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SALVATIONIST ESSENTIAL READING FOR INSIDE THIS WEEK EVERYONE LINKED TO General leads anniversary celebrations THE SALVATION ARMY Ghana www.salvationarmy.org.uk/salvationist PAGE 4 6 October 2012 Heritage weekend attracts visitors No 1367 Croydon Price 60p PAGE 8 PLUS LOTS MORE! PAGES 11-13 PAPERS THE Ex-movie actor Michael Q GET YOUR PENCILS Williamson talks Q HOUSTON HAD A War Cryy about faith Page 8 READY FOR THE BIG salvationarmy.org.uk/warcry Est 1879 No 7085 FIGHTING FOR HEARTS AND SOULS 6 October 2012 20p/25c PROBLEM. SHE ALSO WHITNEY’S HAD FAITH DRAW Q NEW KA! JAM BIBLE TROUBLED STAR Q WHO TO TRUST – NEVER LOST FAITH SERIES – JESUS IN LAST writes RENÉE DAVIS POLITICIANS OR THE GOODBYEDBY POLICE? COMMAND Q JOKES AND AUDIENCES can expect to be Q FORMER dazzled by the musical movie, Sparkle, which debuted in UK cinemas yesterday (Friday 5 PUZZLES IN GIGGLE IN October). The film – which turned out to be PROSTITUTE AND Whitney Houston’s last – is set in 1960s’ Detroit and follows the life of 19-year- old Sparkle (Jordin Sparks), a young THE MIDDLE woman with big dreams to make it as a music star. DRUG ADDICT FINDS Her two sisters, Tammy and Delores, also have dreams. Tammy is convinced she deserves a bigger and better life. She has good looks and a singing voice to match, and isn’t afraid to use that to her advantage. FAITH IN CHRIST Q BACK-PAGE FUN Turn to page 3 WITH PERCY THE Q GAGA PERFUME Whitney PENGUIN IN PATCH’S Houston stars in ‘Sparkle’ TriStar Pictures MAKES SENSE PALS THIS WEEK’S QUOTES FROM THE PAPERS ALMIGHTY BRAWL ENDS CHRISTIAN FOOTBALL MATCH ATHEISTS WHO PRAY TO BE CONVERTED It is a league that prides itself on promoting peace You report… that 50 atheists have and understanding through football. But an unholy row broke out between two sides in taken up the challenge to pray for the West Midlands Christian League, which expects God to reveal himself to them. players ‘to honour the name of Jesus Christ’ on and Would not Pascal’s wager have off the pitch, over a penalty decision that led to a been a better challenge – that it is punch-up and five red cards… This led to a brawl of biblical proportions. more rational to live as a Christian Metro and live a better life and find there is no God, than to live as an atheist HAZARDS IN THE CHURCHYARD Just when you thought health and and find that there really was a God? Alan Bartley, in a letter to Church Times safety laws could not get more controversial, the Church of England RUSSIAN BISHOP CONSECRATES THE ARCTIC IN has received a complaint proving UNORTHODOX MOVE TO CLAIM NEW TERRITORY A Russian Orthodox bishop has lowered a ‘holy they just did. Flower pots have memorial capsule’ into the sea at the North Pole in been banned in the churchyard of St an attempt to ‘consecrate’ the Arctic and reassert Mary’s Church, Dagenham, Essex… Moscow’s claims to the territory. In case the groundsmen mowing The service was held by Bishop Iakov alongside the lawns get hit by pieces of flying the nuclear icebreaker Rossiya… plastic, because the authorities The metal capsule carried a message from the church’s leader, bearing the inscription: ‘With clearly do not credit them with the the blessing of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All intelligence to negotiate around Russia, the consecration of the North Pole marks these dangerous objects. 1,150 years of Russian statehood.’ From ‘The Whispering Gallery’ in The Church of England Newspaper The Daily Telegraph 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 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 6 October 2012 SALVATIONIST www.salvationarmy.org.uk/salvationist COMMENT has been let down by Christians and, although that argument won’t get him very far at all on Judgment Day, it’s hard not to sympathise. It’s a pity Alan Bennett has never Of Bennett, met, for example, Lieut-Colonel Peter Moran (London South-East DHQ), who, when I was a cadet and he was the corps officer at Bristol Easton, took me on a guided tour of the commercial bins and wheelie bins down by the docks in Bristol, before 6 am, to make sure the people who slept in them weren’t caught up with the rubbish collection. The good folk of Easton Corps then ensured those same people started Bale their day with a sizeable cooked breakfast and a mug of hot coffee inside them. It’s also a pity he never met Lieut- Colonel Malcolm Bale, a predecessor of mine in this appointment who was recently promoted to Glory. I shan’t pretend I knew Malcolm well, but everyone I have spoken to about him comments on his ultra- professionalism, kindness of heart and the same commitment to ‘going around doing good’ (see Acts 10:38) that I saw exemplified in Bristol. Heaven is not a richer place for the colonel’s passing, F I manage to find space on my because Heaven is perfect already and morning commute to THQ – space beyond improvement, but this shoddy I on the train, that is, to actually move old world loses something irreplaceable my elbows enough to turn the pages of when people of his calibre depart. a book – I spend the 47 minutes it takes I hope Colonel Bale’s loved ones (in theory) to travel from St Albans to the won’t mind me saying that when Elephant and Castle reading. I’m afraid I first worked on THQ a few years ago, it makes me a pretty ropey travelling I inherited his desk and, therefore, companion, but I plead the case that if his phone line. I lost count of the I must suffer prods from other people’s number of people who tried valiantly wet umbrellas, backache and trod- hard to disguise their disappointment ‘Thine is the glory, Lord, upon-toes for Christ and the crest, then I when they realised it was me they The greatness and the praise, might as well make the best of it. were talking to and not him. I took no The final victory over death, Presently, I am reading Alan offence then and I harbour no grudges The end of mortal days. Bennett’s Untold Stories and I am now. On the contrary; it is a mark All majesty is thine, intrigued by what appears to be of respect and affection that even in Beyond the poet’s pen, Bennett’s love/hate relationship with retirement he was in fairly constant For thou art life, and light and love: God and the Church. He writes with demand – one I am only too happy to Amen, amen, amen!’ a warm humanity, yet pretty stern acknowledge. opinions about what a Christian ought (Lieut-Commissioner Arch R. Wiggins) to be. Somewhere, one suspects, he MAJOR STEPHEN POXON, EDITOR NEWS LETTERS REFLECTION NEW COMMITMENTS Pages 4 and 8 Page 9 Renewal of covenant Pages 16 & 17 GhanaHendonSouthseaSherburnHill Page 14 CroydonParkheadDunstable BirminghamCitadelSkewenRochdale FEATURE ANNOUNCEMENTS NorthScotland Good news, well delivered BIBLE STUDY Army people, engagements, NEWS FEATURE Page 10 Building up the Army tributes and caption Pages 5 – 7 Page 15 competition results New Horizons 2012 FEATURE Pages 18 & 19 The Army Mother Pages 11-13 ADVERTS Pages 20 – 23 Front-page picture: SALVATION ARMY INTERNATIONAL HERITAGE CENTRE [email protected] SALVATIONIST 6 October 2012 3 NEWS General leads anniversary celebrations Ghana MORE than 6,700 Salvationists gathered in Accra to celebrate – under the leadership of General Linda Bond – the 90th anniversary of Salvation Army ministry in Ghana. The weekend also included the commissioning of 30 new lieutenants – the largest session in the history of the territory. There were no halls large enough for the number of people who wanted to join in the celebrations so the events were held under canopies at the train- ing college campus. The General was greeted at the airport by officers and cadets with the traditional Ghanaian greeting, ‘Akwaaba’, and a surprise rendition of the song ‘One Army, One Mission, One Message’. Kotobabi Corps During the youth rally the General was towards the college, saluting the General and Band played the Canadian national anthem. presented with a painting by Kofi Ronald, a the territorial leaders.