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MARY BERRY – BAKE TO THE FUTURE Page 4

PARALYMPIC SILVER MEDALLIST STEF REID TALKS SUCCESS

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FAB ‘LOVE ME DO’ HITS HALF A CENTURY

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IT reached only No 17 in the UK charts – but it is being singled out. The simple bit of vinyl that turned round at 45rpm began a musical revolution. That’s why a city is staging a mini-festival and radio stations are holding a day to celebrate the 50th anniversary of ‘Love Me Do’. The Beatles’ first single was released on 5 October 1962.

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News

Papyrus ‘not proof’ for Jesus wife A PAPYRUS fragment has been revealed in which Jesus uses the words ‘my wife’ – but the professor who announced its existence says that it does not show that Jesus was married.

Professor Karen King of Harvard Divinity School spoke about the fragment at a conference in Rome.

She believes it is authentic, although she concedes ‘a final conclusion’ about its authenticity ‘remains open to question’. She thinks that it dates from

the 4th century, but its text may have been composed in the second half of the 2nd century.

In her draft article she says that the fragment shows some Christians in the 2nd century may have believed that Jesus had been married, but that its late date ‘argues against its value as evidence for the life of the historical Jesus’.

She adds: ‘The earliest and most historically reliable Christian literature is utterly silent on the issue.’

Greenland makes 125 THE Salvation Army has officially opened its work in Greenland. The movement now officially operates in 125 countries.

APPLICATIONS FOR GRANTS RISE

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CHRISTIAN CHARITY HIGHLIGHTS DESPAIR

Debt clients had considered suicide RESEARCH carried out among clients by debt counselling charity Christians Against Poverty (CAP) found that four in ten had contemplated suicide before receiving its help.

CAP runs 205 church-based centres offering a free service to help people out of debt.

Its chief executive Matt Barlow says: ‘Significant changes in circumstance can

THE National Churches Trust has said that the number of churches seeking funding for repairs and modernisation has doubled between 2010 and 2011. The charity’s annual review reveals that last year, it received 618 applications for grants compared with 309 in 2010.

Last year, the National Churches Trust helped places of worship to fix leaking roofs,

crumbling stonework and deteriorating woodwork as well as to improve facilities.

Claire Walker, chief executive, comments: ‘These costs can rarely be paid for by the church congregation alone.

‘In this age of austerity, the closure of facilities such as libraries and community centres means that in some parts of the country, places of worship are becoming the last place

trap people into debt – job loss, illness and relationship breakdown are common ones. But these are emotional issues as well as financial and can lead to feelings of deep despair as the debt spirals.

‘We want those who feel they have reached rock bottom to know that they are not on their own and that recovery is possible.’

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where local organisations and people can hire a room to meet either for free or at an affordable price.’

She points out that a national survey by the trust estimated that ‘nearly 80 per cent of the UK’s church buildings are also used for purposes other than regular worship, such as providing nursery and playgroup education, homeless shelters or employment or addiction counselling’.

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Prayers for trafficking victims

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CONGREGATIONS at Salvation Army centres around the world are due to say prayers for victims of human trafficking tomorrow (Sunday 30 September). On its International Day of Prayer for Victims of Human Trafficking, Salvationists and friends have been encouraged to ‘call on God … to bring hope and freedom’ to the millions of people who are trafficked every year.

YOUNG players in a football team run by members and friends of Hendon Salvation Army church had a surprise when Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt joined them in a game while they were playing at Brunel University, Uxbridge.

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It was our greatest philosophical song

broadcast listeners’ memories of meeting John, Paul, George and Ringo and will play favourite Fab Four tracks chosen in a survey.

In the group’s home city of Liverpool, visitor attraction the Beatles Story is organising an attempt to break a Guinness World Record. It has teamed up with vocal training company Sense of Sound to gather choirs, schools, community groups and individuals together by the River Mersey to sing ‘Love Me Do’ in a round. They hope to break the record for singing in a round that was set when 897 people took part in an event in Chicago.

More than 30 choirs have signed up so far, including the Liverpool Signing Choir, who took part in the Olympics closing ceremony. Jerry Goldman of the Beatles Story says that when Sense of Sound set about putting the choir together, ‘the level of support was amazing’.

Why do people love ‘Love Me Do’?

The group’s producer George Martin has said that the song did not give an indication that – the group were changing drumLennon and McCartney were mers, so it appeared in two difabout to show themselves to be ferent versions, one with Ringo songwriting geniuses. Its record- on drums, the other with session ing was less than straightforward musician Andy White. It did not The Beatles in 1967

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break into the Top Ten until it re-entered the chart on its 20th anniversary.

It did not have the impact even of its follow-up ‘Please Please Me’, let alone the invention of ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ less than five years later.

But it marked the beginning of an era. The Beatles went on not only to offer new sounds but also to explore various ways of looking at the world in songs such as the bleak ‘Eleanor Rigby’, the empathetic ‘Nowhere Man’ and the spiritually reflective ‘Within You Without You’. But ‘love’ of one kind or another was a recurring theme.

And in his book The Gospel According to the Beatles, Steve Turner notes that in 1967, when the group’s current single was ‘All You Need is Love’, Paul McCartney commented that, in its simplicity, ‘“Love Me Do” was our greatest philosophical song’.

Something simple can be true.

There is something true in ‘Love Me Do’ and ‘All You Need is Love’. There is something revolutionary in the simple message of the man whose words ‘What will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life?’ are echoed in one line of ‘Within You Without You’.

Jesus spoke of how God’s love meant that, whatever had happened in their past, people could know that they were forgiven. It meant that they were cared for.

Jesus’ words and actions led one Bible writer to put down a simple truth: ‘God is love’ (1 John 4:16 Good News Bible).

It’ll always be true.

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HE is a qualified teacher, has 70 cookery books to her name and is a judge on BBC Two’s The Great British Bake Off. But, despite a successful career both on and offcamera, Mary Berry refers to herself as ‘just a cook’.

And a happy one at that.

‘I enjoy baking, and I want to share that with people,’ she says. ‘I want to teach people so they feel able to try cooking at home.’

Mary explains how she got into cooking: ‘I wasn’t very good at the academic subjects at school, but I enjoyed the cooking classes. I had a very good teacher. When I left school, I completed a catering course, and then I did a teaching course.’

In 1960, Mary became the cookery editor of Housewife magazine. In 1966, she published her first cookery book, The Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook.

Over the years, her cookbooks have sold more than five million copies worldwide.

Mary has also enjoyed contributing to various radio and television programmes. She loves making The Great British Bake Off, which is in its third series.

She explains why she thinks the competition for amateur bakers is so popular.

‘I think the viewers put themselves in the place of the bakers. They see the contestants just as they are – weighing their ingredients or spilling something.

The viewers begin to feel attached to a particular baker, which makes them feel a part of the programme.’

Mary admits that she also grows fond

Mary with the ‘Great British Bake Off’ team

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ual programme, so if a particular baker did very well last week but then had two disasters this week, they have to go,’ she explains. ‘It is difficult, but I do try to be really fair. I want to encourage the contestants equally.’

Fairness, kindness and patience are qualities which have always been important to Mary. She was brought up as a Christian and continues to attend church.

Back in the summer when Mary featured in the Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs, she spoke about two of her favourite Christian songs: ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’ and ‘How Great Thou Art’.

‘I’m told that the music to “Onward, Christian Soldiers” was composed by Arthur Sullivan in my garden,’ she says. ‘Sir George Grove – who wrote the Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians – used to live in my house, and apparently Sullivan was a frequent visitor.’

The version of the song Mary chose was recorded by The Salvation Army’s New York Staff Band. She explains that she and her husband are fans of The Salvation Army.

‘At Christmas-time, the Salvation Army band are the most cheery people around, playing music,’ she says. ‘The organisation always helps people. It looks after those who are often forgotten, so I think it is a very deserving charity.’

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of the bakers. She enjoys watching them develop their skills.

‘I get very attached to the bakers, so I hate saying goodbye to one of them each week,’ she says. ‘They all work so hard.

At the start of the competition, everyone is very nervous, but the bakers grow in confidence. They do their best – and the challenges get more difficult.’

Mary says her role as a judge is a tough one. But she always tries to weigh each contestant’s work fairly.

‘We judge the bakers on each individ-

I want to encourage the contestants equally

ary explains why she also chose the hymn ‘How Great Thou Art’, performed by Susan Boyle: ‘I love the song, and Susan sings it with great passion. My daughter Annabel also had it at her wedding.’

Mary says her faith brought her great comfort when in 1989 she lost her 19-year-old son in a road accident.

‘Having a faith gave me strength,’ she says. ‘Without it, I would have asked: “Why has this happened?” But I didn’t. Tragedies do happen, which we can’t explain, and this is simply what happened to my family.

‘I still miss my son enormously, but my husband and I are very thankful we had him. We have to keep going.’

As Mary’s future unfolds, she has no firm plans about what she wants to do next. Rather than focusing on personal achievements, she is most content when she concentrates on helping others become better cooks.

‘It’s no good being difficult and shouting at people,’ she says. ‘I find that quietly explaining things is the best way forward.

‘When I work in the kitchen, I‘m myself. I’m not theatrical and I don’t want to draw attention to myself. I just want to encourage others, treat them fairly and teach them how to bake.’

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Comment

Square eyes THE goings-on in Albert Square are of biblical proportions. That’s the gospel according to one of EastEnders’s former producers and current ‘storyliner’.

‘Middle East violence led to one-God view’ IN the second part of Andrew Marr’s History of the World tomorrow (Sunday 30 September 9 pm), the presenter (pictured) tells the stories of some early empires of the world. He describes how the inhabitants of Judah were taken into exile in Babylon before being allowed to return to Jerusalem by the conqueror of Babylon, the Persian king Cyrus, as reported in the Bible.

Empires brought about destruction and violence, but somehow, he argues, also led to great developments in history – such as the Jews’ distinctive and strong belief in one God.

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Speaking at the BBC’s Re:Think conference, Jennifer Robins said that the Good Book is the main inspiration for the bad behaviour of Walford residents.

‘The prototype of every EastEnders story can be traced to one source,’ she said. ‘David and Goliath, Daniel in the lion’s den, Samson and Delilah, Sodom and Gomorrah, the Fall, all the Bible stories.’

So, chain-smoking Dot Branning shares much in common with the longsuffering Job. While ‘Dirty’ Den could be compared to the Devil himself.

The connection, though, does not mean that each character has a biblical equivalent (Den’s wife Angie, for instance, was no angel), rather that the age-old struggle between good and evil gets a regular airing.

Likening the popular soap to a morality tale, Ms Robins said: ‘Despite the twists and turns of the plotlines, all our conclusions are essentially moral: good triumphs, evil is punished and the value of human life asserted.

‘The sagas of Albert Square,’ she continued, referring to the Garden of Eden and the Fall, by which sin came into the world, ‘are a saga of free will, where individuals chose to be either good or bad, but all of them have the knowledge of the serpent.’

What doesn’t wash for a lot of the soap’s viewers, though, is the lack of a credible Christian character – someone whose life has been transformed by the power and person of Jesus Christ. Grace, mercy, forgiveness, cleansing, restoration and freedom from guilt – hard to discern in E20 – also have biblical roots.

And when it comes to becoming a new character because of a personal encounter with Jesus, nothing is as life-changing, exciting, intriguing or dramatic.

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Faith, hope, sex and the single girl

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CHANNEL 4’s daily religious programme 4thought.tv begins a look at the single life on Monday. People with various backgrounds and beliefs will give their views on love, sex and marriage. On Wednesday (3 October 6.55 pm) Pentecostal Christian Funmi Olutoye, 23, explains that she is eager to meet a fellow Christian with whom she can share her love and faith – but says that being single and celibate provides her with the opportunity to develop as a person.

Soap broadcasts a for-square gospel

OLD, OLD STORY: are Kat and Alfie’s marriage troubles just another morality tale?

‘WOULD you Adam and Eve it?’ was the headline on Telegraph.co.uk above a story that one of the programme-makers behind EastEnders claimed that the soap’s storylines are derived from the Bible.

Jenny Robins told a BBC religion and ethics festival in Manchester: ‘The prototype of every EastEnders story can be traced back to one source: David and Goliath, Daniel in the lions’ den, Samson and Delilah, Sodom and Gomorrah, the Fall, all the Bible stories.’

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Health

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Be a

sport…

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HEALTHY FUN: playing games with the children will benefit your heart

…AND KEEP ON

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MORE than half of Brits believe that the quality of a person’s teeth has a major impact on their career and romantic life, yet only half of them visit the dentist regularly, according to research by private healthcare group Bupa.

Three in five of those who took part in the research thought that having bad teeth could prevent someone from finding a partner, and over half believed that having nice teeth could help someone get a better job.

Almost half the respondents said that nice teeth could help

a person to make more friends.

However, only half of the people polled attended a regular dental examination.

One in seven had not used any dental services in the past four years, and 4 per cent had never visited the dentist.

Despite there being a trend for American-style perfectly straight, sparkling white teeth, a British smile was the most popular in the poll – that of the Duchess of Cambridge.

Brian Franks of Bupa says: ‘Being happy with your teeth can have a big impact on your confidence, and this can affect your work and relationships.

‘So it’s surprising that so many people don’t go for regular dental examinations. Even people who are currently happy with their teeth should pay attention to their dental health, as problems can happen at any time and get worse if not treated.’

More than one in three people said that expense was their main reason for not visiting the dentist regularly.

Although three in ten people had landed themselves in debt or had to make sacrifices in order to cover unexpected dental bills, only one in ten had dental insurance or a dental cash plan.

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THE Olympics and Paralympics may persuade many of us to put sport and exercise at the heart of our lifestyles.

Being physically active leads to a better quality of life.

It reduces the risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke and some cancers. It also promotes good bone density, healthy blood pressure, cholesterol and sugar levels.

According to a recent Whitehall study published in the journal Circulation, whatever your age, your weight or your level of fitness, it’s never too late to start exercising and reaping the benefits.

Researchers found that men and women aged about 50 who did two and a half hours or more exercise a week, at a moderate to vigorous level, were less likely to suffer from inflammation. Inflammation contributes to the development of many conditions such as heart disease, in which inflammation in artery walls can trigger the build-up of fatty plaque, which can lead to a heart attack.

So why not visit a leisure centre and try out a sport or activity such as dancing. And when you’re not the centre, try taking on younger family members at Laserquest, hula hooping or skipping, or join them in a game of tag or rounders.

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NREAL. That is the word Stef Reid uses to describe the scenes she witnessed when she took part in the Team GB and ParalympicsGB parade through Central London.

‘I have never seen that many people getting so excited about sport,’ says the Paralympic silver medallist. ‘I expected there to be a lot of kids, but it was jam-packed with all ages. There were people in business suits hanging out of windows, they were so desperate to get a look. It surprised me. It reminded me that the Olympic and Paralympic spirit and legacy transcend every age barrier.’

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The parade opened Stef’s eyes to what London 2012 meant to people, though she already knew ‘something amazing was going on’ because of the atmosphere in the Olympic Stadium, where she competed in three events at the Paralympics.

She won a silver medal in the long jump-F42/44, finished fourth in the 200m-T44 and reached the final of the 100m-T44.

‘During the Paralympics, I didn’t read any newspapers or listen to the coverage on Channel 4. I just watched the feed with no commentating, because I thought it was important to shelter myself from everything else. I did not want to get caught up in it if someone said something negative about what I did or really built up one of my competitors. I was there to do my own thing.’

Stef’s own verdict on her Paralympic experience is that it was ‘ten times harder and 100 times more fun than I was expecting.

‘It was a rollercoaster. The long jump was always by far my best event. In the other two, I probably just had an outside shot at a medal.’

In the long jump, Stef broke the Paralympic record with a leap of 5.28m. It was farther than anyone else jumped in the competition. But the event combined classifications, and when the points were calculated the Australian athlete Kelly Cartwright won.

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ParalympicsGB silver medallist STEF REID tells Philip Halcrow about the excitement of London 2012

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Stef Reid on her way to a silver medal at the Paralympics

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‘Obviously, I wanted the gold medal but didn’t quite reach it,’ says Stef. ‘So I had this strange juxtaposition of not quite getting what I wanted but still being very proud of what I did. A lot of things didn’t come together for me.

I had been injured and was on a bit of a time crunch, so had to pick and choose what I could work on. Everything that I did work on went well. So I’m coming away from the Games feeling proud but also motivated to do better.’

Stef explains how she gauges success: ‘You have to go into every championship and every meet with your own definition of success. You cannot allow someone else to decide

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that for you. You cannot allow the media to decide it for you. You cannot allow the medal to decide it for you.

‘Going into a competition, there is only one thing I can control – my performance. If someone comes in and blows me out of the water, I am not going to give them the power to stop me feeling good about what I did.

‘The reason I was a little disappointed in the long jump was simply that I knew if I took my best performance and compared it with the gold medal winner’s best performance, I would have won. The biggest disappointment was my fifth jump, which was a slight foul. I was disappointed because, even though I had broken the Paralympic record and jumped a personal best, I knew what I had been jumping in practice, and I hadn’t shown it.

‘Strangely I was thrilled with my 200m, where I didn’t win a medal. I fought for that result, and it was a huge personal best. Some reporters were saying to me that finishing fourth must have been tough, but I was happy.’

Stef, who was born in New Zealand to British parents, grew up in Canada.

A boating accident changed her life in more ways than one.

‘I became a Christian when I was 16 years old. I was run over by a boat and lost my leg. I was caught in the propellers, and it caused severe lacerations to my lower back and right foot. I was hours from the nearest hospital, and looking at everyone who was with me, I could tell there was too much blood.

Nobody really expected me to survive.

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remember lying in the ambulance and being terrified because I didn’t want to die. I hadn’t thought much about death, because I was only 16. But I knew that I was scared and that my life had been quite selfish and shallow. I desperately wanted a second chance to do things better.

‘That was the first time I prayed.

I asked for a second chance, and I got it. I was so happy and excited – only to find out that they had to amputate part of my right leg.

‘It was such a blow. I had been a sports person my whole life. I grew up doing cross-country and playing basketball, volleyball, rugby and tennis. I didn’t really know if I wanted to experience life as an amputee.’

Stef was confused.

‘I didn’t know what to make of what had happened. I just thought: “Well,

Stef runs in the 200m-T44

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When things are bleak, you just have to wait it out, because you don’t know what is around the corner God, this is for you now. You are the Creator of the world. I trust that you will make something good out of this.”

‘Don’t get me wrong, the first few years were difficult. There was a lot of anger and frustration – but even within that, I also had an amazing sense of peace. I saw that, as awful as things were, it was not going to be like that for ever. I was going to get through it. I was going to learn a lot about myself and about God. ‘People often ask me if I could do it all again and change things, would I still go through that accident.

The answer is no. I totally would prefer to have my foot. Nothing beats the real thing. But the one thing I wouldn’t change is my faith and the peace that I now have about this life and the afterlife. I know that whatever happens in life, God will take care of it – he has proved it to me.

‘When things are bleak, you just have to wait it out, because you don’t know what is around the corner.’

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tef uses the phrase ‘working on’ when describing her training. She also uses it when talking about how her faith affects her athletics.

‘How to combine my faith with my athletics is something I am still working on.

‘You start off with juvenile ideas that if you pray, God is going to let you win. Then you realise that the most important thing for God is not that kind of success but that you have a faithful heart.

‘Sometimes I feel embarrassed to admit that I am a Christian, not because I am embarrassed about my faith in

Jesus, but because sometimes I am embarrassed about my actions and how I am representing Christianity on the field – for instance, if I get petty. Every day is a new experience in seeing how my faith is going to come through in my athletics.

‘At the Paralympics, I spent a lot of time in the chaplaincy office, praying. One of the things I was struggling with was that I wasn’t feeling confident in myself and my abilities. Looking through my life, it is obvious to me that God has called me to be an athlete.

Part of being an athlete is to be a strong competitor, and yet when I would get to the line, I would doubt myself. I saw that such doubt was not honouring God and was something I needed to eliminate.

‘It was not about winning or losing – God is not going to allow you to win everything because you are a Christian. Rather, it is about character development.

‘When you go into competitions, you go into a high-pressure situation, and it is in those moments that what is truly in your heart comes out. It is the same as in tough times in life – such as when someone close dies. It is in such times that you have to look at your heart and make decisions about who you want to be. They are opportunities for character growth.

‘As an athlete,’ Stef laughs, ‘I guess the best way to describe what I am doing is that I want to beat everybody, but with a loving heart.’

If faith affects Stef’s perspective on athletics, does her athletics also give her a certain perspective on faith? After all, the early Christian writer Paul used

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sporting metaphors. He wrote that in living out his faith, he was like an athlete in training who submits themselves to strict discipline to win a prize.

‘If you want to be a good athlete,’ says Stef, ‘you are in the process of transforming yourself, and it involves discipline, commitment and the inner belief that you can do it. There are many parallels between that and faith.

‘As an athlete, I can’t just go to the track for two hours, train and then go home and forget about it. My entire life revolves around it. It determines when I go to sleep and when I get up; it determines what I am going to eat for that day, what I buy at the grocery store; it determines the way in which I handle other stresses in my life.

‘Being an athlete is all-encompassing, and it is exactly the same with my faith. It is not something that is only for Sunday. I cannot decide that I am going to dedicate half an hour to weed my neighbour’s lawn, feel good about myself and forget about my faith for the rest of the day.

‘Being a Christian requires an attitude of complete commitment in your life.

‘I

understand what commitment looks like in my athletics world and I try to take those lessons and apply them to my spiritual life. Again, it is a process and it is one that I am going to have to learn for the rest of my life.’

Stef’s plans for the future include some for track and field. She hopes to compete for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014. ‘My dad is from Glasgow and my mum is from Newcastle. When I chose Scotland, she was a bit heartbroken!’

Stef speaks at corporate events, to churches and to children. She hopes to do more and to help ‘transform the whole concept of disability’ – a trend ‘that has definitely started in the UK’.

‘I can’t say that I have had a decrease in quality of life after my accident. I have always had access to everything I needed. I have a high-heel leg, a swimming leg, a sport leg. But that is a rarity, and in some countries the loss of mobility can be so damaging.’

Stef wants to keep passing on what she has learnt: ‘No matter what happens in life, you just have to keep going.

Amazing things are possible if you just believe and commit yourself to your goal.’

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Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9 Solution on page 15

Look up, down, forwards, backwards and diagonally on the grid to find these types of cake ANGEL BANANA BATTENBERG BIRTHDAY

QUICK CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. Deduce (5) 4. Examine accounts (5) 8. Tot up (3) 9. Acquire knowledge (5) 10. Concise (5) 11. Master (3) 12. Artery (5) 13. Utmost (7) 16. Difficult (6) 19. Appear (6) 23. First course (7) 26. Seat (5) 28. Writing fluid (3) 29. Entice (5) 30. Problem (5) 31. Male offspring (3) 32. Rendezvous (5) 33. Style of dress (3-2)

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HONEYCOMB Each solution starts on the coloured cell and reads clockwise round the number

DOWN 2. Natural aptitude (5) 3. Plunder (7) 4. Worshipped (6) 5. First appearance (5) 6. Hackneyed (5) 7. Firearm (5) 9. Smallest (5) 14. Cereal plant (3) 15. Drinking vessel (3) 17. Decay (3) 18. Motor vehicle (3) 20. Taunting (7) 21. Weird (5) 22. Clergyman (6) 23. Glossy fabric (5) 24. Confess (5) 25. Untidy (5) 27. Valued possession (5)

1. Compartment in a refrigerator 2. Extending part of a tree 3. Type of sugar 4. A person who travels about selling goods 5. Vehicle for carrying liquid 6. Irrational fear of something

QUICK QUIZ 1. Which actor played Luke Skywalker in Star Wars?

2. Who wrote A Brief History of Time?

3. From which country did Paddington Bear come?

4. What letter does not appear in the periodic table of the elements?

5. Which comedy series was set in Craggy Island?

6. Which city is known as the Eternal City?

QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Infer. 4 Audit. 8 Add. 9 Learn.

10 Brief. 11 Sir. 12 Aorta. 13 Extreme. 16 Tricky.

19 Emerge. 23 Starter. 26 Chair. 28 Ink. 29 Tempt.

30 Issue. 31 Son. 32 Tryst. 33 Get-up.

DOWN: 2 Flair. 3 Ransack. 4 Adored. 5 Debut.

6 Trite. 7 Rifle. 9 Least. 14 Rye. 15 Mug. 17 Rot. 18 Car. 20 Mocking. 21 Eerie. 22 Priest. 23 Satin.

24 Admit. 25 Tatty. 27 Asset.

QUICK QUIZ 1 Mark Hamill. 2 Stephen Hawking. 3 Peru. 4 J. 5 Father Ted. 6 Rome.

HONEYCOMB 1 Icebox. 2 Branch. 3 Castor. 4 Hawker.

5 Tanker. 6 Phobia.

Inner life AN amazing 29 gold medals were won by Team GB in this summer’s Olympic Games.

ParalympicsGB won even more golds – 34.

Every victory was headline news and the champions were household names.

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HANDS TOGETHER, EYES CLOSED

For ever and ever. Amen

That was only a few weeks ago. Yet how many of those British gold medal winners can be named today? It would take an expert to name them all.

The athletes’ achievements were gripping. Years of disciplined training, combined with natural talent, enabled them to excel in their sport – but life moves on quickly. Other events and people have been taking their place at the top of news bulletins and on the front pages of newspapers, supporting the view that nothing lasts for ever in today’s fast-paced world.

When we pray the Lord’s Prayer, however, we are reminded that God will never disappear. God is going to be around ‘for ever and ever’, just Our Fath as he has always been. He was Hallowe er, which art in there before the dawn of time; d Heaven, Thy Kin be thy name, he created our world and the gdom co Thy will me, entire Universe.

Give us be done, in earth Amazingly, God is also this day our daily as it is in Heave And forg interested in us as individuals n. here and now. He wants us to As we fo ive us our trespa bread; r s g s iv e s e , them tha have full and rewarding lives, And lead t tr so he offers us the opportunity But deliv us not into temp espass against u s; e r to experience his constant For thin us from evil. tation, e is the K presence. glory, ingdom, One way in which we can the powe F o r, and th r e v er and e experience God is through e ver.

Amen. prayer. That is why Jesus taught his followers how to pray. In the Lord’s Prayer he showed that God wants us to speak to

ANDREW STONE looks at the Lord’s Prayer

him as we would a loved family member. He also revealed that God wants to forgive us for the things we do wrong and help us with every aspect of our lives.

Throughout history, millions of people have discovered the benefits of speaking to God through prayer. It may not have made them household names, but it did enable them to achieve more than they could without him and to excel in their own lives.

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they are given into your hands’ (Genesis 9:2 New International Version).

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The idea of eating fruit and vegetables that are in season

is becoming more fashionable, because it reduces the energy needed to grow and transport food. Seasonal eating helps local growers. What is more, locally sourced food is said to taste better than food that has been stored or has travelled thousands of miles.

In this eco-friendly age it seems that people want to make a difference by their eating habits. There’s no better time than harvest to think about what we eat.

For some time now, we have been aware of the plight of farmers – at home and abroad – who are not paid a fair wage for their labours. Only this summer, British dairy farmers protested about the price of milk in supermarkets falling, while production costs are rising.

As the population grows, food production is going to be a major issue that may well affect us all.

When Noah stepped out of the ark all those years ago, God blessed his family and said: ‘The fear and dread of you will fall on all the beasts of the earth, and on all the birds in the sky, on every creature that moves along the ground, and on all the fish in the sea;

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I’M Michael Darracott; I have been an executive chef in several large establishments in charge of cooking for 200-plus people. I have also written a number of books. It gives me great pleasure to offer my recipes in The War Cry. I invite readers to send in recipe ideas, to be considered for publication here. I would also like to offer help with any cooking-related problems you have. So send in your question and, if it is selected, an answer will be published on this page.

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Ingredients: For the base 45g caster sugar 1 egg 2 drops of vanilla essence 120g butter Pinch of salt 180g flour For the filling 3 large egg yolks 2 drops of vanilla essence 45g plain flour 500ml fresh milk 90g caster sugar 1 large banana For the glaze 20ml water 50g strawberry jam

Enclosed is my payment of £26* Method: Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6. To make the tart base, mix together the sugar, egg and vanilla essence in a bowl. Add the butter, salt and flour and mix well. Cover the bowl with clingfilm and place in the fridge for 10–15 minutes.

Remove the bowl from the fridge. Lightly dust some flour on the worktop and grease a 24cm ovenproof flan dish with butter. Roll out the tart base, then use to cover the bottom and sides of the dish. Bake blind the base for 5–10 minutes.

To make the filling, whisk together the egg yolks, sugar and vanilla essence. Add the flour, a little at a time, whisking continuously.

Bring the milk to the boil in a saucepan, then simmer. Add the egg mixture to the milk and whisk continuously, until the mixture turns thick.

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‘LONG time no see!’ ‘Nice to see you!’

Such words will be heard in churches up and down the UK on Back to Church Sunday tomorrow (Sunday 30 September).

Every year since Back to Church Sunday began in 2004, members of congregations have used it as a day at church to which they can invite people – often those they already know.

Churches find various ways of letting people know that they are welcome to come back to church or even to make their first visit. Some send out simple invitations. Some use radio ads. This year, Leicester Cathedral unveiled what it believes to be the city’s largest QR code on the side of its building. Users of smartphones who pass by and scan the code will receive an electronic invitation to Back to Church Sunday services.

Major Mark Sawyer of the Chelmsford Salvation Army church has signed up and is looking forward to the day. He tells The War Cry how he will be approaching it.

‘Our Sunday morning worship will include a gospel rendition of the song “Amazing Grace”. I am going to share the good news about Jesus and suggest that some people need to embrace it in a deeper way, some need to embrace it again, and some need to embrace it for the first time.’

That ‘good news’ is that Jesus cares.

Sometimes in life we may get the impression that no one really bothers about us. We experience loss, failure, fatigue or disappointment. We feel alone. We can become angry and wonder why bad things happen.

Jesus knew life could be tough.

But when he spent time with people who had been bereaved or who were not among the wealthy and influential, he showed that he is always ready to help people in their time of need.

It’s why he issues a simple invitation: ‘Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest’ (Matthew 11:28 New International Version).

Whatever we are going through, Jesus invites us to learn about him.

How will we respond?

Leicester Cathedral gets tech-savvy with a QR code

Diocese of Leicester

YOUR LOCAL SALVATION ARMY CENTRE

WELCOME BACK! Churches send out invitations writes RENÉE DAVIS

Mark Sawyer is preparing for Back to Church Sunday at Chelmsford

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