SALVATIONIST 29 September 2012 3 SUMMER SCHOOL NEWS
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SALVATIONIST ESSENTIAL READING FOR INSIDE THIS WEEK EVERYONE LINKED TO Chief Secretary leads music-packed weekend THE SALVATION ARMY Southsea www.salvationarmy.org.uk/salvationist PAGE 5 29 September 2012 PLUS LOTS MORE! No 1366 Price 60p PAGES 12, 13 & 24 PAPERS THE 29 September 2012 MARY BERRY – Q ALL GOOD GIFTS… War Cry BAKE TO THE salvationarmy.org.uk/warcry Est 1879 No 7084 20p/25c CELEBRATING FIGHTING FOR HEARTS AND SOULS FUTURE Q PARALYMPIAN Page 4 PARALYMPICS SILVER MEDALLIST STEF REID TALKS SUCCESS HARVEST Page 8 MEDALLIST TALKS FAB ABOUT HER LEAP Q LAST PART IN KA! OF FAITH JAM’S BIBLE SERIES – AND GOD SAW IT WAS IT reached only No 17 in Q ‘EASTENDERS’ the UK charts – but it is being singled out. The GOOD! simple bit of vinyl that turned round at 45rpm began a musical revolu- BACKS FOR-SQUARE tion. That’s why a city is ‘LOVE ME staging a mini-festival and radio stations are hold- DO’ HITS ing a day to celebrate the Q JOKES AND PUZZLES 50th anniversary of ‘Love GOSPEL Me Do’. The Beatles’ first HALF A single was released on 5 October 1962. CENTURY Next Friday – the anniversary IN GIGGLE IN THE – BBC local radio stations plan to writes Turn to pagee 3 PHILIP Q BACK TO CHURCH MIDDLE HALCROW SUNDAY Q ‘BILLY’S BAND’ PA Q FAB FOUR HIT 50 BOOKS AND CDs TO WIN! THIS WEEK’S QUOTES FROM THE PAPERS CRYING LIKE A MAN TRAVELLER’S REST My wife and I went to… a church we had Crying isn’t a new mood. not visited before. We had got the time Jesus cried. Churchill wrong, got lost on the way and arrived an hour and a quarter late. The service had famously cried. The key evidently finished, but no one was leaving… is that the tears have to We saw why. They were still enjoying each other’s company, as Christians should. be real. Absurdly late as we were, they made us Dr Peter Martin of the British Psychological Society, quoted in ShortList welcome and gave us coffee and biscuits. MOCKED JESUS RESTORER SAYS: I WANT ROYALTIES They were genuinely interested in who we An elderly Spanish woman whose botched were and what brought us to their church. restoration of a mural of Christ was mocked The Rev Dr John Pridmore in his diary in Church Times around the world is demanding royalties for NEW PRAY DAY FOR BILL her work. Celia Giménez, 80, volunteered to restore BBC Breakfast host Bill a flaking oil fresco called Ecce Homo Turnbull is taking over Songs (Behold The Man)… Of Praise… But Ms Giménez managed to leave Jesus… looking like a monkey with misshaped eyes Bill said… ‘People ask and a crooked smudge for a mouth… “are you religious?” I go Now Ms Giménez… is staking a claim for royalties after the fresco became a tourist to church and try to be a attraction. practising Christian.’ The Times Daily Mirror TERRITORIAL HEADQUARTERS Tel: 0845 634 0101 SALVATIONIST 101 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6BN Tel: 020 7367 4890 Fax: 020 7367 4691 Email: [email protected] Web: www.salvationarmy.org.uk/salvationist A registered newspaper published weekly by The Salvation Army (United Kingdom Territory with the Republic of Ireland) on behalf of the General of The Salvation Army and printed by Wyndeham Grange, Southwick. © Linda Bond, General of The Salvation Army, 2012. 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EDITOR Major Stephen Poxon Tel: 020 7367 4901 MANAGING EDITOR Stephen Pearson Tel: 020 7367 4891 ASSISTANT EDITOR Major Jane Kimberley Tel: 020 7367 4892 ASSISTANT EDITOR Claire Anderson Tel: 020 7367 4894 EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Laura Barker Tel: 020 7367 4893 DTP DESIGNER Colin Potter Tel: 020 7367 4895 DTP OPERATOR Denise D’Souza Tel: 020 7367 4896 GRAPHIC DESIGNER Jonathan Carmichael Tel: 020 7367 4883 ADMINISTRATOR Stella Merino Tel: 020 7367 4881 ADVERTISING Tel: 020 7367 4883 Email: [email protected] DISTRIBUTION Salvationist Publishing and Supplies (Periodicals), 66-78 Denington Road, Denington Industrial Estate, Wellingborough NN8 2QH Tel: 01933 445451 Fax: 01933 445415 Email: [email protected] THE SALVATION ARMY FOUNDER William Booth GENERAL Linda Bond TERRITORIAL COMMANDER Commissioner André Cox EDITOR-IN-CHIEF AND PUBLISHING SECRETARY Major Leanne Ruthven 2 29 September 2012 SALVATIONIST www.salvationarmy.org.uk/salvationist COMMENT doctor. ‘Ye just happen tae be visiting yon Burns Unit.’ The line about the mice, incidentally, translates as ‘The best laid schemes of mice and men go often awry’ and could Don’t assume aptly sum up the content of Major Shaun Skinner’s article on page 11 and Major Allen Satterlee’s piece on this week’s centre pages. There, you will read of lives, hopes, that God will dreams and circumstances that have gone often awry – sometimes tragically so. Yet, you will also read of the powerful grace of God shining through. Major Skinner testifies regarding his personal plan for you admission to the fellowship of suffering being crowned with the gift of rare empathy and Major Satterlee reminds us of holiness that incorporates courage and compassion – which is exemplified in this territory by Anti-Trafficking Response Co- no more ordinator Major Anne Read and her team. Hers is very much a modern ministry, yet one hallmarked with the essence of original Salvationism. Major Read’s ministry spans the globe, which reminds me of a colleague in Brazil who ‘pray reads’ her copies of Salvationist, turning the pages and praying for the people, corps, divisions LOVE the joke about an Englishman and territories featured – including those being shown around a Scottish hospital. reports of things that, in a fallen world, I He is introduced to a number of aren’t as they should be. It’s a lovely use patients who show no obvious signs of of this publication – one you may wish to injury or sickness. Instead, every patient consider adopting. It also reminds us to he meets immediately starts quoting bring all that has ‘gang aft agley’ in our rambling poetry. lives to a God who is neither English, Having listened painstakingly to such Scottish nor Brazilian, but who loved this lines as ‘Some hae meat, and canna eat, world enough to die for it. The back page and some wad eat that want it, but we this week would be a good place to start. hae meat and we can eat, and sae the Major Shaun Skinner contacted me Lord be thankit’ and ‘Fair fa’ yer honest, recently, recalling a story of how, when sonsie face, great chieftain e’ the puddin’ he was collecting for the Annual Appeal race’, the Englishman is confronted with in Aberdeen once, he entered a hardware ‘My joys and triumphs find him here, a patient who keeps repeating ‘The best- store, stood there with his collecting tin, My doubts and loves, my hopes and needs. laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft and asked for a donation. The Here, all is shared, and all confessed agley!’ shopkeeper duly obliged by presenting To him who loves and intercedes. Eventually, the bemused chap turns to the major with a retractable tape Such endless charm, immense and free, the Scottish doctor in charge and asks measure. The best laid schemes indeed! That he should want to die for me!’ what on earth is going on. ‘Aye, that’ll be (SJP) nothing, nothing at all,’ replies the MAJOR STEPHEN POXON, EDITOR SUMMER SCHOOL LETTERS COMMITMENT CADET NEWS Page 10 SUNDAY FEATURE COMMITMENTS Page 4 Peace over pace Pages 16 – 19 EastandWestScotlandYorkshire REFLECTION Page 14 Christ and cancer ANNOUNCEMENTS NEWS Page 11 BIBLE STUDY Army people, engagements Pages 5 – 9 Hospitality and the and tributes PrestonSouthseaCradleyHeathKinlochleven DudleyBarnsleyandSheffieldLangsettRoad FEATURE three visitors Pages 20 & 21 NorwichCitadelRochdaleLondonSherburnHill Page 15 CumbernauldSalisburyCampbeltownLurgan Children for sale SouthamptonSholingLlanelliBridgwater Pages 12 & 13 ADVERTS PeterheadTiverton Pages 22 & 23 [email protected] SALVATIONIST 29 September 2012 3 SUMMER SCHOOL NEWS DYO Lieutenant Gavin Friday (front left) accompanies mission studies students to Perth’s 3:16 café East and West Scotland Claire Ferguson (Bellshill) reports A WEEK of boundless fun, love and fellowship is what the summer school provided with record-breaking numbers of students attending! We also broke boundaries and added the sports ministry option to our programme which saw young Christians learning how to be disciples of God in their commu- nities through their sporting talents. The staff team organised a fabulous week with students coming together to learn about God. We were challenged to think about areas in our lives we are passionate about and how we can fight to make a boundless difference. The In Yorkshire the mixed voices vocal group contributes to the Final Celebration night programme was packed with entertainment including a Yorkshire ity, generosity, trust and integrity packed the sports hall for a great Minute To Win It-style game, Divisional Youth Officer but the young people showed us evening when the young people prayer concert, Kilgraston’s Got Ryan Wileman reports how to do it in practice! really excelled themselves in Talent, Boundless Olympics and THE Yorkshire School of The Final Celebration was just the presentation of their items a ceilidh. Christian Arts (YSCA) – held that – a celebration of all the with a spirit of fun, laughter and A new approach to this school at Ackworth School, Ponte- great things God had done during encouragement that had epito- allowed for students of all ages fract – was quite simply one the week.