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INSIDE THIS WEEK Army’s best-known building reopens France and Belgium PAGE 7 Many re-Imagine and respond East Midlands PAGE 9 PLUS LOTS MORE! PAGES 4 – 6 PAPERS THE Est 1879 No 7023 TRIAL RUN ■ BOSSES GO ■ HORRID HENRY War Cry Organisers and athletes prepare FIGHTING FOR HEARTS AND SOULS for Olympics UNDERCOVER TO HITS THE BIG SCREEN Back page 23 July 2011 salvationarmy.org.uk/warcry 20p/25c LEARN THE HOPES ■ ROAD TEST AND FEARS OF LEARN ABOUT ROAD TEST EMPLOYEES LIVING WITH JESUS PETE DADDS/Channel 4 IN KA! JAM ■ THE POWER OF ■ CHECK OUT PHOTOGRAPHY NATIONAL PARKS TRUCK BOSS GOES UNDERCOVER FOR WEEK IN FUN TV writes CLAIRE BRINE ■ SHHH! Don’t tell anyone, but MISSIONARY the managing director of Isuzu Truck UK has a secret, FEATURE as viewers of Channel 4’s Undercover Boss will discover on Tuesday (26 July). JACKIE PULLINGER: Nikki King is the latest business Truck company leader to put on a disguise and swap boss Nikki took her high-powered job for a more the undercover low-key position in the company. Her route to learn ■ about her Turn to page 3 ‘I SEE CHANGED ROBBIE’S ROBOT business LIVES’ PLANS A PICNIC THIS WEEK’S QUOTES FROM THE PAPERS BOY WIZARD’S PUBLISHING HOUSE APPEAL TO BUY GOSPEL THAT wants to keep it any longer… CONVERTS TO RELIGION SURVIVED BURIAL AND MISTS and has… eight months to Harry Potter has slain the mighty snake Nagini OF TIME and seen off the dark forces of Lord Voldemort. come up with the money… Now he has won an audience with the Pope… Buried in a saint’s coffin for A manuscript copy of the Bloomsbury has acquired the niche academic 400 years… the seventh-century Gospel of St John, it owes its publisher Continuum, whose authors include St Cuthbert Gospel is the the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, remarkable condition to an the Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and the oldest intact European book. extraordinary history. It was biographer of Pope Benedict XVI. Owned by the Jesuits for the buried with St Cuthbert, the Bloomsbury, which has made millions from past 240 years, it has been on JK Rowling’s chronicles of the young Potter, early Christian missionary and has paid £20.1 million for Continuum… long-term loan to the British healer, when he was reburied But the acquisition could yet trigger another Library since 1979. Now, battle for Master Potter: Pope Benedict is on Lindisfarne in 698, 11 years reportedly not a fan. however, the library is going after his death. The Times to have to find £9 million if it The Times QPR CELEBRATES CHRISTIAN Michael Brahams, deputy VATICAN BUDGET SURPLUS FOUNDERS The Vatican reported a budget surplus for the Lord Mayor of first time in four years in 2010, but said Queen’s Park Rangers Westminster [jointly contributions from Catholics and dioceses commemorated the 125 carried out the around the world had gone down… Worldwide giving to the Pope decreased in years since they were unveiling]. Author of 2010, the statement said. Peter’s Pence founded by church Thank God For Football!, collected £42.8 million, compared to £2.1 million organisations with the in 2009... The contributions of dioceses Peter Lupson said: ‘It amounted to about £17.3 million, compared to unveiling of a plaque… went superbly well… As a £20 million the previous year… on the mission hall where The Holy See, which depends largely on Christian I was delighted investments for its annual income, had income the club was founded… that the Church was given of about £205 million and expenses of about Stan Bowles, voted the £196.5 million… due recognition for the Vatican City State had income of about £213.5 club’s all-time greatest important role it played.’ million and expenses of about £196 million. player, and Councillor The Church Of England Newspaper The Catholic Times 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 benhamgoodheadprint Limited, Bicester, Oxon. © Linda Bond, General of The Salvation Army, 2011. 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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 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 John Matear EDITOR-IN-CHIEF AND PUBLISHING SECRETARY Major Leanne Ruthven 2 23 July 2011 SALVATIONIST www.salvationarmy.org.uk/salvationist COMMENT him in the hope of finding a replacement pair in the jumble. Lo and behold, ten minutes later the man and my shoes This solemn reappeared. He had taken them away to clean and polish, as was, he explained, the custom in his religion towards spiritual leaders. I have rarely felt so unworthy of my calling. I remember, too, my first appointment, consecration not least because I used to receive, fairly regularly, among other blessings, silent deliveries of whole trout through my quarters’ letterbox. These came, wrapped in newspaper, from an anonymous well-wisher. Not quite the piece of cod which passeth all understanding, but almost. Officership – indeed, any experience of discipleship – is, for me, neatly described in Lily Sampson’s song, number 711 in our songbook. Ever since the day in 1992 when I needed a few more hundred quid to enter the training college and God saw fit to allow a van driver to crash into the back of my beloved stationary Talbot Solara and thus see me into college with the insurance settlement – but no car – the Lord has proved ferociously faithful, as tough as steel and remarkably gracious. A woman who displays similar qualities, the Burmese pro-democracy EWLY commissioned officers leader Aung San Suu Kyi, recently will be gearing up for the described something of the evolution of N delights, Kingdom victories and her National League for Democracy: inevitable learning curves their ‘You will also see in our office men and appointments will bring. Officers who women whom the Burmese would say have been on the road a bit longer and are “of good age” – in their forties. When have received marching orders will be, they joined… they were in their twenties, well, on the road again. Cadets will be or even still in their late teens, fresh- anticipating what for many will be a first faced and flashing-eyed, passionate for ‘Liverpool Edge Hill Corps was my taste of ministry as they proceed to the cause. Now they are quieter, more first appointment… with an assistant summer appointments. We pray God’s mature and more determined, their in the form of Probationary- blessing on each and every one. May passion refined by the trials they have Lieutenant Russell King. I was a they know that all that God is, he is for undergone.’ young 21 and he was somewhat them. With regard to new officers on the younger! I once heard a doorstep I remember my own summer block and those of us with a few more salesman ask, “Is your mother in, appointment for any number of good miles on the clock, I like to think that all sonny?” when Russell answered the reasons, but also because, working in of us – those of good age and those in door. He was certainly not pleased Aston one day and just about to enter their twenties – can work together for about it.’ the hall, an Indian man I’d never seen the cause of Christ. (From There’s A Boy Here, before in my life asked me for my shoes. the autobiography of General John Gowans) Mindful of Hebrews 13:2, I gave them to MAJOR STEPHEN POXON, EDITOR NEWS FEATURE MORE THAN GOLD FEATURE BIBLE STUDY ANNOUNCEMENTS Pages 4 – 6 〉〉〉〉 One year 2 go! A secure place in the shade Army people, engagements Commissioning Pages 12 & 13 〉〉〉〉 Page 15 〉〉〉〉 and tributes 〉〉〉〉 NEWS Pages 20 & 21 REFLECTION CHILDREN’S MINISTRIES Pages 7 – 10 & 21 〉〉〉〉 FranceandBelgiumArgentinaSwedenandLatvia Bloom where you’re planted! FEATURE ADVERTS WintonAndoverCheltenhamColeraineWoodhouse 〉〉〉〉 〉〉〉〉 BurtonuponTrentNewquayKilmarnockEastMidlands Page 14 Potential in a promise Pages 22 & 23 RochdaleShildonAberdeenCitadelUSAPetersfield Page 16 〉〉〉〉 LetchworthMotherwellFakenhamBromleySale Connah’sQuayBoscombe CD REVIEW LETTERS Crusader – The Music Of NEW COMMITMENTS Page 11 〉〉〉〉 Dean Goffin Pages 17 – 19 〉〉〉〉 Page 14 〉〉〉〉 Front-page picture by PAUL HARMER [email protected] SALVATIONIST 23 July 2011 3 NEWS FEATURE Ambassadors HARMER PAUL Pictures: of Holiness commissioned London ENTHUSIASTIC cheers and air horns resounded through Metho - dist Central Hall, Westminster, when the newly commissioned officers of the Ambassadors of Holiness Session marched in, resplendent in their uniforms with new lieutenant trimmings. Family, friends and well- wishers jumped to their feet as the session’s flagbearer, Lieu- tenant Steven Fincham, marched the colours and his session in – received on the plat form by Territorial Commander Commis- sioner John Matear and Principal Major Nor man Ord (William Booth College).