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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 fi nd 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 fi nd us: Abbey Lane Linden Avenue St Chad's Church & Church Office Church House Abbey Lane School Camping Lane Chesterfield Road G. & M. LUNT LTD Independent family Funeral Directors A A personal family service at at all all times We We will visit you in in your own home to to make all all neccessary arrangements Pre-paid funeral plans available 0114 274 5508 gmluntltd@btconnect.com 36 36 Abbey Lane, Sheffield, S8 S8 0GB St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats Church Office: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA Tel: (0114) 274 5086 Page 2 email: office@stchads.org website: www.stchads.org
I wonder if you can remember Christmas Day 30 years ago? There might be no particular reason for you to do so, but for me one event sticks in my mind. It was whilst watching the news on December 25, 1989 that I saw footage of the fi nal events of the Romanian revolution and the toppling and execution of Nicolae Ceausescu, perhaps the most brutal of the Soviet Bloc dictators. Following on from the Queen’s Speech and whatever Christmas fi lm was showing that year, it seemed a rather odd way to end Christmas Day. WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD December 2019/January 2020 Ceausescu’s execution came at the end of a remarkable three months that began with mass demonstrations in East Germany, saw the Berlin Wall pulled down and revolutions throughout Eastern Europe. As an A-level history student at the time, it really felt as though I was living through history in the making, as indeed we were. Some were eager to go further, and declare that the end of history had been reached. Thirty years on and it feels as though history is alive and well. I still feel as though I am living through history in the making, although perhaps not with the same buoyant optimism of a 17-year-old. I can’t imagine anyone being foolish enough to declare the end of history again. For Christians, Christmas Day marks the pivot point of history. The Northumbrian monk, Bede, based all of human history around it. The years before Christmas were BC (Before Christ) and the years afterwards AD (anno domini). He got his calculations a bit wrong, placing Jesus’ birth a few years too late, but that aside it was pretty impressive! More than a pivot, though, Christmas is the point on which all history converges. The point in time where God becomes human is the point where human history becomes wrapped in eternity, the point at which every moment of human time is sanctifi ed and redeemed by the love of God. The death of a dictator on Christmas Day 1989 seemed a strange way of ending a day of peace and goodwill – especially after so many thousands had been killed in Romania – and yet it was also oddly fi tting because at its heart Christmas is about freedom and liberation – our freedom and liberation from evil, pain and death brought about by God’s coming amongst us as the man Jesus Christ. History will end only when all things are brought to completeness in God’s love. In the meantime as we live through history in the making, let us live in the light and love of the maker of history. Thirty Years On Rev Toby Hole, Vicar, St Chad’s Church, Woodseats St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats Church Office: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA Tel: (0114) 274 5086 Page 3 email: office@stchads.org website: www.stchads.org
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