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August/September 2018<br />
WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD
WELCOME to Impact - the magazine of St Chad’s Church,<br />
Woodseats. Impact is published every two months and distributed<br />
to over 5,000 homes in S8.<br />
St Chad’s Church is committed to serving you - the people of<br />
Woodseats, Beauchief and Chancet Wood. To find out more about<br />
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It is a remarkable fact that Roman ruins are still as<br />
numerous and visible as they are. We have far<br />
more evidence of Roman buildings from 2,000<br />
years ago than we do of Anglo-Saxon buildings<br />
from 1,000 years ago, and it is quite possible that<br />
the Roman remains will long outlast whatever buildings<br />
that we erect now.<br />
One of the reasons for the durability of Roman<br />
construction lies in concrete. Perhaps you thought<br />
that concrete is the blight of the 20th century and<br />
that previous civilizations were more elegant in their<br />
construction projects, but the Romans were masters<br />
of making concrete. What’s more, the Romans made<br />
better concrete than we do, and to date we still don’t<br />
quite know how they did it.<br />
Modern concrete is practical but is not very durable. It suffers from<br />
“concrete cancer” and corrodes quickly when in contact with salt water.<br />
In contrast Roman concrete was designed to be laid under water and in<br />
fact was made stronger by it. Roman harbours, far from being destroyed<br />
by the storms raging against them were strengthened by the salt water<br />
lashing against them, creating crystals in the cracks that bound the<br />
concrete together even more strongly. Roman concrete has sometimes<br />
been called the most durable man-made substance ever used, and<br />
despite our technology we have not yet been able to imitate it.<br />
We are, thankfully, moving away from a view that strength is all about<br />
muscles, mental resilience and a ‘stiff upper lip’. Strength is something<br />
that comes much deeper from within us and can sometimes emerge<br />
unexpectedly in the hardest of situations. In my role as a vicar I often<br />
come across people buffeted and battered by the most terrible storms<br />
of life. So often I find that they have within them a quiet strength that<br />
has emerged out of their difficult experiences – a strength that they were<br />
perhaps unaware of before. Like Roman concrete, the lashing waves<br />
have somehow strengthened them and given them the resilience to go<br />
on.<br />
St Paul spent much of his life in Mediterranean ports<br />
so he may well have known something of the powers<br />
of Roman concrete. He certainly knew a lot about<br />
storms – both sea storms and the storms of life –<br />
and knew that God’s power was made perfect in his<br />
weakness, “For when I am weak, then I am strong.”<br />
As a Christian I know that I need God’s power in my<br />
cracks so that I become stronger in adversity, not<br />
through my own strength but through his<br />
love.<br />
Rev Toby Hole,<br />
Vicar,<br />
St Chad’s, Woodseats<br />
August/September 2018<br />
WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD<br />
Strength in the Storm<br />
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
Church Offi ce: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA<br />
Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />
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Samson visits the barber<br />
A man walked into a bar carrying a<br />
big piece of asphalt under his arm.<br />
“I’ll have a pint for myself, please,”<br />
he said, “and one for the road.”<br />
“Has your son decided what he<br />
wants to be when he grows up?,”<br />
the man asked his friend.<br />
“A dustbinman,” he replied.<br />
“That’s unusual,” said the man.<br />
“Not really,” his friend said,<br />
“He thinks they only work on<br />
Tuesdays!”<br />
Who was<br />
the greatest<br />
comedian<br />
in the<br />
Bible?<br />
Samson –<br />
he brought<br />
the<br />
house<br />
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Where do you<br />
buy a cow?<br />
From a cattlelog!<br />
What gets<br />
wetter the more<br />
it dries?<br />
A towel!<br />
Why was it so<br />
windy inside<br />
the football<br />
ground?<br />
There were so<br />
many fans!<br />
What did the<br />
duck say when<br />
he bought<br />
some lipstick?<br />
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What’s On<br />
If you have an event you would like<br />
to see included in our What’s On<br />
section, email impact@stchads.org<br />
Health Walks<br />
•Mondays - 10am: Graves Park.<br />
Meet outside the Rose Garden<br />
Cafe;<br />
•Tuesdays - 10.30am: Ecclesall<br />
Woods. Meet at the Visitors<br />
Centre at Abbeydale Industrial<br />
Hamlet;<br />
•Thursdays - 10.30am:<br />
Lowedges. Meet at the Gresley<br />
Road Meeting Rooms, Gresley<br />
Road, Lowedges;<br />
•Thursdays - 10.30am: Ecclesall<br />
Woods. Meet at the JG Graves<br />
Discovery Centre off Abbey Lane.<br />
•Fridays - 10.30am: Graves Park.<br />
Meet in the main entrance, Graves<br />
Leisure Centre.<br />
Call 07505 639524 or visit www.<br />
healthwalksinsheffi eld.btck.co.uk<br />
for details about any of the walks.<br />
August 11<br />
Book Sale<br />
36 Crawshaw Grove, Beauchief<br />
10am-12pm<br />
Good quality second-hand books<br />
for sale in aid of the Alzheimer’s<br />
Society. Donations of good<br />
condition paperback novels or<br />
biographies are welcome.<br />
August 11<br />
Family Fun Day and Jumble<br />
St Peter’s Church, Greenhill<br />
10am-12pm<br />
A fun event for all the family<br />
including children’s games, crafts,<br />
stalls and jumble.<br />
August 19<br />
Abbeydale Miniature Railway<br />
Abbeydale Road South<br />
1-5pm<br />
The regular open days at<br />
Abbeydale Miniature Railway.<br />
September 2<br />
Pedlar’s Corner Flea Market<br />
Abbeydale Picture House<br />
10am-3pm<br />
A mixture of general fl ea market<br />
stalls and specialist antiques,<br />
vintage, retro, arts, crafts, makers<br />
and salvage stalls.<br />
September 2, 16 and 30<br />
Abbeydale Miniature Railway<br />
Abbeydale Road South<br />
1-5pm<br />
The regular open days at<br />
Abbeydale Miniature Railway.<br />
September 8<br />
Have A Go Growing, Making &<br />
Baking Show 2017<br />
St Chad’s Church<br />
9.30am-3pm<br />
The aim of the show is to display<br />
the work and talents of the<br />
community. Come along and enter<br />
– even if this is your first year of<br />
Call in for a Cuppa<br />
at Church House, 56 Abbey Lane<br />
10am to 12noon<br />
on the last Saturday of each month<br />
Bring & Buy (new items)<br />
Handicrafts and Home Baking<br />
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Church Offi ce: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA<br />
Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />
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Send details of your event to impact@stchads.org or write to: Impact,<br />
St Chad‟s Church Offices, 15 Camping Lane, Sheffield S8 0GB.<br />
Single and Widowed<br />
Tuesdays 8-11pm<br />
Norton Country Club<br />
Club growing, offering making friendship and baking. and social<br />
activities. The cost is £1 per adult entrant,<br />
50p Call per Magdalen child under on 0114 12. Bring<br />
2394326. your entries between 9.30 and<br />
10.30am. Viewing is from 12.30-<br />
January 2.30pm 30 and - February there will be 5 a sale of<br />
AEGON produce British after 3pm. Tennis Tour<br />
Graves For more Tennis details and see Leisure pages Centre<br />
World 18 and ranked 19 or players visit stchads.org/ compete<br />
alongside haveagoshow local Sheffield players.<br />
Call 0114 283 9900.<br />
September 9, 14, 15 & 16<br />
February Heritage 5 Open Days<br />
Book Beauchief Sale Abbey<br />
36 Visitors Crawshaw to the Grove, abbey Beauchief will be able<br />
10am-12pm<br />
to see the medieval tower and<br />
Good<br />
the 17th<br />
quality<br />
century<br />
second-hand<br />
box pews<br />
books<br />
in the<br />
chapel. Outside in the grounds the<br />
for sale in aid of the Alzheimer‟s<br />
original footprint of the Chapter<br />
Society.<br />
House and<br />
Donations<br />
Cloisters<br />
of paperback<br />
can be traced.<br />
novels<br />
On September<br />
or biographies<br />
16 at<br />
in<br />
3pm<br />
good<br />
there will<br />
condition be a special are welcome chorale evensong (but not with<br />
larger the Abbey books Lane due to Singers. space<br />
limitations). For full details see page 25.<br />
February September 5 16<br />
Free Nether Environmental Edge Farmers’ Activities Market<br />
Millhouses Stalls, entertainment Park and various<br />
10.30am-12.30pm<br />
activities will be held in the streets<br />
Obstacle around the course old Nether and stream Edge<br />
dipping Market activities Place. for 8 - 13 year<br />
olds.<br />
Call 0114 263 4335.<br />
1.30-3.30pm<br />
Nature quiz trail, stream dipping<br />
and bug hunting activities for 8 - 13<br />
year olds.<br />
September Call 0114 29 263 4335.<br />
Craft & Flea<br />
February Sheffield Cathedral 12<br />
Free 11am-5pm Environmental Activities<br />
Ecclesall The best Woods of the city’s Sawmill local produce<br />
10.30am-12.30pm<br />
served up with street food and<br />
Nature flea market quiz stalls trail, stream offering dipping vintage<br />
and and bug collectables. hunting activities It brings for together 8 - 13<br />
year<br />
independent<br />
olds.<br />
makers, designers,<br />
<br />
producers<br />
Call 0114<br />
and<br />
235<br />
collectors.<br />
6348.<br />
Admission: £2<br />
February 20<br />
October 6<br />
Why<br />
Pie and<br />
Not<br />
Pea<br />
Try<br />
Supper<br />
A Bike<br />
with Ceilidh<br />
Greenhil<br />
St Chad’s<br />
Park<br />
Church<br />
10am-2pm 6.30pm<br />
Rediscover Live music and your dancing cycling skills plus pie in<br />
Greenhill and pea supper. Park. The Bring rangers your own will<br />
provide drinks. a bike, helmet and<br />
instruction. Tickets will Meet be available at the Bowls from St<br />
Pavilion, Chad’s Church Greenhill Office Park. on 0114 274<br />
Booking 5086 or email is essential. office@stchads.org<br />
Call 0114 283 9195.<br />
Beauchief Abbey Abbey holds holds a variety a<br />
of variety services of services. and anyone For is more<br />
welcome information to attend. see page For 25. more<br />
details see the Abbey notice<br />
board.<br />
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Climbing to New Heights in<br />
Andrew Foulkes, a former youth<br />
minister at St Chad’s, took part in a<br />
trek to Mount Kilimanjaro earlier this<br />
year to raise money for Prostate Cancer<br />
UK. Here he shares some of his story...<br />
At lunchtime on Friday, February<br />
23 I arrived at Heathrow<br />
airport and started meeting the<br />
people I would hopefully stand<br />
with at the summit of Mount<br />
Kilimanjaro.<br />
After an overnight flight, we<br />
arrived safely in Tanzania on<br />
Saturday morning. I’d been<br />
unable to sleep on the plane, and<br />
probably should have slept at<br />
the hotel, but instead, a few of<br />
us took a trip to the local town,<br />
Moshi. It was great to sample<br />
a small bit of African life.<br />
Day One - Sunday<br />
February 25: After a short<br />
ride by bus, we arrived at<br />
the starting point of our trek,<br />
Machame Gate. At 1,800<br />
metres, we were already<br />
higher than any mountain<br />
in the UK!<br />
There was a mix of<br />
excitement and nerves<br />
as we set off and started<br />
slowly making our way<br />
through the hot, sticky<br />
rainforest. Our destination<br />
was Macahme Camp 11km<br />
away at an altitude of 2,800<br />
metres.<br />
After five hours we arrived<br />
at our first camp where we<br />
enjoyed a hot meal and a<br />
good night’s sleep.<br />
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in Africa<br />
Day Two - Monday February 26:<br />
Today’s destination was the Shira<br />
Cave Camp, 5km away and at an<br />
altitude of 3,800 metres. The terrain<br />
was noticeably different, with less<br />
vegetation around. We arrived at camp<br />
after six hours of walking.<br />
It was here that I started to feel the<br />
effects of the altitude on my breathing.<br />
Simple tasks like packing my sleeping<br />
bag away left me breathless.<br />
Day Three - Tuesday February<br />
27: Today was an acclimatisation day.<br />
We were trekking to the Lava Tower<br />
at 4,600 metres this morning, before<br />
returning to 3,900 metres and the<br />
Barranco Camp to sleep. This was to<br />
give our bodies time to get used to the<br />
altitude.<br />
Day Four - Wednesday February<br />
28: After a poor night’s sleep (tummy<br />
bug) we were up at 5am for the 10-<br />
hour walk to Barafu Camp (4,600<br />
metres and the place we would be<br />
based for the summit attempt).<br />
The walk started with a pre-dawn<br />
walk/scramble up the ‘Barranco<br />
Wall’…a 300-metre cliff face. I had<br />
been really looking forward to this<br />
part of the trek, but I wasn’t today. I<br />
felt terrible…I’d developed a really<br />
unpleasant stomach bug.<br />
After two long hours, and with the<br />
sun coming up, I arrived at the top. For<br />
a brief time, I felt a bit better… helped<br />
by the snacks and the warmth of the<br />
sun…but we still had eight hours of<br />
walking ahead of us.<br />
This was the hardest part of the<br />
trek by far. I couldn’t eat, yet my body<br />
needed energy and I was struggling to<br />
walk, but eventually I made it to Barafu<br />
Camp.<br />
We were due to be up at 11pm<br />
to attempt the summit and whilst<br />
everyone else refuelled, I crawled into<br />
my sleeping bag and slept.<br />
We woke at 11pm, and after getting<br />
my gear ready, we left for the summit.<br />
I still felt terrible. The route was<br />
steep and the going was very slow.<br />
I was really struggling to walk and,<br />
after stumbling my way for two and<br />
a half hours, the expedition leader,<br />
a serious lady on her 30th summit of<br />
Kilimanjaro, told me that I’d reached<br />
my summit.<br />
She said my health was the priority<br />
and that the mountain would always<br />
be there. I’d reached 5,000 metres.<br />
A porter accompanied me back to<br />
camp, and as I stumbled and vomited<br />
my way down, I felt quite emotional. I’d<br />
failed.<br />
Looking back now, whilst I’m still<br />
disappointed that I was unable to<br />
make it, I know the correct decision<br />
was made.<br />
And whilst I’d hoped to make it to<br />
the summit, my main aim was to raise<br />
awareness and money for Prostate<br />
Cancer UK. And thanks to the amazing<br />
generosity of friends and family I’ve<br />
raised over £7,000!<br />
And who knows, maybe in a few<br />
years’ time I’ll be telling you what it’s<br />
like to reach the summit.<br />
Andrew Foulkes<br />
Andrew is a youth worker at St<br />
Luke’s Church in Lodge Moor. To<br />
donate to his appeal visit justgiving.<br />
com/fundraising/andrewfoulkestrek40<br />
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Welcome to St Chad’s<br />
My name is James<br />
Norris and I am the<br />
new curate at St<br />
Chad’s. I have been<br />
married to Charlotte<br />
for six years, and we have a twoyear-old<br />
son called Milo.<br />
For the last three years we<br />
lived in Bristol, where I studied<br />
at Trinity College and Charlotte<br />
worked at as a maths teacher, but<br />
before that Charlotte and I lived in<br />
Sheffield.<br />
We both came to the University<br />
of Sheffield to study mathematics<br />
(before we knew each other),<br />
and other than the last few years<br />
in Bristol, have spent all of our<br />
adult lives in Sheffield. However,<br />
Woodseats is a new area to<br />
us, and we have been enjoying<br />
exploring it over recent weeks.<br />
Before moving to Bristol I<br />
worked at St Thomas’ Church<br />
in Crookes, and Charlotte<br />
worked at Fir Vale School as a<br />
mathematics teacher. Charlotte<br />
will be continuing her work as<br />
a teacher this September at<br />
Netherthorpe School in Staveley<br />
near Chesterfield.<br />
Over the next three years we<br />
are looking forward to getting<br />
to know everyone at St Chad’s.<br />
Working closely with St Chad’s<br />
vicar Rev Toby Hole is something<br />
I am particularly excited about,<br />
as well as joining in with what is<br />
already happening at St Chad’s.<br />
I am looking forward to getting<br />
involved with a variety of different<br />
aspects of church ministry, and<br />
learning about what discipleship<br />
and mission looks like at St<br />
Chad’s. I am also looking forward<br />
to learning more about Woodseats<br />
and the surrounding area and how<br />
the church can engage with it.<br />
We like playing board<br />
games, films and walking in the<br />
countryside. I like playing football<br />
and tennis and Charlotte enjoys<br />
swimming. Milo likes lots of things,<br />
including brio, toy cars and eating<br />
pasta.<br />
Rev James Norris<br />
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
Church Office: Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA<br />
Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />
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• Walter Arfeuille of Belgium used his<br />
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• The strongest beer ever sold was<br />
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and has an alcohol volume of 55%.<br />
• The most bench presses of a person<br />
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by Derek Boyer in Melbourne, Australia.<br />
• Mariusz Pudzianowski of Poland<br />
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St Chad’s Church has<br />
two rooms available for<br />
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Call 0114 274 5086 for details<br />
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The Strength of Steel<br />
Steel is an alloy of iron and<br />
carbon and other elements.<br />
The name of Sheffi eld has<br />
been synonomous with steel<br />
for hundreds of years.The steel<br />
industry dates back to at least the 14th<br />
century. Makers of cutlery abounded.<br />
Sheffi eld is famed for its steel and<br />
actively commemorates the industry in<br />
public places. The fi rst positive record<br />
of steelmaking in Sheffi eld is in 1692.<br />
The steel making industry grew slowly.<br />
Only two steel furnaces are shown on a<br />
1737 Prospect of Sheffi eld (by Thomas<br />
Outibridge).<br />
In 1740 Benjamin Huntsman<br />
developed the crucible technique for<br />
steel manufacture, at his workshop<br />
in Handsworth. The local cutlery<br />
manufacturers refused to buy<br />
Huntsman’s cast steel, as it was<br />
harder than the German steel they<br />
were accustomed to using. For a long<br />
time Huntsman exported his whole<br />
output to France. In 1770, Huntsman<br />
moved his enterprise to Attercliffe,<br />
where he prospered until his death in<br />
1776. At the Northern General Hospital<br />
one of the original main buildings is<br />
named after him, and in the city centre<br />
is a Wetherspoon’s pub called The<br />
Benjamin Hunstman.<br />
The Bessemer process was the<br />
fi rst inexpensive industrial process<br />
for the mass production of steel from<br />
molten pig iron. The modern process<br />
is named after its inventor, Henry<br />
Bessemer, who took out a patent on<br />
the process in 1856. According to<br />
Bessemer, his invention was inspired<br />
by a conversation with Napoleon III in<br />
1854 pertaining to the steel required<br />
for better artillery. At the time steel<br />
was used to make only small items<br />
like cutlery and tools, but was too<br />
expensive for cannons. Starting in<br />
January 1855 he began working on a<br />
way to produce steel in the massive<br />
quantities required for artillery.<br />
These two methods were to dominate<br />
Sheffi eld steel making until the last<br />
quarter of the nineteenth century,<br />
when the amount of steel produced in<br />
Sheffi eld was overshadowed by the<br />
output of highly mechanised steel mills<br />
in the USA and Germany. Sheffi eld<br />
nevertheless retained and extended its<br />
reputation as a steel city by producing<br />
specialist steels for world markets,<br />
particularly armaments and the early<br />
forms of weapons of mass destruction.<br />
Ironically, of the two largest early 20th<br />
century fi rms, Brown and Cammell<br />
claimed that their armour plating<br />
could withstand any shell, while Firth,<br />
Hadfi eld and Vickers claimed that their<br />
shells could pierce any armouredplating.<br />
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Sheffi eld has an Assay offi ce which<br />
stamps the metal with its crown<br />
mark. The Company of Cutlers in<br />
Hallamshire was created in 1624<br />
to promote the city’s steel industry<br />
around the world. The head of this<br />
company, the Master Cutler, has<br />
equal standing with the city’s Lord<br />
Mayor. Also famous were the Women<br />
of Steel now marked by a statue<br />
outside City Hall. This recognises<br />
the role women had in World War<br />
Two, manufacturing steel while the<br />
men were away at war. The city has<br />
tried to move away from its industrial<br />
image encapsulated in the fi lm The<br />
Full Monty and certainly we have<br />
a diverse range of industries now.<br />
I once read that, while the steel<br />
workforce is much reduced from its<br />
heyday of British Steel, Sheffi eld<br />
produces more steel than ever.<br />
I visited Outo Kumpu several<br />
times and ran training sessions for<br />
its managers. I was amazed at the<br />
size of the site – as big as a small<br />
town with its own railway line running<br />
through. If I remember it produced<br />
stainless steel using the most up<br />
to date processes. Outo Kumpu is<br />
a Finnish company who took over<br />
in 2001 from Avesta which was a<br />
Swedish company which had merged<br />
with British Steel Stainless. How<br />
times have changed. But we can still<br />
talk about Sheffi eld steel and the<br />
history of a substance known for its<br />
strength. Unfortunately Sheffi eld is no<br />
longer the cutlery capital of the world,<br />
because that has passed to South<br />
Korea.<br />
David Manning<br />
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All the Fun of the Fayre!<br />
This year’s PALS<br />
(Parents of Abbey<br />
Lane School)<br />
summer fayre took<br />
place on June 23<br />
and was a huge success.<br />
We are grateful to St<br />
Chad’s for letting us use<br />
their lovely green<br />
space outside.<br />
The day<br />
was very well<br />
attended<br />
and there<br />
were plenty<br />
of activities,<br />
games, food<br />
stands and<br />
music. There was<br />
a tombola and a raffl e<br />
with prizes donated from many local<br />
businesses. There were fabulous<br />
performances from Rhythmix Dance<br />
School, and music provided by Disco<br />
Dave. Louise Haigh MP also attended<br />
and met with parents and members of<br />
the local community.<br />
We are very pleased to announce<br />
that the fayre raised over £2,200 for the<br />
school and this money will go towards<br />
enhancing all the Abbey Lane children’s<br />
time at school.<br />
Thank you to all who attended,<br />
volunteered and contributed. It was a<br />
wonderful day with beautiful weather and<br />
brilliant community spirit. We’re already<br />
looking forward to next year’s fayre!<br />
Rebecca Stevens<br />
Abbey Lane PALS Committee<br />
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
Church Offi ce: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA<br />
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Phagodynamometer is not<br />
a word that trips off the<br />
tongue very easily and<br />
is not a word which is in<br />
common usage. I bet you<br />
have never heard anyone one<br />
say something like “that Billy, he<br />
is a right phagodynamometer”. It<br />
would be a good one to get if you<br />
were playing Scrabble however<br />
– if you had enough tiles! If you<br />
could manage to get it on a triple<br />
word square it would score you<br />
a whopping 90 points – who<br />
would not want that in a game?<br />
I suspect if you were a dentist or<br />
may be a scientist you would use<br />
it occasionally but for us every<br />
day folk it would not be common<br />
parlance. The phagodynamometer<br />
is a device which measures the<br />
amount of force we have to apply<br />
when eating food.<br />
It was a word I came across a<br />
while ago after a visit to a rather<br />
poor example of a pizza restaurant.<br />
The pizza had been overbaked<br />
and the crust was easily proving<br />
a match for my knife and fork. No<br />
matter how hard I pressed with<br />
the knife I could not force my way<br />
through it. Even using the fork as<br />
well to stab and tear made little<br />
impression on it. Then it occurred<br />
to me that most people didn’t eat<br />
a pizza with a knife and fork so<br />
I picked it up and used my teeth<br />
which broke through it quite easily.<br />
As I was wondering how my jaw<br />
could be stronger than my arm,<br />
hand and a knife together I began<br />
to imagine how much force we do<br />
apply and how it compares to other<br />
animals. Scientists have worked out<br />
that we can apply a force of 1,375<br />
Newtons. Whilst this seems a lot we<br />
don’t apparently have the biggest<br />
bite. The winner of this accolade<br />
goes to either the killer whale<br />
(18,000 Newtons) or the saltwater<br />
crocodile (16,500 Newtons). The<br />
reason for the uncertainty is that<br />
the bite of the killer whale was<br />
simulated in a laboratory whilst the<br />
bite of the saltwater crocodile was<br />
an actual reading take by extremely<br />
brave scientists.<br />
However that may not be<br />
the greatest bite of any animal<br />
which ever lived. Again it’s only a<br />
guestimate but it is thought that of<br />
the Tyrannosaurus Rex may have<br />
been between 60,000 and 80,000<br />
Newtons but of course we cannot<br />
test the theory, unless Jurassic Park<br />
becomes a reality, as the figures<br />
were estimated from the size of its<br />
jaw and other measurable factors.<br />
So, if you are ever in an Italian<br />
restaurant and the pizza is<br />
likely to defeat you then I don’t<br />
recommend taking along a killer<br />
whale or a saltwater crocodile to<br />
help as neither will probably fit in<br />
the restaurant. I suggest the best<br />
animal to take with you would be an<br />
hyena with a bite of 3,500 Newtons.<br />
Not only would it be able to easily<br />
bite through your pizza but it would<br />
clear the restaurant of other diners<br />
so easily that you would have no<br />
trouble getting a table.<br />
Steve Winks<br />
Strongest Bites<br />
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
Church Office: Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA<br />
Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />
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Services at St Chad’s<br />
Sunday Services<br />
Sunday<br />
Sunday<br />
Services<br />
Services<br />
Sunday Services<br />
The 9am Service<br />
The<br />
●<br />
The<br />
Traditional 9am Service<br />
in<br />
service<br />
style<br />
The ● • Traditional Traditional 9am Service in style in style<br />
● Includes Holy Communion, a sermon & hymns<br />
● • ● Includes Traditional Includes refreshments<br />
Holy Holy in style Communion, afterwards<br />
a sermon a sermon & hymns and hymns<br />
●<br />
• Includes Taken<br />
Includes<br />
from refreshments<br />
Common Worship: afterwards<br />
● Includes Holy Communion, a sermon Holy Communion<br />
& hymns<br />
● • Taken Taken from from Common Common Worship: Worship: Holy Holy Communion Communion<br />
● Includes refreshments afterwards<br />
● Taken from Common Worship: Holy Communion<br />
Lifted,<br />
Lifted, the<br />
the – the<br />
11am Service<br />
11am 11am Service service<br />
●<br />
•<br />
Informal<br />
Informal<br />
and<br />
and<br />
relaxed<br />
relaxed<br />
in style<br />
Lifted, the 11am Service in style<br />
● Informal and relaxed in style<br />
• An An emphasis emphasis on on families families<br />
● An emphasis on families<br />
• ● Includes Informal Includes music, and music relaxed led played by in a style band by a band<br />
● • ● Includes An Refreshments emphasis music, on served led families served by from a band from 10.15-10.45am<br />
to 10.45<br />
● ● Refreshments Includes music, served led by from a band 10.15-10.45am<br />
● Refreshments served from 10.15-10.45am<br />
Weekday<br />
Weekday<br />
Services<br />
Services<br />
Weekday Services<br />
Weekday Services<br />
Morning Prayers<br />
Morning Prayers<br />
Morning Prayers<br />
Morning Prayer<br />
Evening Prayers<br />
Evening Prayers<br />
Evening Prayers<br />
Monday to Thursday at 9am<br />
Monday to Thursday at 9am<br />
Monday to Thursday at 9am<br />
• Monday to Thursday at 9am - a half-hour service<br />
of prayer and Bible readings in church<br />
Monday to Thursday at 5pm<br />
• Monday Friday at to 9am Thursday - up to at an 5pm hour of prayer, blessing<br />
for Monday the community to Thursday and at prayer 5pm ministry if requested<br />
The Thursday 10am Service<br />
The Thursday 10am Service<br />
The Traditional Thursday in style 10am Service service<br />
Traditional<br />
Taken from<br />
in<br />
Common<br />
style<br />
Worship: Holy Communion<br />
• Taken Traditional in<br />
from style<br />
Common Worship: Holy Communion<br />
• Includes Taken from Holy common Common Communion, worship Worship: a sermon Holy Communion & hymns<br />
Includes<br />
Held in the<br />
Holy<br />
Lady<br />
Communion,<br />
Chapel at the sermon<br />
back of church<br />
hymns<br />
• Includes Holy Communion, a sermon & and hymns hymns<br />
•<br />
Held in the Lady<br />
chancel<br />
Chapel<br />
at the<br />
at<br />
front<br />
the back<br />
of church<br />
of church<br />
Held in the Lady Chapel at the back of church<br />
Other Services<br />
Other Services<br />
Prayer and Praise<br />
Prayer Prayer and and Praise<br />
Sunday, February 13 at 7.30pm<br />
Sunday,<br />
Sunday,<br />
February<br />
February<br />
13<br />
13<br />
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at<br />
7.30pm<br />
7.30pm<br />
Ash Wednesday Service<br />
Ash Wednesday Service<br />
Wednesday, March 9 at 7.30pm<br />
Wednesday, March 9 at at 7.30pm<br />
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Samson was a man<br />
of great strength<br />
– unfortunately he<br />
suffered from Tom Jones<br />
Syndrome – he couldn’t<br />
resist Delilah…<br />
Samson had fallen for two<br />
other women previously, with<br />
near fatal consequences, so you<br />
might think he would have learned<br />
to be careful around them, but<br />
he gradually allowed Delilah to<br />
wheedle the secret of his strength<br />
out of him.<br />
One haircut later, and he was in<br />
the hands of his enemies.<br />
Why was his strength<br />
bound up with his<br />
hair? Samson was<br />
a Nazirite – as<br />
an outward sign<br />
of devotion to<br />
God, his hair was<br />
never cut; he<br />
also had to avoid<br />
alcohol – and<br />
dead bodies, which<br />
was probably easier.<br />
Really, his strength<br />
came from God – twice in<br />
his story we read that the Spirit of<br />
God surged up in him to enable<br />
him to perform feats of strength.<br />
God’s purpose for Samson<br />
was to make him a champion<br />
for Israel against their enemies<br />
the Philistines – that’s what his<br />
strength was for.<br />
But Samson was careless and<br />
inclined to follow his own whims<br />
and appetites. God’s strength<br />
enabled him to kill with his bare<br />
hands a lion that attacked him<br />
– but a little later on he pokes<br />
around in its carcase after honey<br />
from bees nesting in it.<br />
Time and again he gets<br />
entangled with Philistine women<br />
who are ready to betray him, and<br />
finally Delilah succeeds in getting<br />
him captured.<br />
It wasn’t just allowing his hair<br />
to be cut that was the issue,<br />
Samson’s devotion to God was<br />
getting weaker – messing with<br />
the lion’s body, sleeping with the<br />
enemy, and finally telling Delilah<br />
the secret of his strength – all this<br />
was symptomatic of taking it for<br />
granted that God would always be<br />
with him, and so not being careful<br />
about his lifestyle.<br />
But at the end of the Delilah<br />
incident comes one of the saddest<br />
lines in the Bible: “But he<br />
did not know that the<br />
Lord had left him.”<br />
Blinded and<br />
imprisoned,<br />
Samson has<br />
plenty of<br />
opportunity for<br />
reflection on the<br />
course of his life;<br />
finally, he calls<br />
out for God to help<br />
him and strengthen<br />
him again – and<br />
God answers him very<br />
dramatically.<br />
God wants to give us the<br />
strength we need in every<br />
situation we encounter – but it’s<br />
not something we should take for<br />
granted, treating God as some<br />
sort of emergency service.<br />
Most of all God wants to draw<br />
us into relationship, friendship<br />
with him. That friendship will<br />
enrich our lives beyond measure,<br />
lifting us above superficiality and<br />
self-interest. The more we desire<br />
and value friendship with God, the<br />
more we can know his strength.<br />
Get the full story of Samson<br />
in the Bible book of Judges –<br />
chapters 13 to 16.<br />
Ken Goodier<br />
Calling Out for Strength<br />
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
Church Office: Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA<br />
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Courgettes R<br />
Every Wednesday<br />
from 9.30-11.30am<br />
What adventures has your<br />
courgette been on?...and<br />
have you got a photo of it<br />
to enter ‘my adventurous<br />
courgette’ category in the<br />
Have a Go Show?<br />
Perhaps you’ve decided to make a<br />
courgette animal or bake a cake. Don’t<br />
worry if you haven’t grown your own<br />
– you can buy them for all categories<br />
except in the vegetable section.<br />
You can fi nd details of all the<br />
categories you can enter in the schedule<br />
– there are over 40 to choose from –<br />
Here’s how little it costs<br />
to advertise in<br />
Adverts are priced<br />
at the following rates for<br />
one year (six editions):<br />
1/8 page: £110<br />
1/6 page: £155<br />
1/4 page: £225<br />
1/2 page: £445<br />
Full page: £915<br />
Call St Chad’s Church office on<br />
0114 274 5086<br />
or email<br />
impact@stchads.org<br />
for more information<br />
Vegetable Section<br />
1. 3 potatoes any variety<br />
2. 3 onions<br />
3. 3 carrots<br />
4. 2 leeks<br />
5. 6 tomatoes<br />
6. 6 runner beans<br />
7. 3 mixed veg – not otherwise in<br />
schedule<br />
8. 3 bulbs garlic<br />
9. 3 beetroot globes<br />
10. 1 green cabbage<br />
11. 3 courgettes (similar length, max<br />
25cm)<br />
12. 1 cucumber<br />
13. Heaviest vegetable<br />
14. Longest courgette<br />
Fruit Section<br />
15. 10 soft fruit on a plate<br />
(blackberries, raspberries,<br />
blackcurrants, gooseberries)<br />
16. 5 fruit on a plate – not otherwise in<br />
schedule<br />
17. 3 rhubarb stems<br />
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Rock!<br />
Have A Go<br />
Growing, Making<br />
& Baking Show<br />
2018<br />
September 8,<br />
St Chad’s Church<br />
on these pages. Instructions for the<br />
show plus the full schedule are on<br />
the St Chad’s website at stchads.org/<br />
haveagoshow. See you on September 8.<br />
• The charge is £1 per adult entrant<br />
and 50p per child under 12. Bring your<br />
entries between 9.30 and 10.30am;<br />
church will be closed for judging from<br />
10.30am-12.30pm. Viewing is from 12.30-<br />
2.30pm with a sale of produce from 3pm.<br />
THE SCHEDULE<br />
Floral Section<br />
18. 1 vase of 3 dahlias<br />
19. 1 chrysanthemum – spray<br />
20. 3 gladioli – any variety<br />
21. 1 single rose<br />
22. Miniature fl oral arrangement (must<br />
not exceed 15cm overall)<br />
23. Floral arrangement (must not exceed<br />
60cm overall)<br />
24. 1 vase mixed garden fl owers<br />
25. 6 pansy or viola heads on a plate<br />
Preserves and Baking Section<br />
26. 1lb jar fruit jam<br />
27. 1lb jar lemon curd<br />
28. 1lb jar chutney<br />
29. Victoria Sandwich 7 inch<br />
(6oz self raising fl our; 6oz caster<br />
sugar; 6oz butter; vanilla essence; 3<br />
eggs; raspberry jam; NO dusting)<br />
30. 4 sweet biscuits/cookies one variety<br />
31. 4 pieces of tray-bake<br />
32. 3 fruit scones<br />
33. Baked item containing courgette eg<br />
cake, scone, biscuits<br />
Handicrafts Section<br />
34. 1 embroidery item<br />
35. 1 item knitted or crocheted item<br />
36. 1 item sewn item<br />
Art<br />
37. Single photograph – theme ‘Growth’<br />
38. Single photograph – theme ‘The<br />
Adventurous Courgette’<br />
39. Single hand produced picture<br />
(pencil, pastel, oil, charcoal or water<br />
colour)<br />
Children’s Section<br />
(Age ranges: under 5, 6-8 years, 9-11<br />
years)<br />
40. Animal made out of fruit and/or<br />
vegetables must include courgette<br />
41. Picture, paint or crayon.<br />
42. Decorated gingerbread person (plain<br />
biscuit may be purchased).<br />
43. Victoria Sandwich (6oz self raising<br />
fl our; 6oz caster sugar; 6oz butter,<br />
vanilla essence; 3 eggs; raspberry<br />
jam; NO dusting)<br />
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Lyle’s Lion<br />
Remember the anticipation<br />
of prising the lid off the tin,<br />
seeing all that wonderfully<br />
golden, gooey syrup<br />
inside and hardly being<br />
able to wait until you licked some<br />
off a spoon – or even a finger?<br />
But do you know the story of this<br />
delicious ‘nectar’ and its iconic tin?<br />
It’s an interesting one.<br />
In 1881, Abram Lyle built his<br />
sugar refinery in the east end of<br />
London. Henry Tate had a sugar<br />
refinery too, not far away but the<br />
two men were fierce rivals. Tate<br />
produced sugar cubes whilst Lyle<br />
experimented with the by-products<br />
of the refining to create the golden<br />
syrup we know, and love, today<br />
– and the process still remains a<br />
secret.<br />
It was sold to grocers in London<br />
in wooden casks and people<br />
brought their own containers to<br />
be filled. Demand was high and<br />
in 1883 Lyle decided to sell his<br />
product in the now famous green<br />
and gold tins. They remain<br />
unchanged to this day.<br />
Abram was man of great<br />
faith which must account for<br />
the fact that he adapted an<br />
Old Testament passage,<br />
adding appropriate artwork,<br />
to use as his logo. In<br />
Judges chapter 14 we read<br />
how Samson, the famous<br />
strongman in the Bible, once<br />
killed a lion with his bare hands.<br />
Some time later, he passed<br />
the lion’s carcass and saw that<br />
a swarm of bees had made a<br />
honey comb inside it. He made<br />
up a riddle to see if people could<br />
solve it - “Out of the eater came<br />
forth meat and out of the strong<br />
came forth sweetness”. But they<br />
couldn’t.<br />
In 1910 Captain Scott<br />
included a quantity of Golden<br />
Syrup tins when selecting<br />
provisions for his Antarctic<br />
expedition and, a year later, his<br />
letter of thanks was received<br />
by the company in London.<br />
Tragically the expedition was to<br />
fail but, 46 years later, both tins<br />
and contents still remained in<br />
good condition when they were<br />
found.<br />
On the outbreak of the First<br />
World War in 1914, the tins<br />
were temporarily exchanged for<br />
... cardboard, of all things! An<br />
explanation appeared on the<br />
packaging as follows - “Notice –<br />
owing to the requirement needs<br />
of the Ministry of Munitions<br />
with a view to the economy<br />
in the use of tin plates, we<br />
are compelled to adopt this<br />
substitute for our usual lever tins.<br />
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Church Office: Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA<br />
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JOHNSON<br />
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DESIGNED, SUPPLIED &<br />
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LAMINATE & SOLID<br />
WOOD FLOORING<br />
DECKING<br />
UPVC & WOOD<br />
WINDOWS & DOORS<br />
WALL & FLOOR TILING<br />
GENERAL PLUMBING<br />
SERVICES<br />
GENERAL HANDYMAN<br />
SERVICES; ONE-OFF JOBS<br />
OR A LIST OF REPAIRS<br />
There is no change to the quality, or<br />
taste, of the contents”.<br />
Golden Syrup must have been a very<br />
welcome addition to the rations given to<br />
the troops in the trenches – a wonderful<br />
reminder of home and happier times.<br />
Abram Lyle died in 1891. By 1921,<br />
the two rival businesses had merged. In<br />
1922 King George V awarded the Royal<br />
Warrant to Tate and Lyle and today the<br />
tins bear the Queen’s Coat of Arms to<br />
show that the company still enjoys royal<br />
patronage.<br />
However, times were changing and<br />
the company moved with them – in 1996<br />
squeezy bottles appeared, still with the<br />
original label, making using the syrup a<br />
less sticky experience!<br />
In 2007 Guinness World Records<br />
announced that the Tate and Lyle labels<br />
were the oldest, unchanged brand<br />
packaging in the world – a record of<br />
which old Abram would doubtless have<br />
been rightly proud. Today more than one<br />
million tins a month are exported all over<br />
the world as far as the USA, the Middle<br />
East and China.<br />
An interesting story indeed!<br />
Chris Laude<br />
FRIENDLY & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE<br />
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M: 07929188450<br />
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Thinking About Your<br />
Elderly Family Members<br />
Does one of your family or friends<br />
spend a lot of the time alone?<br />
They may have someone who<br />
calls in to help them dress, or<br />
give them a breakfast. Someone<br />
ensures they take their medications and<br />
another may check that there is enough<br />
bread or milk for their day. But, except<br />
for the TV sounds, do they have an<br />
opportunity to chat, talk over memories,<br />
share a funny story or have the pleasure<br />
of company for an hour of someone not<br />
in a rush to get on with their own life?<br />
Many do have a loving family but<br />
working long hours or living a distance<br />
away makes regular chat stops rare.<br />
Could our Third Age Befrienders group<br />
help your homebound<br />
relation or<br />
friend?<br />
We visit at pre-arranged monthly times<br />
and agree to no chores. All visitors have<br />
been authorised through references,<br />
interview and a DBS scrutiny and will<br />
not gossip about their new friend nor talk<br />
about faith unless requested.<br />
Why are we offering our help? We<br />
have been out and about visiting in<br />
Woodseats and the local area for over 10<br />
years and know how much our visits are<br />
appreciated.<br />
If you want to know more, call St Chad’s<br />
church office on 274 5086 and Yvonne<br />
Smith will return your call within the week.<br />
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What is strength?<br />
There are many<br />
different definitions<br />
of strength. From<br />
power of influence,<br />
as in a person or organisation,<br />
power and speed of force as in the<br />
weather, the ability to withstand<br />
force or pressure as in a wall to<br />
the concentration level as in a<br />
medication or drink.<br />
In religion, strength can come<br />
from the strength of feeling and<br />
belief you have in Christ and<br />
the mental strength and comfort<br />
you gain from this belief. As a<br />
physiotherapist, I deal mainly in<br />
the strength of muscles. Collins<br />
English Dictionary describes<br />
strength as ‘the physical<br />
energy that you have,<br />
which gives you the<br />
ability to perform<br />
various actions,<br />
such as lifting or<br />
moving things’.<br />
A lack of strength<br />
can lead to injury or<br />
can be a consequence<br />
of injury or inactivity<br />
after surgery. I treat a lot<br />
of people who have developed<br />
back pain or shoulder pain from<br />
a lack of strength in the muscles<br />
in their core or shoulder girdle<br />
respectively. The lack of support<br />
from these muscles predisposes<br />
the individual to damage that<br />
life’s daily stresses put on their<br />
body. A consequence of the body<br />
getting older is the development<br />
of conditions such as arthritis.<br />
The lack of normal movement in<br />
the area and pain from the lack<br />
of supporting cartilage in the<br />
joint affects the strength of the<br />
surrounding, ‘support’ muscles.<br />
This in turn puts more stress on<br />
the joint leading to pain.<br />
Following an operation strength<br />
can deteriorate rapidly. Whether<br />
the surgery is specifically to a<br />
joint or muscle, or to an area of<br />
the body that can affect mobility<br />
such as the stomach or chest,<br />
the period of inactivity in recovery<br />
can affect general strength. I<br />
also work with athletes or people<br />
who participate in regular sport.<br />
Here, strength can give you an<br />
advantage in performance and<br />
can definitely reduce your risk of<br />
injury. Whilst injured, the athlete<br />
can lose enough strength to<br />
severely affect their performance<br />
in their sport for a long time.<br />
As a physiotherapist, I deal<br />
regularly with all these<br />
situations. I help people<br />
gain their strength<br />
through management<br />
of the injury and pain<br />
with treatments such<br />
as acupuncture and<br />
mobilisation. As<br />
the pain becomes<br />
increasingly under<br />
control, I provide<br />
exercises that gradually<br />
heighten in intensity to help<br />
the person get stronger and help<br />
support the area of the body that<br />
needs it.<br />
So, you don’t need to be a ‘gym<br />
bunny’ to gain strength. With the<br />
right guidance, anybody of any<br />
age and fitness level can gain<br />
strength physically and hopefully<br />
benefit from function, reduced<br />
injury risk and a better enjoyment<br />
of the physical joys of life.<br />
Andy Okwera<br />
Andy Okwera is available for<br />
advice at Activ Physiotherapy, 88<br />
Baslow Road, Sheffield, S17 4DQ.<br />
Email andy@activphysiotherapy.<br />
co.uk. Tel 0114 2352727 www.<br />
activphysiotherapy.co.uk<br />
What is Strength?<br />
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The First and Last Superhero<br />
Superman is probably the<br />
most famous superhero in<br />
fiction. Created by Siegel<br />
and Shuster in 1933, he<br />
debuted in Action (later DC)<br />
Comics and subsequently appeared<br />
in radio serials, newspaper comic<br />
strips, novels, TV programmes,<br />
films and video games.<br />
This modern myth begins with<br />
baby Kal-El rocketed to Earth by<br />
his parents before Krypton, their<br />
planet, explodes. Having landed<br />
in Kansas, he is found by farmers<br />
Jonathan and Martha Kent, who<br />
adopt him as their son. On reaching<br />
maturity, he becomes Superman,<br />
while maintaining an alter ego as<br />
Clark Kent, a reporter for the Daily<br />
Planet in the city of Metropolis.<br />
Although he has superpowers,<br />
Superman is vulnerable. Fragments<br />
of Krypton have also reached Earth<br />
as Kryptonite, exposure to which<br />
quickly renders him powerless.<br />
While mythical and fictional<br />
heroes, such as Robin Hood,<br />
Zorro and the Scarlet Pimpernel,<br />
had appeared over the centuries,<br />
Superman was the first mythical<br />
superhero of our modern age. He<br />
was followed soon after by Batman,<br />
Captain Marvel and Wonder<br />
Woman and, post World War Two,<br />
Supergirl, Daredevil and Black<br />
Panther – a far from exhaustive list<br />
of superheroes fighting for truth and<br />
justice and more recently, as our<br />
world has shrunk to a global village,<br />
to ‘save the planet’!<br />
Although, according to myth,<br />
Robin Hood did eventually die,<br />
the fictional Zorro and Scarlet<br />
Pimpernel were never killed off<br />
by their creators. Nor was the<br />
Man of Steel, since neither Siegel<br />
nor Shuster was involved in DC<br />
Comics’ 1992 Trilogy, The Death<br />
of Superman. Destroyed by his<br />
enemy, Doomsday, he was, of<br />
course, resurrected. Superman is,<br />
after all, a superhero and therefore<br />
cannot die... just like the Lord Jesus<br />
Christ, whose story of death and<br />
resurrection is central to the Bible.<br />
Some consider that account as<br />
much an old myth as the modern<br />
myths of superheroes or even older<br />
myths of the gods and heroes.<br />
However, CS Lewis, author of The<br />
Chronicles of Narnia, believed<br />
the story of Jesus’ death and<br />
resurrection is the true ‘myth’ from<br />
which all similar myths were derived.<br />
There are certainly similarities<br />
between Jesus and Superman.<br />
Both came ultimately to save the<br />
planet. However, while Kal-El’s<br />
father sent him from Krypton to<br />
Earth to help the human race, God<br />
sent his Son, Jesus, from outside of<br />
space-time to save sinful humanity<br />
and to redeem God’s whole fallen<br />
creation. While Superman was<br />
destroyed by Doomsday, Jesus<br />
freely laid down his life on the<br />
cross, was raised to life by his<br />
Father and will, as he promised,<br />
return in glory on ‘Doomsday’ – to<br />
bring in a new world order for the<br />
planet he will save.<br />
His story can be read in the<br />
Bible, also published as graphic<br />
novels by Kingstone or, for Manga<br />
fans, by Next. Film lovers can<br />
watch adaptations such as Jesus<br />
of Nazareth or The Passion of the<br />
Christ. However, Jesus is more<br />
than a two-dimensional drawing or<br />
a three-dimensional actor.<br />
In Revelation, the final book of<br />
the Bible, Jesus reveals: ‘I am the<br />
First and the Last. I am the Living<br />
One; I was dead, and behold I am<br />
alive for ever and ever!’<br />
For me, he is the First and Last<br />
Superhero.<br />
Stephen Dowson<br />
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
Church Office: Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA<br />
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16<br />
Armistice<br />
100 Years On<br />
Sunday November 11 will mark<br />
the 100th anniversary of the<br />
signing of the armistice that<br />
brought to an end the fi ghting<br />
of the First World War. At St<br />
Chad’s we will be remembering and<br />
honouring those from Woodseats who<br />
died during that confl ict.<br />
If you have any information,<br />
photographs, memorabilia, relating to<br />
any of the men on our war memorial we<br />
would love you to get in touch.<br />
Our next edition of Impact will have a<br />
special focus on this anniversary.<br />
Write to us at St Chad’s Church Offi ce,<br />
Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA or<br />
email offi ce@stchads.org.<br />
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Services are held every Sunday<br />
11.00am - Holy Communion.<br />
3rd Sunday - Evensong Service 3pm<br />
(please note on the 3rd Sunday no 11.00am service).<br />
Special Events: Heritage Open Days<br />
Sun 9 Sept 2018 11.00am - 12.30 Open as usual at 11.00am for<br />
the Holy Communion Service.<br />
Friday 14 Sept 11.00am - 4pm<br />
Sat 15 Sept 2018 11.00am - 4pm<br />
Sun16 Sept 2018 11.00am - 4pm - At 3pm Join us for a Special<br />
Choral Evensong - an Exquisite Service that has been part of our<br />
Heritage for hundreds of years. We welcome back to the Abbey<br />
the talented and eloquent Abbey Lane Singers.<br />
All Welcome<br />
Our Services are based on the Book of Common Prayer, Refreshments are served afterwards<br />
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A relaxed and friendly place for a chat<br />
Coffee morning for anyone over 50<br />
Tuesdays 10.15 Tuesdays -11.15am, 10.15 starting -11.15am<br />
25th April 2017<br />
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
No table games, no speakers,<br />
just a good cuppa and a natter!<br />
WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD<br />
For more information, contact the church office on 274 5086<br />
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The Little Paris Bookshop<br />
by Nina George<br />
Jean Perdu is quite<br />
literally ‘lost’, as his name<br />
suggests. He runs a<br />
bookshop, The Literary<br />
Apothecary – a bookshop<br />
with a difference. It’s located on<br />
a barge moored on the banks of<br />
the River Seine in Paris. People<br />
come to him with their problems<br />
but, instead of<br />
fi nding medicinal<br />
help, they leave<br />
with books. For<br />
Jean Perdu has<br />
a rare gift for<br />
sensing which<br />
books will heal<br />
the troubled<br />
souls of his<br />
customers – the<br />
only problem<br />
is that he can’t<br />
heal his own<br />
broken heart.<br />
The love of his<br />
life left him 20<br />
years ago, but<br />
he can’t move<br />
on.<br />
He lives<br />
in a block of<br />
apartments<br />
with an eclectic mix of people.<br />
When a new neighbour moves in,<br />
a friendship develops between<br />
the two. Jean helps her to furnish<br />
her apartment by offering her<br />
some items of his own. In the<br />
drawer of a desk, she fi nds a<br />
letter – it’s the last one written<br />
by his beloved and unread,<br />
because he couldn’t bear to<br />
read it. However, reading it now,<br />
Jean learns that she must have<br />
been ill at the time of writing. His<br />
neighbour encourages him to go<br />
in search of the past and his love,<br />
even though he suspects that she<br />
may have died.<br />
Jean makes an on-the-spot,<br />
bold decision, unties the barge<br />
and begins a journey, down the<br />
waterways of France to Provence<br />
– and the unknown. Along the<br />
way he meets other larger than<br />
life characters who join him on<br />
his barge and his journey of selfdiscovery.<br />
How does the story<br />
end? – you’ll have<br />
to fi nd out for<br />
yourself, but<br />
I can promise<br />
that you will<br />
discover more<br />
about love,<br />
acceptance,<br />
forgiveness and<br />
trust.<br />
Nina George’s<br />
novel has been<br />
translated<br />
from the<br />
original French,<br />
but it loses<br />
nothing in the<br />
translation. Her<br />
style of writing<br />
is wonderfully<br />
lyrical, almost like<br />
poetry at times,<br />
and it evokes the<br />
true spirit of<br />
France. The story meanders<br />
just as the canals do and her<br />
descriptions of the countryside<br />
are stunning. You can almost feel<br />
the sun on your face, taste the<br />
wine and smell the perfume of<br />
lavender and herbs as you travel<br />
along on the barge with Jean and<br />
his friends. An excellent book<br />
to take on a summer holiday<br />
with you – especially if your<br />
destination is France!<br />
Chris Laude<br />
Book Review<br />
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
Church Offi ce: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA<br />
Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />
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Registers 2018<br />
For Weddings<br />
and Funerals<br />
You don’t have to be a churchgoer<br />
to have a wedding in church or<br />
be ‘religious’ to have a dignifi ed and<br />
meaningful funeral service at St Chad’s.<br />
If you live in the Woodseats or<br />
Beauchief area, St Chad’s would be<br />
delighted to help you, whether it is<br />
planning the Big Day or saying goodbye<br />
to a loved one.<br />
For weddings please contact St Chad’s<br />
church offi ce. For funerals please tell<br />
your funeral director that you would like<br />
to have a church service.<br />
Baptisms<br />
May<br />
13 Myles Sarich<br />
Evelyn Sarich<br />
Albert Ives<br />
Weddings<br />
May<br />
12 Daniel Turner and Nicole Kime<br />
June<br />
30 Phillip Marsh and Gemma Bradley<br />
Funeral<br />
May<br />
18 David Friday (78)<br />
• If you have had a new baby and would<br />
like to celebrate that baby’s birth with<br />
a service in church then please come<br />
to one of our thanksgiving and baptism<br />
mornings at St Chad’s.<br />
The morning will explain the difference<br />
between the two services and give<br />
parents an opportunity to ask any<br />
questions. Please call the church offi ce<br />
on 0114 274 5086 if you are interested in<br />
attending.<br />
Are you looking for<br />
a room to hold your<br />
party or meeting?<br />
St Chad’s Church has<br />
two rooms available for<br />
hire at 56 Abbey Lane<br />
Call 0114 274 5086 for details<br />
Healing Rooms<br />
at the Big Tree Pub<br />
Wednesday mornings<br />
10.30-12.00<br />
1st & 3rd Wednesday evenings<br />
7.45- 9.00<br />
As part of an international<br />
Christian organisation, we seek<br />
to freely serve the local<br />
community in prayer for the sick.<br />
www.woodseatshealingrooms.org<br />
Tel. 0114 3600616 (answerphone)<br />
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Contacts<br />
WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD<br />
CHURCH OFFICE 274 5086<br />
Linden Avenue, S8 0GA<br />
email: offi ce@stchads.org<br />
If you want to contact the church offi ce and there is no one available, please leave a<br />
message or send an email and we will get back to you as soon as possible.<br />
Vicar Toby Hole (Vicarage) 274 9302<br />
email: toby@stchads.org<br />
Assistant Minister for the elderly Yvonne Smith 274 5086<br />
Readers<br />
Daren Craddock, Amy Hole,<br />
Pauline Johnson and<br />
Yvonne Smith 274 5086<br />
Youth Worker Nick Seaman 274 5086<br />
email: nick@stchads.org<br />
Besom in Sheffi eld Steve Winks 07875 950170<br />
Impact magazine Tim Hopkinson 274 5086<br />
email: impact@stchads.org<br />
Church Wardens Ann Firth 274 5086<br />
Ann Lomax 274 5086<br />
Uniformed Groups<br />
Group Scout Leader Ian Jackson 235 3044<br />
Guide Leader Jemma Taylor 296 0555<br />
CHURCH HOUSE<br />
56 Abbey Lane<br />
Bookings Church Offi ce 274 5086<br />
VISIT OUR WEBSITE: www.stchads.org<br />
PLEASE NOTE: The inclusion of advertisements in Impact in no way means the<br />
advertiser is endorsed or recommended by St Chad’s Church.<br />
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
Church Offi ce: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA<br />
Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />
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St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
Church Office: Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA<br />
Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />
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website: www.stchads.org
764 Chesterfield Road, Woodseats, Sheffield, S8 0SE<br />
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
Church Office: Linden Avenue, Sheffield S8 0GA<br />
Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />
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