New Frontier Chronicle vol. 32 no. 04

General’s Easter message 3

She Is campaign 10

Music for veterans 7

Transitional living 8

A tradition of inclusion 5

NEW FRONTIER APRIL 2014 Volume 32, Number 4

INSIDE this issue: Golden Diners

In Chicago, The Salvation Army delivers meals to homebound seniors and their pets.

DINERS PAGE 4

Kenya drought

As 400,000 people face starvation in drought-stricken Turkana, The Salvation Army aims to help.

TURKANA PAGE 12

Accreditation renewed at CFOT

We are going to return to who we are and what we are about.’

—MAJOR MARK NELSON

ARC GETS BACK TO BASICS

A-Game

Sacramento’s Project A-Game is a new video game design club for middle school students interested in careers in the gaming industry.

GAME PAGE 14

Boundless

The 2015 Congress team explores the history, meaning and plans for the international event.

CONGRESS PAGE 17

Added element takes on problem gambling

BY KEVIN JACKSON, MAJOR

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fter a two-year effort from staff, cadets, employees and members of Crestmont Council, the Western Territory Crestmont College for Officer Training (CFOT) received its accreditation from the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC), valid through 2019.

“This is one of the proudest accomplishments of my tenure as training principal,” said Major Tim Foley, CFOT training principal. “I am thrilled that all of our hard work and concentrated effort have paid off with this achievement.”

The college voluntarily seeks accreditation to strengthen the quality of its programs and ensure that its graduates receive transferable academic credits in the form of an associate degree. This degree allows graduating cadets to gain further educational training from accredited colleges and prepares them for leadership positions in The Salvation Army.

College staff engaged in a comprehensive evaluation addressing four major standards: institutional mission and effectiveness, student learning programs and services, leader-

The work that went into our accreditation renewal was amazing, but is only a fraction of the work that goes on around here every day.’

—MAJOR CLAY GARDNER ship and governance, and resources. Last year, the college prepared a 319-page report detailing progress in meeting recommendations from the last formal review in October 2013.

Part of the recommendations included a need for ongoing faculty training in outcomes assessment related to spiritual formation and character, investigation of a new computerized ACCREDITATION PAGE 4

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he Western Territory’s Adult Rehabilitation Center (ARC) Command is adapting its approach to the recovery program by going back to the basics.

The ARC implemented a standardized curriculum for use with all beneficiaries in programs across the West several years ago. The curriculum, a customized journaling-based program, is client-centered in its approach. It puts the beneficiary at the center of his or her own recovery, and the outcomes are highly measurable.

“We are going to return to who we are and what we are about,” said Major Mark Nelson, general secretary for the ARC Command. “The curriculum is the basis of our recovery program, which is educational in nature. It is an experiential process in which the beneficiary participates.”

Stepping away from a group therapy approach, the ARC is returning to the fundamentals of the Alcoholics Anonymous “Big Book,” a 12-step alcohol recovery model.

In addition to its other recovery work, the ARC will now include gambling, a “process addiction.”

Dr. Gary Lange, a consultant to the ARC Command, recently trained BASICS PAGE 8

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ON THE CORNER

BY BOB DOCTER

BE MINDFUL OF TODAY There’s a new day coming with a promise of magnificent grandeur; The sun will rise, and with it,

the night sky’s deep hue becomes an azure of delight; Soft clouds circulate playfully across the heavens; The snow is gone and with it the cold,

heavy slush of its lasting contempt disappears; The pelting rain no longer bites our

naked depth, but falls gently among infant plants of a new come spring; The mood of permanent never endingness that permeates our souls in winter’s chill dissipates in the warmth of an Easter morning.

There is a promise to be seized, a transformation to be achieved. We must always remember our individual responsibility to breathe life into the gifts God has given us and to his son, who gave the most powerful gift of all, his life. Where would we be without grace? How would we live without love? Could we continue to exist without hope? Can you imagine life without joy?

The first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox often falls in April.

It announces Easter. It speaks of today and tomorrow and tells us to forget yesterday.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. The irretrievable past is dead and gone, only a history to learn from— never a place in which to live.

Easter speaks of new life, new hope, new ideas, new directions, new energy.

The grief following the death of yesterday dissipates and disappears to be resurrected in the hope of tomorrow’s arrival.

Some seem to choose to live as if yesterday was today, refusing to believe that what once was is no more. They carry its burden.

It drains their strength. They walk through life with back bowed and head down, too exhausted to sing April’s song. They deny its beauty and vitality and choose to live with a dead yesterday.

Some seem locked into the cacophony of yesterday, deaf to the promise of tomorrow.

They fall back on old habit patterns to rescue them from the insecurities of the unknown tomorrow. They seem unwilling to cope with the demands of the new and, sensing stress and threat, enter either a “fight or flight” mode. They resist the present physically and emotionally. They deny hope. They flee to safer, more predictable surroundings and pursuits. For some, this is a retreat to addiction. For others it’s a rejection of anything new that might challenge the wisdom and validity of the “tried and true.”

April’s song is new.

I speak of new cities and new people I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

I tell you yesterday is a wind gone down, A sun dropped in the west.

I tell you there is nothing in the world Only an ocean of tomorrows, A sky of tomorrows.

(Carl Sandburg) Some institutions, organizations, and establishments have existed for centuries.

They have assembled systems and traditions which proved beneficial in their yesterdays. They often tinker with change, but rarely move beyond “first order” change.

The system itself remains, for the most part, unchanged. Thus, yesterday’s lack of fit in today’s world leaves the institution unimproved and deteriorating.

I tell you yesterday … A sun dropped in the west.

Who speaks for the poor? On the issue of advocacy, I sometimes feel as if The Salvation Army seems to exist trying to hold the night back, living in yesterday’s world.

Sometimes, we seem invisible on important subjects. Who shouts the warnings?

In a speech at the recent National Social Services and Disaster Management Conference, Candy Hill, executive vice president of social policy and external affairs for Catholic Charities USA, spoke of the importance of advocacy within Con-

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

...I write to encourage you to

SO MANY GOOD ARTICLES This is the first time I have seen this excellent publication. The article on the neurofeedback study shows that this method has a good track record for reducing panic attacks and depression. The statistics on PTSD occurrences are startling and impressive. I pray for the success of the project, which will improve the quality of life for our brave veterans.

I patted myself on the back after seeing the article “50 Books Every Salvationist Should Read” checking off many of them. It was a very useful, eclectic list for every Christian, not just Salvation Army personnel.

One minor complaint was the article about e-waste recycling. I wish the author had given a website that identified all the donation centers. Perhaps a future article could explain the logistics of recycling electronics, and indicate whether standard donation methods (manned stations near thrift stores or curbside pickup) will work. It is a worthy goal to keep usable items from ending up in landfills.

There were so many good articles in this newspaper! Hats off to the editors and contributors. It further convinces us that The Salvation Army is the best target for our donations. They go to people who can truly benefit. The efforts and achievements of the Army are incredible.

Katherine Poehlmann Torrance, Calif.

Editor’s note: In California, every Family Store donation drop off site accepts e-waste. In other areas, check with the local store.

continue the good work of

‘GREEN’ MINISTRY What wonderful stories of ‘green’ ministry in your territory! Your readers might be interested in knowing that last year the Canada & Bermuda Territory distributed a Green Toolkit to every ministry unit and launched a companion website at wegogreen.ca. It includes resources for study, worship, discussion and practice, and allows people to share their stories as well as access the different resources.

Sharon Jones-Ryan The Salvation Army Ethics Centre Winnipeg, Canada SHARING CONTENT I just wanted to say how much I’m enjoying New Frontier Chronicle. An excellent publication that we’re also enjoying sharing content from on our social media platforms from time to time.

Every blessing on your and your staff’s important ministry.

Christina Tyson, Major Territorial Communications Secretary and War Cry Editor The Salvation Army New Zealand, Fiji & Tonga Territory LETTERS PAGE 15

gress. Her organization believes it is vital.

She said they have several lawyers and a number of lobbyists speaking to representatives on crucial issues facing the poor, writing proposed legislation.

I think we have one officer at NHQ with multiple responsibilities tasked with the same duties.

My Easters, now, are measured in smaller numbers, but I will continue to be mindful of today.

How about you?|NFC

PEOPLE COUNT IN THE WEST Decisions for Christ

Worship attendance 109,631 Became members People helped

1,296 888,727

People referred

1,879

Data for March 2014 See more at peoplecountusw.org.

showing Christian love to everyone who comes to us with need...’

An open letter to the Western Territory Dear Loved Ones: Today I write to encourage you to continue the good work of showing Christian love to everyone who comes to us with need, as described in our international mission statement: “The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian Church. Its message is based on the Bible. Its ministry is motivated by the love of God. Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.”

This statement comes to us directly from the passage in Scriptures where Jesus was asked which is the most important of all the commandments. “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these” (Mark 12:2931).

Without a doubt, there have been times when—as individuals—we may have missed the mark and neglected to show Christ’s love to all. Though people of sincere faith may disagree on how they believe God calls us to respond in every situation, we certainly agree that Christ’s love is for everybody.

Thankfully, our ministry to people in spiritual and physical need will give us plenty of future opportunities to offer love and care without reservation.

If you have recommendations or ideas about how we can better demonstrate our commitment to caring for all in need through our programs and services, please let me know.

We pray for you and your ministry and for the work God calls The Salvation Army to do.

Thank you and God bless you.

Sincerely, Jim James M. Knaggs, Commissioner

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THERE IS SALVATION IN NO OTHER The General’s Easter message

BY ANDRÉ COX, GENERAL

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t Easter, in remembering the death and bodily resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, we celebrate a most important event within the Church calendar. This event is significant for, in witnessing to the fact that Jesus did not remain in the tomb but rose from the dead, it points to the promise that one day we too can thereby rise to eternal life. It is important to recognize that while we reside upon this earth in physical bodies, we are also spiritual beings intended to live for eternity.

In too many places across the globe, a resolute turning to materialism has led to an unhealthy exclusion of those other key elements required for men and women to know deep and lasting satisfaction. Materialism can never address the deepest longings of our heart, and this superficial feature of too many societies around the world is simply incapable of giving true joy and freedom. Life is more than the accumulation of possessions and many individuals today, despite owning so much, remain unsatisfied.

Some do earnestly seek after the point of and purpose for life, and also desire an assurance that there is indeed “something” after death. Too often, though, people look in the wrong place— how many readily consult horoscopes in an ultimately fruitless attempt to understand present unknowns, or gain a form of security for a sometimes daunting future?

My attention was recently arrested while reading Tim Leberecht’s [chief marketing officer of NBBJ, a global architecture, planning and design firm] comment: “We live in times of major uncertainty. The doom and gloom of the economic crisis, the deterioration of mass markets, the pervasiveness of the digital lifestyle, and the fragmentation of traditional societal institutions are not only inducing anxiety but also inspiring a search for simplicity and noneconomic value systems. Consumption-driven wealth and status are being replaced by identity, belonging, and a strong desire to contribute to—or to experience—something ‘meaningful’ rather than to acquire more things.”

The Bible, of course, does address the most fundamental needs of and questions from humanity. It speaks to us about the purpose of our lives. It speaks to us about our destiny. It speaks to us about our eternal future being made secure.

It is only as we carefully read the Bible, as we diligently study it, as we meditate prayerfully on it, that we begin to appreciate the true fullness of life that can be ours if we will but reach out and grasp it.

In the book of Acts we find an account of two apostles, Peter and John, being hauled before the Sanhedrin after they had healed a crippled man.

Peter, inspired by the Holy Spirit, made this bold statement: “If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a cripple and are asked how he was healed, then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. He is ‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the capstone.’ Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:9-12 NIV).

There is nothing more important in this life than for us to discover the truth that indeed, salvation is found in no one else. The Christian message is unique, because this message is not merely about a set of doctrines and beliefs. It is not about religion. Rather it is about the living man, Jesus Christ. We celebrate a risen Lord and Savior. In him alone we find peace, joy, and assurance regarding our eternal future. May this be your personal and daily experience! |NFC

Why not give up your time?

AT THE HEART OF LENT

BY ANNETTE BAUER While getting ready for work on Ash Wednesday, my husband said, “I think I want to give something up for Lent this year.” I said that instead of giving something up, we should do something that makes an impact for others once a week— something that “costs” us something in time, talent, or money. He thought that was a better idea but wondered what.

Dangerous thing for him to say to a woman who works for The Salvation Army.

I looked serious and underwhelmed externally, but ecstatic internally as I said, “Well, we could volunteer at the local food shelf, or call the church to find out if someone needs help with transportation to the grocery store; I am sure I can find something.”

He left for work oblivious to the explosion of ideas inside my head.

At church on Sunday, it was easy to set the pace of charitable endeavors as I grabbed several spots on the Meals on Wheels delivery schedule. From there it was a call to the local nursing home to volunteer and a change in travel plans to accommodate a gift to the local food shelf. Feeling emboldened and excited, I sat down with a pen and paper to get serious on a list of daily good deeds.

It was at this point my husband realized what he had gotten into and said, “I thought we were doing something once a week?”

Since we had both just finished reading C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity, I had a pretty good idea where this discussion would end. From the perspective of a previous atheist, Lewis describes the expectations of Christian behavior.

From the naturally kind person to the one predisposed to crankiness, much is expected and much can be accomplished through faith. Faith in action is tremendously important. As Lewis says, in one sense it is right that the world can in part “judge Christianity by its results.” There-

fore my interest in daily good deeds is that by action, we become more selfless and more Christ-like.

In deciding to observe Lent, let’s not give up something but let’s give something—at a cost.

Please don’t misunderstand. I am not advocating a casual disregard for penance. My argument is that giving up something helps me to understand the sacrifice and healing of the cross.

A recent Barna Group poll said that 31 percent of Christians intend to give up social media for Lent, and giving up chocolate is a close second in self-denial preferences. For those of you whose abstaining from a favorite indulgence helps you to say no to self-interest and focus on others, well then, I applaud that course of action.

The history of Lenten observation is based in action, rather than inaction. The 40 days prior to the Christian celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ is historically a time to reflect and prepare for the fundamental element of the faith. Christ’s bodily resurrection for the forgiveness of sin. It is what makes Christianity, well, Christianity. Along with reflection, Lent for early Christians was a time of extended fasting, in part to identify with Christ’s 40 days of fasting in the desert. Fast forward to the 21st century, 40 days of fasting and prayer has become giving up chocolate and social media.

Now that I have hurt some sensibilities and offended your sincerity, I will repeat that I am not judging your heart.

How you deny self and self-sacrifice in love is your affair, because that is what I believe the reflection of Christ’s sacrifice means.

As C.S. Lewis puts it, “A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world—and might even be more difficult to save. For mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people even here and now and will in the end improve them to a degree we cannot yet imagine.” |NFC

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Meal delivery helps seniors and their pets

Golden Diners

BY MAUREEN McGREEVY

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Pet owners love their pets—so much that they spent over $53 billion on them in 2012 in the U.S. However, many are burdened by these costs, while others are homebound and unable to make regular visits to the pet store.

The Salvation Army Chicago Metropolitan Division identified these issues in seniors enrolled in its Golden Diners nutrition program and began making quarterly pet food deliveries to their homes.

Golden Diners staff and volunteers deliver hot meals to 875 seniors a day throughout Kane and McHenry Counties. Clients are encouraged to make a voluntary donation but anyone can enroll, regardless of contribution.

Major Ken Nicolai, Golden Diners administrator, said seniors typically become homebound due to a health-related illness. As they age, those living alone often have difficulty preparing meals, and those with lower incomes are apt to skip meals altogether due to high food costs. According to Nicolai, several Golden Diners volunteers discovered that some seniors were sharing their delivered meals with their pets.

“That caused us concern because we only deliver one meal a day and the seniors need that nutrition,” Nicolai said. “Our seniors are at risk of malnutrition, Some are already malnourished. We want to make sure they’re eating the full amount of nutrition that’s being delivered to them.”

Nicolai applied for a grant through PetSmart to fund pet food deliveries for seniors in Golden Diners, but quickly realized a need for alternate funding after over 100 requests for the service. Golden Diners then partnered with nonprofit RunFurShelter, which held a pet food drive April 6 and will host its fourth annual 5K walk/run on May 18 in South Elgin, Ill. All proceeds from the 5K will be used by Golden Diners to purchase pet food and veterinary care. RunFurShelter raised over $28,000 last year to help area animals in need and aims to help Golden Diners increase to monthly deliveries.

“Some people ask, ‘Why are you doing this?’” Nicolai said. “At Golden Diners, our mission is to help homebound seniors stay in their homes and it’s also to help make sure they don’t become isolated. Pets are one good

Geniveve Gwartney and her poodle BJ both benefit from Golden Diners.

way for a senior to prevent isolation, because that pet becomes like a companion to them and keeps them alert. They have conversations with that pet and they bond with that pet.”

A study reported in the Medical Journal of Australia even found that pet owners generally have lower blood pressure, triglycerides, and cholesterol levels than non-pet owners.

For longtime Golden Diners enrollee Geniveve Gwartney, the program’s pet care service was a welcome addition.

Gwartney lost most of her family, so now her closest family are her pets. Gwartney is homebound, except for the occasional trip to the store or doctor, and spends the majority of her time with her three cats and BJ, an 8-year-old toy poodle, who was a gift from her granddaughter.

“I couldn’t live without them, especially BJ, who is so much company to me,” she said. “He is more company to me than people are.”|NFC

|Photo by Maureen McGreevy

PET OWNERS SPENT $53.33 BILLION ON PET CARE IN 2012 IN THE U.S. Here’s a breakdown of where it went: Food

$20.64 billion

Supplies/OTC medicine Veterinary care

Live animal purchases

$12.65 billion $13.67 billion

$2.21 billion

Pet services: grooming and boarding $4.16 billion Source: American Pet Products Association (APPA)

PET OWNERSHIP in the U.S. has more than tripled from the 1970s, when approximately 67 million households had pets, to 2012, when there were 164 million owned pets.

In 2012, 62 percent of American households included at least one pet. (U.S. Humane Society)

ACCREDITATION

INCOMING CADET ENROLLMENT (FIRST YEAR SESSION)

INCOMING CADET ENROLLMENT (FIRST YEAR SESSION) BY DIVISION

Source: College for Officer Training at Crestmont

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operating system for the library, improvements in communication between employees and officers, converting informal practices into written procedures and policies as well as cataloguing revisions to clarify requirements, hours required for graduation, developmental and course credits. These recommendations will all need to be addressed by the mid-term report due in 2016.

A team of 11 professional peers and a federal observer accompanied by an ACCJC staff member visited the campus from Oct. 21-24, 2013. On Jan. 6-8, the ACCJC Commission Board met to review the report and team evaluation, and subsequently formalized the affirmation.

“The work that went into our accreditation renewal was amazing, but is only a fraction of the work that goes on around here every day,” said Major Clay Gardner, CFOT personnel officer. “We have an amazing staff, officers and employees working together to train the next generation of leaders.”

Crestmont Council members and CFOT cadets, officers and employees celebrated the accreditation at a reception hosted by CFOT leaders with remarks by Major Tim Foley, Council Chair William B. Flinn, and prayer by Chief Secretary Colonel David Hudson.

First-year cadet and session president Cadet Kelsey Pearce said, “I count it a privilege to be a part of an institution where the bottom line is excellence.”|NFC

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he Salvation Army has a long and storied tradition of inclusion. From our earliest days we not only welcomed anyone through our doors, but many of our earliest converts went on to become the lifelong soldiers and officers who spread the word and work of The Salvation Army throughout the world. Most of these early Salvationists came from the margins of Victorian society, individuals ostracized by established societal norms of the era. The precedent of welcoming all and assimilating anyone who desired into the organization was simply part and parcel to the early Salvation Army.

When considering the inclusion issue and religion today, one of the ways it is primarily contextualized is in reference to the relationship between the LGBT community and the Christian Church. Within most major denominations in the United States, organized Christianity is grappling with the issue of human sexuality. What is the relationship between an individual who self-identifies as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) and the Christian faith?

Pew Research Center research indicates that 92 percent of LGBT adults generally express that society has become more accepting of them in the last decade. Although 73 percent of these LGBT adults also feel as if Evangelical Christianity is unwelcoming toward them, with similar published attitudes reflected in Catholicism and other forms of the Christian faith. The research is comprehensive and provides a wide spectrum of conclusions, including that tension remains between organized religion and the LGBT community in the U.S. The Salvation Army is no different from any other religious organization in terms of grappling with the inclusion issue, as seen in Commissioner James Knaggs’ recent open letter to all USA Western Territory Salvationists and service providers (reprinted on page 2).

And many in The Salvation Army seek inroads to make the work of The Salvation Army more effective and productive in this area.

Major Steve Yoder, divisional secretary for the Wisconsin and Upper Michigan Division of The Salvation Army, was challenged by and inspired to respond to the sentiments expressed by the LGBT community. Several years

CONTINUING A TRADITION OF INCLUSION

BY KEVIN JACKSON, MAJOR ago, with other Salvationists serving at the Chicago Gay Pride Parade, Yoder spoke to individuals in attendance while passing out candy and bottled water. One individual said, “I thought you hated us?” Yoder said he personally concluded that “I’ll never be defined by hate.” Inclusion for the LGBT in God’s Kingdom became “the most important thing in my ministry,” he said.

Yoder sought involvement at the local level in his community and actively participates at the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center. He participates in all of the community center events. His approach to his vocation is one that has been long used in The Salvation Army—a grassroots involvement on the local community level. He places himself at the heart of the community where need is most apparent.

In his ministry, Yoder is guided by biblical verses which call for doing justice and embracing faithful love. While he

When we see how Jesus interacted with excluded people, we observe something rather remarkable.

He touched them. He ate with them. He included them, without reservation.’

—MAJOR PHILIP DAVISSON

posits a strong biblical basis for his work, he insists his efforts are “not theoretical; it’s about people.” He sees The Salvation Army today as it was in its earliest days. “There is no time for games when so many people are suffering from alienation,” he said. “We need to be making connections on a human level.”

In Yoder’s estimation we need to move beyond the fear over this issue and step beyond the labels we apply to people and “be who we are called by God to be… loving and accepting people.”

Major Philip Davisson, associate dean at The Salvation Army’s Booth University College in Winnipeg, Canada, refers to Jesus’ example when considering the inclusion issue. “When we see how Jesus interacted with excluded people, we observe something rather remarkable,” he said. “He touched them. He ate with them. He included them, without reservation. It wasn’t as if he healed them all and declared them acceptable. It was as if he was redrawing the lines of acceptability and drawing all people in with him.”

For Davisson, the language we use in connecting with the LGBT community is a key concern. Even with good motives in reaching out to the LGBT community, he said, our language can undermine our efforts. He takes issue with the commonly used phrase, “Love the sinner, but hate the sin.” He suspects it is “fraught with all sorts of misunderstanding” as the term “love” is a universally including word while “hate” is a universally excluding type of word.

“We welcome those whom we love and try to love those whom we welcome,” Davisson said. “What we hate, we seek to eliminate or exclude, reject or otherwise usher out the door.”

While we discuss the unanswered questions, we must consider how morality has been taught and practiced within the Christian faith for generations and continue the practical, grassroots ministry that The Salvation Army is called to.

“We can’t or shouldn’t minimize real concerns; they need to be heard and understood,” Davisson said. “But we can and should come to a point where we are prepared to learn a new language and a new way of listening: with respect and the determination to find a shared reality and a way forward together.”|NFC

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IHQ SPARKS ‘GLOBAL CONVERSATION’ Sessions address concerns, collaboration, corruption

BY JARED McKIERNAN

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ow can The Salvation Army serve suffering humanity in the 21st century?

International Headquarters (IHQ) dissected this conundrum into 12 “Global Conversations” at the USA National Social Services and Disaster Management Conference March 24-28 in an effort to drive forward The Salvation Army’s ministries.

Over 275 officers, soldiers and employees from around the world took part in Global Conversation sessions, which included topics from “How can we measure the impact of our work?” to “How can one Army develop comprehensive solutions to international problems?”

Others joined the discussion online and via social media using the hashtag #globalconversation. The 419 online participants spent an average of nearly 90 minutes engaged in interactive dialogue.

One speaker presented a paper on each topic, followed by a few brief responses from a selected panel of delegates. Each session then concluded with a round table discussion of the issue.

“Today The Salvation Army understands that charity and goodwill are simply not enough,” said Colonel Geanette Seymour, director of the International Social Justice Commission, during one session. “Effectiveness for the Army requires that conscience and conviction spur us to social action, where mercy meets the cause of justice in the world; a world where the wealthiest 1 percent have income equivalent to the poorest 60 percent; where more than 1 billion people live on less than $1 per day.”

Colonel Hannelise Tvedt, Netherlands and Czech Republic Territory, relayed concerns from delegates who contended that rotating leadership makes it difficult to engage communities long-term.

“The challenge is that officers and sometimes staff move on after perhaps only two years,” Tvedt said. “Building relationship is a long-term process.”

Colonel Peter Kwenda, Zimbabwe Territory, moderated a session on how to integrate employees into the mission of The Salvation Army. He noted a discrepancy between

principle and practice.

“I have noticed that in many cases we are not engaging employees,” Kwenda said. “In my territory, 99 percent of the board members are officers. If we bring employees into our decision-making, we will more fully engage them. They will be able to be more involved in our mission.”

General André Cox, The Salvation Army’s international leader, issued a stern call for self-evaluation in his response to the 12 sessions. In order to fulfill its mission, Cox said The Salvation Army needs to wholeheartedly address corruption.

“We need to ensure that corruption is banished,” Cox said. “We have to recognize, sadly, that good and evil are present in The Salvation Army. But woe betide any individual found to be corrupt. We are reviewing our procedures. That will include every level of leadership. No one is above the law.”

Whether dealing with finances or children’s safety, Cox recounted the need for transparency and accountability, even if it comes at a cost.

“We don’t need to protect the reputation of The Salvation Army,” Cox said. “We need to do the right thing.”

Several delegates emphasized the need for more partnerships, both internal and external, to increase the impact of their work. Jacquelyn Hadley of The Bridgespan Group, which focuses on global development and organizational transformation, implored leaders of The Salvation Army to “leverage [its] impact,” as in partnerships through the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals and its own Pathway of Hope initiative.

“We are going to have to up our game if we are going to significantly continue to impact community in the days and years ahead,” Cox said. “The impact of our Army can be much greater if we learn to collaborate in

How can The Salvation Army serve suffering humanity in the 21st century?’ strategic partnership.”

“So what now?” asked Major Dean Pallant, Global Conversation coordinator, at the closing plenary session. IHQ required each delegate to submit a 500-word reflection upon returning home, detailing what they learned and plan to apply.

Added Commissioner Gerrit Marseille, international secretary for Program Resources at IHQ: “Let’s keep the conversation going.”

Read the papers and be part of the discussion at salvationarmy.org/ihq/globalconversation.|NFC

MARRIAGE BUILT TO LAST

BY JONATHAN HARVEY, CAPTAIN

Living intentionally, loving biblically

M

y wife and I are in our 22nd year of ministry together and this year will celebrate 20 years of marriage. It would be fair to say that it hasn’t all been roses, but through it all we have maintained a strong commitment to love one another the way Paul reminds us to in 1 Corinthians 13.

Colonel Bruce Harvey conducted our wedding and within the ceremony he reminded us that love must be more than a gushing emotion and that as we change over the years our love for one another, like Christ’s love for us, must remain steadfast. These wise words created a foundation for us that has stood the test of time and periods of pain and hurt in our ministry journey.

We have encountered countless relationships in crisis—married couples, couples living together and even many in serious dating relationships already struggling to find the kind of peace that can be obtained when the relationship is based on some solid principles and a commitment to Christ. These individuals may not be in need of food or utility assistance as many traditionally view the ministry of The Salvation Army. Yet their need is nevertheless real and leaves devastation when relationships fall apart.

Relational dysfunction seems to be reaching an epidemic level, affecting so many couples and families that we were compelled to, in the words

of William Booth, “Do something.” We explored common denominators that consistently cause couples to struggle and then searched for material to help us address them with the consistent flow of people God placed in our lives.

We discovered a number of recurring stumbling blocks for couples both old and young. First, it seemed that often couples enter into relationships with unrealistic expectations of each other. Those expectations are built upon experiences in past relationships with parents, previous marriages and the environments that influenced them. As a result, couples enter relationships with expectations of each other that will never be realized and thus they will never be truly satisfied. We also determined that poor communication was a theme that ran through every challenged relationship along with the inability to effectively resolve conflict to a point where issues are either buried or constantly generating explosive interactions. Fulfilling and healthy intimacy also became a glaring issue as many people express feeling like the relationship does not reach the kind of deep intimacy God intended for us.

Couples have a tendency to build walls

OPINION that ultimately separate them and prevent them from reaching the closeness, unity and abundant joy God intends for us in marriage.

At the Suisun City Kroc Center, we’ve now taught three six-session group courses on a “Marriage Built to Last” and used the material with countless couples.

I have seen relationships transformed as a result. I now see couples thriving in their relationships, better able to communicate, valuing their differences, breaking down the walls that divide them, having realistic and attainable expectations of each other and reaching a deeper level of intimacy.

The class concludes by exploring a couple’s commission. Understanding what God has for a couple to do “together” can project a relationship to a new level of understanding and mutual respect.

The course aims to help couples learn to “live intentionally and love biblically.”

When we live with intentionality our decisions, interactions and gestures reflect God’s desires for healthy relationships and when we love as God commands us to through his Word our level of honor, humility and spiritual intimacy with each other is heightened.|NFC

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Peace in making music Music for Veterans helps vets and families cope following deployment.

BY VIVIAN GATICA

M

usician Vinny Stefanelli wondered about his purpose in life, but it was not until 9/11—when a swarm of young soldiers enlisted in the U.S. military—that he found it.

“I’m not a veteran; I’ve been a musician all my life, but I had to do something. It was driving me crazy,” he said. “So I did the only thing I knew how to do, which was play and teach music. I decided to talk to the Veterans Administration (VA) and offer a program to teach veterans how to play music with the purpose of providing a tool that they could use to find some peace and solitude.”

From this idea, the nonprofit organization Music for Veterans was born in 2011 in Erie, Pa., to help veterans with psychological trauma cope through music.

Stefanelli started reaching veterans through the VA, but was not getting results at first.

“Every time I was about to quit, someone would approach me thanking me for the program,” Stefanelli said. “Things like that that made me realize I couldn’t quit; I get so much back from seeing these veterans take to music and have this camaraderie.”

Music for Veterans began with guitar lessons, and expanded to other instruments as Stefanelli gathered donations of musical instruments.

“Some [vets] come back and they’re either going to college, getting their families back together or trying to find a job— they don’t have money to buy an instrument,” he said. “We knock on doors and ask people for instruments.”

As the program grew, Stefanelli needed more space to teach classes and contacted The Salvation Army Erie Temple’s Major Leslie Walter, a veteran, who agreed to offer classes at the corps.

“By learning to play music, it gives [veterans] direction, purpose, and something to work on in times when they are alone with their thoughts,” Walter said. “I think [this program] gives an avenue for them to concentrate on something other than bad memories.”

The corps also looks for instruments for the program and the local Adult Rehabilitation Center sets aside any instrument donations it receives. Walter plays guitar, and volunteered to teach the beginners class when needed.

Classes are set up by age group or war that the veterans participated in, adding an additional element of unity among participants. The Vietnam veterans meet at the VA center, while the younger group meets at the corps.

“For a lot of these vets, the people they best relate to are veterans,” Walter said.

“Not only does being a veteran give you a common starting place, but loving music does that too.”

Stefanelli said he knows the program is working because of the success stories.

TOP: Vinny Stefanelli gives Doug Bowers, president of Student Veterans Association at Edinboro University guitar lessons. BOTTOM: (l-r) John Chizmar, Vinny Stefanelli and Laura Harper.

“I’ve seen young kids coming back who are in their mid20s, and you can tell the pain is written in their faces of what they’ve gone through, and you can tell that the Vietnam veterans have carried the pain for decades,” he said. “They tell me now that they still wake up in the middle of the night, but when they do they grab an instrument...and play for five to 10 minutes. They’re able to forget, relax and go back to sleep.”

This was the case for John Chizmar, a Vietnam veteran.

“This is a program where you can take your negativity— maybe a night of nightmares or not being able to sleep for a couple of days—and funnel it toward something positive,” Chizmar said. “You get this anxiety building in you, and get the guitar and you play out the feeling that you have; instead of wasting it into the air, you can make a song.”

Chizmar hopes that this program will reach more young veterans that need help.

“We didn’t have this when we came back from Vietnam; we suffered,” he said. “We’ve got to reach out to these younger veterans to let them know that they’re missing out on a good opportunity for a better life.”

Laura Harper was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) a year after returning home from service in Iraq and Afghanistan. While pursuing a degree in counseling, she sought to volunteer in the mental health field and found Music for Veterans in 2013.

“Vinny was not going to let me sit there and help him do things without playing [an instrument],” Harper said. “I was a bit reluctant, but it didn’t take long for [him] to turn me around—thank God for that.”

Pretty soon, Harper went from playing the hand drum to strumming chords and playing full songs on the guitar.

“Some nights I’d be playing, and it didn’t even matter if I knew the chords; it just felt comfortable to have that sort of relief,” Harper said. “It just gave me one more resource—one more thing that I could use in my battle against PTSD.” She was especially excited when she learned a younger group would be meeting at The Salvation Army.

“I think I left the group [that night] and cried just because there was one gentleman in particular and we had both been in similar places,” Harper said. “It was pretty special that in the midst of him sort of helping me out with different chords or us sharing songs that we like...we could talk about the things that we did and stuff that we saw [while deployed].”

With proven impact among veterans, Stefanelli wanted to extend the program to others significantly affected—military kids. “[Many veterans] go away and come back, and they’re different. They’ve seen horrific things in the past month or year, and so they’re living with that,” Stefanelli said. “So the kids look at mom or dad thinking, ‘Why are they so sad? They should be happy to be with us.’ So it affects the whole family.”

Cyndi Treiber, mother of R.J. and Abbie, immediately enrolled her children when the class began.

“Military kids deal with different stressors than regular kids, and I knew that they needed to expand their coping skills and needed something to do to together,” Treiber said. “[The program] is just all around really helping them as people.”

Now that Stefanelli has a program that is working and thriving for veterans and their families in Pennsylvania, he would like to expand it throughout the country.

“Music is a tool,” he said. “There is a great need for this.”|NFC

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ADDICTION EDUCATION WORKSHOPS LAUNCHING ACROSS WEST ARC Command wants corps communities equipped to support recovery

BY DEREK LINSELL Each year The Salvation Army Western Territory dedicates over $150 million to the recovery of addiction in its 23 Adult Rehabilitation Centers (ARC), and now it’s turning to education to further strengthen the success of those in recovery.

ARC beneficiaries learn about the physiological, psychological and spiritual elements of recovery and the path to holistic wellbeing in the six-month residential program. They learn about the short and longterm effects of drugs and alcohol on the brain and the body, and the importance of a strong support network to avoid relapse.

“Education equals empowerment. At the ARC, we are equipping recovering addicts with the skills and knowledge to re-enter society and maintain control of their addiction and subsequent independence,” said Major Man-Hee Chang, the West’s ARC commander. “Yet, often addicts return to environments where those around them aren’t equipped with the same level of knowledge and understanding to support the recovery process.”

And so the Western Territory is launching four training programs to educate members of The Salvation Army on addiction and prevention.

One program targets corps officers and soldiers in a three-hour facilitated workshop about the ARC program, its success rates, and how it differs from mainstream rehabilitation centers. The workshop provides information on the latest drug trends and usage statistics, the nature of addiction, recovery and the challenges that face so many in our community. Beneficiaries speak about their experiences and the dangers of stereotyping, and participants are encouraged to ask questions and share experiences or concerns in dealing with addiction.

The workshop covers barriers to corps integration, and methods for initiating and maintaining constructive relationships with beneficiaries. Corps members learn that some helping behaviors can be detrimental to the recovery process of an addict, and discuss alter-

native methods for providing support, particularly listening and connections to employment and housing.

The second education program is a two-hour workshop for family members and friends of those dealing with addiction. It introduces The Salvation Army and the ARC, so participants can better understand the spiritual journey of recovery and allows an opportunity to meet others who are going through a similar experience. Participants can voice concerns, express anger, share fears and offer support. Some time is spent learning about the nature of addiction and recovery, yet the focus is more targeted toward rebuilding relationships, the dangers of enabling, and the importance of being able to detect signs of relapse.

Programs three and four target young people.

“As Christians, we must never be naive about equipping our children to face the evils of our world,” said Major Isobel Robinson, who attended the pilot workshop for teens. “After all, Jesus told us in the Gospel of Matthew that in the world we should, “be as shrewd as serpents and as innocent as doves” [10:16]. This teaching tool is an excellent means for helping teens present a defense to the drug culture that saturates every level of today’s society.”

One workshop for ages 14-17, explores the different drug types and their effect on the teenage brain. The facilitator guides discussion around the dangers of binge drinking and illicit drug use, including prescription medications. Teens are prompted to think about the social pressures that young people experience related to drug and alcohol use. As a group, participants explore ways to combat peer pressure and make healthy, informed decisions.

And finally, a workshop for those 18-12 also looks at different drug types, statistics regarding usage and dangers to the developing brain. In addition, this workshop examines the dangers associated with driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

Pilot workshops took place between April and November 2013. Over the next six months, corps in the Western Territory will begin offering them.

If you are a corps officer interested in being accredited in this training, contact info@apricotconsulting.us.|NFC

Heroin use seeing uptick in ARC The Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center (ARC) focuses on the recovery of addiction, including from substance abuse. While methamphetamines and alcohol are the most commonly abused substances, respectively, among beneficiaries, heroin is on the rise.

A 2012 survey by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found that about 669,000 people over age 12 had used heroin at some point in the year. About 156,000 of those werefirst-time users, and roughly 467,000 were considered heroin-dependent—more than double the number in 2002.

At the Riverside County ARC in Perris, Calif., a 2009 study of 670 beneficiaries reported the primary substance of abuse at 3 percent heroin and 1 percent other opiates, according to Avery Chamlis, director of rehabilitation services. This March, out of 734 beneficiaries in six cities, 24 percent of the population listed opiates like heroin as a primary substance of abuse.

“Part of the problem is the widespread use of opiate prescription medications,” Chamlis said. “When the government tries to tighten the prescribing of opiate medications there is an increase in heroin use.”

The ARC teaches an abstinence-based chronic disease model in treating addiction.

“By this we mean that abstinence from all drugs

including alcohol is the only way for [beneficiaries] to stay on track,” Chamlis said. “By chronic we mean that there is no time in the recovering person’s life that drug or alcohol use can be safely resumed.”

As part of its program, the ARC presents the Gospel message.

“We know that without God they cannot stay clean, and without staying clean they cannot serve God,” Chamlis said. “So the two go together to make a strong program of recovery.”|NFC

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program staff on problem gambling and demonstrated how gambling addiction affects the same part of the human brain as drug and alcohol addiction.

“Gamblers have the highest rate of suicide among all groups, the majority of gambling activities are done illegally, and 30 percent of people with drug and alcohol addictions have gambling addiction as well,” Lange said. “In terms of actual people, 6 million adults and 500,000 teens meet the criteria for gambling addiction.”

Across the West, 24 ARCs serve 7,500 people recovering from addiction each year. On average, 2,500 people complete the program.|NFC

Corps builds connection between ARC beneficiaries and congregation

BY CHADWICK PHILLIPS

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n an attempt to facilitate the healing process for people in recovery, and bridge the gap between the Adult Rehabilitation Center (ARC) and the corps, the Pasadena Tabernacle Corps recently rented a property that serves as a transitional living house for ARC alumni.

“The Pasadena Tabernacle transitional living house is a stepdown facility from the intensive ARC six-month program that the residents were in,” said Pat Riley, director of social services, who helps maintain the house and look after the residents. “Our goal is to successfully reintegrate the client into society, keep them in a safe environment, develop and further their relationship with Jesus Christ, and develop relationships with outside 12-step meetings to continue their personal recovery.”

Opened to residents in December 2013, the Pasadena Tabernacle transitional living house is one of the first transitional homes that is operated by a corps in working with an ARC. ARC alumni who live in the house can walk to the corps for regular worship and other events. Although they are required to attend certain events, many residents voluntarily interact with the corps by participating in weekly Bible study groups, Christian 12-step meetings, and social events.

“It’s not that I have to go, I want to go,” said Scott Price, an ARC graduate and resident of the Pasadena transitional living home. “I am a five-minute walk away, and to me, it is critical living close to the Tabernacle because my life focuses so much around it.”

Price graduated from the ARC in December 2013 and immediately moved into the house.

“I lost everything due to my addiction and made one bad decision and ended up in prison for six years. I got out of prison, lost with no home and on top of that, my alcoholism raised its hateful head after a six year remission. I was struggling,” Price said. “An angel rescued me and took me to The Salvation Army ARC. I owe The Salvation Army my life and intend on spending the rest of my life paying them back.”

Living in the house is a not only a necessity for Price, but part of his recovery. He jokes about doing most of the cooking in the house, but states how proud he is of how sober the residents remain.

The house is currently home to four residents and a resident manager. Applications are currently under consideration for one more resident. Under the city ordinance, up to six unrelated residents may reside under one roof.

“For this facility, that is the perfect amount,” Riley said. “I think it is a nice, comfortable place and the residents here have made an atmosphere where it actually is a home, not just a transitional living house.”

Residents pay a security deposit, and monthly rent plus a fee to cover the cable television, telephone, and cleaning supplies. It is low-cost living in a high-income area.

Members of the corps donated a number of items for the house including towels, bedding, utensils, and the television.

“The congregation and the residents work and play together well,” Riley said. “Each individual in recovery has to have a sponsor. But one of the other things we are looking at doing is getting a spiritual mentor from the corps for them as well.”

Major Bill Nottle, officer care and development secretary, works as a liaison between the ARC and corps by merging the programming aspects and connecting with ARC graduates in the area, encouraging them to make the Pasadena Tabernacle their church home.

“I think it helps graduates get into a new lifestyle rather than getting into their old lifestyle, which creates a lot of their problems,” Nottle said. “The longer we have them, the greater success can take place. There is a three-prong thing. One is integration into the corps. The second thing they need is safe housing. And the third thing, which we are trying to work on, is jobs.”

Ongoing employment is one of the keys to maintaining sobriety for most addicts. It provides a sense of purpose, makes one accountable, provides routine, and also boosts self-esteem. Steady employment is also essential to the success of Salvation Army sober living facilities, as residents must pay rent.

“It has always bothered me that there hasn’t been a post grad program,” Price said. “Having a job is a critical part of recovery.”

The ARC allows beneficiaries the option to leave the facility one day a week in order to look for employment. Many, however,

ABOVE: (l-r) Director of Social Services Pat Riley, Scott Price, and Business Administrator Jody Davis BELOW: Pasadena Tabernacle transitional living house resident Scott Price works from home as a web developer

HOUSE OF CONTINUED RECOVERY OPEN IN PASADENA spend a lot of time searching online.

“I personally visit the ARC several times a week for meetings I run, including resume writing,” Price said. “I currently write the resumes for everyone graduating, if they ask.

No fee, just part of my program. I have an education and a trade, so for me, I had a job before I graduated. Most jobs for ARC grads start at minimum wage to $11 an hour. That is enough money to live in sober living homes, but not much more.”

Unfortunately, finding and maintaining regular employment has proven challenging for a great number of ARC alumni. Many feel disadvantaged due to their past.

“A lot of people who are in the ARC have some sort of history with the correctional system, and it is very hard to get employed that way,” Riley said. “Jobs by far is the biggest drawback for our clients. We have had clients who have had jobs and lost jobs, but stayed around; they didn’t leave and they didn’t go out and use...from my perspective, that is success.”

Price says that he is currently working with the ARC program director to teach both computer and resume writing classes. “This would give a novice computer user more knowledge on how to operate and use basic programs such as Word and Excel,” he said.

The Pasadena Tabernacle Corps is now looking into opening a second transitional living house, but the directors are taking their time to see how the current house runs.

Jody Davis, the corps’ business administrator and a retired police officer, saw in his previous profession that that recidivism rate for those who have been incarcerated was about 80 percent due to their returning to the same environment.

“We saw the same thing happening within the people graduating from the ARC,” Davis said. “They would have no place to go but right back into that environment that brought them there. So, the transitional living house was that opportunity to help continue to break that cycle so that they had someplace to go where they were safe and they could continue their recovery.”

Riley’s ultimate goal is for the transitional living home to be monetarily supported enough that when a resident leaves, he or she will be given 50 percent of paid rent back to go toward a down payment on an apartment and other costs of independent living.

“We want to see these people succeed,” Riley said. “We don’t want to see these people come back to the ARC, except as alumni.”|NFC

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Gender equality is the focus.

BY FAYE MICHELSON

‘S

he Is’ is a Salvation Army gender inequality awareness project supported by the Australian Government that aims to promote understanding and knowledge on how this inequality affects women and girls, particularly in developing countries.

An interactive website presents the facts about gender inequality and its impact on women. Supported by social media, it is expected the project will help inform up to 550,000 Australians about this complex issue.

She Is uses six banners to represent some of the characteristics of womanhood from life and freedom, to power, beauty and wisdom. Related issues are then discussed, including gendercide, maternal mortality, human trafficking and child marriage, lack of voting rights, victims of violence and genital mutilation, poverty and lack of educational opportunities.

“It was an emotional journey researching this project,” said Betsy Pineda, communications and marketing coordinator for The Salvation Army International Development Office (SAID).

“Around the world, women struggle, not just for their next meal, but for their right to be born, to be safe from violence, to have access to healthcare, to be educated, to be paid a fair wage for their labor and to participate in the decisions that affect them.”

The project focuses on the UN Millennium Development Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women.

In doing so, it provides not just statistics, but also a collection of inspiring stories of women and girls who have gone from victims to victors.

“The website emphasizes the impact of providing opportunities to females and the potential of women and girls to radically transform the world if given equal opportunities,” Pineda said.

The site outlines what The Salvation Army is doing around the world to tackle gender inequality on issues like human trafficking and illiteracy. Snapshots of international aid and development proj-

SHE IS CAMPAIGN HEIGHTENS AWARENESS Women make up more than 70 PERCENT of the world’s poor.

Women and girls make up 76 PERCENT of people trafficked each year.

40 MILLION

women and girls live with the consequences of genital mutilation.

117 MILLION

women go missing each year as a result of sex selection at birth.

SOURCE: unwomen.org.au; UNODC, World Health Organization, UNFPA

ects provide moving accounts of lives rescued, showing the change that happens in lives and communities when women are empowered.

For girls and young women who have been rescued from trafficking or who are at risk of being trafficked, Salvation Army projects such as the Kweto and Mbagala homes in Tanzania provide refuge and a future.

Anastasia, a 17-year-old orphan staying at Kweto, was rescued from domestic servitude.

She had worked long days for a family without ever receiving a salary, often going without food or shelter. When she ran away to another domestic position, she was sexually exploited.

She received counseling at Kweto and is now enrolled in a hotel management course; she says she has been rescued from a hopeless past.

For poverty-stricken women like Laxmi, from Nepal, The Salvation Army offers independence through employment opportunities.

“My parents died when I was a small child.

We struggled to survive living in immense poverty,” Laxmi said. “I have a cleft palate which gives me speech problems and I was not edu-

cated; I could not find myself any job.” She attended tailoring and English classes with the Army, and was given a sewing machine at the end of the course.

“Now, wherever I live, I have my own dignity because I can do something to earn money,” Laxmi said. “I am happy and finally I started to have some hope.

This message of hope is one of the important aspects of She Is. “Through the project, people will gain an increased understanding about how small opportunities can dramatically transform a woman’s life and her family’s,” Pineda said. “Educating women about good health means that very quickly they will pass good health practices on to their families, resulting in much healthier communities. It enables women to take the lead in changing practices, giving them solid education to inform their families. It recognizes and supports the role that women play in communities.”

See more at sheis.org.au.|NFC

The commissioned anti-human trafficking national contact persons with members of the European Network of Leaders of Social Services (ENSS) anti-human trafficking task force | Photo courtesy of ENSS

EUROPE MAKES CONCENTRATED EFFORT TO THWART TRAFFICKING

BY JEROEN HOOGTEIJLING With a ministry in 126 nations, The Salvation Army plays an active role in source, transit and destination countries to fight modern day slavery and exploitation and to support victims.

The European Network of Leaders of Social Services (ENSS) set anti-human trafficking as its priority, and launched a Euro-

pean anti-human trafficking response in October 2013 in Budapest with the commissioning of 32 national contact persons.

Supported by territorial or national anti-human trafficking task forces, the contact persons are dedicated to the prevention of trafficking by education and awareness, protection of victims through outreach programs and

safe houses, and reintegration of victims to their communities and families.

The network seeks to effectively respond to the needs of victims of trafficking through a united and coordinated approach—including corps, women’s ministries, social services, international development, and family tracing departments—across international borders. The contact persons work in direct communication with each other.

As one contact person, Christine Tursi from Switzerland, said, “Traffickers are good at networking; we must be better.”

This European anti-human trafficking network is involved with European Union lobby, TRAFFICKING PAGE 13

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Sailing ahead SAWSO leader reflects on visit, work in the Philippines

BY BILL MOCKABEE, LT. COL.

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n my first few days as the new national secretary for the Salvation Army World Service Office (SAWSO), I traveled to the Philippines to meet with the territorial commander and delegates from other Salvation Army offices to discuss the current needs of the Philippines four months after Typhoon Haiyan caused massive destruction to that nation. We visited Tacloban and other areas hit hard by the storm.

I was immediately struck by the resilience of the Filipino people. In the middle of undeniable devastation, I saw signs of it everywhere… children were playing basketball in the debris, and there were hand-made signs, thanking the world for its response. One of my favorites read: “Roofless, homeless… but not hopeless.”

Yet, the clearest sign of hope I saw in the Philippines was a ship.

Blown up onto the shore, it had come to rest against a concrete sidewalk. The front of the massive ship was tied with a rope to a little tree with a sign that reads: “For Sale.” So, they have humor. They also have a bold plan to move this ship back to the sea—a distance of about three city blocks—by hand. Fifteen men are working around the clock, digging underneath the ship, and using block and tackle and rolling boards to make the ship sail upon their shoulders. While they’re doing this, there is another crew aboard the ship, preparing it to sail once it reaches water. They are convinced they’re going to make this happen in just two months.

Though I admit to some doubt when I first saw this, I am now convinced they are going to do it because of faith.

The Philippines experiences 24 typhoons a year. They knew Typhoon Haiyan was coming and they know more are going to come. Even the ship movers are pretty sure people are going to be hurt during their project, because small earth tremors make it very dangerous to be under the hull. But faced with so much reality, they arrive at a place of faith in their own ability to recover.

The Salvation Army, by contrast, starts from a place of faith, and transmutes that love into a concrete reality. We, too, know that the tides turn and turn again, and we want to do more than help people to survive…we want to help them thrive.

In the next few years, we will be working with the Filipinos to help them prepare for future storms. We want to help with new warehouses to store dry goods, with strategically-placed emergency canteen vehicles that can begin immediate service, with seeds for coconut farmers to get back in business and replacement equipment to get fisherman back on the sea, and with community centers to provide service and education programs that will also serve as hubs in times of need. We will also train Filipino Salvation Army personnel to work even more efficiently in disaster response.

The success of these efforts I don’t doubt because I can’t doubt the combined faith of the Filipino people and The Salvation Army.

We are committed to supporting them as they sail their recovery efforts forward. We will pray with them, work hand-in-hand with them and we won’t stop until they reach the open sea, stronger than ever.|NFC

TOP: A Filipino man examines the rolling boards under a massive ship blown ashore during Typhoon Haiyan. Fifteen men are working around the clock, digging underneath the ship, as part of their plan to move the vessel a distance of three city blocks back to the sea in just two months. |Photo by Topher Holland ABOVE: Lt. Col. Bill Mockabee (SAWSO); Major Mike McKee (IES deployee), Major Ray Brown (IES) with the mayor of Dulag during a field visit. |Photo courtesy of International Headquarters

We, too, know that the tides turn and turn again, and we want to do more than help people to survive…we want to help them thrive.’

—LT. COL. BILL MOCKABEE

THE PHILIPPINES TERRITORY hosted a conference as the immediate emergency response to Typhoon Haiyan came to a close to discuss how best to transition into early recovery and development.

Hosted by territorial leadership and facilitated by staff from International Headquarters’ Emergency Services and projects and development teams, territorial officers and lay staff from the Philippines attended as well as representatives from Salvation Army donors including the Salvation Army World Service Office (SAWSO) from the USA, and the Australia Eastern, Canada and Bermuda, and Switzerland, Austria and Hungary Territories.

Attendees visited Tacloban, where the group met with local Salvation Army personnel who responded sacrificially during the crisis. The group also spoke with the mayor of the Municipality of Dulag and the head of the cluster group in Tacloban that is responsible for people’s livelihoods.

The plans in development as a result of the partnership conference will assist The Salvation Army in its ongoing response to the disaster.

See more about The Salvation Army’s Typhoon Haiyan response at sar.my/haiyan.

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Hundreds of thousands of people face starvation in Kenya’s northwest region.

|Photo courtesy of Kenya West Territory

KENYA SALVATION ARMY AIDS DROUGHT-STRICKEN TURKANA

BY KAREN GLEASON

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p to 400,000 people face starvation in the drought-stricken Turkana region of northwest Kenya, where for the last five years the rainy season has not provided enough water to maintain grazing lands for livestock.

The region lies within The Salvation Army’s Kenya West Territory, led by Commissioners Kenneth and Jolene Hodder.

“We received reports from our district leaders in Turkana that the food situation there was getting worse by the day,” Jolene

Hodder said. “Drought has left all of the rivers and boreholes as dry as a bone, and people are starving. Animal carcasses litter the landscape, and families have resorted to killing cats and dogs in order to feed the children.”

A recent BBC News report stated that more than 1 million people in the region require food assistance.

For the Turkana people, their pastoralist—or nomadic livestock herding—lifestyle can no longer sustain them. In order to survive, many turned to fishing in Lake Turkana, Kenya’s biggest lake where fish were plentiful 50 years ago. Today, though, the lake is overfished and is one of many areas of armed conflict in Kenya, where tribes—some from neighboring Ethiopia—clash over limited resources.

The Hodders wanted to help and initially proposed sending funds, but they learned that not much was left to buy in Turkana. Next they offered to send a truck filled with foodstuffs, but received warnings that bandits were highjacking food shipments.

The Salvation Army sent the truck, and its driver insisted an officer ride along. It went through all of the barricades and arrived safely at the Turkana Divisional Headquarters. From there, the Army distributed supplies including 40 bags of maize, 15 bags of beans, 32 bags of rice and 376 liters of cooking oil.

“Both of us know that anything we send will only be a temporary fix, but we just don’t know what else to do,” Hodder said.

The drought persists despite the area’s significant oil reserves and massive underground water reservoir that could potentially supply Kenya with water for the next 70 years. According to Hodder, no infrastructure exists to tap into these resources, leaving the region one of the poorest in Africa.

Turkana District Officer Major Peter Masaka said that the government is becoming involved in providing food and water.

“So there is some hope,” Hodder said.

“However, it is not enough.”

For her, the crisis is personal. “What makes this situation even harder for me is that I can put a face to those who are suffering,” she said. “I have great admiration for our soldiers and officers who serve in Turkana day in and day out under these circumstances.”|NFC

New coalition speaks out against rape

Faith leaders fight violence in DRC

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he Salvation Army recently joined other faith leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in a pledge to help eliminate sexual violence in the country.

Spearheaded by the Anglican Church in DRC and U.K. Christian development agency Tearfund, leaders of some of DRC’s major faiths met in the capital city of Kinshasa, committing to take action to prevent sexual violence in a country with high rates of it.

A U.S.-government-backed study by the American Journal of Public Health found no woman in DRC safe from sexual violence, estimating that 400,000 women are raped every year—that’s one woman raped every 90 seconds.

“Women in our country have paid a high price for the instability and cultural attitudes that continue to influence our society,” said the Archbishop of DRC, Most Rev. Henri Isingoma. “We are called to challenge these harmful attitudes and to share the divine message of equality between men and women, for the well being of all.”

Isingoma, together with leaders of the Roman Catholic Church, Orthodox Church, Methodist Church, The Salvation Army and Pentecostal Church launched We Will Speak Out, a new coalition of faith leaders speaking against rape, tackling its root causes, supporting survivors and working to end impunity.

“As people of faith we cannot tolerate the fact that rape is endemic in our society,” said Veena O’Sullivan, head of Tearfund’s Sexual Violence Unit. “We are at our most powerful when we work together to break the silence, to end the pain, and to shatter the stigma faced by survivors of sexual violence.”

Much of the sexual violence occurs in war-torn eastern DRC, perpetrated by rebel group M23.

“Conflict-related sex violence is one of the major obstacles to peace in the DRC,” said Margot Wallström, Swedish politician and former UN special representative for sexual violence in the region.

A Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict is scheduled for June 10-13 in London with U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague and Angelina Jolie, special envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.|NFC

Meeting of victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. |Photo by L. Werchick, USAID

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BRAZIL TERRITORY PREPARES FOR FIFA WORLD CUP Campaign aims to capture the universal energy of sports

BY MEAGAN HAWK

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he FIFA World Cup is the most widely viewed sporting event in the world: 3.2 billion people watched in 2010 when South Africa was the host country. Millions of soccer fanatics are projected to attend the matches this June in Brazil. As soccer teams, fans and the world eagerly anticipate this massive global event, The Salvation Army, too, prepares.

“Sports activities have been part of Salvation Army programming for almost as long as the movement has existed,” said Lt. Colonel David Bowles, sports ministry coordinator in Europe.

“Sport is a universal language,” he said. “The universal passion and impact of this common language is profoundly experienced during major international sporting events.”

Bowles said that the mission of The Salvation Army’s Sports Ministry Department is to capture this universal energy of sports innovatively and intentionally and use it as a tool to bring glory to God through evangelism and Christian discipleship.

Coming together under the banner of International Sports Ministry, Salvation Army mission teams and representatives from Australia, Great Britain, Germany and the U.S. will cover eight of the 12 tournament host cities to work alongside corps and local officers during the games.

Mission teams from the U.S. Western and Central territories will share Jesus with people on the street, in parks and on playing fields. They will also distribute thousands of Rumo magazines (Brazil’s War Cry), printed both in English and Portuguese.

The Australia Eastern Territory team will lead a week-long soccer clinic for at-risk children. The camp will emphasize training, technique and skill, and will include a spiritual application. The Southern California Divisional Youth Band will share its music ministry in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo.

Leading up to the 2014 FIFA World Cup, The Salva-

TRAFFICKING initiates bilateral projects and requests European Union funding. It holds an annual meeting—scheduled this year in Moldova— to provide training and support within the network.

The Salvation Army knows that we cannot end trafficking on our own; we need to partner with other organizations. Above all we need to trust God to bless us with courage to speak out and guidance to open doors, reach victims and gain their trust.

In Greece, national contact person makes and helps friends

BY MARIA KONTI-GALINOU, CAPTAIN Late one evening as I walked in the center of Athens, Greece, in one of the most difficult red light areas, I wondered where to start. In between the crowds, ladies from all around the world pushed around me and made their way to the bars, brothels, streets and hotels.

As I walked my eyes settled on a window in the basement of a block of apartments.

From behind the window bars I saw a lady’s face looking out. I walked toward her, praying for instructions and protection but when I arrived the lady was gone. For the next few

tion Army is holding soccer-concentrated outreach ministries in local parks. The territorial sports ministry task force plans to use this event as a kick off for a permanent sports ministry in every corps.

“One of the major strengths of The Salvation Army is that we shape our ministry to engage with the cultures and communities in which we serve,” Bowles said. “Many people with whom we desire to share Jesus are somehow engaged in sports; it’s a culture we want to impact for Christ.”

Under the leadership of Territorial Commander Commissioner Oscar Sánchez and Chief Secretary Lt. Colonel Douglas Danielson, sports ministry has become a strategic outreach and discipleship strategy within the Brazil Territory.

From the 2014 FIFA World Cup through the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games and into the future, Salvationists in Brazil will continue to intentionally share Jesus and grow disciples in and through sport.|NFC

The Salvation Army raises awareness of FIFA World Cup outreach campaign. | Photos courtesy of Salvation Army International Sports Ministry

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As I talked to her I tried to spot the people who were no doubt guarding her and prayed that God would keep them away for a few minutes while we talked.’ weeks, my eyes and my prayers were especially for the lady I had seen.

One night as I passed the window my heart started beating fast: there she was! I grabbed two coffees and a snack and sat on the steps next to her window. Without looking at her I gave her the coffee and a snack and I asked her in Greek and English not to leave and to trust me. I introduced myself, explaining The Salvation Army logo on my uniform.

As I talked to her I tried to spot the people who were no doubt guarding her and prayed that God would keep them away for a few minutes while we talked.

I didn’t stay for more than five minutes, but I promised her to return after midnight

and asked if she needed any food or clothes.

“Please just bring only yourself,” she said.

The woman—I’ll call her Helena—was 35 years old and came to Greece from the Balkan.

She told me about a place where ladies meet, how the system in the area works, who is who in the streets, how I needed to move, what I need to be careful of. Helena gave me the name of one lady, telling me her age, appearance and the country she was from and begged me to help without mentioning her name.

“It is too late for me but please find her a better life,” she said. “I give my place to her.”

That night I prayed with Helena, and told her that I am by her side and ready to help her as her friend. I told her that she was unique and no one can take her place. “Jesus

took our place for our salvation,” I said.

I went to the place Helena told me about, talked to more than 15 ladies and eventually found her friend—I’ll call her Jane—in a police station cell.

Jane, 18, was from a small Nigerian village. Desperate to escape the conflict and abuse of her home, she trusted a group in her village to find a decent job for her in Europe.

In Greece, with little money and no papers she was an easy target for traffickers, who offered her help reaching Athens. They paid for her bus ticket and onboard she sat next to a lady from the Balkan. They became friends during the eight hour journey, and were locked in an apartment upon arriving in Athens.

One night they found an opportunity to escape but only Jane made it out to the street, running to hide herself in a nearby bar. Police later spotted her and jailed her for not having papers.

As I watched her behind the bars, I knew this was Helena’s friend.

In the next few months one of my first priorities was to visit both and try to help practically, mentally and spiritually. We secured legal help to prepare Jane’s papers and get her released.

Both Helena and Jane have now started.|NFC

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Tempe Corps opens coffee shop near Arizona State University Program emphasizes street evangelism

BY MELANY STROUPE

217 Initiative begins in Long Beach this fall

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empe Corps Officers Lts. Chris and Latisa Ratliff are adding baristas to their job titles with a new youth ministry.

Searching for a way to connect with students at Arizona State University (ASU), they created 1865 Coffee with the slogan “Doing the Roast Good.”

“Our fellowship hall is right off the main drag of the ASU campus,” Latisa Ratliff said. “During the week the fellowship hall lie vacant while thousands of college students and faculty walked by.”

ASU has the largest enrollment of any public university in the country, with close to 60,000 students. The university also has a diverse population with 37 percent of the freshman class from other states or countries.

“Opening a coffee shop gives us the opportunity to share what The Salvation Army is all about to a new generation,” Ratliff said. “We have the perfect location to provide a relaxed and safe environment.”

The 1865 Coffee shop opened to the public March 18. Beverages include coffee, tea and espresso drinks of different flavors ranging $1-3.

“This is a completely new experience for us,” Ratliff said. “We have never worked in a coffee shop before, much less operated one. We are starting out slow. There are two barista on staff as well as a worship leader who is serving as the manager. Our goal is to make just enough money to support the operation

Lts. Chris and Latisa Ratliff with their staff at 1865 coffee |Photo courtesy of Melany Stroupe

DOING THE ‘ROAST’ GOOD and the employees. We hope the coffee shop will help us build a strong college ministry at ASU.” 1865 Coffee is using the Fair Trade coffee sold through the Western Territory Adult Rehabilitation Center (ARC) Command’s “Brewing Hope” campaign. Proceeds from the coffee benefit the community of farmers who grow the beans in Pleiku, Vietnam.

“Our fair trade coffee is just one of the great stories we hope to share with our patrons,” Ratliff said. She said she hopes to establish a strong partnership with the university, and said that the corps has already approached the art program with the possibility of displaying student art at 1865 Coffee.

“We want to build relationships and we hope this sparks interest in The Salvation Army,” Ratliff said. “We believe this ministry has endless opportunities and can be a true blessing to the ASU community.”|NFC

Inspired by Revolution Hawaii, the Hawaiian and Pacific Islands Division youth mission program, the Long Beach Citadel Corps is set to kick off its “217 Initiative” in September.

“The program title is taken from James 2:17, which reminds us that faith without works is dead,” said Lincoln Hawk, program director. “The idea is simple: to select a group of active young adult senior soldiers who will be trained in holistic style ministries to serve Long Beach and surrounding communities in outreach and service style ministries.”

According to Corps Officer Captain Moy Hernandez, Jr., the goal is to build relationships with individuals and neighborhoods through acts of kindness and care.

The team will live in Long Beach and spend its days training and preparing for street ministry with an emphasis on reaching entire families, local schools and colleges and connecting them back to the corps. In addition, they will be involved in corps activities in order to help bridge any contacts they may make while on the streets with existing programs.

“What we are trying to do is to not just to create another outreach program but to truly develop a lifestyle of service where not only the participants will be intentional about their evangelism efforts and service to their community, but where other corps members can connect themselves too and put their faith into action as well,” Hawk said.

Long Beach—with a population of nearly 500,000 people in less than a 7-mile radius—is the most diverse population of any California city. In its first year, the 217 Initiative will include local young adults with the goal of expanding to young Salvationists from across the territory.

“We believe that God is once again calling our Army to go out into the street, away from the comfort of our halls and to continue to do the work of an evangelist there,” Hawk said. “We want to ensure that no one will perish but that all may enjoy Christ’s salvation and eternal life with our God in heaven.”|NFC

MORE THAN A-GAME

Teens explore video game design at The Salvation Army.

|Photo by Sydney Fong

BY SYDNEY FONG

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ideo games are a nearly universal pastime for teenagers, which means continually added jobs in the gaming industry.

The Salvation Army of Sacramento County (Calif.) introduced Project A-Game, a new video game design club for middle school students in the Oak Park and South Sacramento area interested in careers in the gaming industry. The first Salvation Army program of its kind, Project A-Game merges science, technology, engineering arts, and math skills with teens’ natural affinity for playing video games. According to a Pew Internet & American Life Project study, 97 percent of

teens in the U.S. play video games.

“A significant and growing number of [teens] are interested in pursuing careers in the game industry,” said Brian Alspach, executive vice president of E-Line Media, which is providing the learning software for the program. “Our hope is that Project A-Game will create an ecosystem of support for young people with an interest in making games like those that already exist for young people interested in things like music, athletics or fine arts.”

A Big Fisch web development company will offer the instructors and mentors to teach programming, digital design, illustration, animation, visual storytelling, and project management three times a week for a year at The Salvation Army’s Ray Robinson Oak Park Community Center. Students will even collaborate to create their own original computer and video games.

“Project A-Game allows us to reach a new group of youth...and provide them a place to belong, bring awareness of health and encourage healthy behaviors—all through game design,” said Sonja Stires, director of

program for the Oak Park Campus.

The pilot program will be funded for two years by California Endowment and divided into 10-week cycles. According to Stires, California Endowment is interested in replicating the program in 10 other locations throughout the state.

“Our interest, of course, is to build it for replication within the Army and to use it as an opportunity for ministry and social change,” Stires said. “I see it as an innovative approach to ending and addressing poverty.”

Currently, there are 10 students enrolled in the course and 15 more on a waiting list for the summer session. Enrollment is limited to provide opportunity for more one-on-one instruction. As students gain experience, they will be able to serve as peer mentors for newer members of the studio.

“I want to learn how to program and design games so that one day when I’m older I can make a career out of it,” said 14-yearold Kenny. “If I wasn’t in Project A-Game I would probably be sitting at home playing video games by myself.”|NFC

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LETTERS FROM PAGE 2 WORSHIP WITHOUT SACRIFICE I loved your “On the Corner” column, “Worship without sacrifice,” in the March issue. I have always wanted soldiers to be involved with our social service clients, especially to do follow up or friendly visits. Only once in my 42 active years did a soldier, a corps worker, make follow up visits with the social service caseworker. At least four families joined the corps because of those visits.

Soldiers often think they lack the necessary skills. But some of our soldiers have budgeted limited income better than any banker could. And many have made low cost meals that would put Rachael Ray to shame (often reflecting cultural differences). And some could say that their father would get drunk and beat their mother and sometimes them but that The Salvation

Army taught them that God loved them.

That is more powerful than any sermon.

What we need is for soldiers to commit time, one day a month (or even once a quarter if we can have enough volunteers) to visit social service clients. Tell them we are praying for them (and do it). Invite the children to youth activities. Invite the moms to home league (if a home league has no one attending except soldiers or those attending church, that is just wrong). Clients will often be suspicious but will respond to unconditional love and acceptance.

Gerald Koch, Envoy Intermountain Division Mona and I just read your article on “Worship Without Sacrifice!”

We just had to share with you how grateful we are that you shared and reminded us about The Salvation Army’s mission.

As retired Salvation Army officers, our

reflections and memories point to the Army’s mission that finalized our decision to dedicate the rest of our lives to this end.

We were also trained to pursue other ventures in education, ministry and service, but God’s grace decided otherwise!

Mona and I continue to support the Mission at the Sun Cities Corps, here in Arizona.

Thanks again for your article!

Major Keith McRevy Sun City, Ariz.

based on its independence from politics and its devotion to doing the will of God, including charitable work. If the Army starts taking direction from political bodies rather than God it will soon lose its way and its credibility.

People support the Army based on its charitable work and its separation from, not its promotion of, political concepts.

J. Franklin Cable Portland, Ore. We want to hear from you

SOCIAL JUSTICE I read with dismay the article by John Berglund promoting “social justice” as a “right” based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights promulgated by the United Nations, and not as “charity.”

“Social justice” is a political cause and the United Nations is a political body.

My admiration for the Army has been

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ABOVE: London’s O2 arena, site of Boundless. BELOW: Artist renderings of staging for the upcoming congress.

2015 CONGRESS HIGHLIGHTING 150 YEARS OF SALVATION AND SERVICE AROUND THE WORLD

BY CHRISTIN DAVIS

F

lowing through London, the River Thames is a longstanding maritime route, boundary and economic resource. As merchant ships sailed throughout the world, they brought back its riches to store in The City—the financial heart of the British Empire.

Yet the area is flanked by London’s East End, long synonymous with poverty, overcrowding, disease and criminality.

As the river brought treasure to the empire, it also brought an expanding population to the East End. Waves of immigrants— French Protestant Huguenots, Irish, Ashkenazi Jews, and Bangladeshi—poured in and general conditions worsened.

According to the 1881 census, over 1 million people lived in London’s East End, where the life expectancy of a laborer was less than 19 years. Two out of every 10 children died, and diseases like tuberculosis, rickets and scarlet fever were common.

“In that context began the Christian Mission,” said Lt. Colonel Alex Morrice, who served as an officer from Scotland to Japan and retired as the assistant chief secretary of the United Kingdom and Ireland Territory in 2001. A self-described historian, Morrice leads Salvation Army-focused tours through the East End. “If you don’t know our roots—where we’ve come from—you don’t know where we’re going. We get information and inspiration from our history, and while we can’t be imprisoned by our past, it gives us signposts for the future.”

Today, as in the 1800s, vendors peddle everything from produce to household supplies in market stalls down Whitechapel Road. It’s alongside these stalls that the East London Revival Association

It’s going to be an event that will inspire the entire Salvation Army world...’

—LT. COL. EDDIE HOBGOOD

first held an open air outside the Blind Beggar pub.

“The slums were indescribable with dreadful squalor,” Morrice said. “Large families lived in tiny apartments with no water or heat. They were the neglected poor, the outcasts of society.”

It was a life so bad, the pub advertised: “Get drunk for half penny; blind drunk for a penny.”

When the leader of that revival meeting asked if anyone wanted a word, William Booth stepped forward. The following Sunday, July 2, 1865, he preached his first sermon under the association’s tent in Vallance Gardens.

History holds that Booth returned home that night and said to his wife, “Kate, I have found my destiny.” He became its leader, and so began what was renamed The Salvation Army in 1878.

“The Salvation Army—what a strange name!,” Booth wrote after The Christian Mission’s renaming. “What does it mean?

Just what it says—a number of people joined together after the fashion of an army; and an army for the purpose of carrying salvation through the land…”

The Blind Beggar still operates today. Two nearby statues commemorate Booth’s work in the area, and a street mural features influential people—from Queen Elizabeth, to George Bernard Shaw, and Booth.

Two corps, the longstanding Cambridge Heath Corps and the more recently opened Stepney Corps work in this community, along with the 150-bed Booth House for homeless men.

This is the birthplace of The Salvation Army, and in 2015—the organization’s 150th year—Salvationists will gather at the O2 in South East London for Boundless: The Whole World Redeeming. The 20,000-person capacity arena will host representatives from each of the Army’s 126 countries of work.

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that will inspire the entire Salvation Army world, and for the first time we truly have the capacity to reach the entire Salvation Army world,” said Lt. Col. Eddie Hobgood, congress coordinator, a USA Southern Territory officer who has spent most of his service in event planning roles.

Only the seventh international congress—the last in Atlanta, Ga., in 2000—this anniversary congress is named after Booth’s timeless song, “O Boundless Salvation,” sometimes called the anthem of this army.

“When William wandered into the East End and saw the poverty and neglect of the church he was moved to do something,” Hobgood said. “We believe very strongly the call to save the world is as strong today and The Salvation Army needs to sometimes be reminded of what we’re all about. ‘Boundless’ is a call to continue into the next 150 years.”

From July 1-5, 2015, seven sessions will feature various aspects of General André Cox’s dream for the Army. Forty performance groups from throughout the world will participate—from hula, to Chinese lion dancing, and the Angola National Band.

A six-person congress team at international headquarters is working with Texas-based production company Corporate Magic, which has worked with brands from Jaguar See the full list of performers to Coca-Cola and has produced The Salvation Army USA and profiles of the Western Territory’s participating groups Red Kettle Kickoff Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Day halfat newfrontierchronicle.org/ time show. boundlessmusic “We know this is more than just celebration for celebration sake,” said Stephen Dahlem, Corporate Magic senior creative director. “We know people remember how they felt about an experience long after they forget what you told them about an experience, and we want people to leave moved and inspired.”

As soon as delegates exit the Tube’s Northbridge Station, Dahlem said they should plan to be submerged in The Salvation Army story.

“More than just the attendees of the congress, this is an amazing opportunity to help pedestrian traffic understand what the Army is about and why it is celebrating,” he said. “We want to make sure this is a global celebration with viral legs.”

Beyond the theater—which will showcase an original Larsson and Larsson musical—and expo hall, 40 restaurants, a bowling alley and movie theater, the arena will also feature an interactive heritage display with rarely seen early Salvation Army artifacts and highlights into features of today’s Army and where it’s headed.

Commissioner William Cochrane, international secretary to the chief of the staff and chairman of the congress planning and advisory council, is responsible to ensure the General’s vision for the congress is met.

“We are what all the years have made us, but God has much more for us to do,” Cochrane said. “I have a strong sense that during the congress we will be galvanized into something that is fit for the rest of this century and as long as God wants us to work. All the experience of the years and empowerment of the years and the holy spirit have enabled the building of a movement that is stronger than it’s ever been in its history.”

Hobgood said the congress will have an “incredible international flavor,” and has included people from around the world in planning. Through the Mind the Gap initiative, Salvationists can sponsor international delegates from financially supported territories.

“We will want to hear and see expressions of the Army from around the world that demonstrate the incredible ways in which people are reaching out with the gospel,” Cochrane said. “Everyone is made in the image of God. Everyone is of equal value to God. His love knows no boundary of place, color, class, gender, and nothing is beyond the reach of God’s love.”

A one-mile march down the mall from Horse Guards Parade to Green Park beyond Buckingham Palace with the participating performers will give the event great exposure in the city.

“The call is to authenticity, to individual Salvationists leading authentically, Christlike lives so that people notice a difference,” Cochrane said. “Booth saw Salvationists as a going people—going out into the open air because people weren’t coming in to the church.”

The congress is being funded by contributions from self-supporting territories throughout the world.

“We didn’t do any external fundraising, and we’ve been assured that no programming, no ministry is going to suffer because of these contributions,” Hobgood said.

“The Salvation Army has a remarkable testimony of trust in God. When the first Salvationists gathered in the East End, they had nothing—no place to call their own, no building, no money, and very few people—but somehow God took the commitment of those few people and multiplied it,” Cochrane said. “It will be an inspiring moment when we all gather in what is possibly the biggest tent in the world—the O2—just a short distance away from where they held those first meetings.”

Register and find more information at boundless2015.org.|NFC

The call is to authenticity, to individual Salvationists leading authentically, Christ-like lives so that people notice a difference.’

—COMMISSIONER WILLIAM COCHRANE

TOP: Lt. Col. Alex Morrice at the William Booth statue in London’s East End. ABOVE: Lt. Col. Eddie Hobgood, congress coordinator

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Interactive ways to share the resurrection story

CONNECT WITH YOUR KIDS THIS EASTER EMPTY EASTER EGG HUNT Hold a traditional Easter egg hunt with plastic eggs but keep them empty. No stuffing required. Ask the children to find five eggs (one of each color available) and then have them visit a different station for each egg to receive an object to fill their egg with that represents part of the Passion story. For example: Green egg—Palm Sunday: piece of “donkey” fur or palm branch Pink egg—Last Supper: cheerio or oyster cracker to represent bread Purple egg—The Cross: a small wooden cross or cross sticker Yellow egg—Empty Tomb: a small chocolate egg (to eat!), egg stays empty to represent the empty tomb Blue egg: Jesus Appears Again: nail to remind us of the holes in Jesus’ hands that helped Thomas believe

or her shape the items listed above. Have each present the sculpture and let the story unfold. Each creation will be unique and offer a personal touch to the story.

RESURRECTION EGGS Hide 12 eggs and send the kids to go find them and return them to you unopened.

Then tell the story and as you open each egg, one at a time to reveal what’s inside and go through the passages.

Egg 1 Oyster cracker (or bread): Matt. 26:26 Egg 2 Silver coins: Matt. 26:14-16 Egg 3 Purple cloth: Matt. 27:28 Egg 4 Thorns: Matt. 27:29 Egg 5 Rope: Mark 15:15 Egg 6 Cross: John 19:16-17 Egg 7 Nail: John 19:18 Egg 8 Sign that says: “This is the king of the Jews”: Luke 23:38 Egg 9 Sponge (with vinegar): Matt. 27:48 Egg 10 Cloves or spices: Luke 23:5-6 Egg 11 Rock: Matt. 27:59-60 Egg 12 Empty : Matt. 28:55-56 Or fill each egg with play dough. Randomly hand them out to kids and have him

RESURRECTION ROLLS Ingredients Original recipe makes eight rolls 1 (10 ounce) can refrigerated crescent dinner rolls 8 large marshmallows 1/4 cup melted butter 2 tablespoons ground cinnamon 2 tablespoons white sugar Directions - Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Lightly grease a baking sheet.

- Separate crescent rolls and give each child one triangle shaped section. This represents the tomb.

- Each child takes one marshmallow,

which represents the body of Christ.

- In a small bowl, mix together the cinnamon and sugar.

- Dip the marshmallow in the butter and roll in cinnamon and sugar mixture.

This represents the oils and spices the body was anointed with upon burial.

- Lay the marshmallow on the dough and carefully wrap it around the marshmallow.

- Make sure all seams are pinched together well (otherwise the marshmallow will “ooze” out of the seams).

- Bake until golden brown, about 15 minutes. Then let cool.

- Break open the tomb and the body of Christ is no longer there!

- Celebrate God’s love.|NFC

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OPEN AIR PREACHING Jesus told his disciples, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation” (Mark 16:15 NIV).

William Booth, founder of The Salvation Army, began preaching on street corners at an early age. His goal was to bring hope to the millions of people living in poverty.

Open-air meetings, then, are part of The Salvation Army’s DNA, which early on emphasized street preaching, personal evangelism and practical philanthropy. Salvationists didn’t spend time “preaching to the choir”; throughout the years they took the gospel to the streets, often attracting people with the music of their brass bands.

Souls were saved and lives changed as a result of these evangelistic meetings.

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USA WEST NEWS BRIEFS ALASKA

Petersburg Corps paints a tapestry

Churchgoers recently entered The Salvation Army Petersburg Corps to find tables covered with drop cloths and paint supplies.

Lts. Caleb and Christin Fankhauser encouraged everyone to paint during the sermon, creating a self-portrait representing their life in Christ.

“The theme was ‘Tapestry,’ and how a tapestry tells a story,” said Christin Fankhauser. “Our personal ‘tapestries’ are individual threads in the tapestry of The Salvation Army Petersburg and in God’s infinite tapestry; we are all an important part of God’s story.”

The completed portraits were placed at the front of the chapel.

“One depicted a stick figure whose leg was bound with a ball and chain, representing the sin in his life,” said corps member Katey Gilpin. “Then he painted a cross-filled lightning bolt coming out of the sky to sever the two, showing how powerfully God removed that sin from him forever by sending his son.”

Even the initially reluctant participated, accepting the challenge to connect with God in a new way.

CASCADE

Teens unite at Cascade’s Camp Kuratli

Captains Emmanuel and Jennifer Masango, divisional youth secretaries, led the division’s first United Teen Night—“One Way!”—at Camp Kuratli in Boring, Ore. More than 100 young people and leaders participated in an evening that included games, food, fellowship and worship.

Masango’s sermon, “He Knows You,” based on Jeremiah 1:4-9, emphasized God’s love for all people, no matter where they are from or what they have been through, and the amazing plan he has for every individual.

“It was a very powerful experience for our young people and God’s presence was surely felt that night,” said Portland Tabernacle Corps Officer Major Nancy Dihle. “Eight of our very own teens submitted themselves to Christ that night.”

Bay Communities Corps readies for Family First Friday event

Captain Dianne Madsen was at the grocery store in Newport, Ore., purchasing refreshments for the Bay Communities Corps inaugural “Family First Friday” outreach.

When she got in line, the man behind her looked at her cart full of juice boxes, popcorn and other snacks and asked, “Are these headed for the office?”

Madsen said “yes” and told him about the program. “That basket is on me,” he said.

“Thanks for all the work you guys do.”

DEL ORO

‘Blitz build’

Ninety Chico State University (CSUC) students spent their nine-day spring break helping construct The Salvation Army’s new

transitional living facility in Chico, Calif.

“To be able to give back is going to benefit the community and our professional life as well,” said Justin Bestoes, Chico State senior and student project manager. “To give up your spring break says a lot about the students. I [would] rather do this than anything else.”

CSUC’s College of Engineering, Computer Science and Construction (ECC) partnered with The Salvation Army for the nine-day construction ‘blitz’ of the new Ann and Emmett Skinner Transitional Living Shelter, which will serve single-parent families who have successfully transitioned out of The Salvation Army Chico’s Adult Rehabilitation Program. In recent years, CSUC students participated in reconstruction home projects at hurricane-damaged areas in Joplin, Mo., and New Orleans, La. “We just don’t do any project,” said James O’Bannon, Chico State Construction Management professor. “We want to make sure our students are involved in something to meet the unmet needs.”skill at The Salvation Army Camp Del Oro. GOLDEN STATE

Madera opens new doors

Salvation Army Fresno Citadel Corps opened the Madera (Calif.) Family Service and Ministry Center at a new location March 20.

The service center will continue offering PG&E assistance, food, coats for kids, financial assistance for summer camps, and Bible studies for the Madera community. As of April 6, the ministry is holding Sunday morning services as well.

Madera Family Service and Ministry Center has been actively involved in ministering to the needs of the community at Madera South High School and County Juvenile Boot Camp, as well assisting members of the Madera Ministerial Association and Gang Prevention Task Force. The center has also helped with assessments for the Adult Rehabilitation Center at Madera County Jail, and partnered with local churches reaching out to the homeless.

project cost.

“Now that LED technology has become a viable option,” Forrey said, “I feel we have installed a product that not only maximizes our energy savings but also will withstand the test of time.”

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Deputy Sherrif Beau Campbell, who is assigned as the school’s safety officer, supervised the drive.

NORTHWEST

Artist receives award

Artist Chizuko (Charlie) Nicholas received the Mayor’s Award for one of her paintings—“Winter of Life”—exhibited at the Rainier League of Arts Show in Tacoma, Wash.

Nicholas attends The Salvation Army Senior Activity Center in Puyallup, where she helps instructor Bill Havens with the weekly Sumi-e (Japanese ink painting) class.

“I was really surprised,” Nicholas said.

“The art show was supposed to include oil, acrylic or watercolor paintings. Japanese Sumi-e painting is special, because it is done with one stroke. I didn’t know if I could do it, but I said to myself, ‘I’ll try!”

Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland personally selected Nicholas’s painting for the award.

Nicholas was born in Japan, where she learned calligraphy as a child. She started painting just a few years ago at the Senior Center.

“One thing I like about this art form is that before you paint anything you study and get to know your subject,” Havens said, “but then you put all of that away and paint from your heart and your mind. So, you’re not copying an object so much as trying to capture its essence in your painting.”

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HAWAIIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDS

Kapolei Kroc Center continues to grow

The Salvation Army Hawaii’s $133 million Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center in Kapolei announced that it has enrolled nearly 12,000 paying members since opening just two years ago. The Kapolei Kroc Center is The Salvation Army’s largest by program space.

INTERMOUNTAIN

Bible Bowl team shows skill

An Intermountain Divisional Corps Cadet retreat Feb. 28-March 1 at High Peak Camp in Estes Park, Colo., included a Bible Bowl competition. The division’s Bible Bowl team from the Denver Red Shield—Amanda Tumey, Brianna Tumey, Alison Gilden, and Katie Gilden—faced a team of four officers, and won. Major Sabrina Tumey and Korin Arndt coach the team that is now on its way to the territorial competition to be held at Camp Kuratli at Trestle Glen in Boring, Ore., the first weekend of May.

Community collection for ARC

Students and staff of Clear Creek High School in Evergreen, Colo., collected 30 bags of clothing and 270 pounds of shoes for the Denver Adult Rehabilitation Center March 10-20.

Grant will double Haven capacity

The Salvation Army Haven—a Los Angeles veteran assistance program—received a $300,000 grant from the Call of Duty Endowment that will nearly double the number of veterans served with a new employment services office at the San Fernando Valley Corps.

“Their generosity will allow us to take our customized, comprehensive employment services to veterans that we could not reach before,” said Lisa Anderson, Haven Return to Work program manager. “We are proud to walk side by side with the Call of Duty Endowment to play a role in ensuring that these deserving veterans find meaningful work and fulfilling lives.”

The Haven became eligible to apply for this grant after it received the Call of Duty Seal of Distinction.

SOUTHWEST

Phoenix hosts RKC Seminar

Student members, faculty sponsors and parents involved in the three Red Kettle Clubs (RKC) in the Phoenix area gathered March 29 at Southwest Divisional Headquarters for a day-long seminar to learn more about The Salvation Army and share ideas on how to strengthen their involvement with the organization.

The day’s agenda included “Salvation Army 101,” a brief look at the “rich and inspiring heritage behind the kettles and thrift stores.” Major Rob Reardon, national young adult initiative coordinator, conducted an interactive session with attendees on “How and Why a Red Kettle Club Rocks!”

The first high school Red Kettle Club in America was started in Tempe, Ariz., in 2011 and now is one of the largest, strongest clubs at Corona del Sol High School.

“These students are so enthusiastic and have done so much for the three corps they serve,” said Southwest Divisional Commander Lt. Colonel Joe Posillico. “We couldn’t be more proud to have three of the four Red Kettle Clubs in America in our community. We are eager to share with and learn from them at this seminar. They are our future.”

TERRITORIAL HEADQUARTERS

MyServe recruits young employees Saving energy

The Salvation Army Kroc Center in San Diego completed a full energy efficient lighting upgrade that will achieve an estimated $75,000 or more in energy savings.

Reliable Energy Services performed the installation and Kroc Center Facility Director Kevin Forrey and Scott Clark of Regency Lighting spearheaded the project.

“One of the key factors to a successful project here was finding the lighting technologies that met the needs of both an industrial and retail style look,” said Justin Pollock of Reliable Energy Services. “We found ourselves stuck sitting stagnant for a few years waiting for LED technology to really evolve into a realistic financial option for this center.”

The completion of this lighting project was made possible in large part to San Diego Gas & Electric’s ability to offer strategic and effective incentive programs. The center took part in a savings program that essentially covered 50 percent of the total

The Western Territory’s youth, education and human resources departments recently launched a new education and career initiative—MyServe.

The program offers educational grants— up to $7,500 per year for up to four years—to five outstanding senior soldier college students ages 17-29 each year.

“MyServe aims to prepare and employ senior soldier college graduates in a successful, professional career in The Salvation Army, and provides optional internships as preparation,” said Captain Roy Wild, territorial youth secretary. “It’s an initiative of Commissioner James Knaggs to encourage these Salvationists and try to retain them in employment with the Army.”

Scholarship recipients should be involved in a corps ministry, Wild said, and take on local leadership and volunteer opportunities throughout the year.

MyServe applications will be accepted through April 18 for the 2014-2015 school year.

For more information, visit sayconnect. com.

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PROMOTED TO GLORY BRIGADIER ROBERT R. YARDLEY was promoted to Glory March 6 from Sacramento, Calif.

Robert Yardley was born March 11, 1923, in Arvada, Wyo. The family moved to Pocatello, Idaho, where Robert and his three sisters and one brother grew up attending The Salvation Army.

During World War II, Yardley worked for the Morrison-Knudson Company contracting for the U.S. Navy. In 1942 he married Olive Smith, whose parents were pioneer officers of The Salvation Army in Washington and Oregon.

The Yardleys completed Salvation Army officer training in 1943 with the Valiant Session, and served as corps officers in Medford and Coos Bay, Ore., and in Eureka, Bakersfield, Riverside and San Bernardino, Calif.

After assignments as divisional youth secretary in the Hawaii, Northern California and Southern California divisions, Yardley was appointed divisional secretary in the Northern California Division.

In 1967, the Yardleys moved to San Diego where they served seven years, with Robert as city commander. They were highly regarded in the community and in 1974, Yardley was recognized as “Man of the Year” in San Diego County.

Prior to becoming territorial evangelists in 1984, the couple spent seven years as corps officers in Oakland, Calif., and as adult rehabilitation center administrators in San Jose, Calif.

As an evangelistic team, the Yardleys traveled the West towing their own “wagon train” (an RV) for camp meetings. Yardley began the vacation Sally Trailer Club with up to 200 attending each year. He was known as both “Uncle Bob” and the “Wagon Master.”

Yardley attended the first Brengle Institute, was on the staff of the Seminar on Evangelism for five years, and was session president at the International College for Officers.

He retired in 1988—the last officer to retire with the rank of Brigadier.

Yardley also served the community as Protestant chaplain for the San Jose Fire Department, and on the board of directors of Rancho Laguna Seca and the Kiwanis and Rotary service clubs.

Survivors include his wife, Major Carol Madsen-Yardley; sister, Captain Betty Pearson; children: Raunie (Atle) Aasland, Gary (Patricia) Yardley, Robert (Janet) Yardley; nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Olive, and youngest son, Steven Loren Yardley.

A memorial service took place March 22 at the Sacramento Citadel Corps with Major Ken Osbourn officiating and Commissioner Rob Saunders speaking.

In lieu of flowers the family requests that memorials be made to Camp Del Oro, 20864 Rector Road, Nevada City, CA 95959.

TECHNICAL ADVISOR— DISASTER RELIEF & RECOVERY Immediate opening for new on-site position with The Salvation Army – National Headquarters in the World Service Office (SAWSO). This position provides technical leadership in the specific sector of disaster relief and recovery focusing primarily on facilitating the transition from disaster relief to recovery by coordinating the handover of project oversight from International Emergency Services (IES) to the SAWSO program team. National and international travel required two – three months per year. Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in social services or a field related to the sector (i.e., disaster response, humanitarian assistance, international affairs, peace and conflict resolution, etc.), a Master’s degree preferred, and five years of professional work experience, including experience in disaster preparedness, relief and recovery program design, and two – three years of program management experience, and three years experience of living and working in a developing country with international disaster programs (such as disaster response, humanitarian assistance, mitigation) preferably in a management role. Salary Hiring range: $3,175.60 - $3,572.55 bi-weekly. Benefits after 60 days. Free underground parking and lunches offered. Submit resume via email to usn_recruit@ usn.salvationarmy.org with your name and position in the subject line.

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