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Busy Hands Coffee Morning Saturday, Busy Hands Coffee October morning 19 Saturday 19 th October 10am - 12.30pm 10am – 12:30pm St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue S8 0GA St Chad’s Church, Linden Ave, S8 0GA All proceeds going to Andy’s man club All proceeds going to ANDY’S MAN CLUB Hand-crafted gifts, raffle, cakes and much more MALLORN ROOFING CONTRACTORS 7 Dale View Road, Sheffield S8 0EJ ‘Phone 0114 235 6002 Mobile 07853 350 085 Email mallornroofing@hotmail.co.uk Specialists in... Re-Roofing Flat Roofing Ridge Pointing Replacing Damaged Slates and Tiles Guttering Storm Damage - Insurance Work FREE ROOF SURVEY 24 Hour Call-Out Service The Wall During Easter 2004, Richard Gamble, former chaplain to Leicester City FC, was carrying a cross around Leicestershire to lead people to think about Jesus. When he asked God what to do next, he was given a vision for a wall to be built of one million bricks, each linked to an answered prayer. Having prayed over that for another ten years, he fi nally felt the nudge to start acting on it. In April 2016, through a crowdfunding campaign, 772 donors raised £45,000 for a website for the Wall of Answered Prayer and an international competition to design it run by the Royal Institute of British Architects. Two months later, the website was completed and ready to capture one million answered prayers. By the end of that year, 133 entries to the RIBA competition – from 23 different countries – had been narrowed down to four fi nalists by the expert panel of judges plus one public vote winner. Their concept designs were unveiled in February 2017 at a parliamentary reception in London hosted by the Rt Hon Stephen Timms MP, a member of the judging panel. Six months before the idea of the Wall was given to Richard Gamble, a landowner had also received a vision to fund a national landmark about Jesus. In January 2018, the landowner donated ten St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats Church Office: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA Tel: (0114) 274 5086 Page 12 email: office@stchads.org website: www.stchads.org
of Answered Prayer acres (4.05 hectares) in a prime location near the M6/M42 junction, below the flight path serving Birmingham Airport. Following the unveiling in London, the RIBA competition continued, with the final five architects adapting their designs to the specifi c landscape. In May this year, the winner was announced – Snug Architects of Southampton. Their concept, inspired during a time of prayer, is a Möbius strip, a surface having only one side and one edge, formed by twisting one end of a rectangular strip – in this case one million bricks – through 180 degrees and joining it to the other end. Thus, it is a surface without beginning or end, which speaks of God’s eternal and triune nature and ensures that the wall’s message of his goodness unifi es and inhabits the whole structure. Visitors to the wall will be able to interact with the answered prayers in one of three ways. A mobile phone app will either bring up the written story of a specific prayer or its video, or the prayer will be experienced through a Virtual Reality reenactment with an onsite VR headset. Also on site will be a 24/7 Prayer Room, a park area for prayer and refl ection, trained chaplains providing support, a café and a Christian bookstore. The overall budget for the Wall is £10 million – all from private investment, since the project will not take any money from the public purse. Some will come from major donors and some from crowdfunding, which those involved in the project believe ‘is at the heart of the wall, as there is something special about building a national landmark that is funded by tens of thousands of people.’ Entry will be free and all profi ts raised from its ongoing operation, including the bookstore and car park, will fund one million bricks for social housing – 75 per cent in the UK and 25 per cent abroad. In August this year, the planning process began, at an estimated cost of £384,000. However, with various people donating their relevant skills, this has now been reduced to £210,000. While around 13,000 answered prayers have already been gathered in, and a further 137,000 are anticipated by the time the Wall is completed in 2022, the remaining 850,000 will be added in the years that follow. Of these, 75,000 will be stories of answered prayer from throughout the UK’s history – from St Augustine of Canterbury in the sixth century to World War Two in the 20th. For more information on the project – which has twice been featured on Songs of Praise – visit www.thewall.org.uk Stephen Dowson St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats Church Office: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA Tel: (0114) 274 5086 Page 13 email: office@stchads.org website: www.stchads.org
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