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SALVATIONIST Essential reading for everyone linked to The Salvation Army// www.salvationarmy.org.uk/salvationist 23 February 2013 // No. 1386 // Price 60p // Also available digitally GOING FURTHER FOR FARMERS Pages 12 and 13 NEEDED BY 18 February 11 am CONTENTS 3. FROM THE EDITOR 12. & 13. 4. PAPERS This week’s quotes from the papers 5. – 8. NEWS IHQ // UKT // Yorkshire // Parkhead // Milton Keynes // Hednesford // India // Japan // Gateshead // Stranraer // Isle of Wight // Rushden // Burton upon Trent // Southsea // Oldbury // Tiverton 9. LETTERS 10. & 11. ICO FEATURE 5. God’s way with me 12. & 13. FEATURE Go further for farmers 14. REVIEW Holiness: A Radiant Relationship 14. TRAIN LINES An inspector calls 5. 15. BIBLE STUDY 10. & 11. Glimpses of God 16. & 17. NEW COMMITMENTS 18. & 19. ANNOUNCEMENTS Army people, engagements and tributes 20. – 23. ADVERTS 14. 24. THROUGH THE WEEK WITH SALVATIONIST SCRIPTURE QUOTATIONS Scripture quotations in Salvationist are from the New International Version (2011), unless otherwise stated 2 Salvationist 23 February 2013 FROM THE EDITOR developing their livelihoods because of inadequate RIGHT payments. The poorest, most vulnerable people are prime targets for exploitation by those who seek to profit from the demand CHOICES we create. On pages 12 and 13 Carl Jobson points out that, even in OUR ancestors, who mainly relied on eating locally sourced times of recession, consumers are choosing not to abandon food in season, could never have imagined the choices and their global neighbours – which is good news. Who would availability of food and products that we have today. With have thought that right choices made during a shopping 24-hour shopping and massive superstores, we expect to be trip could be turned into a fight for social justice? able to purchase almost anything at any time from anywhere. Continuing on an international theme, on page 7 we However, the demands of consumers not only provide a share news of General Linda Bond’s visit to India Central market for business opportunities but also the potential for Territory where 8,000 Salvationists met to experience a the unscrupulous to exploit the vulnerable for profit. The time of spiritual renewal. The report states that hundreds of busy pace of life and free availability of so many products people responded to a call to the mercy mean that, as consumers, we might not always stop to seat, many with tears rolling down their consider the production chain. cheeks! Even though we live in a very The horsemeat contamination of food products in our different world to our ancestors, the shops has raised a number of issues that we will continue to power of God to reach individual lives hear about for some time. However, it shows that things are remains unchanged. not always what they appear to be and that everyday food may have travelled many miles before it reaches our plates. MAJOR JANE KIMBERLEY The scandal highlights just how little we know about the source of the products we consume and the routes they have taken to reach us. Fairtrade Fortnight, which begins on 25 February, focuses on the need for farmers in the world’s poorest countries to be paid fairly for the goods they work hard to produce. These two weeks are a time for us to stop and think about the impact of our actions on others. Whether we purchase tea bags or T-shirts we are encouraged to look for the Fairtrade mark on the packaging and labels. Would any of us really feel good about our purchases if we knew that someone, maybe even a child, had been exploited in the production process? 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The Salvation Army Trust is a registered charity. The charity number in England and Wales is ADMINISTRATOR 214779, in Scotland SC009359 and in the Republic of Ireland Stella Merino – (tel) 020 7367 4881 CHY6399. Salvationist 23 February 2013 3 NEEDED 18 FEBRUARY 11 AM PAPERS THIS WEEK’S QUOTES FROM THE PAPERS GENERAL JOHN GOWANS: prefaced his resignation with a declaration AFFABLE AND ENERGETIC LEADER that he acted ‘having repeatedly examined OF THE SALVATION ARMY WHO DID my conscience before God’. His retirement MUCH TO MODERNISE ITS is no mere matter of personal convenience, VICTORIAN RULEBOOK an old man’s surrender of an unbearable General John Gowans was the inter- burden: it had become for him a demand of national head of The Salvation Army conscience. from 1999 to 2002… The Tablet He wrote more than 200 worship LENT CALL TO SLOW DOWN songs… The Rev Canon Dr Stephen Cherry, author As General he addressed the decline Time Wisdom For Ministry in recruitment in Britain and mainland of… … has Europe and reformed the conditions issued a challenge for this Lent time of service for officers. He presided aimed at getting people to give up being over the Millennial Congress in 2000 – busy – if only for half an hour per day to 20,000 people met in Atlanta, Georgia, prove to themselves that their lives are the largest gathering of Salvationists not out of control and to discover some of ever. the simple joys of living without doing… Gowans accepted the need to change Canon Stephen Cherry of Durham the Army’s image but be robustly Cathedral is suggesting that people give defended the Army’s social work, up busyness, believing this will give which he said was sophisticated ‘and people a chance to review their priorities as good as anybody’s’…He reintroduced and adopt a kinder and sustainable way an emphasis on lifelong learning for of living that will lead to people being Salvationists… both more spiritually alert and more Gowans was known for his generous and patient with others. cheerfulness, his infectious smile and The Church of England Newspaper his ready laugh. He tended to eschew MRS TIGGYWINKLE SEEKS SAFE simple handshakes in favour of a firm HOME IN CHURCHYARD hug.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Parishes in the UK are being asked to join a From an obituary in The Times survey designed to find our more about hedgehogs’ patterns of behaviour, which will A RADICAL LAST ACT be used to provide practical conservation Pope Benedict’s resignation confounds the action. simple binaries of liberal or conservative by Hedgehog numbers in Britain are declining which papal actions are routinely measured… by 3 to 5 per cent each year… The Anglican [His] startling abdication demonstrated Church’s 10,000 churchyards could provide that Benedict’s understanding of papacy is safe havens for them… Judith Evans, who promotes the Living radically different not only from that of Papa churchyard scheme for St Albans diocese, Wojtyla, but of most of his 20th-century said: ‘Like all animals, hedgehogs need food predecessors… and shelter… From this apparently most con servative of ‘The… scheme encourages the creation of popes comes a radical insistence that the compost heaps and log piles, which, as well pope is a functionary, and when he ceases to as acting as a larder containing slugs and be able to discharge his function, then he other invertebrates, provides shelter. must consider his position. Pope Benedict Church Times 4 Salvationist 23 February 2013 NEWS International Headquarters General Linda Bond welcomes Chief of the Staffl welcomes new Chief of the Commissioner André Cox and World President ofl Staff and World President Women’s Ministries Commissioner Silvia Coxl of Women’s Ministries IHQ THE welcome meeting for Chief of the Staff Commissioner André Cox and World President of Women’s Ministries Com- missioner Silvia Cox had an upbeat atmos- phere and sense of affirmation. General Linda Bond told the congregation at IHQ that it was a special day for The Salvation Army. The ground floor was filled with IHQ officers, employees and delegates from the Inter national College for Officers. Also present were the Chief ’s mother, Mrs Com- family where Jesus Christ is central and there missioner Hilda Cox, cousins Jean-Daniel is ‘a unity that comes from the Holy Spirit’. and Annette Chevalley – who had travelled In his message the Chief reflected that he from Switzerland – and former colleagues had realised the truth in the saying ‘actions and Army leaders, including General John speak louder than words’. He went on to say Larsson (Retired), Com missioner Freda that the world would be a different place if Larsson and Commissioner Gisèle Gowans.