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ROAD TEST TRUCK BOSS GOES UNDERCOVER FOR TV writes CLAIRE BRINE SHHH! Don’t tell anyone, but the managing director of Isuzu Truck UK has a secret, as viewers of Channel 4’s Undercover Boss will discover on Tuesday (26 July).

Truck company boss Nikki took the undercover route to learn about her business

Nikki King is the latest business leader to put on a disguise and swap her high-powered job for a more low-key position in the company. Her Turn to page 3

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STAN BOWLES JOINS CELEBRATIONS

Stan Bowles (left), Peter Lupson and Councillor Michael Brahams

QPR honours its church home QUEEN’S Park Rangers hero Stan Bowles joined crowds outside a former church mission hall when a plaque was unveiled, marking the spot on which the football club was formed.

Stan celebrated the unveiling with the Deputy Lord Mayor of Westminster, Councillor Michael Brahams, and football writer Peter Lupson, who highlighted the significance of the building in his book Thank God for Football!

The hall was originally known as St Jude’s Institute, having been opened in 1884 as a mission hall by St Jude’s Church to serve the growing population of the Queen’s Park estate in West London.

The football team that was formed at St Jude’s Institute

later merged with a team started by Christ Church Mission to form QPR, using the St Jude’s hall as its headquarters.

The unveiling was part of a community event, largely organised by the QPR Community Trust, to celebrate the club’s 125th anniversary.

Peter Lupson, whose books have revealed the church origins of many football clubs, worked with QPR club historian Gordon Macey to provide Westminster Council with the evidence required for the placing of a plaque.

Peter tells The War Cry: ‘It’s significant that clubs are re-engaging with their roots.

In an age when money controls everything in football, it’s refreshing and uplifting to be reminded about how clubs started.

‘I think there is a real hunger among disaffected supporters AS someone who suffers from multiple sclerosis, I was of clubs for what glad to see awareness of the condition being raised football used to be. through the two-part interview with neurologist ‘The way the QPR Dr Alasdair Coles.

Community Trust Those of us who have this debilitating disease don’t organised the celebraask for it, but we end up with it. Some people never tion somehow made accept it; some struggle to come to terms with it; some, me feel that the like me, try just to get on with it. club’s founders would Dr Coles spoke about being a Christian and believing have looked down on that God helps him in his work to find a cure. I wish him the event with great every success. The medical profession has worked hard pleasure.’ to find one and there has been some advancement in

Living with MS is a hard slog

Help for disaster region RELIEF and development agency Christian Aid is working through one of its partner organisations to help people affected by the severe drought in East Africa.

The Lutheran World Federation is using funds from an appeal being run in the UK by the Disasters Emergency Committee – of which Christian Aid is a member – to provide food for people (including extra nutrition for malnourished children and pregnant women), animal feed for livestock and emergency tanks for the villages experiencing the worst of the drought conditions.

António Guterres of the United Nations has called the disaster ‘the worst humanitarian crisis PICTURE in the world today [which STORY is] turning into a human tragedy of unimaginable p8 proportions’.

It is estimated that more than 11 million people JACKIE GOES TO in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia are HONG KONG affected by the p4 drought.

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medication, but the cure remains elusive.

MS affects not only the individual but their family. I am fortunate to have YOUR prayers are requested for been able to be Yvette and her children, who are retrained, so I am uncertain about their future. still in the workplace, and that The War Cry invites readers to gives me a focus. send in requests for prayer, It is a hard slog, including the names of individuals but is God in this and details of their circumstances. situation? I believe Send your requests to he is – but where, PRAYERLINK, The War Cry, only he knows.

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I worked on reception.

I swept the floors From page 1 aim is to see how her truck business runs at ground level. Are staff behaving themselves?

Does the company have any problems that she should know about?

Cameras film Nikki as she works alongside colleagues who think that she is the new kid on the block, coming to learn how to do their job. Little do they know that she is a high-flyer in head office.

‘My cover story was that I was a 63-year-old woman named Pauline who wanted to work in the motor trade but was struggling to find employment,’ Nikki tells The War Cry. ‘I took part in the programme to see the business from a new angle.’

Nikki spent seven days completing a variety of jobs.

‘I worked on reception. I swept the floors. I went out and about with one of the salesmen.

I spent a day on the roads, dealing with vehicle breakdowns.

‘The programme took me way out of my comfort zone, but the experience really touched me,’ she says. ‘I saw the passion that the employees had for the business. My respect for them grew.’

The experience also taught Nikki a thing or two about herself. She learnt to see the world from a different point of view.

‘I realised that I was 100 per cent tied up with my work and had very little social life,’ she says. ‘And I discovered that little old ladies sometimes become invisible to others when they are not known for heading

up major companies.’

The programme also has a surprise in store for the staff.

How will they react when Nikki comes clean about her identity?

However they feel about the revelation, staff have no doubt that Nikki now understands what it feels like to be in their position. She hasn’t just talked the talk. She has walked the walk. She has worked among them. And she has faced the same daily challenges that they face.

At work or play, it can be a comfort to know that other people understand what we are going through. The support of a friend who has gone through ups and downs can provide us with hope and help us to feel that we are not alone.

But there are times when even our best friends just don’t quite get it – or get us.

The Bible points out that Jesus always understands our hopes, fears and disappointments, because he has lived through hopes, fears and disappointments himself. He lost loved ones. He was hurt. And, although he did not give into it, he was faced with painful temptations.

But the Bible reassures us: ‘Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted’ (Hebrews 2:18 New International Version).

Wherever life leads us, we can know that Jesus understands what we feel. He cares about what we are going through. If we put our trust in him, he will always help us.

It’s a good job.

I saw the passion that the employees had for the business

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N the 1960s a young Jackie Pullinger left her home in Croydon and boarded a ship that was bound for China. The trouble was, she didn’t know when or where she needed to get off.

Only God did.

JACKIE MAKES A JOURNEY OF FAITH

Jackie explains: ‘I hadn’t been a Christian for long when I felt God say to me: “Go!” I was confused so asked him: “Go where?”

‘God replied: “Go, and I will show you.”

‘I spoke with a pastor who told me to buy a ticket and board a ship which was travelling to many countries. He said I should pray throughout the journey that God would tell me when and where I should land. I thought the idea sounded like fun. So off I went.’

Jackie disembarked at Hong Kong. With just £10 in her pocket, she had no idea what she would do next or where she would live. She visited a family she had met on the boat, and they asked her to teach their children.

‘I spent the mornings teaching, and in the afternoons I looked round all the welfare projects I could find,’ she says. ‘The needs of the people were overwhelming.

‘I eventually got a job in a girls’ school.

In my spare time I started going to a place called the Walled City.’

Jackie was heartbroken promising people eternal by the poverty she saw.

‘There were kids as life if you do nothing about their daily young as five looking after providing babies while their parents bread?’

Under her guidance went to work,’ she recalls.

‘There were old, homeless many of the addicts became people begging. I remember Christians and – miracua family of 11 all living on lously – were able to come one bed. I felt frustrated off drugs such as heroin because I had no money to without suffering withdrawal symptoms. help them.’

‘Drug users were beating Jackie ended up supporting countless drug addicts a path to my door,’ she says. by taking them into her ‘They saw that Jesus had home. She was as keen to changed their friends and spread the message about Jesus as she was to help people physically. She told them that Jesus loved them and she encouraged them to pray for help.

‘What is the point of feeding somebody for today if they are going to eternal damnation because they don’t know Jesus?’ says Jackie. ‘But at the same time, what is the point of

JACKIE PULLINGER tells Claire Brine about her work with drug addicts in Hong Kong

Drug users were beating a path to my door

they wanted to believe in him for themselves. While addicts were coming off drugs I would urge them to pray, pray, pray to relieve their distress. Within a few days they were playing football and eating well with no pain at all. It was exciting to watch, but I wasn’t surprised, because I believe in a miraculous God.’ Jackie has also worked among homeless people, gang members and prostitutes. She has established several houses, in various countries, which take in vulnerable people and help them to get their lives on track.

‘Telling people about Jesus is what I do; I don’t call it “work”,’ she says. ‘I do not think that good Jackie Pullinger St Stephen’s Society

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results validate our service to Jesus, but I love it when I see changed lives.

‘The more a person knows about the Bible, the more they know how to respond to situations. If somebody is hungry, feed them. If they are in prison, visit them. Christians don’t need to wait for guidance to do that.’

After years of living in Hong Kong, Jackie has seen many people healed and set free from addiction. She believes that people are transformed when they and others pray and stubbornly try to work out what God has promised them.

‘I always persevere in my prayers until something happens,’ she says. ‘I also believe that a lack of funding helps our aid projects to be successful, because we are forced to trust in God to provide for us rather than rely on people.

‘The houses take in more than 300 residents but they

I always persevere in my prayers until something happens survive financially from week to week.’

Jackie knew that she wanted to work as a Christian missionary when she was just five years old.

Today she admits that her faith is what ‘keeps me strong’.

‘When I give to others, Jesus constantly refreshes me,’ she says. ‘Whether I feel his presence or not, I know that Jesus is the truth. I often come before him expecting to be told off for not always getting things right, but he always starts by telling me how much he loves me.’

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Football refocus?

PA

FOOTBALL does not seem to take a summer holiday. The Women’s World Cup gained some media coverage but even the men’s game has hardly stopped for breath.

Europa League qualifying games were taking place in June.

Jonathan Sacks, J. K. Rowling and Rowan Williams share a publishing company

Harry gets religion

THE Archbishop of Canterbury and the Chief Rabbi are now part of the same publishing company as Harry Potter, said The Times. The paper’s business pages reported that Bloomsbury, which publishes the series of books by J. K. Rowling, has acquired the academic publisher Continuum, which specialises in theology and philosophy and whose authors include Rowan Williams and Jonathan Sacks.

Archbishop stands to reason IN an interview with David Hare in The Guardian, the Archbishop of Canterbury spoke about why he chooses to debate with atheists such as A. C. Grayling and Philip Pullman.

David Hare wrote that Dr Rowan Williams’s ‘fondness for quoting Saint Ambrose – “It does not suit God to save his people by arguments” – suggests how little store he sets by such encounters’. But, the Archbishop said, debate ‘has the role of damage limitation’ by I BRIAN D’ARCY discusses John Bunyan’s book The Pilgrim’s wrong Progress on Radio 2’s Sunday Half Hour tomorrow (24 July 8.30 pm). tackling assumptions about The presenter turns to the book to help him understand why many faith. people have gone on pilgrimages over the centuries.

The Archbishop The featured musicians are the Trinity Laban choral scholars from Greenwich’s Old Royal Navy College Chapel. believed that the Christian perspecI THE story of the man behind the musical Captain Noah and his tive of the world Floating Zoo is the subject of a programme on Radio 4 on Tuesday did make sense, (26 July 1.30 pm). In Composer Joseph Horowitz – No Ordinary Joe even though every presenter Debbie Wiseman chats with the Ivor Novello award-winning argument may not musician about his life and career. His story begins with his escape be ‘tied up’. from the Nazis as they entered Vienna in 1938.

Presenter aims to make progress

RADIO

And where there has been no competitive action, there have been clubs making big-money transfers (while others fight for survival), managerial appointments and speculation surrounding owners.

In Parliament the Culture, Media and Sport Committee concluded its review of the 2018 World Cup bid by saying that allegations of corruption in the world’s governing body were ‘sufficiently serious for Fifa to commission a full, urgent and independent investigation, and for the outcome to be made public’.

There are certainly some aspects of football which supporters would like to kick into Row Z: rip-off ticket prices, the future of clubs being put in jeopardy and the interests of the ordinary supporter being relegated to unimportance.

Football can get too big for its flashy coloured boots.

It was good news that English Premier League team QPR chose to honour its past by unveiling a plaque at the former church mission hall where it had its origins.

In his book Thank God for Football!

Peter Lupson, who has helped QPR piece together its past and who attended the unveiling, showed that many English teams were started by church people.

He has highlighted how churches formed football clubs to help their communities. Church people founded what became Manchester City to help a community afflicted by poverty, boozing and street fighting. Clergyman William Pitt eased tensions between two areas by forming Swindon Town.

In the close season newly signed players talk about ambition, and a transfer is said to be a signal of intent by a club.

Clubs and players could hardly have a better ambition for the season ahead than to emulate the goals of the church founders of football clubs.

PA photo of J.K. Rowling

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SELLER AND TELLER

NAME: John Wildie.

OCCUPATION: Retired.

LOCATION: Outside Marks & Spencer, Wakefield.

DURATION: Twenty years.

MOTIVATION: ‘I like meeting and talking to people of all nationalities and faiths. I go out in all weathers.’

FAVOURITE STORY: ‘A lady told me about her grandad who was in the First World War. He had to jump into a trench where there were

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injured and dead soldiers.

Her grandad was shot in the leg. It was night and it was raining. They were shouting for help from the medics. But before the medics arrived, who jumped into the trench but The Salvation Army, bringing hot drinks. There was also a young German lad, aged about 16, who was injured and crying for his mother. He was given the same treatment as the rest of the soldiers.’

If you would like to nominate your local War Cry seller, please write to ‘War Cry Seller and Teller’, The War Cry, 101 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6BN. Or email warcry@salvationarmy.org.uk

LIFESTYLE

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Celebrations: a clear and present danger for

money BRITONS spend an average of £500 a year celebrating milestone events, according to figures from savings company NS&I. Weddings, anniversaries, 21st birthdays, christenings and baby showers are putting a strain on pockets – and NS&I suggests that in difficult financial times it is more important to plan for celebrations by setting up a ‘fun they rely on their credit card, and just over two fund’.

fifths use money from their current account. A further 19 per cent of the population say they dip into their savings to fund the cost. Two per cent will even borrow money from family and friends so that they can join in the fun.

In fact, 17 per cent of the population don’t set themselves spending limits. But this often leads to financial strain and can even spoil the celebrations.

Nearly a third of the people surveyed said they worried about the cost of celebrations and 20 per cent said they can’t afford to attend every event they are invited to.

Twelve per cent said they resent being expected to spend money to attend.

top tips

Choose which events you can attend – make if you cannot afford to go to all of them, a list of the ones you can afford and stick to it.

Decide the maximum amount of money you can afford to spend – plan in advance how much you will need and how much you can save each month before the date.

If you have celebrations coming up that you need to save for, try to cut down on the cost of your normal social activities.

See if you can put your money together with a friend or family member’s to buy a joint gift. This will allow you to save money and still buy something that costs more.

Look at other ways you can cut costs.

Do you really need to buy a new outfit or can you wear something you already own?

Instead of taking taxis, look at public transport options.

Book hotels and taxis in advance to make sure you save as much as possible.

Save money by clubbing together for a present

Library picture posed by models

The findings of a survey released from NS&I show that 59 per cent of Brits attend up to five events each year. As the average cost of attending one celebration is £120, a total outlay of about £500 is not uncommon. Twelve per cent of the population will attend between six and ten events this year, and for those people the cost may be considerably more.

Tim Mack of NS&I says: ‘Milestone events are special occasions where friends and families are able to come together in one place, at one time.

Funding the fun is often far from people’s minds. Yet it is important to think about it and even set a little money aside in advance.’

Money spent on celebrations includes the outlay for gifts, travel, outfits, bar bills and accommodation.

When asked how they pay for celebrations, more than one in ten people said

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In the MARCUS PERKINS tells Philip Halcrow about photographing suffering and hope around the world

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‘F

OCUS’ is a word that photographer Marcus Perkins uses quite often when he talks about his work – but he is not always referring to the mechanics of his camera.

He is often talking about what is important to him in his photography – and wherever the focus is, it does not seem to be on himself.

He admires photography where the ‘focus is on the subject rather than on a photographer’.

He says: ‘My work is people-focused.’

Over the years, working with Christian organisations, Marcus has given exposure to the struggles and experiences of people affected by poverty, prejudice and war in countries such as Afghanistan, Uganda and Ethiopia.

A few weeks ago at St Paul’s Cathedral he staged an exhibition of photographs which he took during visits to India with David Griffiths of Christian Solidarity Worldwide. The photos taken

by Marcus, and the captions written it. I would like to think that the people in

by David, highlighted the lives of each picture were happy to be the Dalits, members of the caste photographed. If I sensed that I wasn’t formerly known as the ‘untouchables’. welcome, I simply wouldn’t take out my The exhibition, Being Untouchable, camera. The camera is always the last explained that, although India outlawed thing that comes out of the bag. the concept of ‘untouchability’ in Marcus insists: ‘These are not its constitution, Dalits continue snapshots – these are pictures of to face oppression in society. relationships that developed.’

‘David and I wantOne picture from ed to highlight the the exhibition that issue but not in a sheds light on negative or fingerMarcus’s approach to pointing way,’ says photography shows Marcus. ‘India is a two Musahar girls fantastic place, the reading. people are brilliant ‘Every caste has and the country has a its subcaste,’ explains great future. But I Marcus, ‘and the think light needs to be Musahars are at the shone on a situation bottom of the Dalits. that does not really fit into the modern They have something like a 99 per cent world. So we tried to cover the issues illiteracy rate and live tough lives. that affect Dalits, using portrait rather ‘I was taking photographs in one than hardcore documentary. of the Musahar communities. There ‘It was hugely important to us that was no electricity and it was getting the communities we visited knew what very dark. I wasn’t using a flash so we were doing and wanted to be part of I wondered whether there were any

IMAGE RIGHTS: Marcus Perkins uses photography to raise awareness of social issues

The camera is always the last thing that comes out of the bag

Musahars Bhojpur District, Bihar, India

Sisters Savitri and Sarita learn the alphabet together. They are Musahars, belonging to a community of two million known as the Dalits of the Dalits. The Musahars are a landless people, 99 per cent illiterate and often close to starving. Their diet has earned them the name of ‘rat-eaters’. The Indian press has often highlighted their plight, but they face ridicule and derision from others around them

candles around. One guy said that he had three or four oil lamps, which was a pretty big boast considering how poor these people were. So I went back to his place, and there I found these two sisters learning to read by the light of the oil lamps. It was an amazing scene.

‘Rather than illustrating the Musahars’ huge illiteracy rate with a picture of illiteracy, the picture shows two girls learning – they are reading their ABC.’

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arcus says that he faced a potential problem other than a lack of light. Some people from a higher caste were telling the Musahars not to have their picture taken, warning them that the photography would be used to mock them back in the West. But Marcus’s people-focused way of working meant that everything worked out.

‘Because I had already spent time in the community and had become known and trusted, I was able to photograph the girls without causing too much fuss.’

Marcus has taken his camera into other difficult areas. He has photographed work being carried out

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It’s important to portray life with a sense of hope Mother Mary From page 9

Northwestern frontier, Pakistan

among people needing food and medical attention by the Meserete Kristos Church-based charity in Ethiopia. He visited Uganda with Christian relief and development agency Tearfund to capture on camera the lives of child-headed households. And in 2001, again with Tearfund, he made a three-week journey across Afghanistan – ‘one of the hardest trips’, he says – during a civil war between the ruling Taleban and the Northern Alliance, at a time when the country was suffering drought and food shortages.

Marcus has seen people living through hard and sometimes harrowing times. How does it feel to be in the middle of such scenes?

‘Oddly enough I rarely get affected by what I see when I’m actually there,’ he says. ‘My wife has noticed that a year later I will sometimes talk about something I’ve seen or I might get upset when I’m watching a film at home.

With a maturity beyond her years, eight-year-old ‘Mother Mary’ figure Khailzabina comforts her baby brother Faisal Khan (18 months) who is suffering from heatstroke in the 50 degree heat

Reassurance Ethiopia

‘W

hen I’m working I am focused on what I’m doing. If you get too emotionally involved, it makes it difficult to report on it accurately. And you have to realise that you can’t save the world. If you go into an environment where there are five million people starving, you know that there is not a lot one person can do. My job is to educate, to illustrate and to highlight an issue in the hope that people can raise enough money to help.

‘I do care and I do get upset, but rarely at the time.’

Marcus believes that photographs have power – he has felt the draw of them himself.

‘I have always been attracted to the still image, paintings as well as photog-

I do care and I do get upset, but rarely at the time

Gently reassured by her mother, this young girl allows me to take her picture. The girl, who is suffering from severe malnutrition, has developed oedema, causing her body to swell. Sadly, I was unable to find out what her name was.

She and her mother later received help from Meserete Kristos, the highly respected local Christian charity.

Oedema: Although this type of swelling is known to be due to protein deficiency, doctors remain uncertain as to why some children develop this appearance (which is known as ‘kwashiorkor’), rather than the familiar emaciated appearance of ‘marasmus’. Despite the ‘healthier’ outward appearance of kwashiorkor, fat loss and muscle wastage are just as severe

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Child-headed household Rural Uganda, near Jinja Forced into the role of mother, 12-year-old Rachel comforts her younger sister Shakiray, who is suffering from suspected malaria.

The children were orphaned when Rachel was just eight years old.

Despite the romantic notion of an older sister somehow managing to keep the family together, children living in a child-headed household rarely cope, and cannot be expected to. They are extremely vulnerable to all sorts of problems and abuses, have little chance of an education, and are at risk of losing their family home and land to the unscrupulous

raphy. The modern world seems obsessed with video, flashing lights and movement, but the static image goes back as far as the days of cave paintings.

It can say so much in a very short period of time. You can look at a picture for a split second and grasp something about it or you can study it for half an hour and understand even more.

‘A great picture with a good caption or well-written copy is very powerful.’

And in his photography Marcus has often used the power of the still image to portray the dynamic work of Christian organisations.

‘I

have always had a strong sense of social justice and of right and wrong,’ he says. ‘I am interested in people doing good, whether they are Christians, Muslims or whatever else. I am not a hardcore Christian, but if someone is genuinely trying to do good, I want to be there.

‘I also want to illustrate social justice issues in a compassionate way. It is easy to go into situations and photograph scenes of death and destruction, but it’s important to portray life with a sense of hope or in a way that makes people think, rather than just shocking them.

‘That’s what I wanted to do with the Dalits exhibition. The Dalits are disenfranchised, but they don’t want to be, and they are trying hard to push their way out of their present situation. They just need people to be made more aware of what is going on.’

And in the three weeks that Being Untouchable was staged at St Paul’s, visi-

tors to the historic cathedral became the latest viewers of Marcus’s photography to have their minds focused on what is going on in the world.

To see more of Marcus Perkins’s G photographs visit marcusperkins.co.uk

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WORDSEARCH

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

Look up, down, forwards, backwards and diagonally on the grid to find these photographers ADAMS ARBUS AVEDON

QUICK CROSSWORD

by Chris Horne ACROSS 1. Cutting remark (4) 3. Trophy (3) 5. Dingle (4) 7. Red-hot entertainer! (4-5) 9. Woodwind instrument (4) 10. Prong (4) 11. Automaton (5) 14. Fight with swords (5) 15. Agitated (3, 2) 17. Windproof jacket (5) 18. Protrude (5) 19. Carer of children (5) 20. Unit of capacity (5) 23. Damp and cold (4) 25. Spat (4) 27. Voucher (4, 5) 28. Cupid (4) 29. Groove (3) 30. Monarch (4)

ANSWERS

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HONEYCOMB Each solution starts on the coloured cell and reads clockwise round the number 1. Say something indistinctly and quietly 2. Get on board a ship 3. Chocolate biscuit (3, 3) DOWN 1. Steve, South African activist (4) 2. French cheese (4) 3. Statement of beliefs (5) 4. Greek philosopher (5) 5. Choice of food (4) 6. German river (4) 7. Waif (9) 8. Canine film star (3, 3, 3) 11. Repulse (5) 12. Cap (5) 13. Medieval landholder (5) 14. Untruth (3) 16. Salary (3) 21. Inhume (5) 22. Place where birds gather (5) 23. Venetian magistrate (4) 24. Osculate (4) 25. Wood used in shipbuilding (4) 26. Tooth (4)

4. Violin 5. Electric razor 6. Delete

QUICK QUIZ 1. In which year did Damon Hill win the Formula One World Championship?

2. Who sang a duet with Elton John on the No 1 hit ‘Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me’?

3. The film Finding Neverland is about which author?

4. What does a dendrologist study?

5. In which continent would you find the Congo River?

6. Which actress was born Barbara-Ann Deeks?

QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Barb. 3 Cup. 5 Dene. 7 Fire-eater.

9 Oboe. 10 Tine. 11 Robot. 14 Fence. 15 Het up.

17 Parka. 18 Bulge. 19 Nanny. 20 Litre. 23 Dank.

25 Tiff. 27 Gift token. 28 Eros. 29 Rut. 30 King.

DOWN: 1 Biko. 2 Brie. 3 Credo. 4 Plato. 5 Diet.

6 Elbe. 7 Foundling. 8 Rin Tin Tin. 11 Repel.

12 Beret. 13 Thane. 14 Fib. 16 Pay. 21 Inter.

22 Roost. 23 Doge. 24 Kiss. 25 Teak. 26 Fang.

QUICK QUIZ 1 1996. 2 George Michael. 3 J. M. Barrie. 4 Trees.

5 Africa. 6 Barbara Windsor.

HONEYCOMB 1 Mumble. 2 Embark. 3 Kit Kat. 4 Fiddle.

5 Shaver. 6 Cancel.

INNER LIFE

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The widow’s A CHELSEA pensioner stood outside the station collecting for the Poppy Appeal. Carol really wanted to give him some money. She looked in her purse. She debated with herself. He wouldn’t mind how much she put in.

But Carol realised that she would mind. She went up to him, fished all the coins out of her purse and dropped them into his bucket.

‘I’m sorry. That’s all I’ve got,’ she told him.

‘No problem,’ came the cheerful response. ‘Just think of the widow’s mite.’

Carol smiled and walked away, thinking hard. The words rang a bell.

To commemorate this year’s 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, PHILIPPA SMALE looks at some everyday expressions popularised by the translation

PHRASE

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‘And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing’ (Mark 12:42)

Weren’t they from the Bible?

A few minutes on the internet when she got home yielded the biblical reference.

Jesus and his disciples were in the Temple watching people make donations to the Temple treasury.

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The rich people were putting in large amounts, but a poor widow came along and put in two very small copper coins. Jesus said to his disciples: ‘This poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything – all she had to live on’ (Mark 12:43, 44 New International Version).

Today the expression ‘the widow’s mite’ is used to describe a small monetary donation, something along the lines of ‘every penny helps’.

Jesus, though, didn’t commend the widow for sparing a few coppers but for giving everything she had to the service of God. The woman refused to play safe by keeping one of the coins back for herself. (That would have been giving a little.) No, she loved God, wanted him to have the best she had and gave all – happy to depend on God. The incident reminds us that God does not measure gifts or givers the way we do. We are impressed with large donations. God, meanwhile, honours not what has been taken from the bank account, but how much is left.

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14 The War Cry 23 July 2011

Do we forget to forgive?

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I WAS looking at some cards in a craft store when I noticed a smart young man standing in the aisle. The shop manager approached him. The young businessman moved forward and said: ‘I’m so sorry that I’m late for our appointment.’

The manager replied swiftly: ‘There’s no forgiveness here!’

Days later I was in a café when I overheard the conversation of two women on a nearby table.

One remarked that she had seen somebody named Sandra at the weekend. The other responded: ‘I want nothing more to do with her.

The truth is, I’ve never forgiven her.’

Forgiving others isn’t always easy. In some instances it’s the costliest thing we can offer to a person. I’ve been in the position several times in my life when I’ve been badly hurt by someone and I was sure I had done no wrong. I felt well within my rights to hold on to feelings of anger and bitterness.

by BARBARA LYNE

When people let us down it is natural for us to ask: ‘Why should we forgive?’ The answer lies in the fact that Jesus has forgiven us first.

Jesus knew what it was like to be denied and betrayed by his friends. He was crucified by his enemies. But in spite of people’s cruel treatment of him, Jesus generously said: ‘Father, forgive these people! They don’t know what they’re doing’ (Luke 23:34, 35 Contemporary English Version).

Today people still let Jesus down.

Their words and actions suggest that they perhaps don’t know what they are doing. But no matter what we do (or don’t do) Jesus continues to forgive us for our mistakes. More than that, he asks us to do the same for others.

When was the last time we followed his example?

I felt well within my rights to hold on to anger

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THE MAIN ATTRACTION

Artichoke and sun-blushed tomato tarts Ingredients: 200g ready-rolled puff pastry 100g quark (for vegan version use dairy-free soft cheese) 225g tinned artichoke hearts in brine, rinsed and drained 2tsp sun-dried tomato paste 1 egg yolk, beaten 75g sun-blushed tomatoes 4 black olives, stoned 25g wild rocket, or mixed herb leaves

1tsp balsamic vinegar 1tsp capers, rinsed 1tsp extra virgin olive oil 1tbsp fresh mint Method: Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6. Cut out 4 circles from the pastry, each with a diameter measuring 11cm. Place the circles on a lightly greased baking sheet.

Use a pastry brush to glaze the edges of the pastry with the egg.

JUST DESSERTS

Lemon grass sorbet Ingredients: 175g caster sugar 300ml water 4 stalks lemon grass, cut to 2.5cm lengths Juice of 3 lemons Method: In a pan, dissolve the sugar in the water over a low heat. Stir until thoroughly dissolved.

Bruise the lemon grass stalks with a rolling pin and add them to the pan.

Boil for 3–4 minutes to make a sugar syrup.

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Remove the pan from the heat and leave to infuse for 1 hour.

Strain the mixture through a fine sieve and then stir in the lemon juice.

Pour into a polythene container and freeze, uncovered, until solid.

Remove the sorbet from the freezer 10–20 minutes before serving. Mash with a fork to break the ice crystals, then shape between 2 serving spoons.

Serves 4

Place the quark, artichoke hearts and tomato paste in a food processor and mix to form a smooth pâté. Spread the pâté over the pastry base, but leave the egg-glazed border clear.

Cut the remaining artichoke hearts into quarters and arrange in a fan on top of the pâté, alternating each quarter with the sunblushed tomatoes. Add an olive to the centre of each tart and bake for 15 minutes until the pastry is golden.

Finely chop the mint, leaving several leaves in thin slices for garnishing. Combine the chopped mint with the balsamic vinegar, capers and olive oil and toss with the rocket.

To serve, divide the salad between 4 plates and place the tarts on the top while they are still warm.

Serves 4

Recipes reprinted, with kind permission, from the Vegetarian Society website vegsoc.org

READY, London is preparing for 2012 writes RENÉE DAVIS

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LET the countdown to the Games begin. Next Wednesday (27 July) marks a year until the 2012 Olympics commence, and athletes and organisers are taking part in London Prepares. The series of events is helping organisers to see if venues are ready to go.

At the beginning of the month riders from around the world took part in an equestrian invitational at Greenwich Park. British rider William Fox-Pitt was impressed, saying the surface was ‘lovely’ for the horses.

An invitational at the Basketball Arena and beach volleyball at Horse does in other fields.

Guards Parade are among the other Some people study hard to land a events lined up. dream career. Some put in years of As well as testing the venues, graft to save for a comfortable competitors have been preparing retirement. themselves.

But all of us need to prepare for At the modern pentathlon test something greater. event, British athlete Jamie Cooke Familiar with ancient games, broke his own world record in his Bible writer Paul knew the 200m freestyle swim. He said: importance of preparation.

‘After altitude training I felt a bit ‘Everyone who competes in the sore, but as soon as I dived in the games goes into strict training,’ he pool I was on it.’ wrote. He compared competitors’ Preparation is paying off in preparation to the preparation he the sporting arena – as it often

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Above: Britain’s Pippa Funnell takes part in a test event in Greenwich Park Top right: Jamie Cooke celebrates his record-breaking swim

and other Christians were making to ensure that they reached their goal: ‘They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it for a crown that will last for ever’ (1 Corinthians 9:25 New International Version).

We can all prepare now for the prize of eternal life – not by imagining we can earn it but by acknowledging our sin, turning away from wrongdoing and accepting the forgiveness that God offers us through Jesus.

Life will still get tough at times, but if we put our trust in Jesus, we won’t get left behind. Instead our preparation will keep us on course for the ultimate prize.

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