SALVATIONIST THE ESSENTIAL READ FOR INSIDE THIS WEEK EVERYONE LINKED TO Youth band brings in £1,000 for hospital Southsea THE SALVATION ARMY PAGE 4 〉〉〉〉 www.salvationarmy.org.uk/salvationist Army plays part in MediaCity chaplaincy 2 April 2011 Salford Quays No 1289 PAGE 5 〉〉〉〉 Price 60p PLUS LOTS MORE! N W E S APPOINTMENTS LIST 2011 PAGES 10 – 15 〉〉〉〉 PAPERS THE Est 1879 THAT’S I No 7007 ENTERTAINMENT CHECK OUT THE War Cry Illusionist Chris Gidney FIGHTING FOR HEARTS AND SOULS talks showbiz WHAT MAKES A GREAT NEW FILM ‘RIO’ 2 April 2011 salvationarmy.org.uk/warcry 20p/25c Page 8 CHRISTIAN? YOUR LIFE I WHAT MAKES CALEB A BIBLE HERO? James Nesbitt IN as Gabriel ENTERTAINER Monroe SUPPORTS I GIGGLE IN THE HIS SHOWBIZ MIDDLE PACKED WITH CHRISTIANS HANDS JOKES AND PUZZLES LIFE-AND-DEATH situations are everyday occurrences for gifted neurosurgeon Gabriel Monroe. TRUE-LIFE He knows he’s good at what he does. I But he also knows that a slip of the scalpel can have catastrophic conse- OLIVE FORRUTHERS quences such as permanent brain damage or paralysis. The success or failure of FORGIVENESS each delicate procedure depends on his making the right decisions – and knowing when nature has to be allowed to take its GETS A LITTLE course. That’s the backdrop to ITV1’s hospital drama series Monroe, which focuses on the GOES ON STAGE lives of staff and patients at St Matthew’s TV SURGEON IS A CUT Turn to page 3 ABOVE writes ROSEMARY DAWSON CONFUSED IN ITV PATCH’S PALS THIS WEEK’S QUOTES FROM THE PAPERS PUBLIC SIGNAL SUPPORT FOR RE UK TO JOIN THE FIGHT AGAINST HUMAN Strong support for Religious Education has been TRAFFICKING revealed by a public opinion poll commissioned by THE UK WILL FINALLY SIGN UP TO EUROPE- Premier Christian Radio. Almost two thirds (63 per cent) WIDE MEASURES TO COMBAT HUMAN of the British public believe that if children are taught Religious Education at school they are more likely to be TRAFFICKING, AFTER BEING tolerant towards people of other faiths and cultures when EMBARRASSED BY A CAMPAIGN FOUGHT they grow up. BY ANTI-SLAVERY INTERNATIONAL, The Church of England Newspaper CAMPAIGNING WEBSITE 38 DEGREES AND THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY. MORE TOP COLLEGES SNUB RELIGIOUS STUDIES A LEVEL THAN 46,000 PEOPLE HAD SIGNED THE Religious Studies has been excluded from a list of recommended ORGANISATIONS’ PETITION CALLING ON A-level subjects for students hoping to win places at top British universities. THE COALITION TO SIGN UP. In what critics see as a further blow to the status of religious THE GOVERNMENT HAD BEEN education in the UK, the Russell Group – which represents CRITICISED FOR FAILING TO OPT IN TO THE 20 leading British universities – has omitted the subject from a DIRECTIVE EARLIER. ONLY BRITAIN AND list of eight ‘facilitating’ A levels which it says applicants should DENMARK HAD NOT SIGNED UP TO IT. THE choose to gain access to the widest range of degree courses. NEW LAWS BRING BETTER PROTECTION The Tablet FOR VICTIMS OF TRAFFICKING AND INCREASE THE CHANCE OF SUCCESSFULLY IRAQ EXODUS ‘GETS WORSE’ PROSECUTING THE GANGS THAT EXPLOIT The Archbishop of Canterbury has spoken of a continuing exodus of Christians from the Middle East. He was welcoming the Chaldean THEM. Catholic Archbishop of Erbil, in Iraq, to Lambeth Palace… IMMIGRATION MINISTER DAMIAN Dr Williams praised the ‘courageous witness’ of Archbishop Bashar GREEN INSISTED THAT BY WAITING UNTIL Warda in northern Iraq, ‘in the face of increasing violence’. He said that the decline of Christians in the region ‘as a direct result of THE FINAL WORDING WAS AGREED, THE appalling intimidation by extremists is still something that not UK’S INTERESTS HAD BEEN PROTECTED. enough people are aware of’. 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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 2 April 2011 SALVATIONIST www.salvationarmy.org.uk/salvationist COMMENT only lightly. I mean those people who seem to be naturally fluent in the language of generosity and can easily disperse their expertise, their hospitality, their laughter, their time And not to and so on. This week’s edition of Salvationist might well have been produced under the working title of Giving. We can read about officers who have given count the their all, about Army people who are giving, and have given, their lives to Christ. We can even read about what Reliance Bank has to give its customers! Not forgetting that this cost edition coincides with General Linda Bond’s first day in office. She, we know, will give everything she has as our new leader. Someone once said that while it is possible to give without loving, it is impossible to love without giving. We need only read John 3:16 and the pages of this week’s paper for evidence of that. Speaking of John 3:16, I have been listening to We Preach Christ, the latest CD by Govan Songsters. I love it, especially ‘Divine Right’ with its beautiful words: ‘Christ has the right, the right of love; love which NSTINCT already tells me that demands the whole. Dear Lord, I give Colonel David Jeffrey, USA National without reserve, my heart, my life, my I Chief Secretary, is someone soul.’ I would refer to as a giving person. It is, as ever, a privilege to receive I met the colonel for the very first time the ministry of Govan Songsters, but at International Headquarters, when their songs also often carry an I was there last month on a kind of day uncomfortable challenge. To ‘give release for reasonable behaviour. without reserve’ is no mean I complimented him on his unusual undertaking. Yet, as Richard Slater ‘Since I began to follow, Army tie, which he promptly gave to reminds us in song 475 in our Men have been robbing me me to keep (we swapped neckwear, Left, right and centre; songbook, and as indeed the church Taken my time, my strength, there and then). I have rarely been so in Laodicea discovered in Revelation My wit, my warmth, myself! impressed by instant, carefree 3, this appears to be the divine deal They snatched my sympathy, My pity, yes, my love, open-handedness. on offer: his all for ours, the template And ran! On balance, I tend to prefer being for giving having been drawn up in And left me emptied, poor. around people who give. There is I’ll put a stop to that! crimson some 2,000 years ago. I’ll not be robbed again, invariably a certain warmth and What sort of response we give is Not I! amiability to be found in the company entirely up to us. Now I will GIVE my heart, of those who have discovered the My love, myself. I can’t be robbed happy art of holding their wealth, Of what I gladly give!’ (General John Gowans) possessions, ties, talents and abilities MAJOR STEPHEN POXON, EDITOR NEWS LETTERS APPOINTMENTS LIST NEW COMMITMENTS Pages 4 – 6 〉〉〉〉 Page 7 〉〉〉〉 Pages 10 to 15 〉〉〉〉 Page 17 〉〉〉〉 NewZealandSouthseaItalyKetteringSalfordQuays ReadingCentralHamiltonTunstall BrightonCongressHallPortadownLowestoftCitadel RELIANCE BANK FEATURE BIBLE STUDY ANNOUNCEMENTS A bank you can rely on A power Army people, engagements, Page 8 〉〉〉〉 Page 16 〉〉〉〉 tributes and picture caption competition results ROOTS UPDATE Pages 18 & 19 〉〉〉〉 Families are encouraged to attend ADVERTS Page 9 〉〉〉〉 Pages 20 – 23 〉〉〉〉 [email protected] SALVATIONIST 2 April 2011 3 NEWS Salvation Army pleased to see The Salvation Army. I explained that we were launches fresh doing brief assessments to find out what people needed and that earthquake other people with us would check that their houses were safe initiatives to live in. Some people would New Zealand say, “We’re fine,” but others said, AS part of its continuing support “It’s so good to see you here – for earthquake-hit residents in you’re the first people to come Christchurch, The Salvation around.” Army is distributing 4,000 Care ‘I took bottles of water to a guy Cards, each loaded with in a wheelchair who couldn’t NZ$500, to affected households. leave his house. I visited a The project was developed in woman in her 70s, and there partnership with Westpac Bank. were blankets under her dining The use of the Care Card is at room table – that was where she the discretion of recipients, but was sleeping.