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St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats
Church Office: Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA
Tel: (0114) 274 5086
9am Traditional Communion Service
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April/May 2019
WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD
Sunday April 14
Easter worship
at St Chad’s
PALM SUNDAY
Celebrate Easter with us at St Chad’s
Full details of all our Easter services are inside
11am Lifted Family Service
Thursday April 18
MAUNDY THURSDAY
10am Our weekly service of Holy
Communion
Friday April 19
GOOD FRIDAY
10am Good Friday Family Service
(especially for children)
followed by hot cross buns
1-3pm Meditations Around the Cross
including music from the choir
Sunday April 21
EASTER SUNDAY
9am Easter Celebration with
Holy Communion
11am Family Service with
Holy Communion
Come and celebrate the risen Jesus!
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Sunday April 14
Thursday April 18
Friday April 19
at St Chad’s
PALM SUNDAY
MAUNDY THURSDAY
GOOD FRIDAY
9am Traditional Co munion Service
1am Lifted Family Service
10am Our w ekly service of Holy
Co munion
10am G od Friday Family Service
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Most people who drive can remember their
fi rst car. For many it feels like an entry into
adulthood, a rite of passage, to have your own
set of car keys, your own set of wheels and to
drive off into the sunset (or at least down the M1)
with the world before you.
My fi rst car was a red Citroen 2CV. I have very few fond
memories of it. On cold and damp days you would have
to start it with a crankhandle whilst kneeling in the road,
possibly in a pool of oil. It lurched dangerously sideways if
you ever took a corner at 20mph. ‘Air conditioning’ meant
opening the vents to the engine and running the risk of
inhaling fumes. On the plus side, you could (after some
effort) roll back the top on hot and sunny days and whilst
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the car had very little luggage space, your could stick bookcases
vertically through the roof, although this made cornering really quite
scary. It could reach the heady speeds of 60mph downhill with a
following wind and at such times you could imagine that you were flying
a First World War biplane.
Sadly, after driving it for ten years, our car came a cropper whilst trying
to negotiate a large hill on the M40 near High Wycombe. Driving since
then has never quite recaptured the thrill of the open road, although I do
now drive with some confi dence that I will reach my destination.
There are almost 38 million vehicles registered on Britain’s roads.
That is approximately one for every two people in the country. Thankfully
not everyone drives their car at the same time, although travelling on
the motorways on August bank holiday can certainly feel like they do.
Driving, which 50 years ago used to be a leisure activity undertaken for
fun, now feels more like a stressful chore. I prefer travelling by train,
although that is not always a hassle-free experience.
Our love affair with the car is undergoing a dramatic change. We are
even more aware now than we have been of the polluting dangers of
these horseless carriages. Diesel engines are being rapidly phased
out, electric cars are expected to be the norm within 20 years and car
manufacturers in Britain are downsizing or moving away. Driverless
cars may be just a few years ahead.
Perhaps my experience of ten years of driving a tin-can-on-wheels
has made me jaundiced towards the motor car, but I don’t feel any great
lament at the prospect of its passing, especially if the decline in car
ownership resulted in greater investment in public transport
(though I’m not holding my breath). The advent of the
automobile gave humans great freedom at a terrible price
to our health and environment. If a cleaner, greener and
healthier future could be made possible through new
technology and a change in human behaviour then that
surely is something to be welcomed.
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Celebrate Easter with us at St Chad’s
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April/May 2019
Easter worship
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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 Abbeydale
Industrial Hamlet Visitors Centre;
•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.
•Fridays - 10.30am: Graves Park.
Meet in the main entrance, Graves
Leisure Centre.
Call 07505 639524 or visit www.
healthwalksinsheffield.btck.co.uk
for more details about any of the
walks.
April 5
Darkest Hour
Greenhill Library
7.30pm
An evening cinema event at
Greenhill Library showing 2017
Second World War drama Darkest
Hour.
Suggested donation of £5,
including refreshments and a raffle
ticket.
April 5
A Celebration of Russian Music
St Andrew’s Church, Psalter Lane
7.30pm
Violinst Lucy Phillips and pianist
David Hammond present an
evening of Russian music.
Tickets £12 and £5 for under 18s.
Call in for a Cuppa
at Church House, 56 Abbey Lane
10am to 11.45am
on the last Saturday of each month
Bring & Buy (new items)
Handicrafts and Home Baking
April 6
Litter Pick
Fraser Estate
10am
Join members of St Chad’s and
the community at The Dale end of
Fraser Drive for a litter pick.
April 6
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Greenhill Library
2pm
A showing of the classic children’s
movie. Suggested donation £3
adults and £2 children.
April 7
Pedlar’s Corner Flea Market
The Abbeydale Picture House
10am-3pm
Flea market, antiques, arts, crafts,
makers and salvage stalls.
April 10-13
Beyond a Joke
Dronfi eld Civic Hall
7.30pm
Dronfield Players present Beyond a
Joke, a comedy by Derek Benfield.
For tickets, priced £8 or £7
concessions, call 01246 417850 or
07596 275496.
April 10 and 11
Easter Lambing
Whirlow Hall Farm
11am-3pm
Meet the new lambs at Whirlow
Hall Farm. Activities include Easter
Egg Hunt, crafts, face painting and
Punch and Judy. Farm entrance is
under 14s £4, adults £5, family £16.
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St Chad‟s Church Offices, 15 Camping Lane, Sheffield S8 0GB.
April 13
City Of Sheffield Youth Orchestra
Health Spring Walks Concert
Mondays
Sheffield Cathedral
– 10am: Graves Park.
7.30pm
Meet
The
at
City
the
of
Animal
Sheffield
Farm
Youth
car park;
Tuesdays Orchestra welcomes – 10.30am: soloist Ecclesall Thalie
Woods. Knights Meet to perform at Abbeydale a double bill
Industrial of Scheherazade Hamlet; by Ravel and
Thursdays Rimsky Korsakov. – 10.30am:
Lowedges. Meet at the Community
Wing,
April
Lowedges
14 and 28
Junior School.
Abbeydale Miniature Railway
Abbeydale
Call 0114
Road
203 9337.
South
1-5pm
National The regular Council open for days Divorced, at
Single Abbeydale and Widowed Miniature Railway.
Tuesdays 8-11pm
Norton April 14 Country Club
Club
Farmers’
offering
Market
friendship and social
Greenhill Library
activities.
11am - 3pm
Call Magdalen on 0114
2394326. April 26
The Sheffield Free Bird
January Challenge 30 - February 5
AEGON Greenhill British LibraryTennis Tour
7.30pm
Graves
Bird watcher
Tennis
Pete
and
Brown
Leisure
tells
Centre
of his
World 2016 ranked challenge players to see compete how many
alongside bird species local he Sheffield could find players. in the
Sheffield Call 0114 area 283 in 9900. a year.
Tickets are £5.
February 5
Book
April
Sale
27
Call in for a Cuppa
36
Church
Crawshaw
House,
Grove,
56 Abbey
Beauchief
Lane
10am-12pm
- 11.45am
Good Tea, coffee quality second-hand biscuits, books,
for cakes, sale in jams aid and of the preserves, Alzheimer‟s
Society. tombola, Donations craft stall of and paperback bric a brac.
novels In aid or of Support biographies Dogs. in good
condition
May 3
are welcome (but not
larger A Star books is Born due to space
limitations). Greenhill Library
7.30pm
February A showing 5 of the 2018 version of A
Free Star Environmental Is Born from first-time Activities director
Millhouses
and star Bradley
Park
Cooper.
10.30am-12.30pm
May 5
Obstacle Pedlar’s course Corner and Flea stream Market
dipping The Abbeydale activities Picture for 8 - 13 House year
olds.
10am-3pm
A mixture of general flea market
February
stalls and specialist
8-12
antiques,
vintage, retro, arts, crafts, makers
Jamaica and salvage Inn stalls.
Ecclesall All Saints Church Hall
7.30pm May 5
A Book play Sale presented by Ecclesall
Theatre 36 Crawshaw Company. Grove, Tickets: Beauchief £5.
10am-12pm
Call 0114 230 8842.
Good quality second-hand books
for sale in aid of the Alzheimer’s
February Society. 12
Free Donations Environmental of good condition Activities
Millhouses paperback novels Park or biographies
1.30-3.30pm
are welcome.
Nature quiz trail, stream dipping
and
May
bug
12
hunting activities for 8 - 13
Abbeydale Miniature Railway
year Abbeydale olds. Road South
1-5pm Call 0114 263 4335.
The regular open days at
February Abbeydale 12 Miniature Railway.
Free Tickets Environmental are £1.50 per person Activities per
Ecclesall
ride.
Woods Sawmill
10.30am-12.30pm
May 17
Nature The Tenants quiz trail, and stream Workers dipping of
and Abbey bug Dale hunting Forge activities for 8 - 13
year Greenhill olds. Library
7.30pm Call 0114 235 6348.
Pauline Burnett talks about the
February
successes
20
and failures of the men
who strived to develop Abbey Dale
Why Forge Not and Try the A lives Bike of some of their
Greenhil workers. Park
10am-2pm
Rediscover May 25 your cycling skills in
Greenhill Call in for Park. a Cuppa The rangers will
provide
Church House,
a bike, helmet
56 Abbey
and
Lane
10 - 11.45am
instruction.
Tea, coffee and
Meet
biscuits,
at the Bowls
books,
Pavilion, cakes, jams Greenhill and preserves, Park.
Booking tombola, is craft essential. stall and bric a brac.
In Call aid of 0114 Tearfund. 283 9195.
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of variety services of services. and anyone For is more
welcome information to attend. see page For 26. more
details see the Abbey notice
board.
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Life in the Cockpit
Chris Jones is a pilot with
British Airways. James
Norris asked him about his
work...
When did you know you wanted to be
a pilot?
I think I’ve always wanted to fl y. I
considered many different career
options, but I always wanted to do
something with aeroplanes.
How long do you have to train
to become a pilot and what
qualifications do you need?
There are various routes to becoming
an airline pilot. The fastest, and probably
most popular, option is the integrated
Air Transport Pilots Licence course
where you get all the licences required
to fl y a commercial jet aircraft. It can
take only 18 months, requires no formal
qualifi cations to start, but is very tough
work.
So how does it work… do you fly
somewhere, and then fly back after a
few hours?
It varies. Depending on the lengths of
sectors (fl ights), I fl y between one and
four sectors in a day. I report for work at
the airport an hour before departure time
and meet with the captain (to discuss
the aircraft, weather, notices for airspace
and airports). We then proceed to the
aircraft and set it up for departure. Most
destinations I fl y to are one-and-a-half
to three-and-a-half hours away, but
between fl ights we are normally on the
ground for about 45 minutes before the
return fl ight. This allows for refuelling,
cleaning and for me to disembark the
aircraft, but not for sightseeing!
What do you like about your job?
There are so many great things about
fl ying! No two days are ever the same:
I fl y with different crews, to different
destinations with different weather. I’m
hugely privileged to get some of the
greatest views in the world, whether
it be crossing the Alps on a crisp
winter’s morning, seeing amazing cloud
formations or spotting constellations
and shooting stars when fl ying at night.
Getting a landing just right is also pretty
satisfying!
What is your favourite view from the
cockpit?
There are lots to choose from, but the
approach in to Heathrow over the centre
of London is hard to beat!
Do you have a favourite airport?
I love fl ying to lots of different airports
for lots of different reasons. The view of
Venice on fi nal approach is great and
Funchal airport with its runway built on
stilts always takes my breath away!
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What don’t you like about your job?
There are definitely some
disadvantages to my job, the main one
is how it impacts my home life. Flights
do not stick to Monday to Friday 9-5, so
my working hours are far from sociable.
In the summer plenty of flights depart
before 6am and go right through the
night, and it can definitely take its toll.
The other big downside is that my
roster is only published two weeks
before the start of any month, making
it difficult to meet up with friends and to
commit to activities outside of work.
How many miles do you travel in a
year?
I track the hours I have flown rather
than the miles. But, I generally accrue
around 800 flying hours a year, so
assuming the plane travels around
400mph, then that is roughly 320,000
miles a year. That is a massive
approximation though!
Do you get to fly as a passenger for
free?
Not quite! We get given up to two sets of
tickets to use a year, but we have to pay
the tax. It’s still a great perk though.
What’s been your scariest moment as
a pilot?
The fi rst onboard announcement I had to
make during my training! It made me far
more nervous than the actual fl ying.
And the weirdest moment as a pilot?
This is a difficult one! It can be very
surprising to fi nd out what is in the cargo
hold: F1 components, Parmesan cheese
and dogs, for example.
And finally, the worst thing you’ve
ever eaten on a plane?
Generally, the food is pretty good.
Although my heart always sinks when I
see the mushroom frittata arrive on my
tray!
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Easter is unusually late
this year. Because of the
complications of calculating
the date, Easter can fall
anytime between March 21
and April 25. This year’s April 21
date for Easter is the latest it has
been since 2000 when, unusually,
Easter fell on St George’s Day and
it will not fall on a later date until
2038.
The late Easter has meant some
oddities with school holidays in
Sheffield as the council recently
made the (probably
sensible) decision
to fix the holidays
rather than follow
the vagaries of the
Christian calendar.
The children will
have been back
at school for a
full week before
they then enjoy the
extended bank holidays
of the Easter weekend.
A late Easter also means that the
festival coincides with the height of
spring. The trees should be well
underway in growing their fresh
greenery and blossom. An early
Easter can, as it did a few years
ago, bring snow and a sense that
winter is still very much on us.
So this year, Easter should bring
with it all the resonance of spring,
new life and new hope that is
appropriate to the season. There
is a tradition in some churches
to have a bare cross throughout
holy week and then to festoon it
with flowers on Easter morning. A
traditional Easter hymn is entitled
‘Now the Green Blade Rises’,
linking the resurrection of Jesus to
the greening of the world in spring.
As is very well known, the
word Easter is not a Christian
word. It comes from the pre-
Christian Anglo-Saxon worship
of the goddess Eostre (the
Christian missionaries were not
embarrassed when it came to
reusing the old customs for new
purposes). The historical death
of Jesus at the time of the Jewish
Passover around 30AD coincided
with the spring customs of the
northern Europeans, and so it is
that Easter holds both Christian
and pre-Christian roots and
traditions.
The resurrection of
Jesus, which so
powerfully motivated
the first Christians
to travel and tell the
news of God’s love
to distant shores
and peoples, could
very naturally be
illustrated by the
processes of death
and rebirth in the natural
birth. Indeed, both Jesus
and St Paul used the metaphor
of a ‘dead’ grain giving birth to
something radically new when they
talked about the new life that God
brings.
In a world that is desperately
seeking hope, and seemingly
finding little, this year’s Easter may
bring an ancient reminder that out
of the darkness of winter, new life
grows.
As the above mentioned hymn
says:
When our hearts are wintry,
grieving or in pain,
Jesus’ touch can call us back to
life again.
Fields of our hearts that dead
and bare have been:
Love is come again like wheat
that springeth green.
Rev Toby Hole
A Late Easter
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Making Twenty-One Hops t
Twenty-one Hops to Nairobi
– I know that sounds like an
old movie title, but this is a
brief account of a Christian
organisation, which grew from
one man’s vision of peace at the end of
the Second World War and an epic flight
from London to Nairobi to establish the
world’s busiest humanitarian airline –
Mission Aviation Fellowship.
The visionary was Murray Kendon,
a New Zealand pilot with RAF Coastal
Command, who believed that if planes
could be used for war, they could also
be used for peace – to bring help and
hope to impoverished people in isolated
places and show them God’s love. He
also believed that his vision should be
carried out in partnership with overseas
churches and missions – a taskforce of
specialists serving God worldwide.
In 1944, Murray took his ideas to Dr
Thomas Cochrane, a pioneer medical
missionary in China and founder of the
Mildmay Movement, who asked him
if he could begin the project at once.
After much soul searching and praying,
it became clear to Murray that God had
given him not only the vision but also
the call to make MAF become a reality.
Jack Hemmings and Stuart King
The following year, he was demobbed
from the RAF and moved to the Mildmay
Centre in London. And in the dying
embers of World War Two, MAF was born.
Murray was joined there by other
ex-RAF officers: Squadron Leader Jack
Hemmings, who had won the Air Force
Cross in India, and Flight Lieutenant
Stuart King, engineer officer for 247
Fighter Squadron during the D-Day
landings, who learned to fly soon after.
Having considered mission fields as far
away as China, it was finally agreed by
all at MAF to start in Africa with a tenmonth
air and ground survey. Two years
later, on January 13, 1948, Jack and
Stuart took off from Croydon Airport in a
twin-engine Miles Gemini for Paris – the
first of 21 hops to Nairobi.
Each stop, of course, was for
refuelling, sometimes with layovers for
the pilots. From Paris, they continued
down to Lyon and Marseilles, then
across the Mediterranean to Corsica
and Tunis. Two days and five hops
later, they were in Cairo, where they
upgraded their radio transmitter for future
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to Nairobi
communication in the Sudan from a
stall in the Muski Bazaar! After fi ve days
in Cairo, they crossed into Sudan and
fl ew on via Wadi Halfa and Atbara to
Khartoum. Their African survey was well
now underway.
Having intended to reach Nairobi via
Addis Ababa, Jack and Stuart fi rst fl ew
east to Asmara in Eritrea, where they
had to make an emergency landing
half a mile from the airfi eld. Reluctantly,
they abandoned their proposed route
over Ethiopia and returned to Khartoum,
reaching Nairobi, the last of fi ve more
hops, via Malakal and Juba – 27 eventful
days after leaving Croydon.
Now, 70 years on, Mission Aviation
Fellowship has become the world’s
largest humanitarian airline, with more
than 1,290 staff serving in over 26
countries and a fl eet of 109 aircraft
taking off or landing somewhere on the
planet every four minutes!
And all from the God-given vision
of one man, the late Murray Kendon,
and the faith, prayers and support of
thousands more.
You can read a much fuller account of
the fi rst MAF flight in Hope Has Wings by
Stuart King, or watch archive footage on
the Flights of Faith DVD – both available
at www.maf-uk.org/give/shop-with-maf.
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Films Put the Focus on
So many classic feature films
have been made involving
various modes of transport
as the theme. Just at random
they include Murder on the
Orient Express, On the Buses and
Those Magnificent Young Men in their
Flying Machines. The list goes on and
on. Films about racing cars, motorcycle
hoodlums and the aversion of disaster
in mid-air abound. There have also been
17 feature films about the sinking of
the Titanic plus 25 dramas on TV. The
viewing public is obviously gripped by
what happens when we travel.
There are also lots of film
documentaries which cover transport.
The most famous is Night Train. It is
75 years since the ground-breaking
documentary film about the mail train
from Euston to Scotland was first
screened. The 23-minute film covered
a routine subject, but succeeded in
capturing the public’s imagination with a
Benjamin Britten score and featuring a
now-famous WH Auden poem. It is often
shown on TV.
One of my favourite movies is Bicycle
Thieves. I first saw it when undertaking
a film studies course at the Showroom
Cinema around 20 years ago. Since then
I have watched it at the cinema and at
home on DVD. Bicycle Thieves is a 1948
Italian drama film directed by Vittorio De
Sica. The film follows the story of a poor
father searching post-Second World
War Rome for his stolen bicycle, without
which he will lose the job which was to
be the salvation of his young family. His
son also tries to help. A heart-warming
film, Bicycle Thieves is widely regarded
as a masterpiece of Italian
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neo-realism, a movement which began
with Rome, Open City in 1945 and which
attempted to give cinema a new degree
of realism.
An unusual film about a small boat is
All is Lost starring Robert Redford and
made in 2013. What is unusual about
this is that Redford is the only actor and
that there is very little dialogue in the
movie. In the middle of the Indian Ocean,
Redford, a lone sailor, wakes one
morning to find that a shipping container
has fallen into the sea and his boat has
collided with it causing a hole in the
hull. The film tells the story about how,
alone, he attempts a repair and then how
he tries to survive the elements with a
damaged vessel. Amazingly most of this
film what shot in a studio.
Films about cars with names feature
throughout movie history from Disney’s
Herbie through to Stephen King’s
Christine and the old British favourite
Genevieve which I saw in the cinema in
the 1950s. Road movies feature long-
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fi lm-goers. Easy Rider springs to mind
but that featured motorbikes and usually
the mode of transport is the car.
Little Miss Sunshine, an independent
US fi lm which won several awards is
a road-movie featuring a family group
who are travelling in a Volkswagen T2
Microbus, which falls to bits as they go.
The family are taking their little girl to a
beauty pageant which she has set her
heart on. They travel from Albuquerque,
New Mexico to Redondo Beach,
California. Their adventures on the way,
and the interaction of the characters are
hilarious. The fi lm was made in 2006 and
will be enjoyed for its offbeat appeal. A
very funny fi lm.
I think that what appeals to movie fans
about fi lms involving transport is that
they move along at a fast pace, there
are usually mechanical failures and
problems on the journey and there is
plenty of opportunity for romance among
passengers. Keep the audience awake!
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Services at St Chad’s
Sunday Services
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Sunday Services
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Weekday
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Weekday Services
Weekday Services
Morning Prayers
Morning Prayers
Morning Prayers
Morning Prayer
Evening Prayers
Evening Prayers
Evening Prayers
Monday to Thursday at 9am
Monday to Thursday at 9am
Monday to Thursday at 9am
• Monday to Thursday at 9am - a half-hour service
of prayer and Bible readings in church
Monday to Thursday at 5pm
• Monday Friday at to 9am Thursday - up to at an 5pm hour of prayer, blessing
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11am
Lifted Family Service
Thursday April 18
MAUNDY THURSDAY
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Our weekly service of Holy
Communion
Friday April 19
GOOD FRIDAY
10am
1-3pm
Good Friday Family Service
(especially for children)
followed by hot cross buns
Meditations Around the Cross
including music from the choir
Sunday April 21
EASTER SUNDAY
9am
11am
Easter Celebration with
Holy Communion
Family Service with
Holy Communion
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The Sights and Sounds f
Nenya is the Ring Of Water
from Tolkien’s Lord of
the Rings and is also the
traditional Norfolk Broads
design four/fi ve-berth cabincruiser
we call our mobile second
home.
She tows a Lugsail and an
Access303 (Hansa 303) dinghy, and
her permanent mooring is at Hoveton
on the River Bure.
We bought it in 2002 from the
grandparents of two of our godchildren
who had previously allowed us to
take her out on our own. This had
been an occurrence so rare that
another boat owner asked
where her owner was.
The fi rst things we had
to do were Boat Safety
Scheme improvements.
These included hot air
heating instead of radiant
gas, and a new loo and
water tank. Over the
years we added mains
electric plug-in facilities and
an immersion heater – for
hot showers in the morning and
fewer worries about fl at batteries.
Then in 2015 the wheelhouse was
replaced, and rotting timber and
decking renewed at Swallowtail
Boatyard on Womack Water. This
time we were able to share the work,
providing the unskilled labour and
initially cleaning and anti-fouling
the hull (I looked as if I’d had a blue
rinse!). Later we did more interesting
and constructive jobs.
Since retiring we’ve aimed to spend
60 days a year cruising the Northern
Rivers and Broads if we only have
about a week. The Southern Rivers
and Broads need ten to 14 days – to
get there takes eight hours’ steady
motoring through Great Yarmouth and
Breydon Water and has to be timed
to coincide with slack water at Great
Yarmouth. Starts at 6am are not
unusual!
Members of our family join us
regularly, the youngest even managed
to fall in, fi ve minutes after arriving!
A bird-watching highlight of 2018,
crossing Breydon Water,
was Shelduck
ducklings in a group
of 25 with only
two adults (we
decided they
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from Nenya
must be in a crèche). There were
also two bittern sightings, otters
playing, grass snakes swimming
and seals on the coast – all
recorded in the daily log.
Other highlights include sailing
together in the dinghies – passage
sailing while Nenya is helmed to
the meeting point by the other one
of us; sailing with the Waveney
Sailability club on Oulten Broad
in my Access303; and acting as
mother boat for Broads Adventure.
We have also enjoyed visiting
and worshipping in churches within
walking distance, good food, new
friends, wide skies and getting
caught in thunder storms. These all
make our life on Nenya exciting.
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Services Our City’s at St Chad’s Trams
Sheffield has a long history
of trams travelling through
its valleys and up its
seven hills.
The first horsedrawn
tram served the city in 1873 and
ran between Lady’s Bridge and
Attercliffe, later being extended to
Brightside and Tinsley.
Soon afterwards, new routes
were added to Heeley, where a
tram depot was built, as well as
Nether Edge and Hillsborough.
Electric trams arrived in Sheffield
at the end of the nineteenth
century and by 1902 all the routes
were electrified.
In our area of the city, tracks
ran to Woodseats, Meadowhead,
Millhouses and Beauchief.
In 1927, the Beauchief and
Meadowhead lines were joined by
track laid along Abbey Lane.
Sheffield Tramway Company’s
original horse drawn tram network
was nine-and-a-half miles long.
At its greatest extent, a reported
100 miles of tram routes were
operated by Sheffield Corporation,
which had taken over the tramway
system in July 1896.
The last route, Beauchief to
Vulcan Road, closed on the
afternoon of Saturday October 8,
1960. An illuminated car, followed
by a procession of 14 trams,
carried passengers and council
dignitaries from Beauchief to the
Tinsley depot.
Eight of the Sheffield trams are
now at Crich Tramway Village in
Derbyshire. Other trams are at
Beamish and the South Yorkshire
Transport Museum.
Thirty-four years later, in March
1994, Supertram arrived in
Sheffield at a cost of £240m, the
first line opening to Meadowhall.
Now there are four lines, and a
new tram-train sharing the railway
line to Rotherham.
There have been many
calls for the tram route
to be extended west,
covering Abbeydale.
Maybe one of these
days the trams will
return to Woodseats and
Beauchief – we will have
to wait and see.
The Sheffield 510
tram – Sheffield’s last
tram – now at Crich
Tramway Village in
Derbyshire with the
destination showing
as Meadowhead,
Woodseats Road
(Millhouses).
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Services at St Chad’s
Transport in Biblical Times
Transport options today
are linked to a number of
factors: wealth, geography
and infrastructure, to
mention a few. Given
suitable finances, in Sheffield, I
could travel by bus, tram, taxi or
train. It wouldn’t take long to get to
an airport either. Where I grew up,
in a small village, one bus came
through a few times a day. In
places like Vietnam, cars are too
expensive for many, so scooters
and motorbikes are the preferred
form of transport.
In biblical times, transport
options on land were
obviously a lot more
limited: by foot or by
animal. Travelling was
hard work and took a
long time. The climate
was generally warm
in biblical locations,
so it was tiring and
plans for water
stops (at wells
or springs) were
necessary. It
was dangerous
too, due to
wild animals and
robbers.
Oxen are slow, but powerful
animals, and were used to pull
carts or wagons. Camels were
used for long distance travel and
transportation of goods in the
desert and hot places, due to their
strength, natural protection from
the elements, and not needing to
stop regularly for water. Horses
were expensive, generally only
used by kings or armies, and
would be used to transport
soldiers or pull chariots.
Donkeys are mentioned
throughout the Bible as a
means of transportation. The
most amusing incident, and
well worth a read, is the story of
Balaam travelling on his donkey
in Numbers 22. Balaam is not
paying attention to God and so
God allows the donkey to speak!
Other stories are probably more
familiar. In the story of Joseph, the
dreaming, coat-wearing favourite
son of Jacob, his brothers come
to him from Canaan to Egypt on
donkeys to collect grain due to
famine (Genesis 42-44). One of
Jesus’ most famous stories, the
Parable of the Good Samaritan,
involves a man travelling from
Jerusalem to Jericho. He
gets attacked and beaten
by robbers and left for
dead. It is a kind
stranger with a
donkey who takes
him to an inn and
cares for him
(Luke 25).
Jesus also rides
on a donkey, and
that story links
us with this time
of the year. Palm
Sunday (April
14) is where the
church remembers Jesus coming
into Jerusalem as a humble king,
not on a powerful horse, but
on a donkey. Here people laid
down cloaks and branches on
the ground (Matt 21). This begins
what is known as Holy Week,
including Good Friday (April 19),
where Christians remember the
death of Jesus on the cross. But
Easter Sunday (April 21) is when
Christians remember Jesus’
resurrection. This is at the core of
the Christian faith, that Jesus died
and rose again so that humanity
might be reunited with God.
Rev James Norris
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A relaxed and friendly place for a chat
Coffee morning for anyone over 50
Tuesdays 10.15 -11.15am
St Chad’s Church,
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Travelling the Med with S
What was travelling like
in the fi rst century?
Uncomfortable! On
land solid Roman roads
enabled reliable travel.
Sea voyages were another matter. If
you needed to get to Alexandria or
Rome, you had to board a cargo vessel,
negotiate the fare, hunker down on deck
with no cabins or bed and breakfast
supplied. You were dependent on the
wind and shipping lanes were shut down
for four months each winter. Still, it made
your voyage a lot shorter – typically at
fi ve knots it took about a week to cross
the Med. from west to east.
Enter St Paul, missionary and traveller
extraordinaire. It is estimated he clocked
up over 10,000 miles. He and some
companions (sometimes with Luke
who kept a journal – the second part
of the Acts of the Apostles) made three
missionary journeys roughly between 46
and 60 AD. All of them were disturbingly
eventful. At fi rst, in Cyprus, he got a
good reception but once in Asia Minor
(Turkey) he experienced great hostility
(nearly stoned to death, fl eeing cities at
dead of night); beaten and imprisoned in
Greece all because of his preaching in
synagogues and market places – even
in the prestigious Areopagus at Athens.
Later he was arrested in Jerusalem and
at his trial, appealed to Caesar as a
Roman citizen. So began the perilous
journey by ship to Rome.
Ignoring Paul’s advice, the captain
set sail in winter from Syria. Soon they
encountered the dreaded ‘Northeaster’
and before long the boat was
shipwrecked off Malta. Only by jumping
overboard did Paul and crew narrowly
escape death. Once spring came, he
was off to Rome to await trial. Here we
lose track of him, but he probably came
before Caesar. Tradition says he was
martyred there.
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Saint Paul
What made him travel so far? Was
he a diehard globetrotter? The answer
is an unforgettable encounter with the
risen Jesus. He was captivated by his
love in dying on the cross to save him
from being a persecutor to becoming a
preacher. You couldn’t silence him! He
had to share the Good News wherever
he went; that God could change the
most desperate people and bring them
hope. He also ensured that those who
responded, were cared for in loving
church communities where slave and
free were treated equally.
And he was willing to suffer extreme
deprivations, even death, to achieve this.
What an amazing traveller!
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Have a Go Show
It’s nearly time to get planting,
sewing, baking and painting!
Our community
‘village’ show
is back again
this year on
Saturday,
September 14.
And it’s an excellent
chance to ‘Have a Go’
at something new,
show off your many
talents, challenge a
friend or neighbour to
join in and have some
fun.
You can enter one or
more of the schedule’s
categories – the full
schedule will be printed
in the next Impact and
available on St Chad’s
website at the same
time. It’s a great day
and we do hope you’ll
consider joining in.
Tidy up time
Join us on the Fraser
Estate on April 6 for a
litter pick.
Meet with members of
St Chad’s and the local
community at The Dale
end of Fraser Drive at
10am. Bring appropriate
clothing and footwear
and we will bring the rest.
email info@beauchiefabbey.org.uk
Services
April & May 2019
Easter Services
14th April 11am HC Palm Sunday
18th April 7pm HC Maundy Thursday
19th April 2pm Good Friday
Congregation Passion Reading
21st April 11am HC Easter Sunday
Holy Communion:
April
Sun 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th 11.00am
May
Sun 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th 11.00am
Thurs 30th 7pm Ascension Day
Evensong ( third Sun 3pm )
19th May
Beauchief Abbey is
Open Every Sunday
All Welcome
Our Services are based on the Book of Common Prayer,
Refreshments are served afterwards
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We Are All Completely Beside
Ourselves
by Karen Joy Fowler
This story is about the
refl ections of a young girl,
in an ordinary American
family, as she looks back
on her childhood.
We begin reading the account
of life in the Cooke family where
three siblings, Lowell, Fern and
Rosemary, are growing up.
At fi rst it all seems pretty
normal until you realise that this
family is not a normal family.
In fact, as a family, they are
extremely dysfunctional; the
children being used by their
parents as part of a very weird
social experiment.
Rosemary says her story
begins in the middle, as she
looks back on her childhood and
then her life up to the present day.
She describes how she comes to
terms with her strange childhood
and how she coped with the
disappearance of her sister Fern
when they were both fi ve years
old.
The twist in the tale comes early
on when Rosie makes a startling
statement and says: “but…of
course…you knew that...”
I found the ending of her story
to be cruel and heartbreaking. I
think that is why persevered up to
the end: I wanted to know what
happened. However, a few of
the group gave up on the book,
simply because it jumped about in
time and made assumptions that
the reader knew exactly what was
happening.
A cleverly written book which
covered lots of issues. See what
you think…
Vicki Harris
Vicki is a member of St Chad’s
Third Age Book Group
Book Review
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Registers 2019
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 office. For funerals please tell
your funeral director that you would like
to have a church service.
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January
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• 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
office on
0114 274
5086 if
you are
interested in
attending.
Every Wednesday
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1st & 3rd Wednesday evenings
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As part of an international
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