SALVATIONIST ESSENTIAL READING FOR EVERYONE LINKED TO THE SALVATION ARMY www.salvationarmy.org.uk/salvationist 19 May 2012 No 1347 Price 60p PAGES 12 & 13 PAPERS WarTHE Cryy Q LISSA HERMANS Q JOIN IN WITH salvationarmy.org.uk/warcry Est 1879 No 7065 TALKS ABOUT HER NATIONAL SMILE FIGHTING FOR HEARTS AND SOULS 19 May 2012 20p/25c THE DIAMOND JUBILEE MONTH SINGLE Q WWAKD? WHAT LIGHT Q WHAT’S THE WOULD ALIVE KIDS HAS ATTRACTION OF DO? THE RECORD- Q PICK OUT PATCH COME BREAKING PICTURE – WHICH PAGE THE WAIT IS ‘THE SCREAM’? WILL HE BE ON? OVER writes NIGEL BOVEY THE Olympic flame is coming to a street near you. Starting today (Saturday 19 May) at Land’s End, an army of runners THE OLYMPICS will carry the torch the length and Q Q GET WRITING breadth of the UK. While on its travels, it will be within viewing distance of 95 per cent of the population. Ignited by the sun’s rays in Olympia, the flame will burn continuously throughout the four-yearly ARE GETTING WITH CREATIVE Turn to page 3 CLOSER CORNER THIS WEEK’S QUOTES FROM THE PAPERS NO MONEY FOR OLD POPE, SAY FLAT PLANTING THE FAITH HUNTERS A garden created as an aid to catechesis is one Germany: The Pope’s former flat has of the many ideas mentioned in a new booklet for left prospective tenants unexcited. Christian gardeners. The home has been offered for rent The author of Gardening For God… suggests a in an advert including Pope Benedict’s special bed with appropriate plants to ‘assist the phone book entry, which confirms he teaching of points in the catechism’. For instance, lived there from 1959 to 1963. But a bed for the ‘Fruits of the Holy Spirit’ has the unlike his old Volkswagen car, which vine or turnip to represent charity, crocus for joy, recently sold for £130,000, the three- rose for peace, leek for patience and so forth… bedroom property in Bonn has failed the planting includes hemlock to represent death to spark a bidding war. and devil’s bite for Hell. Metro From Notebook in The Tablet THE GOD FACTOR PULLING UP FOR A PRAYER Tulisa claims to A new ‘drive-thru’ service in Florida offers customers something different from car washes and burgers: prayer… have found God. Volunteers from a Pentecostal church in Fort Lauderdale, ‘I needed some Florida, have been on its forecourt… offering to pray with sense in my life people who pull over… The pastor of the Christian Life Centre, Sol Levy, told the so reconnected Associated Press that many of those who called in had never with my faith,’ been to church and were often ‘at the end of their rope’… Mr Levy said… the aim was still to get people to come to she says. church ‘and have a relationship with Jesus’. 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There remains, though – even in the face of odds that can appear overwhelming Whose mind – the underpinning steadfastness of the astonishing truth that ‘love never fails’ (see 1 Corinthians 13). I once emailed the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, the Most Rev Vincent Nichols – we share a birthday, is stayed incidentally – inviting him to tell me his favourite verse of Scripture. He graciously responded with his Episcopal motto: Fortis ut mors dilectio, meaning ‘Love is as strong as death’, taken from Song of Songs 8:6 on thee and 7: ‘Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away’ (NIV). I have rarely been so struck by such a beautifully resilient collection of words. This, for me, is when love gets iron-tough, cast in the furnace of devotion – when caring for a loved one whose mental faculties are waning means attempting to help that person with menial tasks that, once upon a time, they could have managed with AM indebted to Commissioner Paul du ease, while wanting for them all the dignity Plessis for kindly drawing my attention in the world; handling one who remains I to Dementia Awareness Week. So cherished and respected with the intimate too to my colleagues Majors Jane care afforded a baby, yet remembering the Kimberley and Bruce Tulloch for the achievements of that person’s life. excellent material on pages 12, 13 and 24. All this, often, against a heartbreaking, Dementia – and its truly frightening chilling backdrop of a partial or complete bedfellow Alzheimer’s disease – cannot, lack of recognition and the reluctant by definition, possibly make for easy or acceptance of the fact that having a proper amusing reading. conversation with one’s beloved ever again Those illnesses, with their mercilessly is unlikely. cold, relentless grip, leave nothing Working on the balancing act known cheerful in their icy wake. They reach, as the art of being strong but gentle is no like bindweed strangling that which is mean undertaking, yet it is exactly what is beautiful in a garden, way beyond the called for, even – or perhaps especially – ‘mere’ disturbance of brain patterns and when there is little or no hope of comfort deterioration of normal thought processes, save that of knowing Archbishop Nichols’ The coat of arms to – piece by piece – disrupt and dismantle motto is utterly reliable. It might, at times, of Archbishop lives, families and relationships. be all there is – but it is enough. Vincent Nichols – as mentioned There is a horrible, haunting sadness in the Comment about the onset and progress of dementia. MAJOR STEPHEN POXON, EDITOR NEWS LETTERS FEATURE ANNOUNCEMENTS Pages 4 – 9 & 19 Page 10 Advising an Army Army people, engagements FinlandandEstoniaEasternEuropeUKT Page 14 and tributes North-WesternHalifaxPaisleyPrescotHorden TunbridgeWellsKidderminsterStanford-le-Hope ALOVE UPDATE Pages 18 & 19 SouthandMidWalesYorkshireMiddleEast HoveSouthseaBurnleyCoventryCityHarpenden Moulded for ministry BIBLE STUDY BelfastTempleLeadgateWintonHartlepool Page 11 Confronting the powerful ADVERTS HawickHytheWrexhamNewbiggin-by-the-Sea Page 15 Pages 20 – 23 FEATURE Understanding dementia NEW COMMITMENTS Pages 12 & 13 Pages 16 & 17 [email protected] SALVATIONIST 19 May 2012 3 NEWS General’s visit brings challenge Finland and Estonia THE visit of General Linda Bond to Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, was marked by times of influence and inspiration. A day spent with delegates to the Nordic Leader- ship Development Institute was followed by a public meeting attended by Salvationists from across the country. The Nordic Leadership Devel- opment Institute gave a week’s Salvation Army standpoints on and in personal life, discipline in Estonia corps came to listen to training to Salvation Army offi- many important topics. Respond- spiritual life and carrying out the the General and share in fellow- cers from Norway, Sweden, ing to questions from the officers, duties of an officer. ship. The congregation included Denmark, Estonia, Latvia and the General provided informa- In the evening meeting around twenty men from Hope Romania. The General spoke to tion regarding doctrinal issues, at Tallinn United Methodist House, the Salvation Army reha- delegates about leadership and the importance of prayer in work church, Salvationists from all bilitation centre in Tallinn. God has performed great miracles in the lives of these men. They have The General shares experienced God’s love as they have been helped and cared for in practical and by the Army. As a result of this transformation, many want to spiritual ministry serve God and their neighbours Eastern Europe as Salvation Army soldiers. FROM muddy village roads to Spirit- The meeting was led by territo- filled meetings, General Linda Bond expe- rial leaders Commissioners Dick rienced the breadth of Salvation Army and Vibeke Krommenhoek and ministry during her visit to Moldova. Chief Secretary Lieut-Colonel Meetings took as their theme the interna- Arja Laukkanen. tional vision – One Army, One Mission, Olav Pärnamets, Senior Pastor One Message – and Moldovan Salvation- of the Tallinn United Method- ists grasped the opportunity to celebrate ist Church, gave the opening being part of the global Salvation Army.