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people must remove snow from roofs to prevent “New Covenant's Snow Memories” its weight from crushing their homes, and special “New Covenant's Snow Memories” erse of the onth care is taken to protect trees from snow's weight. V M In some towns, people used to tunnel paths to And set your minds and keep them set on NCO KidsKids one another's homes, and streets were lined with covered sidewalks to ensure that people could what is above (the higher things), not on get around. Today in areas where temperatures the things that are on the earth. Monthly News are high enough to make it practical, many roads are equipped with sprinklers using warm ground Colossians 3:2 (Amplified) January 2010 water to keep them passable by melting the snow. The most recent record snow was “Text from 'I've Got Heaven On My Mind' sung brought by the blizzards of December 2005 – by Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir” February 2006, when well over 9 feet of snow accumulated (piled up over time) in many rural I started out with Jesus at a very early age William Booth (farm land/countryside) areas. yes I've known him nearly all of my life One of the striking features of Japan's snow well I'll admit there have been times William Booth was a British country are the snow monsters on Mount Zao. where I've faltered along the way Methodist preacher who founded the These are trees frozen by the winds from Siberia but I'll keep trying cause somehow I've gotta make it in Salvation Army and became its first and covered in snow, giving a ghostly impression. you see I've got a charge on my life General. This Christian movement, and I've got a job to do founded in 1865, had a military and I can't stop until it's through structure and government, that has Chorus: spread from London, England, to I'm determined many parts of the world and is known I've got made up mind for being one of the largest distributors I can't stand around wasting my time of humanitarian aid. I'm gonna keep on working for Jesus every day of my life Booth was born in Nottingham cause I've got heaven on my mind (state), England. He was the son of Samuel Booth and Mary Moss. His father was an architect, which Birthdays & Special Events In provided him with sufficient funds. William's father was married twice, his first wife Sarah died and so did their “Most Snow Angels - Multiple January only child, a son named William, died Venue” five years after Sarah. Later on his father Students, parents and teachers from met 60 schools in the Mary Moss, London District he Catholic School Board, in Ontario, Canada, made 15,851 snow angels simultaneously on February 2, 2004 at 2:00pm. proposed to her but she declined. He persuaded but he was dissatisfied with his work as a pastor holding, “salvation meetings”. Booth regularly her to change her mind and she excepted even in a single church. He knew he was called to published a magazine and was the author of a Snow Facts though she was sixteen years younger than he. reach the multitudes as an evangelist. He number of books; he also composed several Samuel and Mary had five children together, requested to be appointed to evangelistic work songs. In his books the convictions and principles Although the Arctic is know as a Henry, Ann, William, Emma, and Mary. Henry but was denied. He therefore resigned his behind the ministry really stood out. Booth snowy place, it is in fact a desert died as a young child and Emma was an invalid position and became an independent evangelist. proposed a strategy to apply the Christian Gospel where very little snow actually falls. from birth, she died at the age of forty having For this, he was barred from campaigning in and work ethic to the problems. The book speaks The snow that does fall, however, never married. Methodist congregations. of abolishing vice and poverty by establishing stays around a long time, giving the As Samuel was forced into bankruptcy by His doctrine remained much the same, homes for the homeless, farm communities where impression of much snow. successive trade recessions, William eventually though; he preached that eternal punishment was the urban poor can be trained in agriculture, So where did the MOST snow fall? training centers for prospective emigrants, homes said of him: the fate of those who do not believe the Gospel The world record for the most snow for fallen women and released prisoners, aid for "My father was a Grab (a greedy man). He had been of Jesus Christ and the necessity of repentance in one year is now held by Mount the poor, and help for drunkards. He also layed born in poverty. He determined to grow rich; and he from sin, and the promise of salvation. He taught Baker in Washington State, USA. The down schemes for poor men’s lawyers, banks, did. He grew very rich, because he lived without God that this belief would manifest itself in a life of Mount Baker Ski Area reported 1,140 clinics, industrial schools and even a seaside and simply worked for money; and when he lost it all, love for God and mankind. Eventually, each of inches (95 feet) of snowfall for the his heart broke with it, and he died miserably." resort. He says that if the state fails to meet its Booths' children became involved in the ministry. 1998-1999 season. social obligations it will be the task of each Samuel Booth was not a religious man, and In 1865, at the age of 36, Booth and his wife Christian to step into the breach. Booth's ultimate The mountain also beat its own although he had little interest in his children, he Catherine opened The Christian Revival Society, aim was to get people saved! Booth once said, record for most snow in a month with insisted that they attend church regularly. He was where they held meetings every evening and on 304 inches / 772 cm. baptized on his deathbed, after which he Sundays, to offer repentance, salvation and “I have no intention to depart in the smallest degree from the main principles on which I have acted in the committed his wife and children to God. Those Christian ethics to the poorest and most needy, Snowfall can be difficult to past. My only hope for the permanent deliverance of who surrounded him, including his son William, including alcoholics, criminals and prostitutes. measure because it settles, melts, or sang “Rock of Ages” as he died. mankind from misery, either in this world or the next, is Booth and his followers practiced what they the regeneration or remaking of the individual by the drifts from place to Due to his father's bankruptcy the family could preached , they were self-sacrificing Christians. power of the Holy Ghost through Jesus Christ. But in place. Strict no longer afford William's school fees, so at the They performed a lot of social work such as providing for the relief of temporal misery I reckon that I standards must be age of 13, William was apprenticed to a pawn- opening “Food for the Million” shops (soup am only making it easy where it is now difficult, and observed - a flat broker (money loaner). kitchens), not caring if they were scoffed at or possible where it is all but impossible, for men and surface is used to Two years into his apprenticeship, at the age mocked for their Christian ministry work. women to find their way to the Cross of our Lord Jesus measure daily Christ.” of 15, Booth was converted to salvation and Thirteen years later they changed the name of snowfall amounts Methodism. He then read extensively and their ministry to “The Salvation Army”, modeling In his later years, he was received in audience along with a snow trained himself in writing and in speech, it in some ways after the military, with its own flag by kings, emperors and presidents, who were stake to measure becoming a Methodist preacher. At the age of (or colors) and its own music. He and the other among his ardent admirers. Even the mass media depth. began to use his title of 'General' with respect. In 20, Booth reluctantly left his family and moved to soldiers in God's Army would wear the Army's “Snow Country” London, where he found work and lodging in a own uniform, this symbolized 'putting on the 1899, Booth suffered from blindness in both eyes, Snow country refers to areas in pawnbroker's shop. Booth tried to continue Armour,' for meetings and ministry work. Booth but with a short rest, was able to recover his sight. Japan due to their heavy, long-lasting preaching in London, but the small amount of became the "General" and his other ministers Later he had to have his right eye removed and snowfalls. Easterly winds blowing off preaching work that came his way frustrated him, were given appropriate ranks as "officers". had a cataract in his left eye. William Booth was 83 Siberia bring moisture-laden clouds and so he resigned as a preacher and took to years old when he died, He was buried with his Though the early years were lean ones, with down through Japan and the open-air evangelizing in the streets and on the wife in the main London burial ground for 19th the need of money to help the needy an ever Japanese Alps, a series of mountain Kennington Common (a large park in London, century ministers and tutors.