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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 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: Abbey Lane Linden Avenue Church House St Chad's Church & Church Office Camping Lane Chesterfield Road Abbey Lane School Cover photo by timlewisnm, www.flickr.com G. & M. LUNT LTD Independent family Funeral Directors erfect osts Kenwood Hall the perfect venue for your family occasions and celebrations 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 Whether you are booking a traditional wedding, a christening or looking for a venue for any family celebration, Kenwood Hall offers the perfect setting. Set in 12 acres of grounds this stunning hotel caters for all your special family events. To discuss all our available packages contact our Special Events Coordinator. Kenwood Hall, Kenwood Road, Sheffield, S7 1NQ Call 0114 258 3811 or visit www.kenwoodhallsheffield.co.uk St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats Church Office: Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA Tel: (0114) 274 5086 email: office@stchads.org Page 2 website: www.stchads.org 4783 Kenwood Hall 92x65.indd 1 05/12/2013 14:39
Have you noticed how, as a society, we are moving rapidly away from a word-based culture to a picture-based one? It may not be immediately obvious – books, real and electronic, still sell well – and the internet is full of words, encouraging and harmful. But the way that we interact with the world around us is increasingly pictorial and not literal. When I pick up my phone the fi rst thing I do is select an icon and by pressing it I am taken into a new world of social media, gaming or messaging. My computer is much the same and some of us now have smart televisions that look like a 50- inch phone screen. I’m 30 years too old for it, but I’m told that teenagers can now construct entire sentences through emojis. In fact there is even an emoji Bible translation. February/March <strong>2017</strong> WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD Signs, symbols and icons are the ways in which people have communicated and navigated their way around their social world for millennia. They existed long before the alphabet and the writing of the Far East is still based around pictograms, or characters draw a picture rather than simply communicate a sound. If you’ve ever tried fi nding your way around an airport in a non-Western country you will know just how the familiar and the baffl ing exist side by side depending on how easily we can recognise the signs. One of the reasons why Church and the Bible can seem so strange – even intimidating – to those coming to them for the fi rst time, is that they are full of symbols. The rite of baptism is the sign of entry into God’s new life and his Church. Holy Communion, with the tokens of bread and wine, is the symbol (amongst many other things) of Jesus’ death for us, the bread and the wine pointing us to the breaking of his body and the spilling of his blood. The language of the Bible is full of symbols showing us the reality of God’s love in Jesus Christ and his promise of eternal life. Some signs do no more than show us where the nearest toilets are or which app to use on our phone. Other symbols point to truths so astonishing and inexpressible that we can spend a lifetime exploring them and still not fully understand. Assailed by the fl ood of images and icons with which modern life presents us, it would be sad to miss the signs that really are life-changing. Signs and Symbols St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats Church Offi ce: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA Tel: (0114) 274 5086 Rev Toby Hole, Vicar, St Chad’s Church, Woodseats Page 3 email: offi ce@stchads.org website: www.stchads.org
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