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FIGHTING FOR HEARTS AND SOULS

27 August 2011

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GOSPEL THERE’S A MESSAGE FOR ALL THE WORLD ON A STAGE writes CLAIRE BRINE

IN the beginning there is a stage, a play and a bunch of actors. The story they tell starts with the creation of the Universe. It concludes with people standing before God on Judgment Day. The Globe Mysteries – a production based on the biblical mystery plays of medieval Britain – is running at Shakespeare’s Globe in London.

God (David Hargreaves) watches over his creation

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After unpacking a brand new Universe bit by bit from boxes marked ‘fragile’, God (David Hargreaves) sits down with a cup of tea and watches his creation in Turn to page 3

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NEWS

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CHRISTIAN AID DIRECTOR WRITES TO CHANCELLOR TEN thousand people so far have taken part in an online campaign, run by Christian Aid and other organisations, to send emails to Prime Minister David Cameron, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and G20 chair French President Nicolas Sarkozy demanding that they use the G20 meeting at Cannes in November to agree ‘measures to end tax haven secrecy’.

Christian Aid says that a deal being negotiated between the UK and Switzerland will let UK tax evaders off lightly while harming poor countries.

The relief and development agency believes that the deal will damage global efforts to curb tax dodging, which it estimates costs poor countries £97 million a year – far more than they receive in aid.

It says that the countries need

Campaigners want G20 to end tax secrecy the money they are losing to fund public services such as schools, hospitals and justice systems.

Earlier this year the director of Christian Aid, Loretta Minghella, wrote to George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, expressing ‘concern about media reports of a proposed agreement between the UK and Switzerland levying a withholding tax on UK residents without requiring information on these account holders.

She argued: ‘Given increasing recognition at G20 level that juris-

dictions should share information to enable the right amount of tax to be collected, we fear this action, while providing some revenue for the UK in the short term, sends the wrong message … An end to finan-

cial secrecy would be to the benefit of developed and developing countries alike, by ensuring that those who try to deprive governments of much-needed revenues have nowhere to hide.’

SALVATION ARMY HELPS AFTER NIGHTCLUB BLAZE

Fire evacuees given shelter

DOCK-TOR ON CALL

MEMBERS of Southsea Salvation Army church provided food and shelter to people who were evacuated from homes and a hotel when a fire broke out in a disused nightclub. The leader of the church, Major Mary Wolfe, was joined by 14 volunteers from the congregation in looking after the residents and hotel guests. She says: ‘Our team welcomed individuals and families, providing sandwiches and hot drinks. Our guests were able to recover from their experience in our church lounge where they could watch the news on television and children could play with toys usually used in our young people’s activities. One man who had not been able to grab any possessions as he left his home in haste was provided with clothing.’

A nearby hotel gave the evacuees accommodation for the night.

The church continued to provide meals to people who were put up in guest accommodation because they were not able to return to their homes.

Volunteer hands on deck

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TONY and Ann Giles were two of the British volunteers serving aboard the hospital ship Africa Mercy while it was docked in Sierra Leone on UN World Humanitarian Day. The surgeon and nurse work on the ship – run by Christian charity Mercy Ships – to help hundreds of patients who have been shunned by society because of physical deformities such as cleft THE Salvation Army at Notting palates, club feet and tumours.

Hill took part in Operation Cup of UN World Humanitarian Day, Tea, an event highlighting community which fell on Friday 19 togetherness in the days after riots had caused havoc August, celebrated the ways in London. Community groups – including The in which people help Salvation Army – organised the event in response to others. some looting and theft in the area. People gathered together to enjoy a hot drink and cakes, prepared in the Salvation Army hall.

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Evil has a domino effect. One wrongdoing leads to another

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action. At first, life is perfect. Adam and Eve are the first humans to walk the earth. They enjoy the scenery. But then it all goes wrong.

A cunning serpent tempts Eve to eat some fruit from a tree which God has forbidden her to touch. She eats the fruit, then shares it with Adam. Big mistake.

Suddenly the happy couple are not so happy. They lose their innocence. Their disobedience marks the arrival of evil in the world. And evil has a domino effect. It doesn’t

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Life no longer has to end with eternal death

Right: Joseph, Mary and Jesus Below: Jesus is nailed to the cross

take much for one wrongdoing to lead to another. The first murder soon follows.

The couple’s son Cain kills his younger brother Abel out of jealousy. God isn’t happy about it. And as time goes on – and more people start to do bad things – God becomes increasingly angry. He wants to put things right with the people he created. But how?

By sending his Son, Jesus, to live on earth, God shows people a new way to live. Jesus restores a blind man’s sight. He understands people’s weaknesses and loves them in spite of their flaws. Jesus can do no wrong. The crowds surround him as though he is a modern-day rock star.

But not everyone is a fan. The religious leaders want Jesus out of the way. He makes them uncomfortable. They arrest him and kill him by nailing him to a cross.

The end.

But it’s not. Two days later, Jesus is raised to life. His followers can’t quite believe it.

Jesus eats some fish and chips to prove that he is real.

Jesus explains to his followers that his reasons for dying were ‘not for my guilt but for your need. I died thy sorrow to slay. It was for love of thee.’

When Jesus goes up to Heaven, he leaves his followers on earth. But he tells them that through him, they have a new hope. Their life no longer has to end with eternal death.

Because of his death and resurrection, they can experience eternal life.

Offstage, the offer is still available.

Everyone is welcome in Heaven. But, Jesus says, only those who believe in him and live according to his teaching will get in.

The Bible says: ‘God loved the people of this world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who has faith in him will have eternal life and never really die’ (John 3:16 Contemporary English Version).

This means we have a life-changing decision to make. We can accept that Jesus died for our wrongdoing, ask his forgiveness and build a relationship with him for today. We can experience joy in eternity. Or we can turn away from Jesus and find that when the curtain closes, our time is up for ever.

What will it be?

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Sewing

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OME of the sewing machines were made before I was born – but they and others like them are being given a new lease of life in Africa. About two years ago I set up a project which collects sewing machines in the UK and flies them out to Zambia, where The Salvation Army is tackling poverty by training people to make clothes and other items that can be sold to generate income. engineer Ted Holdford agreed

Airport chaplain MELVYN ACKROYD explains how extra baggage is helping Zambians change their lives

BETTY ACKROYD

I am a Salvation Army major and a chaplain at Heathrow airport. In the autumn of 2009 my wife Betty and I attended an international conference of civil aviation chaplains in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. While we were there we were touched by the poverty we saw. It seemed that on every street corner someone was trying to scrape a living by whatever they could turn their hand to. We saw people sitting on the ground, breaking a pile of rocks into small pieces to sell as gravel.

During our time in the country we met a young man who was training to be a Salvation Army officer. He had somehow got hold of a sewing machine and was using it to earn a living.

The sight stayed with me.

I began to wonder whether sewing machines could help other people in the country – and whether, through my contacts at Heathrow, I could find an efficient way of sending them out there.

I asked the leaders of The Salvation Army in Zambia whether sewing machines could benefit their work. Their answer was a resounding: ‘Yes!’ I approached British Airways with my idea, and they immediately said that they would allow additional checked baggage to passengers travelling to Lusaka with the sewing machines.

Through contacts within The Salvation Army and the Rotary Club which I attend, I set about collecting machines. A fellow Rotarian and retired motor

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to recondition each one.

Early last year, we sent out the first two cases to Zambia.

They contained not only two sewing machines but also fabric, sewing kits and educational material.

Over the next few months, more machines were flown out.

The Salvation Army in Zambia began to set up training courses so that people could produce items for their own families and to sell as a way of earning muchneeded money.

Across Zambia, people have been using the sewing machines to make clothes, school bags, napkins, tablecloths, aprons and shopping bags. Some of the items are made from three-inch scraps of material – nothing goes to waste. The money the people make helps them to buy medical treatment and to put their children through school. It also benefits their communities.

Two months ago, British Airways gave me and a Salvation Army colleague, Lieut-Colonel Geoff Blurton, free return flights to Zambia so we could see Project Zambia in action – and take out more sewing machines.

The Nchembwe Salvation Army church was one of the places where we took some machines. It had received some a few months earlier and the project was up and running in its mudbrick building at the heart of the village. In the hall, we were shown some of the garments which had been made by women using the machines that had already been sent out.

Village women were singing and ululating in celebration as the new machines were unloaded from the car.

Chiyanga was another village which had already received machines through the project and had built up a team of skilled machinists. They

Villagers sell clothes to generate income

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machine project Old sewing machines are being given a new lease of life

were eagerly awaiting the arrival of the additional machines so that more villagers could join the project. The villagers sell the clothes they make to generate income for themselves and the work of The Salvation Army in the village.

In Lusaka, The Salvation Army has opened its own shop, Wonderfully Made, as an outlet for some of the goods made through Project Zambia. In the shop I saw the goods that have been produced using the sewing machines donated, recondi-

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tioned and sent from the UK. More than 100 machines have already been flown out, but I am always looking for people travelling to Lusaka with British Airways who can take out more.

The machines are helping people to make a difference to their own lives. One young woman who took part in a training programme said: ‘I thought prostitution was going to be the only way I could earn a living. Now, I am looking forward to being a good tailor.’

G For more information email melvyn.ackroyd@salvationarmy.org.uk

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MEDIA

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Road rage as bishops say laws halt ‘good Samaritans’

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be illegal for priests to preach to them or conduct their baptisms.

The bishops have argued that the law goes against

Christian teaching which calls people to help others.

‘The law prohibits almost everything which would assist an undocumented

immigrant,’ said the Most Rev Thomas J. Rodi, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Mobile. ‘It attacks what it means to be a Christian.’

There’ll be tiers, says tabloid THE state equality watchdog has put together a plan for a two-tier law for Christians, reported the Daily Mail.

According to the paper, the quango said that Christians ‘should be free to display their faith by wearing crosses or pinning up religious symbols at work’. But the Equality and Human Rights Commission said that Christians should not

be allowed to demonstrate religious principles which oppose gay rights.

Christian organisation the Evangelical Alliance has accused the commission’s head, former Labour politician Trevor Phillips, of being bullied by the gay rights lobby, saying he has been intimidated by those ‘wish to restrict freedom of religion’.

RS students make the grade

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Students celebrate getting their A level results

China tunes in to God

ON Radio 4 the principal of St Anne’s College, Oxford, travels through China to explore the role of God in the country. In the three-part series God in China – which begins on Monday (29 August I PRESENTER Brian 8 pm) presenter Tim D’Arcy explores Jesus’ Gardam analyses the parables of the wise and religious revolution foolish builders in Sunday that is sweeping the Half Hour on Radio 2 nation. tomorrow (28 August 8.30 pm).

ON the morning that A level results were released, Premier Radio reported that the number of pupils passing A level Religious Studies has risen. More than 18,000 took the exam, with 80 per cent of them getting grade C or above. The news came against the background of the Government’s plan not to include RS as a core subject of the English Baccalaureate.

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The Great British public rallied round to support 89-year-old Aaron Biber, whose Tottenham High Road barber shop was ransacked. Locals organised a whipround to repair the damage and keep him in business. It raised more than £35,000.

At a North London community centre, residents who’d taken shelter after their homes had been damaged received clothes, food and toys gifts from wellwishers and neighbours.

‘Walls of love’ have also been springing up. In Peckham, residents started to stick Post-it Note messages declaring their love for the town on a boarded-up shop window. Word spread and the shop was covered on three sides with messages of support. Likewise, in Manchester’s Arndale shopping centre, thousands of people have expressed their sticky-note feelings on a wall of love.

People haven’t responded like this because a politician or television crew visited their area. They didn’t go out of their way to get their hands dirty and help those in need because the Prime Minister keeps preaching his ‘big society’ gospel.

No, if anything, such demonstrations of community spirit, practical and poetic expressions of goodwill and iron resolve not to let the louts win are evidence that there already is such a thing as society.

They show that people care about the country, their town, their streets and their neighbours’ welfare.

Big-heartedness goes deeper than a ‘big society’. Such ‘good Samaritan’ spirit taps into the injunction of Jesus to love our neighbours as we love ourselves.

It may take a crisis for it to shine through, but the overwhelming reaction to the street violence says that this is a quality to which the boorish spoilers would do well to adhere.

RADIO

THE silent majority is making its voice heard. After nights of rioting and looting, quietly spoken, lawabiding members of the public are making their own protest. Using the same social networking technology that was said to garner swift support for the outbreak of criminality, people have been flocking to help in the clean-up.

IN THE PRESS

Adhesive society

‘BISHOPS sue Alabama over “unbiblical” immigration laws’ was the headline in The Times, after four bishops claimed that new anti-immigration laws will make it ‘a crime to follow God’s command to be good Samaritans’.

The legislation, which comes into force in September, will make it illegal to provide shelter or transport to immigrants who enter Alabama illegally. It will also

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Have a little

A SURVEY investigating the nation’s attitudes to forward planning has found that one in eight of us adopts a ‘live for the moment’ lifestyle and would choose the instant gratification of a £640 holiday this year rather than wait five years for a holiday worth £5,000.

The survey was conducted by Standard Life and hotel company i-escape.com. John Lawson from Standard Life says: ‘Planning five years ahead is something many people find difficult to imagine or do their best to avoid. Our poll shows that some people seem to be too impatient to wait for greater rewards in the future, no matter how enticing they are.’

He adds: ‘Being patient and taking a long-term view of finances is precisely what helps people to achieve their goals and ensures they remain financially secure. It Author J. K. Rowling took might seem easier to take a shortmore than five years to create term view, but unless they plan the schoolboy wizard and get ahead, how else can they look the first manuscript to her forward to the future with publisher. confidence and optimism?’

I Facebook might not exist as it So what if all people were this does now. It took creator Mark impatient?

Zuckerburg five years to grow I There would be fewer doctors. the social networking site from If one in eight of the doctors a small operation to a global employed by the NHS was not phenomenon which has patient enough to finish their 250 million users. studies, there would be 14,000 fewer doctors in the UK. I There would be no Dysons. It took inventor James Dyson five painstaking years to develop his iconic bagless vacuum cleaner.

I Wallace and Gromit would be just lumps of plasticine. It took more than five years to create the film Wallace and Gromit – The Curse of the WereRabbit.

I There would be no Harry Potter.

Library pictures posed by models

Time is in our hands

Customers bank on different methods RESEARCH by Pay Your Way, a campaign helping people benefit from modern payment methods, shows that Britons like to keep a close eye on their money. Some make use of online technology to check their bank account as often as once a day, but many people still spend valuable hours in their bank branches to tackle the most straightforward of tasks.

Two in five people say they check their bank account at least once a week. Fifteen per cent of the nation admit to never using their bank account online. But confidence in making transactions online is high among consumers, with 90 per cent of 25 to 34-year-olds saying they trust online banking.

Just over a quarter of people say they would prefer the ‘traditional’ way of managing money by going into a bank or building society. Just over one in ten of us visit our local bank branch at least once a week, while 7 per cent of people say they never visit it.

Sandra Quinn from the Pay Your Way campaign says: ‘Our campaign aims to explain all the payment methods currently available to consumers, whether they are online, cash or cheque payments. We allow people to choose the best options and help them to learn more about methods they may not be using already.’

To find out more visit payyourway.org.uk

People like to visit their bank

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S a teenager, Rachel Welch had a very happy home life. She was part of a loving family.

She did well at school. So why, then, did she spend ten years cutting, bruising and starving herself?

‘Ask anyone who self-harms why they do it and they’ll probably tell you that they don’t know,’ says Rachel, who today works as project director for selfharm.co.uk. ‘The sufferer knows that by hurting themselves they are making life easier to cope with, but they don’t always understand why that is the case.

Safe from

RACHEL WELCH tells Claire Brine about the pains of self-harm

‘I started self-harming in my early teens and carried on until my early twenties. My self-harm took various forms. Sometimes I would not eat for a while, then I’d have a period of bruising myself, followed by episodes of cutting. It all stemmed Norfolk and married her husband from my low self-esteem.

Mark. The couple are expecting their ‘I became very poorly and had to second child. At 33, her life is good. go into hospital. Over the years my ‘If someone had told me in my weight went up and down by as teens that one day I’d be a married much as three stone. I felt hopeless mother of two and working for a and couldn’t imagine that life would Christian project which helps people get any better. I dropped out of who self-harm, I wouldn’t have church.’ believed it,’ she says. ‘After everyBut as Rachel got older, she thing I have put my body through, I noticed that her attitude began to didn’t think I would be capable of change. She’d had enough of abusing achieving all this. her body and instead wanted to enjoy ‘I’ve learnt that it is OK to have living. feelings, such as anger or sadness. I ‘I realised that self-harming pre- don’t need to avoid those feelings by vented me from having a life,’ she hurting myself. Sometimes I’m says. ‘So I decided to live differently. tempted to revert back to my old It wasn’t easy. But I wanted to see the ways, but I don’t think the want world, and so gradually losing weight and bruising myself Rachel Welch became less important to me. I became more independent and went by myself to visit my brother in Australia.’

By the time she was 25, Rachel says, she had ‘moved away from self-harming’.

She went to live in

I started self-harming in my early teens

inside me is big enough any more.

‘Being a self-harmer with an eating disorder is hard work. The discipline I needed was astronomical.

I don’t want to go through that again.

I don’t have the motivation to be like that any more.’

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or Rachel, the story has a happy ending. Her years of self-harm are a memory. But there are thousands of people for whom self-harming is a daily reality. Often the behaviour remains a secret. It is also, says Rachel, misunderstood.

‘Commonly people assume that self-harm is about young people cutting themselves.

That is not wrong, but it is far from the whole truth. People of all ages self-harm by burning themselves, bruising their skin, pulling out their hair, punching a wall, biting their nails until they bleed, overexercising – the list is endless. The problem often starts in the teenage years, but not exclusively so. It can also go on indefinitely.

‘I heard about a girl who purposely wore

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You’re so concerned with grief or anger that the pain doesn’t feel as bad as it really is

shoes that were a size too small for her. Every step she took was painful, which prompted her to remember just how inadequate she believed she was. But it somehow resulted in her feeling better.’

Self-harmers sometimes see their condition as a coping mechanism, an action which helps them through life. A person who hurts themselves is able to express difficult emotions which would otherwise remain buried.

‘Feelings of anger, frustration and a lack of self-worth are common triggers for self-harming,’ says Rachel. ‘These are normal emotions, but in some cases a young person won’t know how to deal with them. Over time these emotions intensify, and they discover that a physical pain is preferable to an emotional pain.

‘For example, a young person may pain doesn’t feel as bad as it really is. have a parent who drinks heavily. They ‘Self-harm is addictive behaviour and know that whenever they see Mum or when people do it, they may get a rush as Dad reaching for the bottle, they are in the adrenalin kicks in. But gradually the for a tough time. The worry causes such effects wear off, so the next time that emotional pain that they cannot cope. So they feel bad, they have to hurt themthey cause themselves physical pain to selves in a bigger way to get the same mask what is really going on. Some effect. A one-inch cut may need to people will need to self-harm only once become two one-inch cuts.’ to get them through the next week.

As the scars of self-harm are often visOthers may have to self-harm every few ible to the naked eye, sufferers often go hours.’ to great lengths to hide their wounds. If they cut their arms, they wear long sleeves. If a man cuts his torso, he will often keep his shirt on throughout the summer.

‘Self-harmers know how to protect s a former self-harmer, Rachel themselves. People who bruise themunderstands more than most selves, for example, learn where their how young sufferers feel when they are body will bruise easily. They also in the moment of hurting themselves. consider the places where it is normal to ‘You don’t feel as though you are in be bruised. Bruises up the inner thigh your body any more,’ she says. ‘Nothing may be difficult to explain, but a bruise feels real. Everything feels numb. You’re on the leg can be explained by the selfso consumed with grief or anger that the harmer saying they walked into a table.’

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Contrary to what some people believe, self-harmers are not necessarily people who want to try to kill themselves.

‘Suicide is a way of ending life, but self-harm is a way of living life,’ Rachel explains. ‘Most young self-harmers will say that their behaviour is what keeps them alive. When they hurt themselves, life is bearable.

‘Some young people who cut themselves find it reassuring to see their own blood. They feel so disconnected from the world that the sight of blood reminds them that they are human.’

One of the controversies of self-harm

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surrounds the fact that some of the methods of doing it are safer than others. Should young people be taught how to ‘do it safely’ or will this only result in an increased number of self-harmers?

Rachel argues: ‘If someone is going to self-harm they are going to do it, whatever you say. I don’t think that you can turn someone into a self-harmer by telling them about it. Some young people end up self-harming because they never have anyone to talk to about what’s going on in their lives.’

Once a person is caught up in self-harm, the problem may go much further than skindeep. Some young people are like Rachel and find that as they mature their compulsion to hurt themselves lessens. For others, the healing process is more of a struggle.

‘Self-harm is rarely something that a person can instantly snap out of,’ she says. ‘The sufferer really has to want to stop. But even then, they may still have plenty of bad days – when they revert to hurting themselves – as they learn to have the good days.

‘It is best for a parent of a teenager who self-harms to acknowledge the problem – even if they don’t like or understand it – rather than ask them to stop doing it. If an adult asks a young person to stop hurting themselves, but the young person feels they cannot, they may feel that they are letting the adult down.’

Some art created by self-harmers

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he act of self-harming can be very lonely. Although Rachel had been brought up as a Christian, she remembers that, during her struggles, God felt absent.

‘When I dropped out of church my Christian faith became dormant. I was left with the impression that I had angered God; that I must be a bad, weak person. My views changed when I had my son and experienced a different kind of love. I love him unconditionally and I came to understand that this is exactly how God feels about us.’

Today a huge part of Rachel’s life is her work for the Christian project selfharm.co.uk. She runs the website, which supports young people who selfharm as well as anyone who has a connection to young sufferers.

‘The website gives people information about self-harm, points out helpful organisations and provides resources such as teaching packs. There is a forum

so young people can post their stories, poems and art and encourage each other. The site is monitored so that it remains safe.

‘As well as running the website I visit schools and churches, training people about self-harm. In the future I’d like to run workshops for parents and siblings of self-harmers.’

Another part of Rachel’s job is to forge links with other organisations.

This year she has been working with the writers of Emmerdale to come up with a self-harm storyline.

‘Someone from the soap rang me up and asked if I would be interested in

contributing to a future plot. After I passed the interview, I went to meet the actors and put forward some thoughts for the script. I was very excited to see my ideas take shape.’

Back in the real world, Rachel remains committed to helping selfharmers cope with daily life. She encourages them to have hope. However they may feel about themselves, she is convinced that God cares about them.

‘I believe that God is saddened when he sees people hurt themselves – but he is not angry with them,’ she says. ‘He is far too compassionate for that. In spite of our flaws, he always loves us.’

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T N B WORDSEARCH B Look up, down, U forwards, backwards A and diagonally on the P grid to find these D words for family N members A R AUNT G BROTHER BROTHER-IN-LAW T COUSIN G DAD G DADDY G DAUGHTER N DAUGHTER-IN-LAW FATHER H Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9 Solution on page 15

FATHER-IN-LAW GRANDAD GRANDDAUGHTER GRANDFATHER GRANDMA GRANDMOTHER GRANDPA

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HONEYCOMB

ACROSS 1. Sink back (7) 5. Squander (5) 7. Accumulation (7) 8. Guffaw (5) 10. Singing part (4) 11. Decrees (8) 13. Cleared up (6) 14. Rearrange (6) 17. Month (8) 19. Voucher (4) 21. Tag (5) 22. Gripped (7) 23. Compact (5) 24. Held up (7)

ANSWERS

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Each solution starts on the coloured cell and reads clockwise round the number 1. Send goods to another country for sale 2. Small platform 3. Resistant to a particular infection 4. Place of business 5. Circus tent (3, 3) 6. Pull out of the ground

DOWN 2. Found (7) 3. Tug (4) 4. Fourscore (6) 5. Affluent (4-2-2) 6. Crouch (5) 7. Very pretty (9) 9. Paused (9) 12. Charmed (8) 15. Sad (7) 16. Intensely cold (6) 18. Noisy assembly (5) 20. Not succeed (4)

QUICK QUIZ 1. What do the initials of the ferry company P&O stand for?

2. What were the Christian names of the seven brothers in the film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers?

3. What is the heaviest organ in the human body?

4. What is David Bowie’s birth name?

5. In which UK county is the port of Felixstowe 6. What are the six murder weapons used in a game of Cluedo’?

QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1 Relapse. 5 Waste. 7 Backlog. 8 Laugh.

10 Alto. 11 Statutes. 13 Tidied. 14 Adjust.

17 February. 19 Chit. 21 Label. 22 Grasped. 23 Solid.

24 Delayed.

DOWN: 2 Located. 3 Pull. 4 Eighty. 5 Well-to-do.

6 Squat. 7 Beautiful. 9 Hesitated. 12 Beguiled.

15 Unhappy. 16 Frigid. 18 Babel. 20 Fail.

QUICK QUIZ 1 Peninsular & Oriental. 2 Adam, Benjamin, Caleb, Daniel, Ephraim, Frankincense and Gideon. 3 The liver. 4 David Jones. 5 Suffolk. 6 Candlestick, dagger, lead piping, rope, revolver and spanner.

HONEYCOMB 1 Export. 2 Podium. 3 Immune. 4 Office. 5 Big top.

6 Uproot.

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Know them by their

TELEVANGELISM is a strange portmanteau word composed of ‘television’ and ‘evangelism’.

Televangelists are ministers who devote a large part of their time to broadcasting their message on the small screen.

There are many sincere and helpful televangelists who provide people with access to the gospel where they might otherwise be denied. They preach, teach and convey Christian truths with sincerity, warmth and compassion to their home-based congregations. Their viewers become closer to God and are helped in their Christian journey by what they experience through this way of worshipping.

However, there are other televangelists who are less than scrupulous. They ask viewers to make donations without being accountable to anyone for financial probity. They promise health, wealth and prosperity to their followers if they are faithful in their following – but they lack the means to check up on the validity of their claims, because they never meet their congregations.

They own luxury cars, mansions and planes.

All televangelists say they are doing God’s work and reaching millions of people with the good news of salvation. None of them would say

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

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fruits ‘Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them’ (Matthew 7:19, 20)

out for false prophets … By their fruit you will recognise them. Do people pick grapes from thorn-bushes, or figs from thistles? Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit’ (Matthew 7:15–17 New International Version).

The mark of any Christian is not what they say but what they do. Not their beliefs but their behaviour. Jesus calls those who follow him to practise what he preached. A lifestyle full of personal integrity is one which will attract and encourage others to follow Jesus – the fruit of the Kingdom of God.

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they were doing it for personal gain and fame. Are they all genuine? As the expression goes, ‘By their fruits ye shall know them.’

When Jesus spoke about knowing people by their fruits, he was talking about true and false prophets: ‘Watch

The mark of any Christian is not what they say but what they do

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Garden policy is rubbish!

GARDENERS who don’t have the use of a car could well be in a state if, like me, they live in an area where the council is planning to cut its doorstep collection of garden waste.

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my need of help.

But when I ask God for his forgiveness he forgives me completely; he takes my wrongdoing out of sight. When I give him my problems, the burdens fall away. When I do, I am not so much recycled as renewed.

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by HELEN BRETT

No longer will householders be able to leave special bags of assorted clippings and cuttings outside their gate to have it removed.

(I hear one council is charging £25 for garden recycling collection, despite the fact that householders already pay council tax.)

Where will this rubbish go?

Will ghostly figures creep through the darkness to dump it on the few green plots loved by dog-walkers? Will bonfires in suburban gardens light up the sky and cause housewives to weep as smuts descend on their lines of washing?

I am fortunate that I have a gardener who kindly removes all my unwanted debris when he has finished for the day.

I am glad also that I have someone who will dispose of other bits I can do without – such as anxieties, fears and niggling irritations.

One of Jesus’ disciples writes: ‘Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you’ (1 Peter 5:7 New International Version).

Like rubbish collections organised by the council, this is not an automatic process. I need to make my rubbish available. I need to admit my shortcomings and

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WHAT’S COOKING?

Watercress, potato and bacon frittata Ingredients: 350g new potatoes 1tbsp olive oil 4 rashers back bacon, trimmed and sliced 1 onion, sliced 85g watercress, roughly chopped 6 medium British Lion eggs 50g mature Cheddar cheese, grated Method: Cook the potatoes in a pan of boiling, salted water for 10 minutes or until tender.

Drain the potatoes and slice.

Heat the oil in a non-stick frying pan, add the bacon and onions and fry for 3–4 minutes until they begin to turn brown. Add the potato slices and cook for a further 5 minutes. Add the SUDOKU SOLUTION

watercress to the pan and continue to cook for 2 minutes, stirring until it has wilted.

Beat the eggs with a little salt and plenty of ground black pepper. Pour the eggs into the pan and cook, stirring for 1 minute, until most of the egg has set. Shake the pan to level the surface of the frittata and cook for a further 2 minutes.

Sprinkle the cheese over the top of the frittata, then cook under a hot grill for 2 minutes or until the cheese has melted and the top is golden brown.

Slice into wedges and serve.

Serves 4

JUST DESSERTS

THE MAIN ATTRACTION

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Fresh fruit gateau Method: Preheat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas Mark 5.

Lightly grease and line the bases of two 20cm sandwich tins.

Place the eggs and sugar in a large bowl over a pan of hot water. Whisk, using an electric hand whisk, until the mixture has doubled in volume and is thick enough for the whisk to leave a trail in its surface when lifted.

Remove the bowl from the heat, stir in the vanilla essence and continue whisking for a further 5 minutes until the mixture has cooled. Sift half the flour over the mixture, then fold in lightly using a large metal spoon. Sift and fold in the remaining flour.

Pour the batter into the prepared tins and spread evenly. Bake for about 15 minutes until the cakes are risen, firm to the touch

Ingredients: 4 medium British Lion eggs 125g caster sugar Few drops vanilla essence 125g plain flour 4tbsp reduced-sugar raspberry jam 6tbsp half-fat crème fraiche 450g assorted fresh fruit, such as strawberries, raspberries, redcurrants and blueberries 1tbsp icing sugar and beginning to shrink away from the sides of the tin. Turn out and cool on a wire rack.

When the cakes are cold, spread one with the jam and place on a serving plate. Top with the fruit, then spoon over the crème fraiche. Sprinkle with icing sugar and chill until ready to serve.

Serves 10

GET ready to party, Caribbean style! The Notting Hill Carnival is set and ready to parade the streets of West London. The fun begins tomorrow (Sunday 28 August) and continues until Bank Holiday Monday.

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It’s time to follow the parade writes RENÉE DAVIS

A carnival dancer makes a colourful display

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The Notting Hill Carnival has been running every August Bank Holiday since 1966 and has attracted millions of visitors from around the globe.

The event originates from early carnivals held in Caribbean countries. One of the first Caribbean carnivals was held in Trinidad after slavery was abolished.

When the wave of Caribbean people settled in the UK in the 1950s, they brought with them the sounds, smells, sights and culture of their homeland.

In 1964 the first West Indian carnival hit the streets. It was a joyful reminder to the new settlers of life back home. At a time when there was widespread discrimination against black people, the carnival was one way of uniting communities.

It continues to unite people from many diverse backgrounds. Those attending the Notting Hill Carnival can expect to eat traditional Caribbean food, such as jerk chicken and curried goat. They can also expect to hear good music, such as calypso and soca, and watch steel pan bands. There will be dancers and music floats parading the streets of West London encouraging bystanders to join them by having a good time.

In a busy society, many people rarely find time to have a good time.

Work, family and other commitments keep them preoccupied, leaving fun out of the picture. But fun is good for us. It keeps the balance in life. One Bible writer says: ‘I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun’ (Ecclesiastes 8:15 New International Version).

Enjoyable moments give us a spring in our step. They help us to relax and feel renewed.

Jesus came into the world not only to save us from our sins, but also to give us life in all its fullness.

He wants us to live a colourful and vibrant life.

So why not join the parade and follow him?

Fun is good for us. It keeps the balance in life

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