2009-06

June/July 2009 

Reaching 12,000 people in the 

Woodseats and Beauchief area

St Chads Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats 

email: office@stchads.org 

Church Offices: 15 Camping Lane, Sheffield S8 0GB Page 2 website: www.stchads.org 

Tel: (0114) 274 5086

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Jesus was a great communicator through words, people came 

from many miles to hear him, and he often engaged with the 

people of the day through parables, vivid short stories. The 

parables are one of the most distinctive features of Christ’s 

teaching, they are timeless, stories that can be, and are, retold 

time and time again, acted out in churches and in classrooms. 

It is perhaps in the parables more than any where else in the Gospels that we 

realise the originality of Jesus. They are not of course unique. The Jewish Rabbis 

used parables and so did St Paul. But no other parables are comparable to those of 

Jesus in their terseness, their wit, their sharp observance of human behaviour, and in 

their extraordinary power of conveying profound truth throughout a well-told story. 

The background of the parables is in the daily life of Palestine. Jesus’ parables – 

and there are about 60 of them, whole or in fragment - are crowded with people. The 

characters include farmers, fishermen, housewives and merchants: kings, landowners 

and judges; a woman searching for a lost silver piece; guests at a wedding and a 

family whose house had been burgled. 

What marks them is the breadth of their sympathy and their profound insight into 

human nature. Here are real people, and the situations we meet them in are real 

situations. These stories are explorations of the meaning of love as the working 

principle of human action. Jesus expected ordinary men and woman to see the point 

he was making – this was the only way in which human situations could be dealt with 

and by using these stories he put it in such a way that people could see what he was 

driving at and be in no doubt. 

The parables, then, are vivid short stories rooted in everyday life. They are stories 

with meaning and many of the central themes of the message of Jesus are embodied 

in them. We should remember that they were spoken by a poet, that their background 

and immediate reference is first century Palestine. Yet the brilliance of them, like all 

great art, is that they have a 

timeless quality and can be used to 

illuminate modern day situations. 

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Our magazine has made an impact with the 

judges at a national competition for church 

magazines. 

Impact was commended after winning the 

magazine layout category in the 

Association of Church Editors Awards 

Scheme. 

The awards were presented at Westminster 

Central Hall in London. 

Methods of communication have 

obviously changed since the time of 

Jesus and you will read about many 

of these in this edition of Impact, but 

the overriding message is that we 

exist to communicate with each 

other and God in order to grow, 

learn and thrive as His people. 

Rev Canon Peter Ingram 

Vicar of Holy Trinity, Millhouses 

and Area Dean for Ecclesall 




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A young police recruit was 

asked during his exam: "What 

would you do if you had to 

arrest your own mother?" 

"Call for back-up!" he 

answered. 

A couple who were going 

away on holiday stood 

at the airport check-in 

desk. 

The husband said to his 

wife: “I wish I’d brought 

the piano.” 

“Why?” she asked, 

“We’ve 

got 10 

bags 

already.” 

“Yes, I 

know,” 

he 

replied, “But the tickets 

were on the piano!” 

Have you ever noticed how 

anyone driving slower 

than you is an idiot.. 

and anyone 

driving 

faster 

than you 

is a 

maniac? 

What lies at the 

bottom of the 

sea and 

twitches? 

A nervous 

wreck! 

What do 

American 

prisoners use 

to 

communicate 

with each 

other? 

Cell phones! 

After the ark came to a rest Noah 

said to the animals: “God forth and 

multiply” 

All the animals went except for a 

couple of snakes. 

“Why are you still here?” he asked. 

“We can’t multiply….we’re adders!” 

they replied. 

Lord, give me patience—RIGHT NOW! 

A Sunday school teacher asked 

her pupils what Jesus’ mother’s 

name was. 

“Mary,” one answered. 

The teacher then asked: “What 

was Jesus’ dad called?” 

“Verge” replied the same child. 

Confused, the teacher asked: 

“Where did you get that from?” 

“Well,” the child replied, “People 

are always talking about ‘Verge 

and Mary’!” 




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Are you organising a local event and 

would like to advertise this FREE in 

Impact? If so email impact@stchads.org 

or write to: Impact, St Chad’s Church 

Offices, 15 Camping Lane, Sheffield S8 

0GB. 

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. 

May 8 - June 21 

Come Sit With Me Exhibition 

Ecclesall Woods Sawmill 

11am –4pm 

An exhibition of seating showcasing a 

diverse range of handmade seating in 

various styles by local furniture makers, 

sculptors and wood turners. 

June 6 

Book Sale 

36 Crawshaw Grove, Beauchief 

10am-12pm 

Good quality second-hand books for 

sale in aid of the Alzheimer’s Society. 

June 13 

Woodland Photography 

Ecclesall Woods Sawmill 

An introduction to photography in 

Ecclesall Woods. Digital cameras 

supplied and the results of the day will 

be displayed in the gallery as part of 

their Alive exhibition. 

Call 0114 235 6348 

June 28 

Sheffield Festival of Transport 

Graves Park 

10.30am-5pm 

Classic cars and vintage vehicles of all 

descriptions, and a fun and interesting 

day out for all of the family. 

Call 0114 273 6433 

July 4 

Book Sale 

36 Crawshaw Grove, Beauchief 

10am-12pm 

Good quality second-hand books for 

sale in aid of the Alzheimer’s Society. 

July 11-12 

Cliffhanger 

Millhouses Park 

10am-6.30pm 

Britain's largest open-air event for 

outdoor activities. Climbing, mountain 

biking, orienteering, caving and lots 

more. 

July 12 

Run in the Park 10k Race and 3k Fun 

Run 

Graves Park 

11am 

Weston Park Hospital Cancer Charity’s 

new event in aid of the Men’s Cancer 

Campaign. 

Email lyndsey.raynor@sth.nhs.uk 

Beauchief Abbey holds a variety of 

services and anyone is welcome to 

attend. For more details see the 

Abbey notice board. 




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A whole week of events is being planned 

for this year’s Woodseats Festival. 

From Monday July 6 there will be 

workshops, concerts, dance classes, a 

literary evening, a pub quiz, gigs, a 

garden competition, special nights at 

local restaurants, five-a-side football, an 

art exhibition and a craft 

fair, all culminating in a 

Community Parade and 

Family Fun Day on 

Sunday July 12. 

The organisers are 

working really hard to 

make this year’s festival 

the best ever — but the 

festival can’t work 

without everyone from 

the community getting 

involved! Read on and 

see if any of these 

festival events are for you... 

The festival will be running a Five-a- 

Side Football Tournament throughout 

the week at Woodseats Baptist Church, 

Tadcaster Way and a special guest from 

Sheffield United FC will be coming to 

award trophies to the winners at the 

Festival’s Family Fun Day on July 12! 

There will be separate competitions for 

youth and adult teams, but teams must 

be booked in advance. For more details 

call Wendy on 0114 274 5815. 

Tickets will soon be on sale for the 

Festival Raffle at selected Woodseats 

retailers, priced at 50p. Watch out also for 

the festival stall on Saturday mornings in 

Woodseats throughout June, where you 

will be able to buy raffle tickets and pick 

up a festival programme. If you are a 

local retailer or company who are able to 

sell raffle tickets contact the organisers. 

Raffle prizes include a top-of-the-range 

Motorola ROKR mobile-phone, an Xbox 

and games, and a year's Swim Pass for 

Heeley Baths, plus many more. 

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On Saturday July 11, Woodseats 

Methodist Church on Holmhirst Road will 

be hosting an Art Exhibition from 10am 

to 4pm. The exhibition seeks to provide a 

showcase for amateurs, enthusiasts and 

professionals alike. It will feature work 

from painters, printers, potters, 

photographers, glass 

workers and many more. 

There will also be 

demonstrations of lacemaking 

and free have-ago 

origami sessions. 

More exhibitors are 

being sought – complete 

the registration form on 

the festival website, or 

call Malcolm on 0114 274 

5634. 

Are you interested in 

learning First Aid? If so, 

the Woodseats Festival is organising a 

first aid course at the Scout Hut on 

Helmton Road on July 6 and 7. The 

course will cover first response 

techniques and is accredited by the St 

John’s Ambulance and the British Red 

Cross. Participants must be 16 or over. 

For further information or to book a place 

call Peter Stevenson on 0114 281 755. 

As part of the fun day on July 12 there 

will be an Interesting Car and Vehicle 

Show. The event takes place at 

Woodseats School from 12-4pm. 

Anyone who owns an unusual car, 

classic bike, tractor, tank or other 

interesting vehicle can show it off . 

There is a £3 registration fee (to help 

pay for festival costs) and all entrants 

receive a limited edition car sticker in 

return. See the festival website for a 

booking form or call Angela on 0114 235 

9556. 

For more details about the Woodseats 

Festival 2009 see the website: 

www.woodseatsfestival.org.uk. 




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It’s not much fun having a stroke - and I 

speak from experience. However, 

Sheffield has some of the best stroke 

services in the country and small 

miracles are achieved every day in 

rehabilitation units. 

This is not to under-estimate the 

problems being faced by thousands of 

survivors and their families, as hospital 

support cannot continue forever and 

rehabilitation concentrates on basic 

survival in the community. Hard work 

for everybody with little respite and little 

relief. 

Because I found art highly therapeutic 

myself, I now teach painting to stroke 

survivors (I call them my students) as a 

volunteer. 

Many students are unable to speak, 

read or write and some also have visual 

problems. Communication with these 

people is an uphill struggle, not the least 

for the victims themselves. 

There has been a fair amount of 

research into the arts (music, painting, 

creative writing, etc.) as therapy 

following a stroke or brain injury. 

It is well known that many survivors 

with little or no speech can sing whole 

songs and be word perfect and maintain 

both rhythm and tune. When painting, 

many students lose their tremor and 

learn to work around visual problems. 

One student, a vicar, who had only two 

useful words (appropriately “God” and 

“yes”) actually trebled his vocabulary 

while painting, adding “sheep”, “sky” and 

“gate”. 

Art and music are the earliest forms 

of communication used by humans. 

Both are wired into the brain long before 

we are born. Babies respond to music 

which they heard in the womb, for 

months or even years after birth. All 

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Art can be an important therapy 

for stroke patients. 

young children are artists unless, or 

until, they are inhibited or educated out 

of it. Quite often a stroke wipes away 

these inhibitions leaving the survivor 

free to regain lost skills. 

Because they are so primitive, art and 

music are buried too deep in the brain 

for the stroke to harm them. All that is 

needed is the help to unlock the door to 

them. 

Just as cave paintings led to 

numbers, letters and writing, which then 

led the way to language, songs and 

story telling, it may be possible to 

retrace these steps after a stroke and 

regain lost skills. 

It may be that art is the key to the 

door of that secret garden where all the 

old flowers are alive but dormant. If so, 

all that we have to do is go in and tend 

them. 

“O you who dwell in the garden, my 

companions are listening for our voice; 

let me hear it”. 

Song of Solomon 8:13 (Revised 

Standard Version) 

Sylvia Bennett 




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Adverts have been with us for 

more than 4,000 years, being 

first discovered on ancient 

papyrus in Egypt. 

They have also been found 

as wall painting-type adverts in 

ancient Greece and Rome as 

well as Pompey. They were 

mainly advertising shops and 

similar services but also lost 

and found posters. 

Even when people could not 

read, a sign would be put 

outside a shop to let people 

know what it sold. A cobblers 

would have a boot and millers, 

tailors and blacksmiths would all 

have similar signs of their trade. 

The modern trend of advertising can be 

traced to 1836 in Paris when a newspaper 

started to carry advertisements as a way 

of keeping circulation costs down. Soon 

other papers followed and a new industry 

was born. 

In the early days of advertising most 

adverts were targeted at women because 

they were the people who did most of the 

shopping – some TV programmes are still 

called ‘Soap Operas’ because they and 

their advertising were targeted at women. 

However, as the West started to mass 

produce there needed to be mass 

consumption to follow. After all what was 

the point of producing things in quantity if 

they could not be sold in quantity. For the 

first time advertisements were produced to 

make us buy more of something rather 

than just to let people know the product 

was there. 

Nowadays there is advertising 

everywhere, TV, radio, the internet. It is 

thought that worldwide we spend about 

five hundred billion pounds on advertising. 

There is a battle raging now between 

internet advertisers and civil liberty 

organisations because internet advertising 

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Advertising in London’s Picadilly Circus. 

agencies want the power to see what 

websites you are looking at and then 

directly show advertisements based on 

your choice. A far cry from a few hand 

written posters in ancient Egypt. 

Whether you love adverts or not – and 

there are some great ones about – they 

are with us to stay. 

I have cable TV at home and 

sometimes the adverts seem to be longer 

than the programmes and also have you 

noticed how the adverts are louder than 

the programme you are watching. I am 

slipping into ‘old bloke’ mode now so its 

time to shut up. 

My favourite advert at the moment? It’s 

one for a car – where a young son asks 

his father where he comes from. 

The father, thinking that his son is 

asking for a ‘facts of life’ answer explains, 

apparently in some detail. The son says 

“that’s great dad ‘cos Jimmy Johnson only 

comes from Scotland”. It’s a great advert – 

now if I could just remember which car is 

being advertised I would be a happy man. 

If you could ring the church office on 0114 

274 5086 with the answer then I will be 

able to sleep again! 

Steve Winks 




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Speech and language development in the 

first three years of life is an impressive 

process! As part of this, typically between 

eight and 24 months, babies often use a 

combination of gestures and sounds in 

attempts to communicate. 

For example babies may point, shake 

their heads for 'no' and wave 'bye-bye' and 

introducing some extra gestures can help 

support and extend your baby's 

developing communication skills. 

These baby signs enable babies 

to express themselves more 

clearly while speech is in the 

earliest stages of development. 

What are the benefits? 

In the early stages… 

► your baby’s attention is 

drawn to the key word of a 

sentence; 

► you expand your baby’s 

vocabulary and 

understanding; 

► using gesture naturally 

encourages a more measured 

and calm interaction; 

► signing encourages adults to label 

things, giving more language input; 

► consequently you stimulate a baby’s 

speech and language development. 

When your baby start to use signs... 

► They enjoy increased confidence from 

being understood; 

► Signs can eliminate many of the 

frustrations of being pre-verbal; 

►Successful communication with signs 

encourages speech development; 

► Better communication enriches your 

baby’s relationships. 

For the under threes, anything which 

encourages understanding, listening and 

visual awareness is a good thing! There 

are many additional benefits in using signs 

with toddlers, especially for those whose 

speech is a little unclear. They have so 

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much to say and are not always 

understood! 

Some parents ask if signing interferes 

in speech development. It actually gives it 

a boost! Babies are greatly encouraged in 

talking by the introduction of signs. 

Gestures are not a replacement for 

speech. When using a sign one always 

says the accompanying word. 

Baby signing programme Sing and Sign 

believes communicating with your baby 

should be fun. Babies sing songs in 

which to learn signs and the programme 

aims to teach signing in a relaxed and 

enjoyable way. 

Sing and Sign is largely compatible 

with Signalong, Makaton and 

other systems based on British 

Sign Language (BSL). However 

BSL is a complete language 

in its own right and baby 

signing only uses the 

most simple keywords. 

Sing and Sign give the 

following guidelines for 

successful baby signing: 

► Begin with signs for more, finished, 

eat/drink/milk starting at 6-9 months; 

► Follow your baby's lead and introduce 

signs you think they might want to say; 

► Always say the word as you sign; 

► Speak slowly but in a natural way; 

► Keep it simple, use just one sign per 

sentence when speaking with your baby; 

Signing fuller sentences is fine in songs; 

► Happily accept any attempts by your 

baby, even approximate imitations; 

► But be consistent in how you show a 

sign, however your baby adapts it; 

► Avoid trying to get your baby to 

"perform" signs on demand; 

► Be patient and relaxed; 

► Praise, praise, praise! 

For information about Sing and Sign 

visit www.singandsign.com or contact Liz 

Harrison on 01246 432784. 




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On every page of Impact someone is 

communicating with you. The 

advertisers are inviting you to buy their 

services. Another writer is giving you 

information to act on whilst another 

page is written to entertain or to give 

you an insight into something which may 

be life-changing. 

The writers in Impact 

are communicating with 

you. 

In life there are many 

ways in which we 

communicate. We join 

language classes to be 

fluent in another tongue. 

IT conferencing 

packages allow groups 

to communicate as one. 

Many write letters or 

exchange e-mails to 

keep in touch with 

friends and family. We 

talk, gesture, smile or 

scowl to communicate to 

those around us of our 

emotions or needs. We 

need to communicate with others. 

Whilst Christians communicate in all 

the above ways, in addition they pray, 

they engage in an intimate conversation 

with Jesus. 

After making a visit to someone ill, 

lonely or bereaved, I usually pray with 

them even when there is no personal 

relationship with Jesus. This experience 

has been found to be comforting and 

peaceful resulting in an occasional 

comment ‘I can’t explain but I don’t feel 

so bad now!’. 

As Jesus’ disciples travelled with him 

they knew he woke early to pray before 

the day’s work began. He needed to 

share time with God daily. The disciples 

too wanted to know God better so they 

asked Jesus to teach them to pray — 

and He gave them the Lord’s Prayer. 

Prayer isn’t something done entirely 

alone. It is not a one way 

communication link, a monologue! Just 

as we want a call back to our answer 

phone message, a reply to a letter and 

receive eye contact in a 

spoken conversation 

because two-way 

personal contact matters, 

Jesus wants to be in twoway 

communication 

through prayer, a 

dialogue, allowing us to 

get to know Jesus more. 

He wants to hear and he 

wants to give but we 

sometimes have to wait! 

Prayer is listening as well 

as talking, in a language 

no different to that used 

with friends. Jesus 

knows each of us — even 

though you may deny 

knowing him — and 

wants to be your friend. 

Prayer is sharing. Prayer is listening. 

Prayer is a few moments of stillness 

and, you don’t have to know Jesus to 

make a start. Sit quietly and talk to him 

or visit us at St Chad’s where someone 

will be glad to pray with you! This is a 

communication you need to consider 

today! 

I pray you will soon join in this 

universally wonderful way of 

communicating with a best friend! 

May God’s peace be with you. 

Yvonne Smith 

Reader and Assistant Minister 

for the Elderly 

St Chad’s Church 




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For many years now I have been 

involved as a reader with Sheffield 

Talking News (STN) which is a small 

charity, producing, each week, over 500 

audio cassettes and 100 CDs of local 

news for subscribers who are blind, 

visually impaired or unable to read a 

newspaper. 

Arrangements with the 

Sheffield Star, Sheffield 

Telegraph and Yorkshire 

Post allow STN to include 

the content of their 

publications without 

infringement of 

copyright. An 

occasional magazine is 

also produced 

throughout the year. There 

is no charge for the service 

and it is delivered free by 

Royal Mail. 

Every Monday an editor, who 

has been carefully reviewing the 

local papers, produces reading material 

to the correct length (one hour). By 

6.30pm that evening a team of readers 

(two male, two female) supported by a 

recording technician, is ready to record. 

The recording, now computerised, is 

usually finished by 8.30pm that evening. 

On Tuesday morning, the duplication 

and despatch team (one of whom is St 

Chad’s member Vicky Harris), again 

through the help of a computerised 

system, copies and despatches the 

tapes and CDs to subscribers. These 

are sent in distinctive yellow pouches 

(which are returned by listeners after 

use). 

At the moment all of this activity is 

taking place in the temporary home of 

the Sheffield Royal Society for the Blind 

in Davy Markham, Darnall. STN is 

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keenly waiting to return to the 

refurbished headquarters in Mappin 

Street. 

It is very satisfying for the many of us 

who volunteer for STN to get feedback 

from listeners who regard the weekly 

recording as a lifeline. We get a strong 

sense of putting something back 

into the community. 

The process is much 

modernised now and the 

organisation has leapt into 

the 21 st century. With this 

in mind, it is worth noting 

that many of the 

volunteers are OAPs (I 

am one of the 

youngest!) so STN is 

an excellent example 

of the third age 

encompassing 

new technology! 

The one thing we 

can’t change, I am 

afraid, is the news 

itself, but our editors strain themselves 

to ensure that we give a balanced 

flavour of what is going on in Sheffield. 

Occasionally we readers have to do a 

little last minute editing ourselves, 

when, for example, there are just too 

many stories of the cat who travelled six 

miles under the bonnet of a car, or 

when we feel that several stories of 

muggings and robbery on a cold 

November night are just a bit too much. 

We do have fun with some of the 

pronunciations too! 

If you know of someone who would 

benefit from this service, please 

telephone 0114 244 6164 or have a 

look at the website www.sheffieldtalking 

news.org.uk. 

David Manning 




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WEEKLY SERVICES 

The 9am Service will… 

● be the first service of the day 

● be traditional in style 

● include Holy Communion, a sermon & organ-led hymns 

● include refreshments afterwards 

● be taken from Common Worship: Holy Communion 

Lifted, the 10.30am Service will ..... 

● be informal and relaxed in style 

● have an emphasis on families 

● include music, led by a band 

● include refreshments before the service 

FOUNDATION will ..... 

● be an informal service with the emphasis on 

contemporary worship, challenging bible teaching 

and prayer. 

● be on Sunday evenings at 7.30pm at St Chad's. 

The Thursday 10am Service will …. 

• be traditional in style 

• be taken from Common Worship: Holy Communion 

• Include Holy Communion, a sermon & hymns 

• Be held in the Lady Chapel at the back of church 

MONTHLY SERVICES 

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The Evensong Service will .... 

● take place on the 2nd Sunday of each month at 4pm 

● be a quiet service taken from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer. 

● include organ led hymns, a psalm and a short sermon and prayers 

REFLECTIVE WORSHIP will ... 

• Take place on June 17 and July 15 at 7.15pm. 

• Have the theme during 2009 of Sensing God. 

• Be a contemplative and meditative form of worship. 




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Archbishop John Sentamu would get my 

vote if there was a contest for “Britain’s 

Best Communicator”. 

He was appointed the 97th Archbishop 

of York, and the Church of England’s first 

black Archbishop, in 2005 and has been 

communicating in his own unique way 

with people from all walks of life and of all 

or no faiths ever since. Who 

could forget the visual 

impact of his cutting up his 

“dog collar” in protest at 

Robert Mugabe’s clinging on 

to power in Zimbabwe? 

I have been enormously 

impressed by his knowledge 

and wisdom, touched by his 

compassion for others and 

his humility, and in awe of 

his courage in speaking out 

against the ills of our present 

day society. I just love his 

wicked sense of humour, too 

- it’s so infectious! 

My husband and I were 

fortunate to be present when 

he came to Sheffield 

University to give a lecture 

on Religion, Morality and 

Law - not a bundle of laughs there, you 

might think! Yet he began by drawing a 

comparison between a lawyer (he trained 

as a barrister and later became a High 

Court judge in Uganda during the days of 

Idi Amin) and a rhinoceros - he said that 

“both are short-sighted, thick-skinned and 

more than ready to charge”! This was 

greeted by laughter and applause - the 

Archbishop had been on his feet for a 

matter of minutes but he already had us 

spell-bound. What a communicator! 

Archbishop Sentamu has spoken about 

our need for moral, social and economic 

transformation in this country. When 

discussing the present financial crisis he 

said, “Do you know what is written above 

the door to the Bank of England? - ‘The 

earth is the Lord’s and the fullness 

thereof’ (Psalm 24:1) You have to wonder 

if people going on their way to work ever 

look up!” 

There is a desperate need to reconnect 

the sacred and the secular, he says and 

often quotes Mahatma Gandhi, another 

wonderful communicator. “Be the change 

you wish to see in the world”, 

said Gandhi. John Sentamu 

urges us to support each 

other by quoting another 

famous character - this time 

Winnie the Pooh, who said, 

“I have one hand, you have 

another; when we join them, 

we are together”. What a 

simple but effective way of 

illustrating his hope for the 

future! 

When asked about how to 

communicate with those 

living on the margins of 

society he explains, “We 

should let them tell us their 

story before we start giving 

The Archbishop of them our answers to 

York, John Sentamu. questions they may not 

even be asking, and 

allowing ourselves to hear what they think 

about us”. 

How many politicians have expressed 

such commonsense in an attempt to solve 

the problems facing society today? But it 

is not only problems in society about 

which he comments - he is not afraid to 

make critical observations about the 

Church either. “The organisational culture 

of the Church of England is still socially 

glued together by a culture that is 

monochrome: that is, white. It still lacks 

colour and spice”, he has said. Thank 

God that Archbishop Sentamu is 

contributing his own very special brand of 

colour and spice to the Church - and may 

he continue to do so for a very long time! 

Chris Laude 




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When you send an email, what really 

happens when you hit the ‘Send’ button? 

Did you know that when you send an 

email it does not get sent in one piece but 

is split up into little bits called ‘packets’? 

Each packet may take an entirely different 

route through the Internet, perhaps 

travelling half way around the globe before 

being reassembled (hopefully!) at the 

correct destination. 

Email is only possible because of an 

age-old principle known as Protocol. 

Protocol simply means ‘an agreed set of 

rules’, and to enable your computer to 

send an email to another computer (that 

is, to communicate), it must follow an 

agreed set of rules; a protocol. 

Emails use a special protocol called 

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). 

There are many other types of protocol. 

Next time you visit a website look at the 

full website address. For example: http:// 

www.stchads.org. Ever wondered what 

the http bit means? It’s another protocol: 

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol – the rules 

that computers must follow to enable them 

to download and view web pages. 

It’s amazing how email has transformed 

communications over the last few years, 

but the need to communicate over large 

distances has always been important. 

Native American Indians made use of 

smoke signals by starting a fire using 

damp grass on a hill, causing a column of 

smoke to rise. In general, the position of 

the smoke column on the hill determined 

the message; smoke from the hill top may 

mean danger whereas smoke from halfway 

up the hill could mean that all was 

well. The only problem was that each tribe 

had its own signalling system, its own 

smoke-signal protocol! 

The American Indians were not the only 

ones to use smoke signals. In Ancient 

China soldiers on the Great Wall would 

alert each other of impending attacks by 

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Smoke signals in a hi-tech age. 

sending smoke-signals from tower to 

tower. A warning message could be sent 

300 miles in just a few hours. 

The need to communicate over 

distances has always been essential in 

times of war. Battleships would use a 

system where a message could be 

conveyed by the colour and pattern of a 

flag and its position on a mast. A person 

on one ship could also use two flags to 

represent different letters of the alphabet 

depending on how the flags were held. 

This system of semaphore is another type 

of protocol. You could only understand the 

transmitted message if you knew the 

agreed rules, the semaphore protocol. 

The advent of radio transformed the 

future of communications forever. 

Although not the inventor of radio, 

Marchese Guglielmo Marconi was able to 

successfully transmit radio signals over 

large distances. On December 17, 1902, a 

transmission from the Marconi station in 

Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, became 

the first radio message to cross the 

Atlantic from North America. A popular 

means of communicating information over 

radio was Morse Code; modern traffic 

controllers are still required to have a 

basic understanding of Morse Code which 

consists of ‘dots’ and ‘dashes’ to represent 

letters of the alphabet. You may be 

familiar with the code for SOS as “dot-dot- 




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dot, dash-dash-dash, dot-dot-dot”. Morse 

Code is yet another form of protocol. 

Around this same time of early radio, 

the development of telephone and 

television were well under way. It’s hard to 

imagine life without either of these, and 

where would we be without mobile phones 

and texting? The next major development 

in communications was not until the 

advent of the Internet — invented by 

English scientist Tim Berners-Lee. On 

Christmas Day 1990 he implemented the 

first successful communication between 

two HTTP computers via the Internet. So 

we have come full circle back to our 

humble protocol. 

The whole purpose of Protocol is to 

enable communications. As Bob Hoskins 

used to say on the BT advert, “It’s good to 

talk!” We follow protocols when we talk to 

All communication has protocol. 

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each other, perhaps without realising it. A 

polite conversation may begin with a 

“hello, how are you?” and end with “see 

you later!”. 

So the way you speak and the words 

you use are all part of the protocol of 

spoken communication between people. 

But what about talking to God? Is there 

a protocol, a right way to speak to Him? 

The disciples asked Jesus himself, “how 

should we pray?” and He taught them the 

Lord’s Prayer; I’m sure you are familiar 

with it. He also said that we should find a 

quiet place, to pray simply and honestly, 

not to babble on with lots of words but 

instead to come to God just as we are. 

Check this out for yourself in the Bible by 

reading Matthew chapter 6 verses 5 to 13. 

Isn’t it great news that we can come 

before the Creator of the Universe anytime 

we want to, just as we are, without having 

to follow any religious procedure or 

routine! And it gets better still: Jesus says, 

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and 

you will find; knock and the door will be 

opened to you. For everyone who asks 

receives; he who seeks finds; and to him 

who knocks, the door will be 

opened.” (Matthew 7:7-8) 

Perhaps if you’ve never talked to God 

before, now would be a great time to start. 

If you’re not sure what to say, just follow 

the simple protocol above! 

Daren Craddock 




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The Pot Noodle Mountain Challenge is an 

attempt to collect a huge number of Pot 

Noodles to give to the Archer Project. 

The Archer Project supports 

people who are homeless for 

whatever reason and also 

provide hot meals each day. 

One of the things they find 

most useful is the humble Pot 

Noodle. The reason is that rough 

sleepers can often get access to 

hot water when they would not be 

able to find cooking facilities. 

If you would like to donate a Pot 

Noodle to the Archer Project and 

have some fun at the same time, here are 

a few things you can do. 

Help us, and other members of the 

community, with the Grand Build of the 

Pot Noodle Mountain on Saturday June 

27 in St Chad’s Church between 1pm and 

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4pm. If you cannot make this grand build 

then there are other options. 

St Chad’s uniformed groups will be 

bringing their contribution to the 

Fathers Day Parade Service 

at 10.30am on June 21, you 

can bring yours to add to theirs. 

A member of The Archer Project 

is speaking at the Lifted Service 

at St Chad’s at 10.30am on June 

28 so you can come, with your pot 

noodles and hear them talk about 

the work of the Archer Project. 

If you cannot make any of the above 

then you can drop them in at the 

church office on Camping Lane. Please 

ring 0114 274 5086 to check that there 

will be someone in to receive them. 

To find out more about the Archer 

project and its work call 0114 263 6970 or 

at archerproject.org.uk. 




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NIGEL WATSON 

Carpenter & Joiner 

Doors, locks, floors, architraves, skirting 

boards, stairs, stud walling, boxing –off 

No job too small 

For a reliable, quality service 

Tel: 0114 236 4778 

Beauchief Pre-School 

Where learning is fun 

Ofsted inspected & approved 

for ages 2 1 / 2 to school. Free places 

available for 3 & 4 year olds. 

A world of discovery, fun & friendships awaits your child 

Drop in to see us or for a brochure, more information or to 

enrol your child please contact Sarah 274 6930 

Beauchief Baptist Church 

Hutcliife Wood Road S8 

CALL IN FOR A CUPPA 

At Church House (56 Abbey Lane) 

10am to 12 noon 

On the last Saturday of each month. 

THE BEAUCHIEF SCHOOL OF 

SPEECH TRAINING 

Pupils trained in the art of perfect 

speech and prepared for examination 

and stage work 

BARBARA E. MILLS, L.G.S.M.,A.N.E.A. 

(Eloc) Gold Medal 

31 Cockshutt Avenue, Sheffield 8 

Phone: 274 7134 




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There are over 100,000 deltiologists in this 

country. If you’ve never heard of them 

before, you may be wondering who they 

are and what they do. Well, they collect 

postcards. A boring hobby? Not at all - 

and just to prove that, let’s explore the 

history of the postcard. 

The very first “postal cards” were 

produced in the mid-1800s by private 

companies and were usually hand 

delivered. Then came postage stamps - 

the Penny Black, the world’s first stamp, 

was issued in 1840. Before that, postage 

rates varied and were not paid by the 

sender but the recipient! Unsurprisingly 

people often refused to accept delivery! 

Originally postcards were plain, then 

pictures began to appear. During the Paris 

Exhibition of 1889 they became extremely 

popular and tourists bought them as 

souvenirs as well as to send home. 

Virtually every country in the world started 

producing their own postcards, but in 1902, 

Britain was the first to divide the reverse 

side to enable both message and address 

to be written on one side, thus leaving the 

picture unspoiled on the other. The years 

before the First World War have been 

called “The Golden Age” of picture 

postcards, as everybody used them as a 

means of sending messages before the 

telephone was widely in use. Cards of all 

descriptions were produced - some were 

hand-tinted and some were made of silk 

and embroidered. Many postcards were 

produced in Germany and subjects varied 

enormously including animals, actors, 

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erotic poses and royalty. With the 

outbreak of hostilities, of course, this 

supply came to an end and naturally when 

people were trying to come to terms with 

the horrendous aftermath of the war, they 

found it very difficult to resume any pre-war 

“trivialities”. The role of the postcard 

changed and, in Britain, became 

increasingly associated with seaside 

holidays. 

In the 1930s Bamforth & Co began 

producing saucy postcards - scantily clad 

ladies and lots of “double-entendre”. 

Others followed suit. The British public 

viewed these either as refreshingly 

amusing or disgusting and offensive. 

Sales soared until the 1950s when the 

Government implemented censorship 

which resulted in some retailers being 

heavily fined and some postcard 

companies going out of business. In the 

more liberal 60s the saucy postcard was 

revived, but in the 70s and 80s both the 

quality of the artwork and the humour 

deteriorated. Today, holiday destinations 

the world over compete with each other in 

offering exquisitely photographed views. 

If you’re interested in starting a 

collection, the majority of postcards are 

worth a few pence depending on condition 

and subject matter. Stamps and 

postmarks add value as well as interest, 

and ones sent to, or by, famous people 

which would increase both. The older the 

postcard the better and rare ones can be 

worth hundreds of pounds. There are fairs, 

exhibitions and clubs you can join and no 

doubt the internet is a 

good source of new 

additions to any 

collection. Old 

postcards offer a 

fascinating insight into 

the past and it’s a great 

way to learn about 

social history. So why 

don’t you give it a try? 




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Thanksgiving 

March 

15 Abbie Mae Lucy Hughes 

Baptism 

April 

26 Abbie Mae Lucy Hughes 

► For more information about 

getting married, organising a 

thanksgiving or baptism service or 

arranging a funeral at St Chad’s 

please call the church offices on 

0114 274 5086. 




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Where does the humble sermon stand 

on today’s IT and Communication 

Superhighway? Thumbing a lift on the 

slip-road? 

St Paul says, “Faith comes through 

hearing, and hearing through the word 

of Christ”, and asks, “How are they to 

hear without someone preaching?” 

The earliest known preacher has to 

be Enoch, seventh in line from Adam, 

who gets a brief mention in the book of 

Jude. 

The most famous preacher of all has 

to be Jesus: people walked miles to 

hear him, stayed with him for days, and 

knew they were hearing more than the 

same old religious claptrap. 

The Sermon on the Mount is still seen 

as the pinnacle of moral teaching, and 

Jesus’ sermons were accompanied by 

miracles and healings as God showed 

the authenticity of his message – we 

could do with more of that today! 

The book of Acts almost begins with 

a fiery sermon from St Peter, and for the 

next two millennia the sermon was the 

standard form in which the church 

presented the Good News of Jesus. 

In modern times, the names of 

Wesley, Spurgeon, Martin Lloyd-Jones 

still echo today... 

There’s no doubt that encountering 

someone speaking passionately about 

what they believe can be very powerful: 

experts say only ten per cent of 

communication lies in the words – voice 

tone and body language convey much 

more. If the preacher has listened to 

God before speaking to the 

congregation, and the Spirit of God is at 

work in their hearts, we can hope for 

inspiration as well as communication. 

A good sermon (and we can all 

remember some bad ones!) should do 

more than convey information; it should 

try to raise faith in the hearers, 

encourage them to believe that God is 

willing to work in their lives, helping 

them to be more than they could be on 

their own. 

Ken Goodier 




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Bright Spark Electrical 

All types of electrical work 

Part P qualified 

Burglar alarms 

Telephone sockets 

Computer tuition, setup/ 

repair and upgrades. 

Malcolm Holmes 

77 Holmhirst Road 

Sheffield S8 0GW 

Tel: 0114 2490889 

Mob:07966 141780 

Email: msholmes1@yahoo.com 




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Chocolate Chip Cookies 

Makes 40 cookies 

Ingredients 

125g butter, softened 

1 cup white sugar 

½ tsp baking powder 

½ tsp bi-carb soda 

1 tsp vanilla extract 

1 egg 

1½ cups plain flour 

1½ cups chocolate chips 

Method 

In a large mixing bowl add the butter, 

sugar, baking powder, bi-carb soda and 

vanilla extract. 

On low speed beat until combined. 

Scrape the sides of the bowl down. 

Beat in the egg until combined and 

scrape down. 

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Add the flour and chocolate chips and 

mix on low speed until just combined. 

Take slightly heaped teaspoonfuls of 

the cookie dough and roll into balls. 

Place on a baking tray that has been 

lightly coated with cooking spray or lined 

with baking paper. 

Leave space between the balls as 

they will spread during baking. 

Bake in a preheated oven set to 

160C/325F/Gas Mark 3 for 10-12 

minutes. The cookies are ready when 

they are a light golden colour. 

Remove from the oven and leave to 

cool on the baking tray for five minutes 

then transfer them to a cooling wire. The 

cookies will collapse slightly on cooling. 

Store in an airtight container for one 

week. The cookies can be frozen for up 

to two months. 




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Useful Contacts 

CHURCH OFFICES 15 Camping Lane 274 5086 

S8 0GB 

Church Office Administrator Helen Reynolds 


Reader/Assistant Minister Yvonne Smith 274 5086 

for the elderly 

Youth Minister Andrew Foulkes 274 5086 

Besom in Sheffield 

Steve Winks and 

Darren Coggins 274 5086 

Publishing and Communication Nigel Belcher 274 5086 

Impact magazine Tim Hopkinson 274 5086 

email: impact@stchads.org 

Church Wardens Nigel Belcher 281 1750 

email: nigel@stchads.org 

Malcolm Smith 274 7159 

Church Warden Team Tim Hopkinson 274 0198 

Jane Jones 274 6805 

Linda Jones 07930 936067 

Robin Lockwood 250 7128 

Uniformed Groups 

Group Scout Leader Ian Jackson 235 3044 

Guide Guider Christine Carr 281 7793 

CHURCH HOUSE 56 Abbey Lane 274 8289 

Church House Caretaker Norman Swift 274 9361 

Church House bookings Helen Reynolds 274 5086 

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