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One Army - on Fire One Mission - of Love One Message - of Grace Founder From the Editor William Booth General Linda Bond Territorial Commander recently attended homes, at school or in the community or Commissioner W. Langa a Global our circle of friends. International Headquarters ILeadership 101 Queen Victoria Street, Summit, as I am sure Lt Colonel Donaldson shares with us the London EC4P 4GP England some of you did this good and bad principles of Saul’s Territorial Headquarters year as well. Every leadership and how that affected how he 119 - 121 Rissik Street, year the challenge is made decisions - note when people Johannesburg 2001 to lead better, up, with started losing. integrity, like Jesus Editor and so forth. This year We also want to honour student Officers Captain Wendy Clack Bill Hybels reminded conference goers: in our Territory that have sacrificed and Editorial Office “Everyone wins when the leader gets completed courses. Captain Colleen P.O. Box 1018 better”. Huke took time to share how we can start Johannesburg 2000 or continue to commit to life-long Tel:. (011) 718-6700 So how would the people around us win, learning. Fax: (011) 718-6790 if you and I got better at leading? Certainly we see such challenges in Jesus is certainly the greatest example of E-mail: leadership in news releases and other leadership from a historical, scientific, [email protected] print media that show us why we even medical, educational and humanitarian www.salvationarmy.org.za have a generation of people that is point of view, John Ortberg shares in his Design, Print & described as lost. They are certainly not book “Who is this Man?” What if Distribution winning. TODAY you and I decided to bring our Dyman Print, best, place our faith, hope and trust in [email protected] “For everyone who has been born of God Him as we lead? What would the world Annual Subscription Rates overcomes the world. And this is the look like in 6 months? Local: R70 victory that has overcome the world our International: R100 faith. Who is it that overcomes the world Much love and blessing Subscription to except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?”(1 John 5-4-5 ESV) Wendy Clack The Financial Secretary Editor P.O. Box 1018 We have dedicated this edition to Johannesburg 2000 leadership. Each of us lead on a daily Published bi-monthly basis, whether it be companies, our MISSION STATEMENT What’s Happening OF THE SALVATION ARMY DECEMBER The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an 1 World AIDS Day 16 Day of Reconciliation evangelical part of the 1-2 Y-Connexion (Public Holiday) universal Christian Church. Its Western Cape Division 17 Public Holiday message is based on the Bible. 3-5 Territorial Leaders Council 24-31 Christmas Recess Its ministry is motivated by 6 Arrival of The General 25 Christmas Day love for God. Its mission is to 7 Covenant Day with The General 26 Day of Goodwill preach the gospel of Jesus (TLC, Cabinet & HODs 27 Public Holiday Christ and to meet human included) 31 Watch Night needs in His name without 8-9 Commissioning & Appointments discrimination. with The General JANUARY 2013 (Northern Division) 10 Officers Councils with 1 New Year’s Day The General 2 THQ & DHQs Re-open (Northern Division) 3 General Change of Appointments 11 Departure of The General 2 THE WAR CRY A regular column Leadership Development from the desk of the Territorial Commander TC Talk - By Commissioner William Langa n our Territorial Strategic Plan, one of the key strategic areas is Leadership IDevelopment. As we connect people with the Gospel, we must engage Leaders in development strategies to ensure that future Leaders are identified and trained to be relevant in the 21st Century. Allow me some poetic licence as I rephrase the International Vision as I address all of us in leadership: One Army - on fire One Mission - of Love One Message - of Grace We all want to see Officers and Local Officers who are filled “The Salvation Army is a vibrant movement with people of with the Holy Spirit so as to prepare our young people for the integrity coming alongside communities, together enabling future. Accountability, transparency, responsibility and team the growth and transformation of the whole person through work should become normal characteristics of Salvation Army the full expression of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” leadership. Effective leadership should be modelled at all levels through clear communication, trust and integrity We exist for people and it is through people that we will amongst leaders. If leaders are to make a meaningfull impact, achieve all that God has tasked us with. It is in that spirit, as they should never stop looking for opportunities to lift people people committed to the Great Commission, that we should up to another level of excellence through teaching and firstly connect people with the Gospel and then help them to modelling their own leadership lifestyle. grow into the leaders that will have a passion to do likewise. In Acts 4:36, 37 Barnabas, Paul’s companion, is called the Son Soldiers, our promise to God and the Soldiers Covenant we of Encouragement. He helped make the mission happen. He have signed in response to that promise, should drive our saw the need and sold a piece of land so that the Gospel could commitment to make this vision become a reality. continue to be shared. Why did he do that? Was it not perhaps because he saw people around him model this? When we give This is my prayer for the Southern Africa Territory and the people tasks to do we create really good followers, but when neighbourhoods that we live, serve and lead in. “If it be we release and encourage potential and established leaders to anyone’s gift, he should lead with diligence”. lead, we create passionate leaders! One Army - on fire One Mission - of Love One Message - of Grace OCTOBER 2012 3 ‘God is still calling’ ing, ring! “Hello. Who is this?”“Hello Mr Huke! We are We receive so many different types of calls on a daily basis: pleased to inform you that you have just won a FREE cell telemarketing calls, phone calls, judgment calls, promotion calls, Rphone and all expenses paid trip to the Bahamas”. “Wow, and personal calls. In days gone by, some churches made that is totally awesome!” was my initial excited response, and evangelistic calls and as The Salvation Army we should still be then just like you, I began to wonder what the catch was! So I making altar calls to our Mercy Seat as often as possible. asked, “What’s the catch?”“No, no Mr Huke, there is no catch, all you have to do is give us your bank details over the phone now and If we are honest, some calls, like my “free” phone and trip call, then send a copy of your I.D. sometime and we will forward to you just plain annoy us! As a result, we often give more credibility to the free tickets”. Needless to say, once I had heard the terms and the caller depending upon their credentials. For example, if we conditions, the conversation did not last much longer! get a call from someone identifying themselves as law Consequently, I never did get that FREE trip to the Bahamas or enforcement in the middle of the night, we listen more closely that nice new state-of-the-art cell phone! than we would to an unidentified caller! This may be why some do not respond today when God calls - we are just not sure who is calling, because we do not always recognise His voice and subconsciously “hangup”! On the other General William Booth hand, perhaps we know it is God calling but we do not like His terms and conditions! We often don’t respond positively because we fail to identify God, as the Ultimate Authority on what is best for us. He is worthy of our full attention, and obedience, simply because of who He is! Whatever our reasons for not hearing the call, we cannot convince ourselves that God is not calling still. In terms of our mission the founder said: “ ‘Not called!’ did you say? ‘Not heard the call,’ I think you should say. “Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. “Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father’s house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. “Then look Christ in the face - whose mercy you have professed to obey - and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world.” William Booth As a Territory we are currently operating with approximately half of the active Officers it requires to manage the Territory effectively, leaving some Officers fatigued and overburdened in their various or multiple appointments. With only 5 current Candidates preparing to enter the College For Officer Training in 2013, and even fewer applications coming in for the 2015 session - ‘Disciples of The Cross’, the need to obey God’s call to officership is never more urgent than now! When Isaiah, in chapter 6: 1-8, had a vision of the sheer majesty and awesome splendour of God in heaven, he realised that he was a sinful man and not worthy to be in God's presence.
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