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FIGHTING FOR HEARTS AND SOULS

7 July 2012

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LOOKING FOR JESUS

PUBLIC GETS TO CHOOSE NEW SUPERSTAR writes RENÉE DAVIS D IT’S a TV talent show with a difference. Yeah, that’s what they all say. But this time it really is, because they’re looking for Jesus.

Tonight (Saturday 7 July), ITV1 launches Superstar. Andrew Lloyd Webber and a panel of judges will be looking for a singer to play the lead role in the arena tour of his musical Jesus Christ Superstar, which begins in September. With years of Turn to page 3

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SALVATION ARMY SERVES EMERGENCY WORKERS

Support at gas explosion scene A SALVATION Army team served food and drink and offered a listening ear to emergency workers attending the scene of a gas explosion in which a child died.

The team was called to the destroyed house in the Shaw area of Oldham by emergency services and worked from two mobile canteens to support those taking part in the search and rescue operation.

Major Nigel Tansley attended the scene as The Salvation Army’s Emergency Response Co-ordinator for the area and as Chaplain to the Greater Manchester CHURCHES are signing up to take part in a piece of performance Fire and Rescue art in which people across the UK will ring bells at the same time.

Service.

Hundreds of church bellringers have already decided to join in He said: Work No 1197: All the Bells in a Country Rung as Quickly and ‘Most of the Loudly as Possible for Three Minutes by Turner prize-winning firefighters and artist Martin Creed. police are family His project to get people to ring bells at 8.12 am on 27 July is people who have designed to be a celebration of the children. When start of the London Olympic and it became clear Paralympic Games. that they were Alongside church bells, people dealing with the will be ringing school bells, bicycle fatality of a child, bells and bells on ships. it affected them.

Alan Regin, steeple keeper at ‘There were Christ Church Spitalfields, London, a lot of times when emergency says: ‘This is not the usual type of workers came up ringing that we do, but we say, “Why not!” We have a great opporand just wanted tunity to mark an important historifive minutes to cal event.’ have a chat.’

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News

Food for displaced Congolese

THE Salvation Army is helping people who have fled conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The organisation has provided food to almost 10,000 internally displaced people in one camp in the country.

However, people have also fled to neighbouring countries.

In Rwanda, The Salvation Army is working with UN agencies to distribute clothes and supplementary food to pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers in refugee camps. In Uganda it is providing food and drinking water to 6,000 refugees.

Churches ring in the Olympics with artist BREAKFAST CHAMPIONS PEACE

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WINNER of 11 Paralympic gold medals Q Baroness Grey-Thompson spoke at the National Parliamentary Prayer Breakfast at Westminster attended by MPs, peers and church representatives.

The breakfast is an annual event which recognises the contribution that Christianity makes to national life and at which church leaders pray for political leaders.

At this year’s event, Lady Grey-Thompson spoke of her hope that the ‘wonderful atmosphere’ created by the torch relay would continue after the Olympics and Paralympics.

Prayers were said for peace around the world during the Games.

Lord Bates, co-ordinator of the National Prayer Breakfast, has walked from Mount Olympus in Greece to London to raise awareness of the Olympic Truce.

The UN is promoting a revival of the truce, when, according to tradition, Greek city states taking part in the ancient Olympics called a temporary halt to fighting.

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From page 1 experience behind him, Lord Lloyd-Webber knows exactly what he is looking for: ‘A charismatic individual; someone who has huge presence.’

In tonight’s programme, viewers will get a glimpse of some of the auditions. Lord LloydWebber and West End casting director David Grindrod will be using their theatrical expertise to identify stage potential. Later, at the Brixton Academy callbacks, they will be joined by former Spice Girl Melanie C and 1980s pop singer Jason Donovan, when 100 contestants will be whittled down to 40.

Melanie C, who will appear in the stage show as Mary Magdalene, is looking forward to discovering who she’ll be sharing the stage with. She explains what she is looking for in the starring role: ‘Soul is very important for the role of Jesus.

I feel he has to have charisma and vulnerability.’

In the final stages of the process, Dawn French will take over from Melanie C, to join Lord LloydWebber and Jason for the live shows. As the final ten rock it out for survival, the decision on who will be the next Jesus will lie in the hands of the public.

Away from the bright lights, we may be looking for someone special. We may be looking for someone who can help us up the career ladder or help us out financially. We may feel lonely and be looking for a friend to be with us and listen to our problems. We may be searching for a husband or a wife in the hope that we will be loved for the rest of our lives.

Our searching often comes from a void that needs to be filled. But looking for fulfilment from the people around us isn’t always the solution to our emptiness. They are fickle and will disappoint us. They can leave without warning and let us down without reason.

But we can find hope and

One of the contestants who is out to impress the judges (below)

comfort in knowing that it is possible to have someone consistent in our lives. As God’s Son, Jesus lived a life that never fell short in kindness, compassion and reliability. And one Bible writer says: ‘Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever’ (Hebrews 13:5 New International Version).

When we invite Jesus to take the leading role in our lives, he will forgive us for our selfishness. If we put our focus on him and accept his love, he will fulfil all our needs. We won’t need to go looking elsewhere and we certainly won’t need to worry about being abandoned.

Jesus’ role in our lives will never change. He can never be replaced. Why not choose him?

Soul is very important for the role of Jesus

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After battling her alcohol addiction

Sarah is singing

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SARAH JOHNSON talks to Claire Brine

OUR years ago, Sarah Johnson knew next to nothing about The Salvation Army. Today, she is all set to enter its training college to become a full-time minister. Just how did that happen?

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holism, a friend suggested that she attend an Alpha course, which explores the basics of ‘One Sunday morning, I was going to the the Christian faith. At this point supermarket and I noticed the Shoeburyness Sarah wasn’t a Christian, but Salvation Army hall,’ says Sarah. ‘I was looking she was ‘looking for somefor something to do. Not knowing it was a church, thing’.

I went in and asked if they ran yoga classes.

‘It was during the Alpha The lady replied that they didn’t have any yoga course that my mum died,’ says classes, but she invited me to Bible study that Sarah. ‘I remember feeling such evening. I went.’ strength from the Christians Sarah’s attendance at Bible study was the first of around me. They prayed with many. She started going to Sunday services and found me. I also found their worship that she liked the atmosphere. Her faith in God deepmusic inspiring and learnt how ened. Before long, she became a uniform-wearing to play it on my guitar.’ member. Her family noticed the change in her personAs Sarah learnt to cope withality and lifestyle. out alcohol, her life improved ‘Becoming a Christian made me a completely differgreatly. She began to consider ent person,’ says Sarah. ‘God has been so good to me her future and found herself and forgiven me for everything I’ve thought or done asking: ‘What now, God?’ wrong. I rely on him completely, whereas I used to feel ‘Suddenly the word The Salvation Army such guilt about the past and fear about the future.’

“Westcliff” popped into my training college in London Sarah’s past has not been easy for her to come to head – but I didn’t know where terms with. As a child she was frequently sexually it was,’ says Sarah. ‘Some abused. She faced bullies. She started time later, I was watching the ‘But one day I woke up and realcutting herself as a way of coping. By TV programme Location, Location, the age of 15, Sarah had fallen into ised I couldn’t do it any more. I didn’t Location and I learnt that Westcliff was solvent abuse. She turned to drink, like who I was when I was drunk. So I in Essex. I felt that God wanted me to sought help from a recovery group for which eventually led to alcoholism. move there.’

‘In my thirties, when I was living alcoholics. I’ve been going to the group Sarah moved to nearby Shoeburyness in London, my life was like the film ever since.

– and within her first month she Groundhog Day,’ she says. ‘Every day stumbled across The Salvation Army.

I wanted to be different, but I never After attending the services and was. I used to go out after work, get enjoying the friendship of the congredrunk and lose my dignity through getgation, she knew it was time to commit y recovery was built on ting into unhealthy relationships. At 36, her life to Jesus. learning to live by spirit was not how I expected my life to be ‘Jesus died on the cross for me,’ she – on my own in my flat, wondering how itual principles, including prayer and says. ‘He has saved me from all my I had ended up in such a hopeless and reliance on God.’ guilt, fear and loneliness. Because of While Sarah was tackling her alcodespairing condition. him, I have a purpose for the future.’

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I remember feeling such strength from the Christians around me.

They prayed with me. I also found their worship music inspiring and learnt how to play it on my guitar

One of the major things that Sarah’s faith has given her is the ability to forgive. And, although she has endured much hurt in the past, she does not blame God for it.

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od has helped me to pray for those people who abused and bullied me. I’ve asked him to give me patience, love and tolerance.

Forgiving them has helped me to move on.’

And she has certainly done that.

Sarah has given up her job as a technical administrator for financial advisers in the City to become a Salvation Army officer.

‘A couple of years ago, I took on leadership roles at Shoeburyness Salvation Army and started asking God what he wanted me to do next. I heard him say to me: “Immerse yourself completely.” I knew then that I had to

be a Salvation Army officer.

‘I have fears about my abilities, but I know that I can rely on God’s grace and he will equip me. He has called me to bring hope to lost and OANA BORDAS lonely people, and to dispel the misconception that all Christians are hypocritical, judgmental and holier-than-thou.’

As Sarah looks forward to the future, she is excited about having God as her ‘employer’. She hopes to use her past experiences to help other people on their journey to faith, particularly those with alcohol problems and addictions.

‘Knowing God is far better than I could have ever imagined,’ she says.

‘I’m so thankful to him. And I can’t wait to find out what he wants me to do next. Bring it on!’

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Comment

Gesture politics

The encounter between the bearer of the Crown and the former IRA commander was a reminder that politics is more than just style and substance. In affairs of state, symbolism has a power of its own.

The body language of a handshake can speak volumes; so can the refusal to shake a proffered hand.

Mr McGuinness received the backing of his republican party beforehand. The Queen would have had the support of her ministers.

Theirs was no empty gesture. Both of them had been bereaved by the actions of the community the other represents.

A handshake – no matter how historic – cannot wave away the hurt of the past in an instant. It cannot make amends for the injustices and atrocities. It cannot rewrite history. It cannot erase the books of condolence. It need not belittle the sacrifices or besmirch the memory of those who were killed.

A handshake can mark an end to old arguments. It can seal a new agreement.

It can signify a celebration. It can be the sign of a new relationship. Under God’s hand, a handshake can be an important step in the journey towards peace and reconciliation.

Although, north and south, locals describe their homeland as ‘God’s own country’, Ireland – north, south, east and west – is not Heaven on earth. There are still hands with blood on them.

Complete reconciliation comes only with complete repentance. Forgiveness must be offered and accepted. That is still a hard ask.

But as the ‘historic handshake’ symbolises: It is better to bite a bullet than to stop one.

Nativity church gets World Heritage status AHEAD of the decision by Unesco – the cultural body of the United Nations – The Guardian reported on Palestinians’ efforts to secure a place for Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity on the global list of protected sites.

The paper told how the Palestinians were seeking World Heritage status not only for the church – which is traditionally said to be the site of Jesus’ birth – but also the route taken

by Mary and Joseph.

It said that the application was the first by the Palestinians after their

NIGEL BOVEY

IT was, according to reports north and south of the border, a momentous event. The BBC, Channel 4 News, the Irish Independent and The Irish Times united in describing the moment when the Queen and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness shook hands in Belfast as ‘an historic handshake’.

Visitors see the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem

admission to Unesco last October.

Deputy mayor of Bethlehem George Saade said: ‘Bethlehem is the capital city of the Christian world. It is a place of great historical, religious and cultural importance. We want to protect and preserve the church and pilgrimage route.’

The Palestinians’ application succeeded when Unesco gave the church World Heritage status at a meeting in St Petersburg.

Healing ads ‘did not promote false hope’ THE Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has said that a Christian group from Bath can continue to claim on its website that God can heal, reported the BBC’s website.

Earlier this year, the Healings on the Streets Bath (Hots Bath) group received a complaint about its leaflet which said ‘Need healing? God can heal today!’

In February, the ASA

Panel show leads to restoration HISTORIC hand-painted panels listing the Ten Commandments have been uncovered in a church in Devon, reported the North Devon Journal.

The corroded zinc panels – dating back to Victorian times – were found behind some curtains when plasterers took them down at St Peter’s in Ashford, near Barnstaple.

After securing funding, the church is to restore the panels, which have suffered the effects of damp and neglect.

ruled that the group could not make such claims on its website or leaflets.

However, the BBC reported that ‘in [the ASA’s] new adjudication, which follows an independent review, the Hots Bath website is outside its jurisdiction’.

The ASA said: ‘We acknowledged that Hots volunteers believed that prayer could treat illness and medical conditions, and that therefore the ads did not promote false hope.’

A spokesperson from Hots Bath said the amended ruling was ‘great news’, setting a ‘clear precedent for Christian websites’.

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THIS is the time of year when many people really enjoy their gardens. The hard work over the preceding months has come to fruition. There is no better feeling than to relax in a leafy, fragrant garden on a balmy summer evening.

At this time of year, ornamental grasses come into their own. They provide structure that complements the showstopping flowers in the long border.

The next couple of months are the pinnacle of the gardening year.

Inevitably, there are still tasks to be done. This month, hardy cyclamen can be planted for a fine autumn display. by LEE SENIOR Leave the growing point of the almostdormant corms buried just below the surface of humus-rich soil in cool semishaded areas. Cyclamen look particularly striking when to ensure a longer-flowering display. Doing so prevents the planted in groups.

Continue to deadhead roses plants putting wasted energy and all summer bedding plants into unwanted seed production.

CREATE A HERB STORE FOR WINTER

and don’t forget…

Carrots

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Enjoy the fruit of your labours!

Strawberries

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‘Alderm Wonder’ and h an air drying in a shed or growing ot days. When dows v arieties ’ are good to try. garage. Harvest dry stems tomatoe cucumbers and s, good k ventilati ey, alon and wrap them in muslin consiste g with a regula on is before you hang them. r nt wate ring reg and They can be dried in an ime. airing cupboard or even Transpla – if you are careful – in a positiion nt winter cabb microwave on sheets of a As with s towards the e ges into their final all bras n d of th kitchen towel. the soil s around ica family meme month.

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What’s going on

Bike shop pushes

Recycles is giving homeless people in Swindon a new Caption etc like this etc direction writes PHILIP HALCROW

(Left to right) Simon and Rick and Booth House manager Brian Gibbs PHILIP HALCROW

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USTOMERS come into the shop and think we’re just doing an eco-friendly thing by recycling bikes.

I like telling them what is hidden behind the shop – that Recycles is being run by residents of the Salvation Army centre and that it helps to rebuild their lives.’

Cycle mechanic Rick Bartlett is sitting in a corner of Recycles, The Salvation Army’s cycle shop in Swindon. On the shop floor, bicycles are displayed for sale. Behind the counter, bikes are being made roadworthy. Behind the workshop is Booth House, a Salvation Army Lifehouse for homeless people.

To the sound of the click-click of bicycle wheels turning, Rick – who joined the staff at the shop a month ago – explains how he and workshop supervisor Simon Styles run Recycles with the Booth House residents.

‘We’re open to the public from Wednesday to Saturday, selling and building bikes.

On a Tuesday, we don’t open the shop but concentrate on building bikes.

That’s when we can do more one-to-one training with the guys. Some of them are doing Cytech, which is the recognised industry

Resident Ron works on a bicycle

training scheme for bike repairs and which can have an NVQ tagged on.’

Simon describes how the shop works. ‘People donate bikes to us,’ he says. ‘The team check them over, make sure they are safe, that there are no cracks or imperfections in the frame.

We strip them down and check all the components before building them back up, replacing components to get them roadworthy. Then we sell them at an affordable price.

‘We build wheels and frames. We are more than capable of doing whatever any normal bike shop can do.’

But a normal bike shop is not the same behind the scenes.

Brian Gibbs says Booth House was already on the road to setting up social enterprises when he took up his position as centre manager early in 2008. He has worked with business projects co-ordinator Liz Osborne to get Recycles off and running, alongside a catering business called the Sandwich People.

Booth House opened in 2007. It is a 50-bed centre, comprising 45 main

We are geared towards getting people back into independent living and into work

rooms and 5 emergency rooms. ‘We are geared towards getting people back into independent living and into work,’ says Brian. ‘We provide the opportunity for them to learn new skills or we reawaken knowledge and skills they had in the past.’

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n his office, Brian has files and paperwork to hand – but also a first edition of In Darkest England and the Way Out by Salvation Army founder William Booth. He turns to a page where Booth writes: ‘When we have got the homeless, penniless tramp washed, and housed, and fed at the shelter, and have secured him the means of earning his fourpence by chopping firewood, or making mats or cobbling the shoes of his fellow labourers at the factory, we have next to seriously address ourselves to the problem of how to help him get back into the regular ranks of industry.’

Brian concludes: ‘That is what we still do.’

Recycles is one way in which people can steer themselves towards the regular ranks of industry.

‘Originally, we were going to turn

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From page 9 the space into a café,’ says Brian, ‘but we found out that, although we are on a main travel route through Swindon, footfall is quite limited. We looked at footfall in the town – at how many people walk past Costa Coffee from 10 o’clock in the morning until 11 o’clock, and it was in the thousands. Over the same time, the number who walked past us was very small. We realised that we had to become a point of journey.

‘So we looked at opening a restaurant or a shop that sold world goods. We talked with the residents and the idea came up about recycling bicycles. Bicycles are popular with our client group. It is probably the only kind of transport they have. There has also been a surge in the popularity of cycling. So we put a business plan together.

‘Setting up Recycles was not an easy journey. We had lots of debates, but we never gave up. We thought it was the right thing to do and we trusted that if it wasn’t, God would tell us which way to go. We opened in September last year.

‘The cycle shop shows what Booth House is about.

We have a high-quality, well-specced space that is as good as any other cycle shop, if not better.

‘It gives us an opportunity to offer our clients various kinds of training and qualifications. Eventually, these will cover business administration, customer services, sales. We are giving training in cycle mechanics and manufacturing operations, which is a highly transferable qualification in Swindon, where there are car manufacturers and engineering companies.’

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rian wants Booth House not only to offer residents the opportunity to change their lives but also to change the wider population’s perception of homelessness – ‘to get a message out that homeless people are not to be feared but are deserving of compassion and help so that they can contribute to society again’.

He says: ‘Recycles is a window for our clients, because employers come into the shop and see them working. Those are the people they can employ in the future.’

Once bikes are checked and rebuilt, they go on sale Down in the shop, workshop supervisor Simon outlines some of the achievements of Recycles – and his hopes for its future.

‘Brian and Liz told me that they to recognise faces of the lads from the bike again in my life, it wouldn’t be a wanted Recycles to be a hub for cycling clubs. The cycling club lads will go up bad thing. What really gets me excited in Swindon. That is what we are trying to the residents and say hello. They are is seeing the changes in people’s lives to become. once they take part in Recycles.’ building relationships.’

‘We are working with Swindon Simon says that since arriving at Borough Council on its cycle loan Recycles – having clocked up experischeme, which is a three-year project to ence ‘at the high end of the cycle trade, provide people with a free bike for two selling expensive bikes to people with months. plenty of money’ – he ‘We are also trying to imon talks about one resihas changed. ‘My prepull in local cycle clubs. It dent who is part of the conceived ideas of is a great place for people to homeless people have team. ‘When he came to us four or five meet. Drawing in the clubs been blown out of the months ago, he had never worked on is good for business, it puts water. Working here bikes before. Now he is stripping them money in the till, but it also has been an education down and building them up. He has brings about interaction for me. I have been got to the point where I don’t have to between club cyclists and constantly amazed by shadow his work, because it is so safe.’ the residents. At first, the Another team member ‘used to come the residents. residents were just building ‘I can take or leave in the shop to work, but you could tell bikes and serving customthe bikes now. If I that he didn’t want to be here. He had ers; now they are beginning never had to fix another no interest. He would come in, do some

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cleaning and would then just go off to play football. This went on for about a month. Then I got him to fix a bike. He said he had no interest in it, but slowly he realised what he could do. I taught him to fix gears.

‘The other day he was working when a friend came to take him to football, but he said he wasn’t going to football, because he was repairing a bike and had to get it finished.

‘Now he is training for his Cytech.’

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hanmatie – or ‘Dalie’ to her friends and colleagues – arrived at Booth House about a year ago after being left homeless, first in the Netherlands and then in England, when relationships broke down. Recycles had not yet opened. She helped to get it ready, and once it opened she began working there.

She no longer works at Recycles. She has gained employment outside Booth House in care work. She hopes to get a bidding number and then a nomination for a permanent home. Until then, she is happy to be at Booth House – and she enjoys being around the team at Recycles.

I learnt how to build bikes. I know how to do brakes, gears … anything

‘Recycles helped me,’ she says.

‘Simon taught me how to build bikes.

I know how to do brakes, gears … anything.

‘I’ve bought my own bike from here.

If there’s something wrong with it, I know exactly what to do.’

Dalie also carried out administration in the shop and met customers.

‘English is not my first language – I’m a Dutch-speaker – but working at Recycles made me more comfortable in speaking English, because I was dealing with customers every day.’

But she says that Booth House has done more than simply allow her to develop skills.

‘It turned me back into the person I am. I love being busy, helping people. When I lost my home in Holland, I started to become someone who was bitter, angry, not talking to people, afraid of getting hurt again.

‘Before I came to Booth House, I was drinking too much. I got in the habit of being lazy and not wanting to go into work. Recycles helped me to get out of those bad habits. If I were to go out to drink till 3 o’clock or 4 o’clock in the morning, I wouldn’t have been able to get up to come into the bike shop and I would be letting people down. So working here gave me the strength not to do that.

‘Recycles helped me to trust people again. And to be me again.’

Dalie has enjoyed working at Recycles

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Puzzlebreak

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WORDSEARCH Look up, down, forwards, backwards and diagonally on the grid to find these common garden birds

Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9 Solution on page 15

BLACKBIRD BLUE TIT CARRION CROW

QUICK CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. Get better (7) 5. Oarsman (5) 7. Signal by hand (7) 8. Swivel (5) 10. Enthusiastic (4) 11. Sleeplessness (8) 13. Appear (6) 14. Shriek (6) 17. Give sorrow (8) 19. Dispatched (4) 21. Herd of cattle (5) 22. Severe (7) 23. Foundation (5) 24. Feared (7)

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Recreation (7) Responsibility (4) Watching (6) Upbraid (8) Interweaved (5) Cemetery (9) Deeply shocking (9) Repulsiveness (8) Thrown out (7) Dodged (6) Sheen (5) Peel (4)

1. ________ Shaw, actor 2. Sung by a choir 3. Very brave 4. Make an effort to hear something 5. Come to an end 6. Make larger or longer

QUICK QUIZ 1. Who played the part of Dr Martin Ellingham in Doc Martin?

2. According to the nursery rhyme, how many fiddlers did Old King Cole have?

3. In which US state is Panama City?

4. Litmus paper turns what colour when in contact with an acid?

5. How many pockets does a snooker table have?

6. If someone is described as an ‘autodidact’, what are they?

QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Improve. 5 Rower. 7 Gesture.

8 Pivot. 10 Avid. 11 Insomnia. 13 Emerge.

14 Scream. 17 Aggrieve. 19 Sent. 21 Drove.

22 Drastic. 23 Basis. 24 Dreaded.

DOWN: 2 Pastime. 3 Onus. 4 Eyeing.

5 Reproach. 6 Woven. 7 Graveyard. 9 Traumatic.

12 Ugliness. 15 Ejected. 16 Evaded. 18 Gloss.

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QUICK QUIZ 1 Martin Clunes. 2 Three. 3 Florida. 4 Red. 5 Six. 6 A self-taught person.

HONEYCOMB 1 Martin. 2 Choral. 3 Heroic. 4 Listen. 5 Finish.

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Inner life

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A person may think their own ways are right, but the Lord weighs the heart Proverbs 21:2 New International Version

‘Could you start by peeling these spuds?’ team leader Rick asked Angie, pointing her to the sink and a huge pile of potatoes. She looked at him and then at her beautifully manicured nails.

‘Could I have another job, please?’ she asked.

‘How about sandwiches?’

Sandwich-maker Susie was delighted. ‘Margarine on first. Then ten with sandwich spread, ten with meat, ten with jam.’ Angie thought she could manage that, but Susie had finished thirty before

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IT was good to have a new team member to help at the food for homeless people project.

Angie had done her first ten.

‘You don’t need to be quite so careful about it,’ Susie pointed out. ‘Our clients aren’t fussy.’

Angie then began waiting at tables but found it impossible to chat to the clients in the friendly way the other volunteers did. Rick suggested she moved on to the washing-up.

Even though she wore rubber gloves and an apron, she was still worried

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PHILIPPA SMALE takes a look at some of the Proverbs from the Bible

about breaking her nails or splashing her clothes.

At the end of the morning, Rick took her to one side. ‘I don’t think your heart is really in this work,’ he said, gently.

‘Why are you here?’

‘Well, I got this application to go on a course and it asked if I did any voluntary work and if so, what. I thought I’d better do some so I could say so.’

‘You might find it a bit easier if you came here to help the clients rather than to get on a course,’ Rick told her.

As this proverb suggests,

sometimes people do things with mixed or wrong motives, even if the things they do are good. They can even fool themselves or other people about what their motives are – but God knows exactly what is going on, because he can see right inside people. The point is emphasised elsewhere in the Bible: ‘The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart’ (1 Samuel 16:7).

Do we need to get our motives straight?

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Food for thought

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Bully birds feather their nests I HATE to say this, but the birds in my garden are bullies. They know exactly what they want and they make sure they get it.

A few years ago, I hung bird feeders in our sycamore tree. I put everything in there: peanuts, Niger seeds, fat balls, the lot. Birds flew to the tree, birds flew away from the tree, but nothing was eaten – until I bought a bag of black sunflower seeds. That was it.

The message was plain: ‘Forget all the fancy stuff. Just stay with the sunflower seeds.’

Now there is a constant shuttle of small birds to and from the feeders.

It’s a full-time job keeping them topped up.

A few weeks ago, a blackbird began his campaign. I was preparing my mother’s breakfast in the kitchen. He was outside, looking in.

Backwards and forwards he hopped, until I finally got the message and crumbled up a slice of bread for him.

Now he has his own breakfast bar on a particular paving stone, and he knows exactly what time to come.

The birds in our garden have come to trust me for their food. They’ve made clear what they want and they expect me to provide it. In the same way, if we believe in God and trust him, he will provide us with what we need – but he likes us to ask him.

Jesus gave us a model prayer which pretty well suits every occasion – the Lord’s Prayer. In it

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A little further on in the same chapter, Jesus speaks about God’s provision: ‘Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?’ (6:26).

Bread for us and bread for our neighbour – God provides the supply. All we have to do is trust him, take just what we need and make sure our neighbour has enough to eat.

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What’s cooking?

Lemon and lime tuna ball salad

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I’M Michael Darracott; I have been an executive chef in several large establishments in charge of cooking for 200-plus people. I have also written a number of books. It gives me great pleasure to offer my recipes in The War Cry. I invite readers to send in recipe ideas, to be considered for publication here. I would also like to offer help with any cooking-related problems you have. So send in your question and, if it is selected, an answer will be published on this page.

Email your recipes and questions to chefmike56@chefmikedarracott.com

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Chicken liver with thyme and dill pâté Ingredients: 60g butter ½ onion, finely chopped ¼ tsp fresh dill, finely chopped 230g chicken livers, cut into quarters ¼ tsp dried thyme ¼ tsp mustard powder Salt and pepper 2 slices of toast

Ingredients: 200g can tuna in oil 60g fresh breadcrumbs 25g Cheddar cheese, finely grated 1 large egg, beaten 2tbsp chopped chives Juice and zest of ½ lemon Juice and zest of ½ lime Salt and pepper 2tbsp vegetable oil, for frying

Method: Place the tuna and its oil in a bowl, then add the breadcrumbs and cheese and mix together. Mix in the beaten egg and chives, lemon and lime zest and juices, salt and pepper. Mould the tuna mixture into 12 balls.

Heat the vegetable oil in a pan, then fry the tuna balls until golden brown all over. Serve with your favourite salad.

Serves 4 SUDOKU SOLUTION

Method: Melt the butter in a frying pan, add the onions and cook for 3 minutes. Add the dill, chicken livers and thyme, then sprinkle over the mustard powder. Heat the chicken livers until they are cooked right through and have started to turn a light brown colour. Add the salt and pepper to taste, then pour the mixture into a food processor. Process until smooth.

Allow the pâté to cool down, then place in the fridge. Once chilled, spread the pâté over 2 slices of toast.

Tip: Cover the top of the pâté with some melted butter to keep it fresh for longer.

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The crew behind Sea Sunday is the Mission to Seafarers. The Christian organisation was founded in 1856 and works in 250 ports worldwide, helping those working at sea. It runs Flying Angel dropwrites CLAIRE BRINE in centres, provides chaplaincy services and offers practical support in emergencies.

‘It’s a very isolating experience to be at sea,’ Ben Bailey of the Mission to Seafarers ALL aboard for Sea Sunday? tells The War Cry. ‘Through our work we Across the UK, churches are pre- try to replace that isolation with a sense of paring to remember seafarers and belonging.’ to pray for them and their families The crews are grateful for the support of tomorrow (Sunday 8 July). the organisation – and they say so.

To express their gratitude to seafarers, ‘They tell us: “If it wasn’t for you, we who transport more than 90 per cent of the would have no one”,’ says Ben. food and goods the world uses every day, And having no one to turn to can make churches hold special services, fundrais- life depressing. People can become paining events and parades. They want to show fully lonely. It is good to have someone to the 1.2 million seafarers that, although they laugh with, someone to cry with, whatever often work out of sight, they are certainly not our situation.

Whether we are alone or surrounded by people, we sometimes go through waves where we feel disconnected. No one quite understands us.

They try, but they just don’t get what we are going through.

God does.

And he does more than understand.

God travels on life’s journey with us.

He is by our side, whether we feel as though we are sailing or sinking.

One writer in the Bible asks God: ‘Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there’ (Psalm 139:7, 8 New International Version).

Whenever we feel alone, we are not. God is willing to listen when we talk to him. No matter what happens to us, his love is bottomless.

His forgiveness for our mistakes is a A Mission to Seafarers life-saver. worker talks with a Is it time to get on board with him? crew member

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