: 

the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship on 

the sea and the way of a man with a young woman. This was someone who was 

still enchanted by the unfathomableness of the world in which he lived - 

a world in which eagles soared high, snakes basked in the sun, ships 

braved the treacherous ocean and in which men and women fell in 

love. Do we feel the same thrill? 

Sometimes mystery isn’t just a puzzle to be solved, it’s a marvel 

to be wondered at. We understand so much more about our 

world than our ancestors did, but perhaps we’ve lost a little bit of 

the wonder as well. We need to be re-enchanted by the wonder of 

life and by God who is at the heart of the mystery. 

Rev Toby Hole, Vicar, 

St Chad’s Church, Woodseats 

February/March 2015 

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What’s On 

If you have an event you would like 

to see included in our What’s On 

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Health Walks 

•Mondays - 10am: Graves Park. 

Meet at the Animal Farm car park; 

•Tuesdays - 10.30am: Ecclesall 

Woods. Meet at Abbeydale 

Industrial Hamlet; 

•Thursdays - 10.30am: 

Lowedges. Meet at the 

Community Wing, Lowedges 

Junior School. 

Call 0114 203 9337 for more 

details. 

February 6 and 20 

Story Time 

Greenhill Library 

10-10.45am 

Stories and craft for pre-schoolers. 

Children must be accompanied 

by a parent or carer. Suggested 

donation £1. 

February 9 

Fun Time 


10-11.30am 

A time for 0-4 year olds to play 

and sing, and an opportunity 

for parents and carers to meet. 

Suggested donation £1. 

February 21 

Book Sale 

36 Crawshaw Grove, Beauchief 

10am-12pm 

Good quality second-hand books 

for sale in aid of the Alzheimer’s 

Society. Donations of good 

condition paperback novels or 

biographies are welcome (but not 

larger books due to space). 

February 17 to 21 

Gaslight 

Ecclesall Parish Halls 

7.30pm 

Ecclesall Theatre Company 

presents Gaslight by Patrick 

Hamilton. 

February 19 

February Farm Fun 

Whirlow Hall Farm 

11am-3pm 

Meet All Critters Great and Small 

and exotic animals including 

snakes, skunks, meerkats, a giant 

rabbit and hairless rats. Free craft 

activities for children throughout 

the day and the chance to meet 

new-born lambs. 

Admission: Children £3 (under 

twos free), adults £2.50; family 

(two adults and two children) £10. 

March 6 and 20 

Story Time 


10-10.45am 

Stories and craft for pre-schoolers. 

Children must be accompanied 

by a parent or carer. Suggested 

donation £1. 

March 7 

Abbeydale Singers Charity 

Concert 

St Andrew’s, Psalter Lane 

7.30pm 

The Abbeydale Singers present 

a concert in aid of Bluebell Wood 

Children’s Hospice. 

March 8 and 22 

Abbeydale Miniature Railway 

Abbeydale Road South 

1-5pm 

The regular open days start for 

2015. 

March 9 

Fun Time 


10-11.30am 

A time for 0-4 year olds to play 

and sing, and an opportunity 

for parents and carers to meet. 

Suggested donation £1. 

Send details of your event to impact@stchads.org or write to: Impact, 

St Chad‟s Church Offices, 15 Camping Lane, Sheffield S8 0GB. 

AEGON British Tennis Tour 

Graves Tennis and Leisure Centre 

World March ranked 14 players compete 

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Gardens 

9.30am 

Friends of Whinfell Quarry Gardens 

February 

working day 

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– general maintenance 

Book 

and gardening 

Sale 

work. Volunteers 

36 meet Crawshaw at the main Grove, gates Beauchief to the 

10am-12pm gardens, 9.30am. 

Good quality second-hand books 

for March sale in 14aid of the Alzheimer‟s 

Society. Escafeld Donations Chorale of in paperback Concert 

novels Holy Trinity or biographies Church, Millhouses in good 

condition 7.30pm are welcome (but not 

larger A programme books due of to music space by Haydn, 

limitations). including his Nelson Mass, Insane, 

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Free Environmental Activities 

Millhouses March 21Park 

10.30am-12.30pm 

Beethoven, Beethoven, 

Obstacle Beethoven! course and stream 

dipping 

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7.30pm 

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10.30am-12.30pm 

Nature quiz trail, stream dipping 

and Hallam bug Sinfonia hunting activities presents for 8 - 13 

year Beethoven’s olds. Egmont Overture, 

Piano Call Concerto 0114 235 no.4 6348. (G Major) 

and Symphony no.7 (A Major) with 

February pianist Tim 20 Horton. 

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Greenhil March 28Park 

10am-2pm Book Sale 

Rediscover 36 Crawshaw your Grove, cycling Beauchief skills in 

Greenhill 10am-12pm Park. The rangers will 

provide Good quality a bike, second-hand helmet books 

instruction. for sale aid Meet of the at the Alzheimer’s Bowls 

Pavilion, Society. Greenhill Donations Park. of good 

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‘Solving’ the World’s 

Mysteries 

The dictionary describes a 

mystery as “something which 

is diffi cult or impossible 

to understand or explain”. 

Advances in technology and 

science have meant that now a great 

many hitherto unexplained things can no 

longer be considered mysterious. 

For instance, take the case of the 

Marie Celeste. In December 1872, this 

“ghost” ship was found sailing in the 

Atlantic, mysteriously abandoned. There 

have been countless attempts to explain 

why. However, one man has spent 

years researching. The ship left New 

York with barrels of grain alcohol, bound 

for Italy. It encountered severe gales 

as they approached the Azores. The 

captain decided to take shelter close to 

an island so that the crew could eat and 

rest, after which he gave orders 

to set sail again. Then a 

seaquake occurred with 

terrifying consequences 

– the barrels split 

open, embers from 

the cooking stove 

shot into the air and 

the crew, fearing 

explosions, hastily 

launched their small 

“lifeboat”. However, in 

their fear and panic, they 

forgot to tie the line to the 

ship. They could only watch as 

it sailed away. The crew never caught 

up with it and, several months later, fi ve 

decomposed bodies were found off the 

Spanish shore. Mystery solved? ….. or 

just another theory? 

The Bermuda Triangle – now that’s 

another mystery. Or is it? This area 

between Florida, Puerto Rico and 

the Bahamas has 

seen the unexplained 

disappearance of 

hundreds of ships and 

planes. Now more is 

known about marine 

geography. Large 

deposits of methane gas 

in the sea bed can suddenly 

erupt causing ships to sink like 

stones in a pond, and planes to burn 

and disintegrate; electronic “fog” can 

suddenly appear, causing instruments 

to malfunction; violent storms can 

suddenly materialize without warning, 

and waterspouts can literally swallow up 

ships; the Gulf Stream’s powerful currents 

can destroy vessels, leaving no trace of 

them. Mystery solved again? ….. or not? 

Prof Brian Cox recently stated that 

the chance of finding life, as we know it, 

elsewhere in space, is infi nitesimally small. 

A planet would have to have the same, or 

similar, components as ours, its own similar 

sized moon as ours, and a whole host of 

other conditions. It must be disappointing 

for those who believe that they have been 

visited, or even abducted, by little green 

men with funny voices, but research so 

far has proved that aliens only exist in 

the imagination. Sadly the same is true 

for those who have “seen” the Loch Ness 

Monster and the Yeti. We all question 

why certain things are as they are, but 

just remember the Johnny Cash lyrics, 

“There are more questions than answers”. 

Doubtless, it will always be that way! 

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approaching my mid-40s this 

arrogance has been gradually 

replaced by a growing 

realisation of how 

little I actually know 

and understand. 

Having studied at 

the School of Hard 

knocks and being an 

undergraduate of the 

University of Life, i 

have discovered that 

there are many things 

in life that really are 

mysteries – such as: 

why is the hair on my 

head rapidly receding 

and thinning, and yet there is an 

abundance growing out of my 

ears and nose? (Sorry for that 

unpleasant image!) 

The Magic Circle is a British 

organisation founded in London 

in 1905, dedicated to promoting 

and advancing the art of magic. 

Its motto is the Latin: indocilis 

privata loqui, which roughly 

translates as ‘not apt to disclose 

secrets’; members give their word 

not to wilfully disclose their magic 

secrets. However, our English 

word mystery is derived from the 

ancient Greek word mysterion, 

which means: a secret, something 

hidden that will be revealed. This 

same word occurs 27 times in the 

New Testament of the Holy Bible. 

The meaning of mysterion 

gives me some hope – that 

something hidden will be 

revealed, and not kept from me. 

One of the mysteries of God 

is the Trinity – God the Father, 

God the Son (Jesus Christ), and 

God the Holy Spirit. Some have 

misunderstood this to mean that 

Christians have three Gods. 

Others have mistaken this to 

mean that Christians have one 

God, but who appears at different 

times in different modes, or 

personas, in the same 

‘One of the 

mysteries 

of God is the 

Trinity – God 

the Father, 

God the 

Son (Jesus 

Christ), and 

God the Holy 

Spirit’ 

way that an actor may 

put on different masks. 

‘But the Trinity is not in 

the Bible!’ some may 

argue. True – the word 

‘trinity’ is not in the 

Bible, but neither is the 

word ‘potato’, and we 

all know that potatoes 

exist! So what are 

we to make of this 

mystery that Christians 

proclaim that God 

is three-in-one, One 

God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit? 

The approach of St Augustine of 

Hippo was: ‘si comprehendus non 

est Deum’ (which means: if you 

can get your mind around it, it’s 

not God). As much as I like this 

approach, I like this even more: 

in his book “A Year at St Yorick’s” 

Adrian Plass writes: “Frank lit his 

pipe and said ‘You know, there 

are four things I like about the 

Trinity. First, I love having a father 

in God. Second, I love having 

a friend and brother in Jesus. 

Third, I love having a comforter 

and guide in the Holy Spirit. And 

fourth, I love the fact that it’s a 

mystery. God in three Persons. 

Three Persons – One God. It’s a 

mystery and I love it. Why would 

I want to spoil things by trying to 

explain it?’” 

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Mystery plays (from the 

Latin misterium meaning 

occupation) and miracle 

plays (sometimes 

distinguished as two different 

forms, although the terms are often used 

interchangeably) are among the earliest 

formally developed plays in medieval 

Europe. 

Medieval mystery plays focused on the 

representation of Bible stories in churches 

as tableaux. They reached the height of 

their popularity in the 15th century before 

being rendered obsolete by the rise of 

professional theatre. 

The name derives from ‘mystery’ used in 

its sense of ‘miracle’, but an occasionally 

quoted derivation is from ministerium, 

meaning craft, and so the ‘mysteries’ or 

plays were performed by the craft guilds. 

As early as the fi fth century living 

tableaux were introduced into sacred 

services. 

As these liturgical dramas increased 

A scene from the 2013 Chester Mystery Play 

in popularity, vernacular forms 

emerged, as travelling companies 

of actors and theatrical productions 

organised by local communities 

became more common in the later 

Middle Ages. 

There are four complete or 

nearly complete extant English 

Biblical collections of plays. The 

most complete is the York Cycle of 

48 pageants. The Chester cycle 

of 24 pageants, are now generally 

agreed to be an Elizabethan 

reconstruction of older medieval 

traditions. Others survive in this 

country and several cyclical 

plays survive from continental 

Europe. 

The Chester Mystery Plays 

were originally performed inside the 

churches and, from the 14th century, 

they were produced by Crafts Guilds and 

performed in the open streets and market 

places on pageant carts. The mounting 

of the plays in the nave of 

Chester Cathedral in 2013 

was the first time in hundreds 

of years that they had been 

performed inside a church, 

and it was the first time they 

had ever been produced 

inside the cathedral nave 

itself. Performed by local 

people, both scripts and 

performances changed each 

year to remain current and 

have popular appeal. 

The production of the 

plays, so important to 

the local community, was 

suppressed during the 

Reformation and the last 

recorded performance 

Chester Mystery Plays tapestry quilt 

prior to the 20th century revival was in 

1575. The Chester plays were revived 

in 1951, as part of the Festival of Britain 

celebrations. A full scale production has 

been produced more or less every five 

years since, the last one being in 2013. 

Individual companies of Chester Guilds 

adopted the individual plays. For example, 

the Grocers, Bakers and Millers performed 

The Last Supper, and the Ironmongers 

undertook The Crucifixion while The 

Tanners undertook The Fall of Lucifer. 

Twenty-three of these ancient company 

guilds survive in Chester today. 

Nowadays a large committee organises 

the festival of plays in Chester, performed 

by the people of Chester. The next full 

production is arranged for 27 June - 14 

July 2018 at Chester Cathedral. If you 

click onto www.chestermysteryplays.com 

you can find out how to book for 2018. 

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Exploring our Country’s 

Mysteries in Stone 

Stonehenge is arguably the 

most mysterious prehistoric 

monument in Britain. Even after 

centuries of research no-one 

really knows when, how or why 

it was built or what its purpose was. 

Built in several stages, its construction 

began around 3000BC and work 

continued until about 1600BC. 

There are many theories as to its 

purpose but the answer remains 

shrouded in mystery. Some believe it 

was a temple for worship, others that it 

was a place for ritual sacrifi ce and yet 

others that it was a site where healing 

took place. 

Certainly it is an extremely accurate 

calendar marking the winter and summer 

solstices and recent research has 

revealed prehistoric pits that seem to 

line up with the constellations. Whatever 

the purpose, Stonehenge was an 

outstanding achievement and Stone Age 

people were far more clever than we like 

to admit today. 

The massive sandstone slabs known 

as Sarsens weigh between 25 and 

45 tonnes and must have been rolled 

on logs from the Marlborough Downs. 

More remarkable is the fact that the 

stones called Bluestones were somehow 

transported from the Prescelly Hills in 

Wales. The stones were shaped on 

arrival and fi tted together with tongue 

and groove joints measured so precisely 

they are still standing after 5,000 years. 

Around ten miles away stands another 

outstanding achievement in stone, 

Salisbury Cathedral, which soars 404ft 

above the ground on foundations just 

four feet deep. Consecrated in 1258, it 

was never intended to have a spire and 

had a stumpy little tower like Winchester. 

The famous spire was added sometime 

in the 14th century. 

The building is surely a sermon in 

stone. It bears an ‘impossible’ weight it 

was never designed for; so much so that 

some of the pillars have been splayed 

apart and special arches have been 

constructed to strengthen the tower. It 

has somehow survived the reformation, 

the Civil War and being ripped apart 

by three major lightning strikes. It also 

Salisbury Cathedral 

escaped Victorian ‘Beautifi cation’ and 

World War Two bombs and yet it bears 

its burdens lightly as it stands today as it 

did 700 years ago, serene and ethereal. 

Though the stonework bears evidence 

of the passing centuries and reveals 

the scars of aging and battling with the 

elements, it has developed a living colour 

created by lichens and mosses which 

changes from green, through honeygold 

to grey with the seasons and the 

changing light. 

Like Stonehenge, Salisbury Cathedral 

stands as a landmark, a beacon, drawing 

tourists and pilgrims from far and wide. 

Many have been encaptured by the 

cathedral and many have participated 

in an unbroken round of worship since 

1225; many have worked to build it 

and many more to maintain it for future 

generations. 

In 1909 a traveller wrote about the 

effect the cathedral had on him: 

“One marvels at a building so vast in 

size which yet produces the effect of 

a palace in fairyland, or of a cathedral 

not built with hands but brought into 

existence by a miracle. I begin to think it 

is not safe to stay in that place too long, 

lest it should compel me to stay there 

always, or cause me to feel dissatisfi ed 

and homesick when away.” 

WH Hudson from A Foot In England 1909 

Sylvia Bennett 



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• Held in the Lady Chapel at the back of church 

The Thursday 10am Service 

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Weekday Services 

 



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• Monday to Thursday at 9am 

•• A To Monday to Thursday at 9am 

Monday half-hour be held 

to service on Monday 

Thursday of prayer June 

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 

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Other 

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Other Services 

Prayer 

Contemplative Night Prayer 

and Praise 

- February 24 and March 24 

Prayer Sunday, and February Praise 13 at 7.30pm 

Prayer 

Sunday, 18, 7.15-8pm 

and Praise 

February 13 at 7.30pm 

Sunday, February 13 at 7.30pm 

Ash • A Wednesday contemplative and Service meditative form of worship 

Ash Wednesday - February 18 

Ash Wednesday, with the theme March Seeking Service 9 at Stillness 7.30pm with Jesus . 

Ash Service 

• To be held on Monday June 20 and Monday July 

• An evening service of prayer and contemplation at 8pm 

• Services in St Chad’s at 10am and St Peter’s Greenhill at 

Wednesday, March at 7.30pm 

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When Todd Alexander is not 

cutting his wife in half, he 

likes to make celebrities 

disappear or vicars fl oat 

across the room. Since 

he was fi ve years old, Todd has been 

entertaining everyone from classmates 

to TV audiences with his amazing 

illusions. Whether he’s walking on 

broken glass, predicting newspaper 

headlines two weeks in advance or 

escaping from police handcuffs, Todd, 

always leaves his audience amazed. 

But while this young illusionist (he 

never calls himself a magician) from 

Sheffi eld, performs his incredible feats, 

the aim is not simply to entertain. “I 

believe God has given me a message 

to deliver” he says, “I want people to 

experience great night of illusion but 

I also want people to consider what’s 

real.” 

As well as performing across the Uk 

and at venues such as The London 

Palladium, it was a BBC appearance 

on Songs on Praise that helped make 

Todd more widely known. 

“I was interviewed by Aled Jones 

for the Songs of Praise programme 

about my Christian faith and whether 

Christians should perform illusions”. 

All went fi ne apart until a request 

was made to saw Aled in half! Todd 

explains “I remember only having a 

short amount of time to prepare the 

illusion and when we performed it for 

the cameras, the saw (which was real!) 

ended up being a little too close for 

comfort to Aled – it very nearly gave 

a whole new meaning to the director 

shouting ‘cut!’. 

“Another time, I levitated a vicar 

much to the delight of his congregation. 

My wife sometimes helps me out by 

letting me push a sword through her 

head. Despite that, we have a happy 

and blessed marriage.” 

Todd knows magicians are often 

associated with the supernatural and 

charms. However, he is quick to explain 

his illusions are achieved by entirely 

natural means without camera tricks, 

or spells of any kind. He says: “The 

dictionary gives two meanings to the 

word magic. The fi rst defi nition is ‘The 

pretended art of producing effects or 

controlling events by charms, spells, 

and rituals supposed to govern certain 

natural or supernatural forces, sorcery 

and witchcraft. These practices are 

all condemned by God in the Bible. 

Whether these practices are claimed 

to be used for good or not makes no 

difference, they are still condemned as 

an abomination to God. 

“The second defi nition in the 

dictionary is for theatrical magic: ‘The 

art of producing baffl ing effects or 

illusions by sleight of hand, concealed 

apparatus and so on. This defi nition 

describes what an illusionist like myself 

does. All of the effects are produced 

by entirely natural means and this is 

completely different to what the Bible 

is referring to when it speaks of 

‘magic’. 

Todd loves performing in 

churches and at youth groups and 

schools with his fl agship outreach 

event called Reality Check. 

“I believe God has given me a 

gift to present the Christian 

message in a relevant and 

exciting way, to people who 

would otherwise be unlikely 

to hear it. When I perform a 

show, churches will invite local people 

to come along. Reality Check features 

a combination of apparent mind 

reading, metal bending and many other 

seemingly impossible illusions. 

“From the outset the show explores 

the theme of what’s real and what’s 

illusion. I encourage the audience to 

consider the claims that people make, 

particularly relating to the supernatural 

realm and whether those people 

and their claims can be trusted. This 

naturally leads to talking about being 

a Christian Illusionist and whether the 

Christian claims are true. 

“I don’t see any harm in spreading the 

Gospel in an entertaining and creative 

way.” 

For more information on Todd’s 

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other than his memory and God, he 

away 

News Round-Up 

started to take the good news of 

Jesus to the people of China via 

illegal house churches. This gentle 

true man brought many people into a 

stian relationship with the Lord. 

Yun suffered inhuman and 

n day horrendous torture when captured by 

the „Public Security Bureau‟. He 

r of fasted for 72 days, having no food or 

water, living only by God‟s grace. 

s, During this fast Yun was repeatedly 

sible tortured, humiliated and beaten by 

Prison Guards and fellow prisoners. In 

hese, prison violent and dangerous men 

e the observed Yun‟s faith and obedience 

e 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. 

t 

who Throughout 

March People 6 from across 

l. Miraculous and loving interventions 

Junk Boat Sheffi Race eld joined 

the Christmas 

ed for helped 

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Yun for example jumping over 

Millhouses members Park of St Chad’s 

windows 

a ten foot 

around 

wall; walking through the 

11am to celebrate their skills at our 

ce to Woodseats 

open doors 

were 

of a high security prison 

Using 

Christmas 

your engineering 

Crafts event. 

skills, some 

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lovers showed their talents 

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Advent he would Calendar. be crippled for life after this 

alongside artists and 

would Twenty-four punishment). 

knitters – and helped to raise 

s homes Whatever and Yun experienced, God 

over £1,700 towards our 

organisations repeatedly demonstrated his 

Reshaping project. 

lit up faithfulness their never leaving him or his 

Organiser Yvonne Smith 

and windows family to cope alone. We will 

fantastic 

said: “I was so thrilled with 

n a 

through probably Advent never experience this kind displays of – some 

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the community from all over 

ed 

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Sheffi eld came along. Thanks 

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Unlocking the Mystery of Fingerprints 

fingerprint 

found on 

‘Killer’s 

knife’ screams 

the headline. But 

to many of us, the matching 

of fingerprints remains a 

mystery. 

So how can a criminal be 

caught from the pattern of 

ridges on your fingers? 

After a crime, a Scenes of 

Crime Officer will come to 

look for fingerprints. While 

many different techniques 

are now available to show 

hidden (‘latent’) fingerprints, 

the common and traditional way is to 

dust with fine powder. 

Fingerprints are left behind when 

someone touches a surface by the 

grease, oil and sweat that is always on 

our skin. 

Fingerprints are recorded and scanned 

before being matched by a computer 

system. Matches that the computer 

Duncan’s fingerprints 

Fingerprints are left on everything we touch 

system suggests are always checked 

by experts. Of course, a criminal can 

only be caught if their fingerprints have 

already been taken for something else, 

but most people who commit crimes 

have been in trouble with the police 

before. 

Fingerprints are matched by looking 

at the pattern of the ridges, and seeing 

where the ridges join up, or 

where ridges stop. These 

features are known as minutiae, 

and it is these marks which 

provide the unique signature of 

a fingerprint. There are many 

different patterns of fingerprints, 

but the main groups are ‘whorls’, 

where the ridges go all the 

way around in a circle, ‘loops’ 

which loop all the way back on 

themselves, but don’t go around 

in a full circle, and ‘arches’ which 

simply have a small bump in the 

pattern of the fingerprint. 

How do we know that everyone 

has different fingerprints? The 

surprising answer to this question is that 

we don’t! No-one has ever proven the 

individuality of fingerprints, but no-one 

has ever discovered two people with 

the same fingerprints. Even identical 

twins have slightly different fingerprints 

– different positions that the babies lie 

in the womb affects how the fingerprints 

develop. 

Crime scenes rarely provide complete 

fingerprints. Often just a fragment of a 

fingerprint can be seen, and the question 

remains a debated one in courts and in 

academia of how much of a fingerprint 

must we see in order to be confident that 

we can say that it is a match. 

Why do fingerprints still catch people? 

It surprises people that so many 

criminals are still caught by fingerprint 

data. One might think that criminals 

would all wear gloves, and many do. 

However, many crimes are still crimes 

of opportunity, and the criminals may 

not have gloves with them. Furthermore, 

crimes of passion are seldom properly 

prepared for. 

Many of us are aware of DNA 

testing, and the advances that that has 

brought. Why, therefore, is traditional 

fingerprinting still so important to the 

police? The simple answer is that 

developing DNA evidence is complex 

and expensive, and people often leave 

fingerprint evidence behind when they 

leave very little DNA evidence. There is 

very much still a place for both. 

Have a look at your fingerprints, and 

see if you can identify what types you 

have. 

“You created every part of me; you 

put me together in my mother’s womb.” 

Psalm 139:13 

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With few resources 

Sian Mann 

Views of an Undercover Worshipper 

You may have recently read of the 

holiday couple who stayed at the 

Broadway Hotel in Blackpool and 

posted a rather damning review 

on Trip Advisor of “a rotten, 

stinking hovel”. The hotel initially fi ned 

them £100 for the insult until a wave of 

public protest and the realisation that the 

fi ne was legally unenforceable, resulted 

in them apologising and refunding the 

money. 

These days we can review almost 

anything online from restaurants, to 

books, to movies, to university courses. 

A waiter is now rude to her customers at 

her peril. It could be on the internet within 

moments. 

One of the very earliest websites 

to conduct online reviews was www. 

shipoffools.com. Since 1998 Ship of 

Fools has been reviewing churches. 

Taking their cue from the well known 

mystery shopper technique, they asked 

regular contributors to their website to 

become a Mystery Worshipper. The 

Mystery Worshippers travel incognito 

around churches in both the UK and 

worldwide and, having experienced a 

usual Sunday service, will then go on to 

post a review online. 

These are occasionally derogatory, 

usually very honest and almost always 

entertaining. If you want to see the full 

diversity of church life in Britain then 

spend 30 minutes browsing some of the 

reviews. 

St Chad’s has not yet welcomed 

a mystery worshipper, but plenty of 

Sheffi eld churches have. A selection of 

comments (anonymised!) are as follows: 

One of the friendliest 

churches that I have been in 

Clapping broke out 

fervently during most 

choruses… the singing 

was almost inaudible 

The most blasé sermon 

I have ever heard 

The singers 

voices fell 

short of 

angelic 

I stood there 

feeling 

ignored 

for several 

minutes 

I would 

like to be 

part of a 

community 

as caring 

and busy 

and 

welcoming 

as this 

What is striking is how much 

importance mystery worshippers put on 

being welcomed. The sermon and the 

music may be top rate, but if no-one 

says hello to them after the service, the 

church’s marks suffer accordingly. On 

the other hand the preacher may be 

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weak and the singing tuneless but if the 

welcome was genuine and warm, so the 

review will be mostly positive. 

Often people think that it’s the vicar 

who makes all the difference to a church 

‘Mystery 

Worshippers 

travel 

incognito 

around 

churches in 

the UK and 

worldwide 

and then 

post a review 

on-line. 

- a good preacher 

or a good leader 

will surely pull the 

crowds in. But it 

seems that, whilst 

it’s certainly no bad 

thing to perform well 

in the pulpit, the real 

proof of the pudding 

lies in the warmth 

of welcome that a 

congregation gives 

to the stranger. 

And that is exactly 

how it should be. 

The church is no more and no less than 

the people who worship there week in 

and week out, and it is on all of us who 

call ourselves Christians that the church 

should be judged. 

I suppose one day St Chad’s turn will 

come to host the Mystery Worshipper. I 

hope that when that happens they will 

fi nd the worship, the preaching and 

the welcome inspiring. But I hope that 

is the same for everyone who comes 

unannounced into the church on a 

Sunday morning. Why not try it, and tell 

me what you think! (And I promise that I 

won’t fi ne anyone for bad reviews). 

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The Key 

by Simon Toyne 

The fate of Man lies in the hands of 

one woman and she doesn’t know 

….. or does she? 

The story revolves around 

American journalist Liv 

Adamsen and a charity 

worker called Gabriel 

Mann who just happens, 

of course, to be a very handsome 

man. 

The plot is very 

complex and involves 

three groups of people 

- The Brotherhood, 

a group of monks 

living in the Citadel, 

hidden in a mountain 

in the ancient Turkish 

city of Ruin; a man 

known only as The 

Ghost, a mercenary 

operating out of the 

Syrian desert; and 

a group of powerful 

priests in Vatican 

City. Liv remembers 

once being in the Citadel but 

can remember nothing more, 

only darkness. Somehow she 

has managed to escape but is 

haunted by a voice inside her 

head which tells her she is “The 

Key” - to what? 

Each group needs Liv. The 

Brotherhood, cursed by a dreadful 

plague, are desperate for Liv to 

return as only she can ensure 

their survival. The Ghost is 

desperate to capture Liv as only 

she can help him unlock one of 

history’s greatest secrets. The 

priests are desperate to find 

her because her very existence 

threatens the success of their 

plan to save the Catholic Church 

from ruin. Liv and Gabriel join 

forces in a race against time to 

evade capture. It’s an 

intriguing, fast-moving 

story, full of twists and 

turns, which certainly 

keeps you on your 

toes. 

Concentration is 

a must - so make a 

drink of your choice, 

get that piece of cake 

which you’ve been 

promising yourself, 

settle down with The 

Key and enjoy! 

I don’t generally 

read a book twice 

but this one proved to be an 

exception. Writing this short 

review has whetted my appetite 

and I intend to re-read The Key, 

just in case I missed something 

the first time. 

Chris Carr 

St Chad’s 3rd Age Book Group 

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You don’t have to be a churchgoer to 

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meaningful funeral service at St Chad’s. 

If you live in the Woodseats or 

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delighted to help you, whether it is 

planning the Big Day or saying goodbye 

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For weddings please contact St Chad’s 

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• If you have had a new baby and would 

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a service in church then please come 

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Holy Communion: 

Sun 1st Feb 11.00am 

Sun 8th Feb 11.00am 

Ash Wednesday 18th Feb 7.00pm 

Sun 22nd Feb 11.00am 

Sun 1st March11.00am 

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Contacts @ St Chad’s 

CHURCH OFFICE 9 Linden Avenue 274 5086 

S8 0GA 

Term time offi ce hours: 

Mon - 10am-1pm; Tues - 9.30am-1pm; 

Thurs - 9.30am-1pm; Fri - 9am-11am 

Church Offi ce Administrator 

Helen Reynolds 


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 

Youth Worker Nick Seaman 274 5086 

email: nick@stchads.org 

Besom in Sheffi eld 

Steve Winks and 

Darren Coggins 07875 950170 

Impact magazine Tim Hopkinson 274 5086 

email: impact@stchads.org 

Church Wardens Jimmy Johnson 274 5086 

Linda McCann 274 5086 

Deputy Wardens Ann Firth 274 5086 

Ann Lomax 274 5086 

Buildings Manager Malcolm Smith 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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