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Febuary/March 2019<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 />
St Chad’s, visit our website at www.stchads.org or call the church<br />
office on 0114 274 5086.<br />
Here’s where to find us:<br />
Abbey Lane<br />
Linden Avenue<br />
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Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />
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According to the opening chapters of the book of<br />
Genesis, the first clothes were animal skins given<br />
by God to disobedient Adam and Eve. Someone<br />
has pointed out that the first death in the Bible was<br />
therefore not of a human being, but of an animal who<br />
provided the fi rst fur coat for the comfort of men and women.<br />
Clothes, like food, fuel and the other basic necessities of life<br />
are rarely morally neutral. Ethical qualms have long pushed<br />
the fur industry into the economic margins, but in the history of<br />
fabric and clothing, animal skins have only been part of wider<br />
moral questions and concerns. Our ancestors drove species to<br />
extinction in their quest for meat and clothing, but more recently<br />
we have been just as exploitative of fellow humans.<br />
Cotton, the miracle plant that fuelled much of the West’s industrial and<br />
economic growth of the 19th Century, relied almost entirely on American<br />
slavery to harvest the crop, in often brutal conditions. The child and<br />
women factory workers of Lancashire were not technically enslaved,<br />
but their conditions were little better. The abolition of slavery in America<br />
and the introduction of the factory acts in this country improved matters<br />
but by making the production of clothes more expensive, 20th Century<br />
manufacturers simply outsourced the work to other countries where working<br />
conditions were unregulated and unsafe. In 2013 over 1,000 workers died<br />
when a clothing factory in Bangladesh collapsed. The factory made clothes<br />
for brands including Benetton, Monsoon, Mango and Primark.<br />
And whilst cotton growing no longer uses slaves as workers, the world is<br />
waking up to the considerable environmental impact that our desire for this<br />
cheap, durable and versatile fabric has. 20,000 litres of water are required<br />
to make one kilogram of cotton. Ninety-seven per cent of the water in the<br />
Pakistani river Indus is estimated to go into cotton manufacture – and this<br />
in a country that does not have universal access to clean water.<br />
Meanwhile, at the other end of the clothing scale, Burberry, along with<br />
other high-end fashion brands, deliberately burns millions of pounds-worth<br />
of clothes each year in order to prevent them from losing value. This, in a<br />
world, where many struggle to clothe themselves and keep warm.<br />
Nudism is, I suppose, one response to the ethical dilemmas thrown up by<br />
the clothing industry, though in chilly Sheffield I feel that it is not a practical<br />
one! Others, such as the poet Benjamin Zephaniah, are championing<br />
vegan clothes such as bamboo suits and coats made from recycled plastic<br />
bottles. Such products are, however, neither cheap nor readily available.<br />
More practically, I would suggest that we think carefully before throwing<br />
out clothes and buying new ones. Oxfam will take all clothes, reselling<br />
wearable ones and recycling those that are unusable. There is an Oxfam<br />
clothes point at the Archer Road Sainsburys. It is very<br />
diffi cult to be certain whether the clothes you buy have been<br />
ethically sourced, but it is possible to buy fair-trade cotton<br />
and ethically sourced clothes even in some of the bigger<br />
retailers like H&M.<br />
Sheffield in February can be very cold. I’m so grateful for<br />
my thick jumpers. Perhaps my gratitude should extend to<br />
those who have made them for me.<br />
Rev Toby Hole, Vicar, St Chad’s, Woodseats<br />
Febuary/March 2019<br />
WOODSEATS • SHEFFIELD<br />
Wear and Tear<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 Offi ce: Linden Avenue, Sheffi eld S8 0GA<br />
Tel: (0114) 274 5086<br />
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Joseph’s coat came an unusual flock living<br />
on the other side of the valley<br />
A woman arrived home on a<br />
hot day and found her husband<br />
wearing two heavy jackets and<br />
painting the walls.<br />
Thinking this was a little strange,<br />
she asked him why he was<br />
wearing so many clothes on<br />
such a hot day.<br />
The man showed his wife<br />
the instructions on the can of<br />
paint. They read: “For best<br />
results, put on two coats.”<br />
What do you call<br />
an alligator in a<br />
vest?<br />
An investigator!<br />
What did they<br />
call the man who<br />
invented denim?<br />
A jean-ius.<br />
How did the<br />
gardener mend his<br />
trousers?<br />
With a cabbage<br />
patch!<br />
What did the tie say to the<br />
hat?<br />
“You go on a head; I’ll just<br />
hang around!”<br />
What did the<br />
tailor say after<br />
his client fired<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 Cafe;<br />
•Tuesdays - 10.30am: Ecclesall<br />
Woods. Meet at Abbeydale<br />
Industrial Hamlet Visitors Centre;<br />
•Thursdays - 10.30am: Lowedges.<br />
Meet at the Gresley Road Meeting<br />
Rooms, Gresley 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 for<br />
details about any of the walks.<br />
February 1<br />
Edie<br />
Greenhill Library<br />
7.30pm<br />
Sheila Hancock stars in Edie, a fi lm<br />
from director Simon Hunter.<br />
February 2<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.<br />
February 2<br />
The Railway Children<br />
Greenhill Library<br />
2pm<br />
The classic 1970 movie based on<br />
the book by E Nesbit is presented<br />
at Greenhill Library Children’s<br />
Cinema.<br />
February 3<br />
Pedlar’s Corner Flea Market<br />
The Abbeydale Picture House<br />
10am-3pm<br />
A mixture of general flea market<br />
stalls and specialist antiques,<br />
vintage, retro, arts, crafts, makers<br />
and salvage stalls.<br />
February 9<br />
Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor<br />
All Saints Church, Ecclesall<br />
7.30pm<br />
Sheffield Symphony Orchestra is<br />
joined by Ben Powell who will be<br />
performing Grieg’s Piano Concerto<br />
in A minor.<br />
February 15<br />
Wildflower Walks in the Peak<br />
District<br />
Greenhill Library<br />
7pm<br />
Peter Machan talks about the<br />
reasons for the Peak’s rich floral<br />
diversity.<br />
March 2<br />
Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra<br />
All Saints Church, Ecclesall<br />
7.30pm<br />
Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra<br />
will be joined by Thomas Kelly to<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 />
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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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 />
Call 0114 203 9337.<br />
National Council for Divorced,<br />
Single and Widowed<br />
Tuesdays perform Shostakovich’s 8-11pm Second<br />
Norton Piano Country Concerto. Club They will also be<br />
Club playing offering a new friendship work by Sheffieldbased<br />
composer Tom James, and<br />
and social<br />
activities.<br />
Beethoven’s Call Magdalen Symphony 0114 No. 1.<br />
2394326.<br />
March 3<br />
Pedlar’s Corner Flea Market<br />
January The Abbeydale 30 - February Picture House 5<br />
AEGON 10am-3pm British Tennis Tour<br />
Graves A mixture Tennis of flea and market Leisure stalls Centre and<br />
World specialist ranked antiques, players vintage, compete arts,<br />
alongside crafts, makers local and Sheffield salvage players. stalls.<br />
Call 0114 283 9900.<br />
March 16<br />
February Sheffield 5 Music Academy Spring<br />
Book<br />
Concert<br />
Sale<br />
St Andrew’s Psalter Lane<br />
36 Crawshaw Grove, Beauchief<br />
7pm<br />
10am-12pm<br />
A range of Sheffield Music Academy<br />
Good<br />
groups<br />
quality<br />
perform<br />
second-hand<br />
in their spring<br />
books<br />
for concert, sale in covering aid of the a range Alzheimer‟s of<br />
Society. composers Donations and works. of paperback<br />
novels or biographies in good<br />
condition March 24are welcome (but not<br />
larger Nether books Edge due Farmers’ to space Market<br />
limitations). Stalls, entertainment and various<br />
activities will be held in the streets<br />
February around the 5 old Nether Edge Market<br />
Free<br />
Place.<br />
Environmental Activities<br />
Millhouses March 24 Park<br />
10.30am-12.30pm<br />
Abbeydale Miniature Railway<br />
Obstacle Abbeydale course Road and South stream<br />
dipping 1-5pm activities for 8 - 13 year<br />
olds.<br />
Call 0114 263 4335.<br />
Thank you to everyone who<br />
braved the weather to come<br />
to Norton Community Choir’s<br />
Christmas Concert. It was a<br />
great success, raising £300 for<br />
the Breathe Easy charity.<br />
We begin singing again on<br />
February 5 for our Summer<br />
Concert. Would you like to join<br />
us? We are a friendly group who<br />
just like to sing and have fun.<br />
There are no audions or voice<br />
tests – come along and see what<br />
Free Environmental Activities<br />
Millhouses Park<br />
1.30-3.30pm<br />
Nature quiz trail, stream dipping<br />
and The bug first open hunting day activities of the year for at 8 - 13<br />
year<br />
Abbeydale<br />
olds.<br />
Miniature Railway.<br />
March Call 0114 30 263 4335.<br />
An Afternoon with the Animals<br />
February All Saints Church, 12 Ecclesall<br />
Free 3pm Environmental Activities<br />
Ecclesall Sheffield Symphony Woods Sawmill Orchestra<br />
10.30am-12.30pm<br />
presents some well-known<br />
Nature favourites quiz for trail, all of stream the family. dipping<br />
and bug hunting activities for 8 - 13<br />
year<br />
March<br />
olds.<br />
30<br />
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Book<br />
Call<br />
Sale<br />
0114 235 6348.<br />
36 Crawshaw Grove, Beauchief<br />
10am-12pm<br />
February<br />
Second-hand<br />
20<br />
books for sale in aid<br />
Why of the Not Alzheimer’s Try A Bike Society.<br />
Greenhil Park<br />
10am-2pm March 30<br />
Rediscover Escafeld Chorale your cycling Spring skills Concert in<br />
Greenhill Holy Trinity Park. Church, The Millhouses rangers will<br />
provide 7.30pm a bike, helmet and<br />
instruction. A concert including Meet at Franz the Bowls Schubert<br />
Pavilion, Mass in G Greenhill Major and Park. works by<br />
Booking<br />
Britten, Faure<br />
is essential.<br />
and Finzi, with<br />
soprano Sarah Leffler.<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 26. more<br />
details see the Abbey notice<br />
board.<br />
t Chads Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
email: office@stchads.org<br />
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el: (0114) 274 5086<br />
you can do! We meet in St.<br />
James’ Church, Norton from 7.30<br />
to 9pm on Tuesdays, with a tea<br />
or coffee break around 8.15pm.<br />
We only charge £2 per session<br />
to cover costs. For more details,<br />
email the music director Ann<br />
Brookes at ann.brookes0@<br />
gmail.com<br />
What’s On<br />
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The Fabric of Life...<br />
Have you ever found<br />
yourself stroking fabric<br />
on a stall or in a shop<br />
which you just want to<br />
own? You are not alone!<br />
At sew4others, which started seven<br />
years ago, we love fabric and making<br />
quilts – which we give away to others<br />
who are need of comfort. So far have<br />
given away over 2,500 cuddle quilts<br />
to children in hospital, in homes, in<br />
foster care and in refuges.<br />
We are even trying to instil a love<br />
of fabric and sewing to those who fi nd<br />
themselves in a refuge – and they now<br />
fi nd that when they have fi nished an<br />
item of sewing, they get a real buzz from<br />
having created something unique. The<br />
quilts we make are not full bed size, they<br />
are just the right size to cuddle in. As<br />
well as these we also make as babysized<br />
quilts – and amazingly none of the<br />
quilts are the same! The quality of the<br />
Some of the quilts<br />
given for the Besom<br />
Christmas hamper<br />
appeal<br />
items made is quite outstanding and we<br />
hope that those receiving them will feel<br />
some of the love that has been put into<br />
making them.<br />
Although it was originally just for<br />
quilters, the knitters soon joined us.<br />
They have given nearly 2,000 blankets<br />
as well as over 3,000 baby hats, lots<br />
of cardigans for Baby Basics as well<br />
as shawls for the elderly and items for<br />
shoeboxes and Teddies for Tragedies<br />
which go to children suffering a tragedy<br />
anywhere in the world. Mostly, however,<br />
the quilts and blankets are given away<br />
locally in Sheffi eld and Chesterfi eld.<br />
We are a group of ladies of a certain<br />
age but we do have a man who joins<br />
us too. We all share a love of fabric and<br />
sewing and knitting and enjoy making<br />
things and enjoy giving them away too –<br />
which really means we have an excuse<br />
to make some more!<br />
We do not fundraise – we use our<br />
time and talents to help others and let<br />
them know that by the gift of a quilt,<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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Sackcloth comes up a<br />
fair amount in the Bible.<br />
Usually made of goat’s<br />
hair, it is a coarse fabric<br />
which is (I would imagine)<br />
extremely uncomfortable to wear.<br />
Sackcloth is not fine clothing<br />
(Isaiah 3:24). Often in the Bible<br />
ashes appear alongside sackcloth:<br />
someone would put the ashes of<br />
burnt wood on their head, as well<br />
as wearing sackcloth.<br />
There are a variety of reasons<br />
in the Bible that people put<br />
on sackcloth (and<br />
often ashes, too).<br />
When Jacob, the<br />
father of the<br />
multi-coloured<br />
coat wearing<br />
dreamer<br />
Joseph, sees<br />
evidence<br />
pointing to<br />
the death of<br />
his favourite<br />
son, he tears<br />
his clothes and<br />
puts on sackcloth<br />
as a sign of mourning<br />
(Genesis 37:33-34).<br />
Sackcloth and ashes are also<br />
worn as a sign of morning for<br />
personal or national disaster. For<br />
example, Job, when he loses<br />
family, business and good health<br />
(Job 16:15), and Mordecai, when<br />
he learns of a plot to annihilate his<br />
people (Esther 4:1). These were<br />
the traditions of the past, just as<br />
our signs of mourning are wearing<br />
black at funerals, or leaving<br />
flowers at a crash site or outside a<br />
building.<br />
Daniel (rescued from the<br />
lions’ den) wears sackcloth and<br />
ashes, as well as fasting, in a<br />
time of prayer for the deliverance<br />
of Jerusalem (Daniel 9:3). But<br />
probably the most common<br />
occurrence of sackcloth in the<br />
Bible is its sign for repentance<br />
of sin. ‘Repentance’ and ‘sin’ are<br />
both loaded words, but essentially<br />
it is about turning away from<br />
something and turning back to<br />
God. In the story of Jonah (who<br />
gets swallowed by a fish), the<br />
Ninevites and their king fast, and<br />
(along with even their animals!)<br />
wear sackcloth as a sign of their<br />
repentance from their evil ways<br />
(Jonah 3:5-9).<br />
Repentance, along<br />
with self-examination,<br />
study and fasting,<br />
are traditional<br />
elements of<br />
the Christian<br />
season of Lent.<br />
On the first day<br />
of Lent, Ash<br />
Wednesday,<br />
it has been<br />
customary since<br />
the Middle Ages<br />
for Christians<br />
to be marked with<br />
ash in a cross shape,<br />
because of ash being a sign<br />
of repentance.<br />
However, it is uncommon for<br />
Christians to wear sackcloth<br />
today. Lent is the season of<br />
preparation before the greatest<br />
of the Christian festivals, Easter,<br />
where we remember the death<br />
and resurrection of Jesus.<br />
In this busy world we all need<br />
time and space to reflect on who<br />
we are and the things we do, to<br />
take a pause and rest from the<br />
things that consume us, and<br />
perhaps to take up something<br />
healthier. Lent is the annual<br />
Christian season that puts all<br />
these things on the agenda.<br />
Rev James Norris<br />
Sackcloth, Ashes and Lent<br />
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Little Norton’s Pioneering A<br />
Painted Fabrics Ltd was a high<br />
quality textile business with its<br />
premises at Little Norton Drive.<br />
The idea behind the company<br />
grew out of the innovative<br />
occupational art therapy pioneered by<br />
Mrs Annie Bindon Carter at Wharncliffe<br />
War Hospital during the First World War.<br />
Mrs Carter, who trained at Sheffield<br />
College of Art, worked as a hospital<br />
volunteer. She, with help from art<br />
student friends, ran art sessions for<br />
badly injured servicemen convalescing<br />
at the hospital. The relatively simple<br />
painting and stencilling techniques used<br />
by Mrs Carter enabled men to<br />
create prettily-designed<br />
fabrics as tea cosies,<br />
table mats, scarves<br />
and handkerchiefs<br />
for sale. This was<br />
successful and at<br />
the end of World<br />
War One, helped by<br />
public subscriptions,<br />
workshop premises<br />
were bought at West<br />
Bar. This enabled some<br />
ex-servicemen to work on the<br />
production of the fabrics and goods.<br />
By the early 1920s, the project needed<br />
larger, more suitable premises to provide<br />
space for living accommodation and<br />
workshops for the expanding business.<br />
An area of land and disused<br />
buildings were purchased<br />
at Meadowhead within<br />
the old Camp 3<br />
(Women’s section)<br />
of No.2 Northern<br />
Aircraft Repair Depot<br />
(NARD). Acquisition<br />
was helped by the<br />
Earl Haig Fund, local<br />
businesses and the<br />
United Services Fund<br />
amongst others. Some<br />
of the workshops from the<br />
NARD were converted to factory<br />
premises and the Women’s section hut<br />
accommodation used by the men and<br />
their families.<br />
It was officially opened in 1925 by<br />
Princess Mary (the Princess Royal), the<br />
company’s Royal Patron.<br />
This site became the permanent home<br />
for Painted Fabrics Ltd and allowed its<br />
workforce and product range to grow.<br />
Working with luxury fabrics like silk,<br />
chiffon, satin and velvet, designs were<br />
mostly hand-stencilled. Some blockprinting<br />
and screen-printing techniques<br />
were also used.<br />
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Art Therapy<br />
Assisted by her sister and Edith Jagger<br />
(also from Sheffi eld College of Art),<br />
Mrs Carter created designs for fabrics<br />
and clothes. In keeping with the high<br />
fashion of the time, styles were often<br />
brightly coloured and fl amboyant with<br />
oriental and bohemian infl uences. Mrs<br />
Carter promoted and sold the products<br />
with exhibitions of work, for example,<br />
at Claridges Hotel and in shops such<br />
as Liberty’s of Regent Street. They also<br />
accepted commissions, for example,<br />
a set of curtains produced for Earl<br />
Fitzwilliam at Wentworth Woodhouse<br />
and hung in the Long Gallery.<br />
Although, the Sheffi eld City Council<br />
sheltered housing on the site is known<br />
by the name and the Earl Haig Memorial<br />
Homes, built in 1928 to house some<br />
of the workforce, are still there, the<br />
buildings of Painted Fabrics have gone.<br />
The heyday of the business lasted about<br />
20 years but a century on, the inspiration<br />
of Painted Fabrics for what we now call<br />
‘art therapy’ lives on.<br />
Christine Handley & Ian Rotherham<br />
Ian’s<br />
grandfather<br />
Lance<br />
Corporal<br />
Arthur Asquith<br />
whose painted<br />
fabric badge<br />
of the King’s<br />
Own Yorkshire<br />
Light Infantry,<br />
and of birds<br />
and fl owers<br />
are pictured<br />
left.<br />
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How Do You Decide What T<br />
When you got dressed this<br />
morning, how did you<br />
decide what to wear?<br />
Did you just grab the<br />
nearest pair of jeans and<br />
a sweatshirt ready for the school run, or<br />
maybe put on a smart suit for the offi ce?<br />
Perhaps you needed something practical<br />
and warm for an outside job. Can the<br />
Bible help us with these decisions?<br />
Indeed the subject of clothes<br />
is mentioned several times.<br />
Think of Joseph and his<br />
coat of many colours, or<br />
many pieces as some have<br />
suggested. At Christmas<br />
we don’t know what Mary<br />
dressed Jesus in, but we do<br />
know that he was wrapped in<br />
swaddling cloths.<br />
Jesus taught us in Matthew 6:25 that<br />
the body is more important than clothes.<br />
In verse 28 he asks why we worry about<br />
what to wear, God knows our needs.<br />
Worrying unduly about what to wear is<br />
one thing but perhaps the time has come<br />
when we should be concerned about<br />
the number of clothes that we buy, how<br />
they are made and how they affect those<br />
involved. Look at the label. What is your<br />
garment made from? Where<br />
was it made, and what are the working<br />
conditions like? Your t-shirt may be 100<br />
per cent cotton, for instance. How was<br />
that cotton grown? Did the farmer use<br />
chemical sprays and fertilisers, often very<br />
expensive and sometimes not applied<br />
properly, causing sickness to the user?<br />
Was the cotton crop sold for less than<br />
it cost to produce with the result that<br />
the farmer’s family would go hungry<br />
and not be able to afford for their<br />
children to go to school?<br />
What about the dyes used in<br />
your t-shirt’s production, or the<br />
design printed on the front?<br />
How do those dyes affect<br />
the factory workers and their<br />
environment?<br />
If you watched the BBC<br />
programme Fashion’s Dirty Secrets<br />
you would have learned from Stacey<br />
Dooley the true cost to people, both<br />
adults and children, in Indonesia who<br />
share the same polluted water courses<br />
as the factories. We have all been made<br />
aware how man-made fi bres are having<br />
such a dreadful effect on our planet.<br />
Many fabrics are woven; warp and<br />
weft working together to make a strong,<br />
useable cloth. Like warp and weft our<br />
lives are woven together with the people<br />
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To Wear?<br />
who make our clothes. Therefore we<br />
have a responsibility to make sure that<br />
we are not causing harm to them or to<br />
their environment by our choice of what to<br />
wear.<br />
It is easy to feel overwhelmed by<br />
issues such as these but there are<br />
positive things that we can do. If we can<br />
afford to do so we can choose organic,<br />
ethically-produced clothes and household<br />
goods. Seek them out on the internet.<br />
Find out the ethical and environmental<br />
position of the companies you buy from.<br />
Try the ‘About’ button on the website<br />
of your favourite fashion retailer for the<br />
information. You might be surprised! If<br />
you don’t like what you have learned then<br />
tell them.<br />
The Bible gives us good guidance as to<br />
how we should live and this includes how<br />
we make decisions day by day. In the Old<br />
Testament, Isaiah 56:1 says, “Maintain<br />
justice and do what is right”. Read Isaiah<br />
58 – in that chapter he has a lot to say on<br />
the subject. The prophet Micah sums it<br />
up simply, “Act justly, love mercy and walk<br />
humbly with your God”.<br />
Brenda Emberson<br />
Demanding change<br />
Fashion Revolution is an<br />
organisation made up of designers,<br />
academics, writers, business<br />
leaders, policymakers and retailers.<br />
Its vision is to see a fashion industry<br />
that values people, the environment,<br />
creativity and profi t in equal measure.<br />
The organisation is encouraging<br />
people to ask brands the question<br />
‘Who made my clothes?’ and<br />
demand greater transparency in the<br />
fashion supply chain.<br />
Its aim is to unite people and<br />
organisations to work together<br />
towards radically changing the way<br />
our clothes are sourced, produced<br />
and consumed, so that our clothing is<br />
made in a safe, clean and fair way.<br />
To fi nd out how to get involved,<br />
visit www.fashionrevolution.org<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 />
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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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Netherby Knit and Natter<br />
was started in 2012<br />
following the death of my<br />
eldest son, Will. He<br />
died in October<br />
2011 from lymphoma<br />
and was in the<br />
care of St Luke’s<br />
Hospice for just 24<br />
hours.<br />
My husband,<br />
John and I visited<br />
relatives just after<br />
Will’s death and<br />
someone mentioned<br />
that they had joined<br />
a local group called<br />
‘Knit and Natter’. Whilst<br />
socialising the group<br />
were also able to<br />
raise funds for local<br />
charities.<br />
Upon returning<br />
to Sheffield I told<br />
my daughter-inlaw<br />
Amy, Will’s<br />
widow, about<br />
the group we had<br />
heard about and<br />
she suggested that<br />
we form one ourselves.<br />
We named it Netherby Knit<br />
and Natter, Netherby being the<br />
name of Will and Amy’s house in<br />
Hathersage. We also agreed that,<br />
once formed, the group would<br />
raise funds for St.Luke’s.<br />
This small idea has led into a<br />
very successful project. All group<br />
meetings take place at my home<br />
in Abbey Lane where we sit and<br />
talk and finish up with eating<br />
lunch. Some members knit and<br />
others sow and all of the items we<br />
produce are sold at a regular sale<br />
which is also held at my house<br />
and open to everyone. We sell<br />
high quality items and, as well as<br />
the knitwear and other clothing,<br />
someone also sells beautiful<br />
wooden ornaments. We also bake<br />
and sell tea and coffee with all<br />
donations going to St.Luke’s.<br />
A raffle is also held at<br />
each sale.<br />
We have held<br />
many sales since<br />
the very first one<br />
in 2012, most<br />
of them at my<br />
house and we<br />
have raised,<br />
to date, the<br />
amazing sum of<br />
£13,169.74.<br />
I would like to<br />
thank all those who have<br />
supported the group,<br />
either by knitting<br />
or sowing, or by<br />
attending our<br />
sales.<br />
I have been<br />
touched that so<br />
many people<br />
obviously care<br />
and to know that,<br />
through our efforts,<br />
we can make a<br />
difference to other’s<br />
lives in so many different<br />
ways.<br />
Jill Driskell<br />
Knit and Knatter<br />
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Sharing Our Talents<br />
Busy Hands is a Small<br />
Group of St Chad’s<br />
Church. We meet<br />
fortnightly and are a<br />
‘self-help’ group – we<br />
do not invite a tutor or anyone<br />
to demonstrate. We have<br />
many and varied talents which<br />
we share with one another -<br />
sometimes successfully and<br />
sometimes not so successfully!<br />
However, there is a great deal of<br />
fun and laughter.<br />
Over the years we have made<br />
items for church and outside<br />
organisations. The tapestry<br />
kneelers and cushions in the<br />
chancel were made when<br />
Yvonne Smith was the leader<br />
and the hanging banner in the<br />
chancel (pictured right) was<br />
made and dedicated to a dear<br />
member of the group who died<br />
before it was completed, Gill Buck.<br />
One of our group worked with<br />
preschool blind or partially sighted<br />
children so we made a “touch and<br />
feelie” play mat and also a book<br />
with different textures and sounds<br />
which was much appreciated.<br />
We use various types of<br />
materials in our work e.g. we have<br />
painted bottles with L.E.D. lights<br />
inside, made mosaic plant pots,<br />
jewellery, polymer buttons, mats,<br />
cards, soap, chocolates, boxes,<br />
fabric book covers, done napkin<br />
folding, created water-colour<br />
pictures and felting to make small<br />
animals. As you can see, our<br />
crafts are very varied and we hope<br />
some are suitable for our varied<br />
abilities.<br />
A few years ago we made a<br />
patchwork quilt which we gave to<br />
a home for teenagers in care. The<br />
idea was that when that person<br />
left the home they would take it<br />
with them and have something<br />
personal for themselves. This<br />
spring we are planning to make<br />
another quilt. What we will do with<br />
it is still undecided, maybe raffle it<br />
for a charity or give it to a needy<br />
person. We support the Christmas<br />
Shoebox Appeal with knitting and<br />
gift and we also knit for C.A.R.T,<br />
the Christian African Relief<br />
Trust, based in Huddersfield.<br />
In November we had a coffee<br />
morning and craft sale to support<br />
street children in Guatemala, all of<br />
which the items were had crafted.<br />
I should point out that many of<br />
the items we make we keep for<br />
ourselves, of which we are proud<br />
but also there are items we hide<br />
away in shame! Being a Small<br />
Group, we start all our meetings<br />
with prayer and a short mediative<br />
reading and we close with prayer.<br />
We also support each other in<br />
times of need.<br />
We hope this gives you an<br />
insight into Busy Hands’ activities.<br />
Beryl Wright and Mary Diskin,<br />
Busy Hands small group<br />
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A History of Our Jewish<br />
From 1967 until 1971 ITV broadcast<br />
a series called Never Mind the<br />
Quality, Feel the Width. It featured<br />
a Jewish tailor called Manny<br />
Cohen (played by John Bluthal,<br />
who recently died and was better<br />
remembered as Frank Pickle in The<br />
Vicar of Dibley) and an Irish tailor called<br />
Patrick Kelly.<br />
The series poked fun at both Jews<br />
and Catholics without being offensive.<br />
It perpetuated the stereotype of the<br />
small Jewish man, bent over a table<br />
with a tape measure over his shoulders,<br />
cigarette in the corner of his mouth. The<br />
Jewish tailor.<br />
Traditional tailoring is called bespoke<br />
tailoring in the UK, where the heart of<br />
the trade is London’s Savile Row. In<br />
the USA and Hong Kong it is called<br />
custom tailoring. This is unlike “made<br />
to measure” which uses pre-existing<br />
patterns (also known as ‘off the peg’). A<br />
bespoke garment or suit is completely<br />
original and unique to each customer.<br />
A list of famous tailors would include<br />
such as Hardy Amies of Savile Row who<br />
designed clothes for the Queen, but<br />
also US tailors including Jacob Davis,<br />
credited with inventing the modern jeans,<br />
and Levi Strauss of blue jeans fame.<br />
There was a tradition of immigrant<br />
Jewish tailors in many British cities. In<br />
London’s East End they worked long<br />
hours for meagre pay and got out of<br />
the East End when better opportunities<br />
came along. Stockman Brothers was<br />
an example of a family firm in what was<br />
known as the rag trade.<br />
They became quite wealthy making<br />
uniforms and jodhpurs in the Second<br />
World War and were known as good<br />
employers but many in that business had<br />
to exist as poorly paid piece-workers to<br />
make ends meet.<br />
Working conditions often continued<br />
to be poor, even into the early 20th<br />
century. One factory in Whitechapel was<br />
described as “a big old cellar, almost<br />
completely dark except for some little<br />
glass bricks set in the pavement and one<br />
light bulb”. This business bought off-cuts<br />
from tailors and ended up making more<br />
money from collecting unused fabric to<br />
send North for the paper industry than<br />
could be made making clothes. Many<br />
brought pieces of fabric home and the<br />
whole family became involved to try and<br />
provide food on the table.<br />
Leeds has a large Jewish community<br />
of around 10,000. Montague Burton was<br />
a Lithuanian Jew who fled pogroms in<br />
his country of birth and became known<br />
as the man who “dressed British men”.<br />
He opened his first store in Chesterfield.<br />
Joseph Hepworth was another Jewish<br />
tailor in Leeds who became a household<br />
name. Another business was the Fifty<br />
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Tailors<br />
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A scene<br />
from ITV<br />
comedy<br />
Never<br />
Mind the<br />
Quality,<br />
Feel the<br />
Width<br />
Shilling Tailors who became John Collier.<br />
Jews have been involved in clothing<br />
throughout history. The fi rst mention<br />
comes as early as Genesis Chapter 37<br />
when Jacob gives his son Joseph a coat<br />
of many colours (probably two sizes too<br />
big so he can grow into it.) But did anyone<br />
also know that Moses was a clothier? No<br />
mention of him fl ogging waterproofs at<br />
the Red Sea! Nothing about fashion in<br />
the ten commandments! However, Moses<br />
of E.Moses and Son of Aldgate, east<br />
London, pioneered men’s fashion starting<br />
early in the 19th century. And another<br />
Moses, Moses Moss founded Moss Bros,<br />
well known hirers of formal wear. Before<br />
he changed his name he was Moses<br />
Moses (so good they named him twice!)<br />
Volume selling at low prices, rather than<br />
bespoke tailoring, became the order of<br />
the day and the Moses brothers, together<br />
with their in-laws, the Hyams, were the<br />
leaders of that trade. Off-the-peg and<br />
Made-to-Measure now ruled.<br />
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A relaxed and friendly place for a chat<br />
Coffee morning for anyone over 50<br />
Tuesdays 10.15 -11.15am<br />
St Chad’s Church,<br />
Tuesdays 10.15 -11.15am, starting 25th April 2017<br />
St Chad’s Church, Linden Avenue, Woodseats<br />
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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I<br />
have previously told<br />
you about St Chad’s<br />
Befriending Group and how<br />
we are willing to spend<br />
an hour or so a month<br />
becoming a friend to an elderly,<br />
home-restricted person.<br />
I appreciate you only have my<br />
word as to what those visited<br />
thinks about this arrangement.<br />
The other day one of our<br />
team gave me this letter with<br />
a message. Her message was<br />
‘Please use my letter to tell the<br />
lonely and those unable to get<br />
out and about how wonderful it is<br />
to have my new friend come and<br />
talk with me’.<br />
Thank you Dee for giving me<br />
permission to print your words.<br />
If you would like to know more<br />
or to recommend someone<br />
please contact the Church Offi ce<br />
and I will get back to you.<br />
Yvonne Smith<br />
Have you heard of the<br />
Befrienders? Well, if you<br />
are alone and want someone<br />
to come and talk with you<br />
every now and then why<br />
don’t you do what I did?<br />
My name is Dee and<br />
believe me, my Befriender<br />
really lifted me up. Every<br />
time she came, when she<br />
left I looked forward to her<br />
next visit and she has now<br />
become a friend. We just sit<br />
and talk about life, my life<br />
and hers.<br />
You could have this, They<br />
are waiting for anyone who<br />
is lonely and would like to be<br />
friends. It really helps you in<br />
your loneliness and then you<br />
could look forward to their<br />
next visit just like me.<br />
D<br />
A Letter from Dee<br />
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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 />
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Services The Witness at St of Chad’s Cloth<br />
S<br />
It’s a curious fact that<br />
Jesus began and ended<br />
his earthly life wrapped<br />
in cloth. Luke tells us that<br />
Mary wrapped her baby<br />
in ‘swaddling cloths’ before laying<br />
him in the manger. These were<br />
strips of cloth traditionally used<br />
to keep a baby still and warm,<br />
mimicking the security of the<br />
womb. Many cultures still swaddle<br />
babies in this way.<br />
But strips of linen cloth can also<br />
be used to wrap and mummify<br />
a dead body; together with the<br />
Magi’s gift of myrrh, a traditional<br />
embalming spice, we glimpse a<br />
hint that Jesus was literally born<br />
to die.<br />
All four gospels tell us that when<br />
Joseph of Arimathea recovered<br />
the body of Jesus after he was<br />
crucifi ed, he wound it in linen<br />
before placing it in a tomb. John<br />
also mentions that he brought<br />
myrrh. So once again Jesus was<br />
bandaged up like a mummy,<br />
apparently helpless…<br />
But Luke and John tell us that<br />
when the women among Jesus’<br />
friends came on the Sunday<br />
morning to embalm the body, it<br />
wasn’t there! Hearing this, Peter<br />
and John ran to the tomb and<br />
saw the strips of linen lying on<br />
the ground; John says that at this<br />
point he believed.<br />
Presumably he believed that<br />
Jesus had risen from death.<br />
The gospel writers tell us that<br />
as Jesus hung upon the cross<br />
the soldiers shared out his<br />
clothes: this was a grisly “perk”<br />
for the execution squad. But one<br />
garment was unusual, woven<br />
without seams, and they cast lots<br />
for this, maybe by rolling a dice.<br />
Unknowingly, they were acting out<br />
the startlingly detailed predictions<br />
of Psalm 22, written hundreds of<br />
years earlier.<br />
At the moment of Jesus’ death<br />
another piece of cloth suffered a<br />
strange mishap. In the Jerusalem<br />
temple hung a heavy tapestry<br />
curtain, about 60 feet long. It<br />
covered the “most holy place”<br />
where God was thought to be.<br />
Only the high priest could go in<br />
there, during a special annual<br />
ceremony. Suddenly, as Jesus<br />
died, this enormous curtain<br />
was torn from top to bottom –<br />
something about the death of<br />
Jesus meant that the way in to<br />
God was now open to everyone.<br />
The tearing of the temple<br />
curtain; the fulfi lled prophecy;<br />
the strips of linen lying on the<br />
fl oor of the empty tomb; all silent<br />
witnesses that Jesus was far more<br />
than just another Jewish hothead<br />
crucifi ed by the Romans.<br />
Is he woven into the fabric of<br />
your life?<br />
Ken Goodier<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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The poem below, Life is but a Weaving or The Tapestry Poem,<br />
was often quoted by Corrie Ten Boom, a Dutch survivor of the<br />
concentration camps who, along with her family, opened up her<br />
home as hiding place for fugitives and those hunted by the Nazis.<br />
My life is but a weaving<br />
Between my God and me.<br />
I cannot choose the colours<br />
He weaveth steadily.<br />
Oft’ times He weaveth<br />
sorrow;<br />
And I in foolish pride<br />
Forget He sees the upper<br />
And I the underside.<br />
Not ’til the loom is silent<br />
And the shuttles cease to fl y<br />
Will God unroll the<br />
canvas<br />
And reveal the<br />
reason why.<br />
The dark threads are as needful<br />
In the weaver’s skillful hand<br />
As the threads of gold and silver<br />
In the pattern He has planned<br />
He knows, He loves,<br />
He cares;<br />
Nothing this truth<br />
can dim.<br />
He gives the very<br />
best to those<br />
Who leave the<br />
choice to Him.”<br />
Author unknown<br />
The Tapestry Poem<br />
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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 />
Services during Lent & Easter<br />
February & March 2019<br />
Holy Communion:<br />
February<br />
Sun 3rd, 10th, 24th 11.00am<br />
March<br />
Sun 3rd,10th, 31st 11.00am<br />
Sun 24th 10.30<br />
Evensong ( third Sunday 3pm)<br />
17th February, 17th March<br />
Mothering Sunday<br />
31st March<br />
Holy Communion 11.00am<br />
All Welcome<br />
Our Services are based on the<br />
Book of Common Prayer &<br />
Refreshments<br />
are served afterwards<br />
email info@beauchiefabbey.org.uk<br />
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In case you are wondering what to get with your Christmas book<br />
token, here is a selection of favourite titles chosen by some of St<br />
Chad’s Third Age Book Group and members of our congregation.<br />
If you have a recommendation for our Book Club please send it to<br />
impact@stchads.org<br />
The Girl in the<br />
Ice by Robert<br />
Bryndza<br />
A Child’s<br />
Christmas<br />
in Wales by<br />
Dylan Thomas<br />
We Are All<br />
Made of Glue<br />
by Marina<br />
Lewycka<br />
I am David by<br />
Anne Holm<br />
Pride and<br />
Prejudice by<br />
Jane Austin<br />
The Long<br />
Walk by<br />
Slavomir<br />
Rawicz<br />
The Tattooist<br />
of Auschwitz<br />
by Heather<br />
Morris<br />
The Return of<br />
the Native by<br />
Thomas Hardy<br />
His Dark<br />
Materials<br />
by Philip<br />
Pullman<br />
All the<br />
Light We<br />
Cannot See<br />
by Anthony<br />
Doerr<br />
The Love<br />
Song of Miss<br />
Queenie<br />
Hennesy by<br />
Rachel Joyce<br />
Conclave by<br />
Robert Harris<br />
My Family<br />
and Other<br />
Animals by<br />
Gerald Durrell<br />
The Witches<br />
Abroad by<br />
Terry Pratchett<br />
Book Group’s Top Reads for 2019<br />
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Registers 2018<br />
Funerals<br />
November<br />
9 Margaret Oldfi eld<br />
26 Dennis Brooks<br />
December<br />
10 Norman Swift<br />
19 Patricia Turner<br />
21 Ruth Hunter<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 />
• If you have had a new baby and<br />
would like to celebrate that baby’s birth<br />
with a service in church then please<br />
come to one of our thanksgiving and<br />
baptism mornings at St Chad’s.<br />
The morning will explain the difference<br />
between the two services and give<br />
parents an<br />
opportunity to<br />
ask any<br />
questions.<br />
Please call<br />
the church<br />
offi ce on<br />
0114 274<br />
5086 if<br />
you are<br />
interested in<br />
attending.<br />
Every Wednesday<br />
from 9.30-11.30am<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 />
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Tel. 0114 3600616 (answerphone)<br />
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We hope you enjoyed<br />
our Community Advent<br />
Windows during<br />
December. Here are some<br />
of the windows which were lit up on<br />
the 24 days leading up to Christmas.<br />
To see more go to www.stchads.org.<br />
Advent Windows<br />
Beauchief<br />
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Services<br />
57 Dalewood Ave<br />
Beauchief<br />
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• Painting and decorating<br />
• Tiling - floors & walls<br />
• Fencing, decking, walls<br />
& patios<br />
• Joinery, including<br />
conservatories, UPVC<br />
windows, fascias & guttering<br />
• General maintenance<br />
Phone: 0114 236 1050<br />
Mobile: 07906 146307<br />
Email: philipcrowtherbhs@gmail.com<br />
0114 453 4716<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 />
Curate James Norris 274 5086<br />
Readers<br />
Daren Craddock, Amy Hole,<br />
and Pauline Johnson 274 5086<br />
Youth Worker Nick Seaman 274 5086<br />
email: nick@stchads.org<br />
Besom in Sheffi eld Steve Winks 07875 950170<br />
email: steve@stchads.org<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 />
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