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SALVATIONIST ESSENTIAL READING FOR EVERYONE LINKED TO THE SALVATION ARMY www.salvationarmy.org.uk/salvationist 21 July 2012 No 1356 Price 60p PAGES 12 & 13 PAPERS THE ROWER SAYS HE’S GOING Q OLYMPIAN Q BRITISH ATHLETES War Cryy FOR GOLD Page 8 salvationarmy.org.uk/warcry Est 1879 No 7074 RICHARD PREPARE TO GO FOR FIGHTING FOR HEARTS AND SOULS 21 July 2012 20p/25c MANE CHAMBERS TALKS GOLD OF ROWING AND Q GOD’S CHAMPIONS STAGE HIS RELATIONSHIP CONTINUES WITH NARNIA STORY IS PLAYED OUT IN NEW WITH GOD PRODUCTION EZRA writes PHILIP HALCROW Q NARNIA PLAY Q ‘SHREK THE HIGHLIGHTS MUSICAL’ TICKETS FORGIVENESS TO WIN A GAME of hide-and-seek leads four children to discover a magi- cal world. It is being oppressed Q YORK PREPARES Q PATCH’S PALS by a witch but can be saved by Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy with the help of a lion. In London’s Kensington Gardens children and adults are watching a new theatre TO STAGE WITH ERIC THE production of The Lion, the Witch Turn to page 3 SIMON ANNAND Aslan and four children can rescue Narnia MYSTERY PLAYS ELECTRIC EEL THIS WEEK’S QUOTES FROM THE PAPERS SALUTE TO THE HIRSUTE BETTER TO GIVE THAN RECEIVE The Church of England has Looting and rioting can be a spiritual been named by the Beard Liberation Front as the Beard- experience, a bishop has said… The Right Rev Friendly Employer 2012. The Peter Price said: ‘Rioting can literally be an Archbishop of Canterbury ecstatic spiritual experience’… was cited by the Front as an ‘Something is released in the participants ‘important role model’ in a nation where many employers which takes them out of themselves as a kind are guilty of pogonophobia. of spiritual escape,’ he told the General Synod. Church Times The Times TIME TO RECONSIDER GIRL GUIDE’S VOW FAITH ON THE FOOTBALL FIELD Since the Canadian and Australian Girl Guide You don’t have to be a football fan organisations... have had the sense to consult their to notice that footballers and their members and consider whether… it is more important faith have been making the headlines to blindly promise to love God, or to personally take recently. a spiritual journey which may or may not end up in Fabrice Muamba’s shocking religious belief, I would ask why Girlguiding UK seems collapse… led to an extraordinary to be incapable of addressing the growing concerns of series of events… its own members… Another footballer… dropped to his Without making the promise, no girl or woman may knees to pray… attempt the Baden-Powell Challenge, be a Queen’s Aston Villa’s Darren Bent… spoke of Guide [or] become a full adult leader… his love for the Bible… This smacks of discrimination against those who have Manchester United’s Javier Hernandez decided that they cannot… promise to love a God in says: ‘I always pray on the pitch before whom they do not believe. a game… it is not superstition.’ Jane Berry, Brown Owl, in a letter to The Times The Church of England Newspaper 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, 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 ASSISTANT EDITOR Claire Anderson Tel: 020 7367 4894 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 21 July 2012 SALVATIONIST www.salvationarmy.org.uk/salvationist COMMENT back about things that I am – apparently – supposed to be uptight and worried about. I mean it as a compliment when I say I regard that as a distinctly Irish characteristic. If you ever There is, I believe, a test that anyone with £45 to spare can have done, whereby a blood sample is taken and one’s racial origins can be analysed. Say, for example, some of my blood was tested, it would be go across possible to discover, with reasonable accuracy, the internationalism of my genetic make-up. It would be fascinating, but might lead to problems when it came to watching England play football. Having said that, I’ve spent four decades the sea… experiencing problems watching England play football, so I don’t suppose it would make an awful lot of difference really. I remember hearing about a French officer who had been appointed from this territory, back to his homeland. In his farewell meeting, he was keen to stress that neither the Union Flag nor the French Tricolour meant as much to him as the flag of The Salvation Army, making the point that he was a citizen of Heaven and that citizenship of anywhere else was – in that context – neither here nor there. Well, whether you hail from Ireland, England, France or anywhere else, I would NE of the most charming encourage you to read the feature on page television programmes I have 11 about the Army’s work on the Emerald O ever seen was an episode of Isle – and then pray for our yellow, red and The Hairy Bikers filmed in blue flag to fly there with prominence and Enniscrone, a small seaside town in influence. County Sligo, Ireland. Speaking of genealogy, my mum’s The ‘hairy bikers’ in question, in case maiden name was Pope – making her, you don’t know, are two bearded, jocular by the way, an ecclesiastical novelty: a men who love motorbikes and cookery. Pope who became a Salvationist. That, in They combine their twin passions by turn, links me – albeit tenuously – to the ‘I do not anticipate an easy biking around the world in search of 18th-century English poet Alexander Pope, victory, but I do expect we delicious recipes. There are definitely arguably the most famous bearer of the are going to conquer by trust worse ways to earn a living. surname. He had an IQ of 180 – 15 points Enniscrone, so far as I could tell, looked in God and hard work. The higher than Beethoven and 20 points wonderful – picturesque, tranquil and just higher than Einstein. Which just goes to women who are going are the place to relax. One hesitates to show: not everything makes its way down ready for hard work.’ indulge in generalisations and stereotypes, the bloodline! but I sometimes wonder if I am part Irish, God bless An Arm an tSlánaithe! (General William Booth, speaking after the appointment, LQRI¿YHVSHFLDOO\VHOHFWHGRI¿FHUV±DOOZRPHQ± on account of the fact that – so I’m told – µWREHJLQWKHZRUNRIFKXUFKDQGFKDULW\¶LQ,UHODQG I frequently come across as being laid- MAJOR STEPHEN POXON, EDITOR COMMISSIONING 2012 FOCUS ON IRELAND BIBLE STUDY ANNOUNCEMENTS Westminster Central Hall Reaching up to reach out Holiness and mission: Army people, engagements Pages 4 & 5 Page 11 a beautiful life and tributes Page 15 Page 20 NEWS FEATURE Pages 6 – 10 Wanted: Salvation Army LETTERS ADVERTS ClowneHarrowOldhamRoundthorn officers NorthScotlandChester-le-StreetKilmarnock Pages 16 & 17 Pages 21 – 23 SouthseaWorthingBeningtonWellingborough Pages 12 & 13 NottinghamWilliamBoothMemorialHalls YorkshireWhitbyCampbeltownInverness HeckmondwikeNorthScotlandBoscombe ROOTS UPDATE NEW COMMITMENTS EstonHunstantonEnfieldKinlochleven DemocraticRepublicofCongoIpswichCitadel Roots in the Midlands Pages 18 & 19 SouthwickWrexham Page 14 [email protected] SALVATIONIST 21 July 2012 3 COMMISSIONING 2012 Actions prove friendship WCH pictures: PAUL HARMER Westminster Central Hall EVEN as Territorial Commander Commis- sioner André Cox was speaking, people made their way to the mercy seat – a fitting climax to the commissioning and ordination of the Friends of Christ Session. The TC spoke with conviction about the claim to be friends of Christ being proven not by words, but by actions. The commissioner pressed home the point that friends of Christ must ‘pass the test of credibility, not just theory’. The mercy seat was lined time and time again as Chief Secretary Colonel David Hinton spoke about the need to stand for Christ. The colonel shared his conviction that the Holy Spirit was active within the meeting, leaving no one in any doubt that only a positive, defi- Officers, soldiers and nite response to the claims of Christ would friends join in worship suffice. Calling people to respond, the CS stated that their part in winning others for the Cadet Diane Pryor read verses from John 15, meeting as the newest lieutenants in The Kingdom lay not in their ability, but in their set to piano music, before Territorial President Salvation Army. Loud cheering, clapping and availability: ‘Jesus will take care of the fishing of Women’s Ministries Commissioner Silvia whistling accompanied each lieutenant as they if you take care of the following.’ Cox brought the reminder that God first loved followed their sessional flag, carried proudly The Friends of Christ had made their way his children and they become friends of Christ by Lieutenant Mark Godwin, to the platform, to the platform to the challenging words of thanks to his gracious initiative.