Impact1216
December 2016/January 2017
WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD
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.
St Chad’s Church is committed to serving you - the people of
Woodseats, Beauchief and Chancet Wood. To find out more about
St Chad’s, visit our website at www.stchads.org or call the church
office on 0114 274 5086.
Here’s where to find us:
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This year, for the first time since its foundation
in 1912, the parish church of Woodseats will
not be holding any Christmas services. The
building works in the interior of the church are
on track to be completed by December 25,
but the best part of a month will be needed to move
the furniture back in and to clean and tidy the building
before we can open for public worship. We are working
towards reopening on Sunday January 15.
It is painful and sad not to be able to celebrate
Christmas in our customary way with a candle-lit carol
service, midnight communion and Christmas morning
service in church (although we do hope that those who
would usually attend our midnight communion and
Christmas morning services will go join with our friends
at Woodseats Methodist Church), however this inconvenience is as
nothing compared with what others will be suffering.
Our thoughts are never far from the desperate plight of citizens in
Aleppo, Mosul and other war-torn cities, for whom Christmas is unlikely
to bring any peace. Nor can we forget the thousand upon thousand of
refugees who will fi nd themselves in crowded camps across Europe
and the Mediterranean. Closer to home there will be many in our cities,
including Sheffi eld, who will be relying on charities such as Homeless
and Rootless at Christmas and Shelter to provide them with warmth
and food over the Christmas season.
The Christian understanding of Christmas holds together two
seemingly irreconcilable experiences - that of joy and goodwill with
struggle and hardship. For those of us celebrating with close family
whilst remembering those who are no longer able to be with us will be
aware of the bitter-sweet nature of the season.
As is well known, Jesus himself was born homeless in a strange city
in a climate of political tension and terrorism and his fi rst years were
spent as a refugee in a foreign land. Yet at the same time his birth was
marked by the angels singing “peace on earth”. The peace promised
is of course not the post-Christmas turkey slumber in front of the
television that many of us enjoy. It is a deeper peace that
looks towards a time when all is made new by God.
Whether Christmas is for you a time of joy and
celebration, a time of sadness or a mixture of both, I
pray that you will know God’s peace now and in the
year ahead, and I hope very much to see you and
welcome you into the new St Chad’s.
Rev Toby Hole, Vicar,
St Chad’s Church, Woodseats
December 2016/January 2017
WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD
For details of Christmas services in
Woodseats including our outdoor
Christingle service, see page 17
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St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Offi ce: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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website: www.stchads.org
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What does Santa suffer
from if he gets stuck in a
chimney?
Claustrophobia!
Why did Santa’s
helper see the doctor?
Because he had a low
‘elf’ esteem!
What happened to
the man who stole an
Advent Calendar?
He got 24 days!
Why does Santa
have three gardens?
So he can ‘ho ho
ho’!
What is the best Christmas
present in the world?
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can’t beat it!
What kind of
motorbike does
Santa ride?
A Holly Davidson!
What do you get if
you eat Christmas
decorations?
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Which famous
playwright was terrified
of Christmas?
Noël Coward!
What do they sing at
a snowman’s birthday
party?
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What’s green,
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Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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What’s On
If you have an event you would like
to see included in our What’s On
section, email impact@stchads.org
Health Walks
•Mondays - 10am: Graves Park.
Meet outside the Rose Garden
Cafe;
•Tuesdays - 10.30am: Ecclesall
Woods. Meet at the Visitors
Centre at Abbeydale Industrial
Hamlet;
•Thursdays - 10.30am:
Lowedges. Meet at the Gresley
Road Meeting Rooms, Gresley
Road, Lowedges;
•Thursdays - 10.30am: Ecclesall
Woods. Meet at the JG Graves
Discovery Centre off Abbey Lane.
) Call 0114 203 9337 for details
regarding any of the walks.
December 2-4
Christmas Tree Festival
Woodseats Methodist Church
Friday and Saturday 10am-4pm;
Sunday 2-4pm
A Christmas Tree Festival on the
theme of Christmas Carols. Hot
drinks, non-alcoholic mulled wine
and mince pies will be available.
December 3
St Chad’s Pre-School Christmas
Fayre
Church House, Abbey Lane
10am-12pm
Face-painting, card-making, raffle,
visit Santa in his grotto and enjoy
refreshments.
December 4
Outdoor Christingle Service
Church Field - entrance via
Church House, Abbey Lane
3pm
St Chad’s annual Christingle
service takes place this year on
the Church Field. Come and join
us as we celebrate the birth of
Jesus, Light of the World.
December 6
Escafeld Chorale
St Andrew’s Church, Psalter Lane
7.30pm
Escafeld Chorale presents a
traditional mix of Christmas music
and readings plus refreshments in
association with The Samaritans.
December 10
Centenary Exhibition
Woodseats Methodist Church
10am-4pm
An exhibition of the history of
Woodseats Methodist Church.
December 10
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).
0114 453 4716
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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Lowedges. Meet at the Community
Wing, Lowedges Junior School. February 12
Call 0114 203 9337.
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#Findtheangels this C
Did you fi nd one of our Christmas
Angels last year? Throughout
December small plastic angels
were placed around our area
in Woodseats, Beauchief and
Chancet Wood and we invited you to
take them home with you.
Many people did – and sent us pictures
of them with the angels which we then
published in Impact.
The idea was such a success that
we’ve decided to do the same again this
Advent.
We would like to encourage you to look
out for these angels and, when you fi nd
one, please take it home as part of your
Christmas decorations.
We would also welcome any ‘selfi e’
photographs of where you fi nd your
angel or where you display it – and
maybe of you or members of your family.
Send your photos by email to impact@
stchads.org and we will then publish
them in Impact, on St Chad’s website at
www.stchads.org and on Facebook and
Twitter.
You can also post them yourself on
Twitter with the hashtag #fi ndtheangels
or on our Facebook page facebook.com/
stchadssheffi eld
This is a fun way of remembering
the angels’ part in the Christmas story,
spreading their message and wishing
you all a very happy Christmas.
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In the Beginning was ‘The Word’
Have you ever tried telling
a wasp to get out of your
conservatory? “Stop
buzzing around the glass
roof, come down and
fl y out of the open door!” But it
takes no notice because I can’t
communicate in wasp language.
We humans use words to
express our wishes or share our
feeling with others. If we, who are
made in God’s image, can, why
can’t God speak using words we
can understand? That’s the claim
of the Bible.
But John in his Gospel goes
further. He talks about THE
Word – singular. This Word is the
creator of everything that exists.
It’s even more puzzling as we
read on. The Word was in the
presence of God from the very
beginning before the universe
came into being. What’s more
this Word actually IS God. It all
sounds very abstract until we
come to this sentence “The Word
became human and lived among
us.” So the question becomes not
what is the Word but who is he?
Of course, you’ve guessed
– it’s none other than Jesus,
whose birth we’re soon going to
celebrate. So, in considering the
baby in Bethlehem, we are faced
with the unique, ultimate Word
(Message) from God speaking
our language and
showing us
what God is really like. It’s a huge
claim! But that’s the Christian
claim. Our title then tells us that
Jesus was there from all eternity
with God long before he was born;
he was not a created being like
some sects claim. Rather, all the
qualities the Father has, he has –
eternity, perfection, justice, love.
If that’s true, we cannot ignore
him. We can’t accept him just as
a brilliant teacher, even a prophet;
we can only bow in wonder that
one who “shared equality with
God” should come to suffer, die
and overcome death because he
loved us so much. He is the most
important Word this world has
ever heard.
How should we react to this
Message? John gives us a
straightforward clue. “As many as
received him, to them he gave the
right to become children of God.”
Just as we receive presents with
no strings attached, it’s only when
he is received and welcomed
into our hearts that we are freely
accepted into his amazing family.
Will you receive this eternal
Person into your family and home
this Christmas? You will never
regret it!
Jeremy Thornton
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Offi ce: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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website: www.stchads.org
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St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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St Chads Pre-school’s
Christmas fayre!
10am-12 noon
Saturday December 3rd
at St Chad’s Church House, 56 Abbey Lane
Make some magical reindeer food!
Have your face painted & make a Christmas card!
Visit Santa in his grotto & enjoy a mince pie!
Enter our fabulous raffle - some amazing prizes to
be won!
Join us for some family fun or simply pop in
for a cup of tea and some festive cheer!
PsS- have we told you we’re opening until 3 from
January on certain days?
Visit us www.stchadspreschool.com
Christmas a
Christmas is a very busy time at
Grace Food Bank. Everyone
who has received food parcels
over the past year is invited to
collect a special bag of festive
food in plenty of time for Christmas.
The food we give out is non-perishable
and, by giving it in plenty of time for
Christmas, we hope that people won’t
end up going into debt trying to buy extra
nice food.
People often ask what brings people
to a food bank. There are always a
variety of reasons that cause people to
be referred to us – some of these have
been listed below by our food bank coordinator.
We regularly get referrals from people
who are on probation or who have just
left prison. They have to make a new
claim for benefits and may have to face
a wait of several weeks before they
are paid any money. Benefit delays is
probably the most common reason why
people are referred to us. New claims
for benefits or tax credits can take
weeks to sort out.
A significant number of people
are referred because mental
health problems/crises are
affecting their ability to manage
their money. Poverty and debt
fuel poor mental health as well
as being fuelled by it.
Having to come to a food bank
to feed yourself and your family
causes many people to suffer
from anxiety and depression.
Those who manage their
money very carefully still
find themselves floored by
things that just cannot be
predicted. Mild to moderate
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at Grace Food Bank
learning disabilities cause people to
struggle to understand how to navigate
what is a complicated benefits system
and means they cannot always manage
their money as well as they need to.
There are also those who really
struggle with drink or drug problems and
every so often fall off a metaphorical
wagon and make bad decisions about
their money.
Behind all of those reasons for referral
are real people who we meet, drink tea
with, cook with, eat with, put the world
to rights with, laugh with and sometimes
cry with. They become our friends and
our co-workers as they volunteer to help
out.
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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If you would like to help with the
Christmas food bags, here is our
Christmas wish list:
• Small boxes of Christmas biscuits
• Small Christmas cakes or packs of
chocolate mini rolls etc.
• Small boxes of chocolates and sweets
and selection boxes
• Pringles, cheddars or similar crisps in a
cardboard tube.
• Bottles of fizzy grape juice or similar
• Tins of ham.
• Tins of salmon
• Tinned meat pies
• Jars of coffee or instant drinking
chocolate.
• Tins/cartons of custard.
• Small boxes of crackers/biscuits for
cheese.
• Boxes of mince pies, although last year
we did have rather too many!
All with a use-by date that is after
December 25 and nothing which
needs refrigerating.
Food can be brought to St Chad’s
Sunday morning services at Abbey Lane
School in November or at Church House
on December 4 (see page 16 for details)
or contact the church office (email
office@stchads.org). We would like food
to arrive before December 5, which
gives us time to sort and pack it.
Thank you to those who have
supported us this year. You
contributions have meant so much to
those we have been able to help.
Anne Lomax
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website: www.stchads.org
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Our Tuesday and
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Groups are currently
closed while work
takes place on our
church building
Celebrating
100 Years
Woodseats methodist Church
is celebrating its centenary
this year with various
events and services.
Some of the events
are listed on our What’s On pages and
include a Christmas Tree Festival from
December 2-4 and a Songs of Praise
service on December 12 to mark the
actual date of the church’s opening 100
years ago.
Some of the ministers who have
served at the church in the past will
also be returning to lead services and
on Sunday, December 11 at 2.30pm
there will be a visit by the Rev Dr Roger
Walton, President of the Methodist
Conference.
Does Christmas
start with
a dodgy jumper?
No!
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Will you be putting
an angel on your
Christmas tree this
year? Maybe you’ll
find one of the little
St Chad’s Advent angels and take
it home — lots of them will appear
around the parish...but why angels
at Christmas?
The Bible says angels had a
pretty busy time when Jesus was
born; the angel Gabriel visited an
old priest, Zacharias, to tell him
his wife Mary would give birth to
John the Baptist — despite their
old age. Then he visited
Mary, to say she
would give birth to
Jesus — despite
not being
married.
While
Joseph
(Mary’s
fiance)
worried
about
marrying
Mary (learning
she was
mysteriously
pregnant) an angel
told him in a dream to
marry her, because her child
was the Son of God.
Joseph had two more angelic
dream messages, one warning
him to to take Mary and Jesus
to Egypt to escape Herod, and a
later one telling him it was safe to
return home.
There was also a huge crowd
of angels who appeared to some
shepherds outside Bethlehem,
announcing Jesus’ birth.
The Jewish people had long
believed that God would send
Messiah, or Christ, someone
who would bring them freedom;
this had been promised by their
prophets. When Jesus was born,
Israel was occupied by Rome, so
people expected Messiah to be a
resistance leader, not a baby in a
stable.
But God’s plan was to set
people free from fear and greed,
hatred and selfishness, suspicion
and mistrust. The angels were
God’s messengers, announcing
that his son, Messiah, was born,
to bring freedom and peace.
Most people failed to recognise
who Jesus was, despite
the healings and
other miracles he
performed. You
might say that
taking him out
and nailing
him to a
cross was
the ultimate
failure to
recognise
him...
But that
wasn’t the
end of the
story. The
gospels report
angels speaking to
the women who came to
Jesus’ tomb to anoint his body —
only to find it was no longer there!
He is risen, the angels told them,
just as he promised; if you go into
Galilee you’ll see him.
Again, angels are sent to bring
wonderful news — Jesus is risen,
death itself is no longer to be
feared.
Maybe that angel on your tree
has a message for you: Jesus,
born in a stable, died on a cross,
risen from the grave, can bring
you peace and freedom.
Ken Goodier
The Message of the Angels
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Services at St Chad’s
Over the past few months our Sunday services have been held
at Abbey Lane School and we’re really grateful to the staff and
Governors for their hospitality.
From December 4 however, our Sunday services are on the move
again until we return to our church building in mid-January.
Sundays
Sunday Services
Sunday Services
at St Chad’s Church House
Abbey Lane, Sheffield S8 0BP
The 9am Service
The The 9am Service service
● Traditional in style
● • Traditional Includes Will be Holy held in style Communion, in Church House a sermon Abbey & hymns Lane
● • Includes Is traditional The refreshments Holy 9am Communion, in style Service afterwards a sermon & hymns
● • Includes Taken Includes from refreshments ● Traditional Holy Common Communion, in Worship: style afterwards a Holy sermon Communion and hymns
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● Includes refreshments afterwards
● Taken from Common Worship: Holy Communion
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Service
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●
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Our and relaxed
service will
in style
be taking a different form
● Informal An December emphasis Lifted, and relaxed on the
4 until families 11am in style Service
we move back into our church
● Includes An building. emphasis music, ● Informal on led families and by relaxed a band in style
• Includes Some music, ● An emphasis
members led will by on a be band families
● Refreshments served from meeting 10.15-10.45am in people’s
● Includes music, led by a band
● Refreshments homes. served from 10.15-10.45am
● Refreshments served from 10.15-10.45am
• A cafe-church style service will also be taking place in Church
House at 11am should you wish to join us.
Weekday Services
Weekday Services
Morning Prayers
Morning Prayers
Thursdays
The Thursday 10am service
The
• Traditional
Thursday Traditional
in style
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The Thursday 10am Service
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worship Holy Communion
Includes Holy Communion, a sermon & hymns
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Held in the Lady Chapel at the back of church
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& church hymns
Facebook page
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onTwitter for Prayer more and details Praise
Other Services
Sunday, February 13 at 7.30pm
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Sunday Services
Weekday Services
Morning Prayers
Monday to Monday Thursday to Thursday at 9am at 9am
Monday to Thursday at 9am
at Evening Woodseats Evening Prayers Methodist Prayers Church
Holmhirst Evening Prayers Road, Monday Sheffield to Thursday S8 at 5pm 0GS
Monday to Thursday at 5pm
Monday to Thursday at 5pm
The Thursday 10am Service
Other Services
Prayer and Praise
Prayer and Praise
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Due to the work on our church building, will will not be holding most
of our regular Christmas services this year. However our annual
Christingle service will be taking place but in a different venue...
SUNDAY DECEMBER 4
Christingle Service at 3pm
on Church Field
- entrance via Church House on
Abbey Lane
This year our Christingle service will take place
on Church Field. As usual the service will include
traditional Christingles and is especially for children
On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day members of our congregation
will join members of Woodseats Methodist Church for their services
Woodseats Methodist Church, Holmhirst Road
CHRISTMAS EVE
Midnight Communion at 11.30pm
CHRISTMAS DAY
Christmas Day service at 10am
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Sheffield Carols
This Christmas, if a friend
told you that they’d
heard these words sung
somewhere - “Behold
the grace appears! The
promise is fulfilled; Mary, the
wondrous virgin, bears, and Jesus
is the child” - you’d probably
assume that they’d been in a
church, listening to a beautiful
choir. However, you might be
rather surprised to discover that
your friend had been in a pub
instead - listening to people,
some of whom were probably
devoid of any musical ability
whatsoever and accompanied, not
by an organ, but by the clinking of
glasses against a background of
lively chatter.
Folk carols came into existence
generations ago when the
Puritans, who weren’t exactly
known for taking pleasure in
joyful pursuits and certainly didn’t
approve of anyone else doing so,
put a stop to carols being sung
in churches. Naturally people
were dismayed at being unable to
enjoy their customary Christmas
music. So they took matters into
their own hands and met in
each other’s homes, then
in the local pubs, to
sing ‘home-grown’
carols - tunes and
words, a mixture
of the secular
and the sacred,
being composed
by local people.
A few dozen pubs
in South Yorkshire
and Derbyshire are
keeping this tradition
alive. Each pub has its
own ‘style’ – some have
a keyboard to accompany
the singing, whilst others rely
purely on voices and some invite
brass bands to play. You won’t
recognise the tunes, even if
you recognise the name. ‘While
Shepherds Watched’ can be
sung to a vast number of different
tunes, depending upon the pub
in which you happen to be. Some
have strange names such as
‘Spout Cottage’, Back Lane’ and
‘Portugal’. When ‘Jacob’s Well’ is
announced, you can be sure that
some local wag will respond with
typical Northern humour - “I didn’t
know he was poorly”! It’s all about
tradition, about commitment to the
community and most important of
all, about participation – you don’t
have to have a wonderful voice,
just the desire to join in and sing
with the crowd.
The singing ‘season’ begins
traditionally on Armistice Day –
some take that to be the evening
of November 11th, on whichever
day it falls, whilst others prefer to
begin on Remembrance Sunday.
The season ends on New Year’s
Day. Some pubs have weekly
singing, some only once or twice
during the whole season, others
sing more frequently as Christmas
approaches, whilst some leave the
pub and go singing around their
local neighbourhood. Have a look
at www.localcarols.org.uk/sings.
php – see where and when you
can go and join in. You’ll find it a
unique experience. Ian Russell,
who has been studying the folk
carol traditions for decades,
certainly recommends it. He says,
“Coming together to do something
happy and bright in the darkest
time of the year and knowing that,
even if it’s dismal now, things are
going to get better”. Now that’s
Yorkshire optimism for you!
Chris Laude
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When a Royal baby
is born in the UK,
the announcement
is formally made
when a piece of
paper signed by the delivery team
is placed on an easel outside
Buckingham Palace. It is a formal,
dignified announcement fi tting a
royal child, and this protocol was
followed for both Prince George
and Princess Charlotte. Of course,
the Queen and the rest of the
Royal Family have already been
told, and in our modern age the
announcement was emailed to
news editors just before
the easel was erected.
The first visitors are
the Royal Family,
and police officers
guard the wing
of the hospital.
The form of the
announcement and
the visitors shows
what sort of a baby it
is – this is a baby who is
in line to the throne of the
United Kingdom.
And yet, when Jesus is born,
a baby also born to be king, the
announcement and the fi rst visitors
are rather more unusual. Not gilt
framed notices outside palaces
here. Instead, it is announced fi rst
to a group of shepherds, sitting
on the fields above Bethlehem.
They hurry down to meet the new
baby, lying in the straw. The fi rst
recorded visitors are not the family
and friends that one would expect,
let alone the rich and powerful.
They are humble shepherds; rough
working men. What are they doing
with a newborn baby?
The second group of visitors
recorded is hardly less peculiar.
Magi from the East arrive bearing
gifts. The old joke about if the
wise men were women they would
have arrived on time, cleaned the
stable and brought a casserole
rings true – the wise men stand out
as foreigners in a domestic story,
bringing bizarre gifts to a newborn
baby. No visits from the highand-mighty
of Israel here.
No powerful politicians
to pay their respects.
But perhaps the
weirdness of the
Shepherds and the
Wise men is the
point. This is not a
king who has come
for the wealthy and
well-to-do in Israel.
He’s come for the
people like the shepherds
– the ordinary working people,
struggling to make ends meet. And
he’s not simply a domestic king
come for the locals. He’s come so
that the whole world can be made
right with God. He’s come for the
likes of me, and he’s come for the
likes of you.
Rev Duncan Bell
Why Shepherds and Wise Men?
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No Place Like Home
Ali, our nurse, seems unusually
chirpy today. He’s not really a
morning person.
“Good weekend?” I ask,
waiting for the kettle to boil.
“It was great.” he replies, eyes shining.
“I got to see my family.”
I answer without thinking. “Oh, good.
Been a while, has it?”
“Yes - two years.” he says, and laughs
at my surprise. “I was afraid I would not
see them again.”
Ali grew up near a city called
Shirqat, in Iraq. He fled from
there two years ago, just
as it was being taken
over by armed groups.
His elderly parents
couldn’t make the
journey - several
days of walking
through desert
areas littered with
landmines. So they
stayed put, but after the
Iraqi army retook the city
recently, were finally able
to be reunited with their son.
Many other families in Iraq have
stories like it, and not all get happy
endings. They are classed as Internally
Displaced People (IDPs): people forced
to flee their homes, often by war, who
haven’t crossed their country’s borders
(those who have would be refugees).
Right now in Iraq around a third of the
population have been displaced. I left
Sheffield in June to work here for an aid
organisation called Medair, helping to
run mobile medical clinics for IDPs. It’s
been a steep learning curve at times,
but seeing the appreciation of those we
work with, often women and children,
Children from an IDP
family play in Kirkuk,
Iraq. © Medair
does makes all the
difference.
Families do the best
they can to build a new
life wherever they end up,
but many have fled with absolutely
nothing, and end up camping out in
unfinished buildings, sharing them
with several other families and a few
pieces of furniture. Many rely on loans
or the kindness of strangers for food
and clothes. Their future remains very
uncertain.
And now (early November) we are
preparing for many more people to flee
Mosul, a city three times the population
of Sheffield. The UN estimates up to
700,000 people will be made homeless
as Iraqi and Kurdish soldiers fight to
recapture it. The humanitarian world
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A displaced family
waits to be seen
at one of Medair’s
clinics in Northern
Iraq. ©medair
here is scrambling to get ready.
So it’s been busy - we’ve trained
up teams of doctors and nurses to
provide basic healthcare wherever
it’s needed, and bought in medication
and equipment. We’ve gone to a lot of
meetings trying to coordinate well with
other organisations. But there are still so
many unknowns. So we wait, and watch,
and hope that we’ve made the right
plans.
Christmas will probably be a bit odd
for me – a handful of expats gathered
around a turkey somewhere, toasting
home – but I will be full of new gratitude
for many things: the freedom to work,
travel and learn like this, the privilege
of choice about my future, and the
knowledge that those I love are safe.
Joy Wright
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personal capacity. If you would like to support
Medair’s work please visit www.medair.org
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Christmas Recipes
Great Grannie’s Christmas Cake
Ingredients
1kg mixed fruit (soak
overnight in brandy or
orange juice)
100g glace cherries
300g self raising flour
100g ground almonds
250g caster sugar
225g butter
1/2 tsp salt
1tbsp marmalade
1tsp mixed spice
4 large eggs
3tbsp milk
Method
Sift the flour and salt
into a large bowl. Add
the sugar, almonds and
spice.
Cream the butter, eggs
and liquid into the flour
mix. Add the fruit and
marmalade, and stir
well.
Put the mixture into
20cm lined tin.
Cover the outside
of the tin with brown
paper and bake at
150°C or Gas Mark 2
for four hours.
Test that the cake is
done by inserting needle
into centre of the cake - it
should come out clean.
Spicy Christmas Biscuits
Ingredients
250g unsalted butter
140g dark brown
muscovado sugar
1 egg yolk
300g plain flour
1tsp mixed spice
1tsp ground ginger
Method
Heat the oven to
180°C or Gas Mark 4.
Cream together the
butter and sugar and then
mix in the egg yolk.
Stir together the flour
and spices and fold into
the creamed mixture.
Wrap the dough in
cling film and chill for at
least two hours. Then roll
it out to a thickness of
about 5mm and cut it into
Christmas shapes.
Place the shapes on a
greased baking tray and
put in the fridge for half an
hour.
Bake in the oven for 12
minutes and then cool
before decorating with
icing.
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Services during Dec & Jan
Holy Communion:
Sun 4th Dec 11.00am
Sun 11th Dec 11.00am
Sun 25th Dec 10.30am
Sun 1st Jan 11.00am
Sun 8th Jan 11.00am
Sun 22nd Jan 11.00am
Sun 29th Jan 11.00am
Sun 5th Feb 11.00am
Evensong ( third Sunday):
Sun 18th Dec 3.00pm
Sun 15th Jan 3.00pm
24th December
Christmas Eve Carol service
7.00 pm
Please note the 10.30
start on Christmas day
All Welcome
Our Services are based on the Book of Common Prayer &
Refreshments are served afterwards
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Does
Christmas
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Pantomime, or “panto”
for short, is a type of
musical comedy stage
production, designed for
family entertainment. It
was developed in this country and
is usually performed during the
Christmas and New Year season.
Modern pantomime includes
songs, slapstick comedy and
dancing. It employs crossdressing
actors, including, for
example, a female playing Prince
Charming (in Cinderella) and a
male playing the dame (in many
common pantos). Topical humour
is included and many references
to the local community. The
story is loosely
based on a wellknown
fairy tale. An
important part
is audienceparticipation
including the
use of repeated
phrases or words.
Pantomime has a long theatrical
history in Western culture dating
back to classical theatre and it
developed partly from the 16th
century “commedia dell’arte”
tradition of Italy, as well as stage
traditions like masque and musichall.
Costumes are fl amboyant
and much make-up is applied!
The key word is tradition. So
the titles do not vary much. In
Sheffi eld, for instance, the Lyceum
always puts on the same titles
in sequence. These involve the
latest soap stars or celebrities in
title roles, with Damian Williams
playing the dame here now for
many years. When we fi rst came
to Sheffi eld it always featured
Bobby Knutt. Large amateur
productions are also presented
every year by Manor Operatic
at City Hall, with the same faces
appearing year after year.
Round the city, other amateur
pantos will be found, usually
just after the larger productions
have fi nished. Here at St Chad’s
the dramatic society produced
pantomimes for many years. Your
author remembers appearing as
an Ugly Sister and as Abanazar in
Aladdin. We always used a basic
outline and wrote our own scripts.
Essentially, music was added,
with classic tunes alternating with
the latest chart hits.
My favourite local panto is
played at the old De La Salle
clubhouse every February
for a few nights. The
players adapt a
common story (eg
Sherlock Holmes)
and include many
songs, local
references and the
corniest humour.
They do not take
it too seriously and the
prompt is heard very frequently.
However, the spirit of pantomime
is captured as the cast have such
fun, fooling around.
My primary school housed one
of the best panto groups in the
area and we had the privilege
of seeing this form of theatre for
free every year. I remember we
laughed so much as we walked
home from school and I am sure
many children got the acting bug
from this experience.
I personally prefer the amateur
pantomimes to the professional
versions. I have seen some
poor stuff at the Lyceum, but an
evening with Manor or Darnall
or the other local groups usually
means a great night out.
David Manning
Oh Yes It Is!
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Pies and Prejudice: In search
of the North
by Stuart Maconie
Stuart Maconie is a wellknown
broadcaster who
works for the BBC. He
spent his childhood and
early adulthood in Wigan,
but now lives in London.
This book is the result of a
nostalgic trip back to his roots
up north to see If It is as he
remembers it. It is a book about
a northerner in exile going on a
journey in search of the north.
He wants to discover if the
places, the people, the music,
the food,the landscape and
especially the humour are the
same or have changed since he
left. Is the north still distinct from
London and the south of England
or has it lost its distinctiveness?
I found the book fascinating
reading, mainly because he
writes about places I know
well. He writes about Yorkshire,
Derbyshire, the North East and
Lancashire towns and cities as
they are now and also how they
came into being. His love of these
places is obvious to the reader.
He writes honestly, but with
great affection. I loved his
description of Bury Market, a
place very dear to his heart and
to mine. He captures the magic of
it beautifully as he describes the
famous Bury black pudding as ”a
delicacy that sorts out the men
from the boys, the lads from the
jessies, the north from the south,”
and oven bottom muffins as, “the
second greatest contribution to
world cuisine”.
He loves Uncle Joe’s mint
balls and humbugs as well as
the amazing fi sh and meat
stalls. It’s a place where you can
buy almost
anything, and
if you want a
cheap version
with an
unconvincing
logo, go to
Bury Market!
Bury is just
one of the
many places
he writes
about with
honesty and
wit. He had
me laughing
out loud
quite a few
times.
To what
conclusions
does he come? Is it
just “grim up north” as some
of his London friends are led
to believe by the way we are
often portrayed in television and
radio programmes? Is the north
different from the south of the
country? Well, his conclusion is a
big yes! The north still is distinct
from the south. According to
Stuart,we still see an afternoon’s
snow as an excuse for sledging,
not a state of emergency. It
is about realising that the best
place to drive a Range Rover
is Cumbria not Islington. Where
you leave your jacket at home
in November because you don’t
want to look soft, and where
dinner is at midday. He found a
distinctive northern humour and
spirit. I love the north and I loved
this book.
Ann Lomax
St Chad’s Third Age Book
Group
Book Review
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Offi ce: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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Registers 2016
Baptism
September
25 Elijah James BELL
Thanksgiving
September
4 Luca John Bailey
Weddings
October
15 Daniel David Edwards &
Jessica Elena Hill
(married at St James’, Norton)
22 Nicholas James Myers &
Jessica Hill
(married at St James’, Norton)
Do you need somewhere to
hold a meeting or event?
St Chad’s has two rooms available for
hire at Church House, 56 Abbey Lane
Call 0114 274 5086 for details
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.
• If you have had a new baby and would
like to celebrate that baby’s birth with
a service in church then please come
to one of our thanksgiving and baptism
mornings at St Chad’s.
The morning will explain the difference
between the two services and give
parents an opportunity to ask any
questions.
Please call the church offi ce on 0114
274 5086 if you are interested in
attending.
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Church Offi ce: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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Contacts
WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD
CHURCH OFFICE
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 email: offi ce@stchads.org
Please note: The church offi ce has been relocated during our building works – please contact us via telephone
or email during this time
Vicar Toby Hole (Vicarage) 274 9302
email: toby@stchads.org
Curate Duncan Bell 274 5086
email: duncan@stchads.org
Assistant Minister for the elderly Yvonne Smith 274 5086
Readers
Daren Craddock, Amy Hole, Pauline
Johnson and Yvonne Smith 274 5086
Youth Worker Nick Seaman 274 5086
email: nick@stchads.org
Besom in Sheffi eld Steve Winks 07875 950170
Impact magazine Tim Hopkinson 274 5086
email: impact@stchads.org
Church Wardens Ann Firth 274 5086
Ann Lomax 274 5086
Deputy Wardens Linda McCann 274 5086
David Green 274 5086
Uniformed Groups
Group Scout Leader Ian Jackson 235 3044
Guide Leader Jemma Taylor 296 0555
CHURCH HOUSE
56 Abbey Lane
Bookings Helen Reynolds 274 5086
VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.stchads.org
PLEASE NOTE: The inclusion of advertisements in Impact in no way means the
advertiser is endorsed or recommended by St Chad’s Church.
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Offi ce: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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website: www.stchads.org
764 Chesterfield Road, Woodseats, Sheffield, S8 0SE
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Office: 9 Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
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