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Can a lip-reader crack the case in ITV drama?
The couple who fostered 107 children
What is The Salvation Army?
The Salvation Army is a Christian church and registered charity seeking to share the good news of Jesus and nurture committed followers of him. We also serve people without discrimination, care for creation and seek justice and reconciliation. We offer practical support and services in more than 700 centres throughout the UK. Go to salvationarmy.org.uk/find-a-church to find your nearest centre.
What is the War Cry?
The Salvation Army first published a newspaper called the War Cry in London in December 1879, and we have continued to appear every week since then. Our name refers to our battle for people’s hearts and souls as we promote the positive impact of the Christian faith and The Salvation Army’s fight for greater social justice.
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Every year tens of thousands of children are cared for outside of their families. In England alone, 83,630 were in care in 2024. There is always a need for foster-parents.
A dramatic crime wave has hit TV and streaming platforms. Whether it’s the cosy feel of clerics solving mysteries or the gritty storylines of inner-city murders investigated by detectives battling their own demons, viewers can’t seem to get enough of whodunnits. In this week’s War Cry new series of ITV1 police drama Unforgotten, where Sanjeev Bhaskar and Sinéad Keenan have more cases to solve.
We are in the middle of Foster Care Fortnight, which aims to raise awareness of the positive impact that fostering children can make. In this week’s War Cry we speak with Wendy Britten, who, with her husband Michael, has fostered more than 100 children.
Perhaps the popularity of these crime dramas is explained by the satisfaction that viewers gain from seeing wrongs put right and the guilty brought to justice. Often the shows’ wrong’uns are bad to the core and have deliberately chosen to follow a life of crime.
‘Many children came to us because they had been physically and mentally abused,’ Wendy tells us. ‘They were told they were rubbish. If they hadn’t been looked after very well, they were often dirty and hungry. In some cases, the mums were addicted to drugs and alcohol and the dads were shouty and violent.’
However, according to people who work with offenders, the reality is often far more complex. After becoming a prison chaplain, the Rev Tracy Sickel quickly realised that various factors played a part in women becoming inmates.
Wendy explains how, because of their unimaginably tough start in life, some of the children she fostered demonstrated challenging behaviour. However, Wendy never gave up on any of the children she looked after, and she believes she was helped in her caring for them by her Christian faith.
‘I sat down with women in their induction interviews on their first day in prison,’ she tells us, ‘and it was the same things I was hearing continually: lack of self-esteem, abusive relationships, trauma, unforgiveness and addictions. Often they were victims themselves.’
‘I’ve always handed everything over to God. And whenever things felt really horrible, I’d have a good old cry too,’ she says, adding: ‘I couldn’t have been a foster-parent without having my faith in God and the support of our church.’
While Tracy never dismissed the implications of the women’s crimes, some years ago she grew disheartened at seeing women returning to prison after their release. So she established a Christian charity, Imago Dei, to support them once they had completed their sentence.
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As well as offering practical help, Tracy wants to show the women how a relationship with God can help them.
Being a Christian does not insulate a person from the harsh realities of the world. They may suffer hardships themselves or, like Wendy, feel compelled to help people who are struggling in life.
They are inspired by Jesus who – the Bible says – went about doing good.
‘We work with people of all faiths and none in prisons,’ she says. ‘We build relationships, placing value on the women and helping them see themselves as the Lord sees them... We then allow the Lord to step in and do what only he can do – transform lives.’
By following his example, Christians have been able to help millions of people from all kinds of backgrounds.
Some Christians have even known the same kinds of hurts and traumas as experienced by the people they are supporting – but they have found that God’s love has enabled them to move through their pain and discover a new life with him.
God’s offer to transform lives is for us all, no matter who we are or what we have done. If we allow him space in our heart, we’ll detect changes in our character that we couldn’t have possibly imagined.
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The trailer for David Attenborough’s new film, Ocean, which was released in cinemas last week, stopped me in my tracks. In it, he says: ‘Today the ocean is in such poor health, I would find it hard to not lose hope, were it not for the most remarkable discovery of all. The ocean can recover faster than we had ever imagined… Put simply, we’ve been given a lifeline.’
After the record-breaking heat at the start of May and the reports of flooding by hailstones in France, I had been wondering about the state of the planet.
But David’s message was one of hope. Because of this new discovery, he says, the ocean may ‘thrive beyond anything anyone alive has ever seen’.
We have been given a lifeline
Good film-making, compelling words and a swelling soundtrack aside, his message – I am sure – will resonate with many people, because hope is a powerful thing. I am moved too, but I am also reminded of how the world has ended up in such a position.
Thousands of years ago, the planet was entrusted to humans by God, who created it. He told us to take care of it. And we haven’t. Through deforestation, industrialised farming and fishing as well as general selfishness and greed, we have mistreated his gift.
The truth is, we have damaged everything that God has given us – including our relationships with each other and our potential for connection with him. Humanity is in such poor health, but we have also been given a lifeline: Jesus.
Through his death, Jesus took on the blame for the destruction we were headed for because of our own behaviour; and, through his resurrection, he made a way for us to experience new and everlasting life.
It’s a message of lasting hope. While we still must – with God’s help –take care of each other and our planet while we are alive, we will all die one day. Deciding to follow Jesus is the only way that we can be certain of experiencing life after death and a world beyond anything any of us have ever seen.
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The Salvation Army church in Macclesfield has introduced a self-referral food bank to support people struggling with food poverty. Working in partnership with community group Cheshire Streetwise, The Salvation Army operates the food bank every Monday. As well as welcoming people without referrals from other organisations, the food bank allows clients to choose their own items according to their needs and tastes – a policy designed to promote dignity and reduce waste.
Lieutenant Alice Swain, leader of the Salvation Army church in Macclesfield, says that it is important that people can refer themselves to the service because prices remain high and wages are not keeping up with them.
‘If someone is struggling one week,’ she says, ‘we want to ensure that, instead of choosing to go without food, they are able to come and access the food bank service with no questions asked – just a friendly hand when they need it the most.’
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Listings mag looks for favourite faith broadcast
Radio Times is inviting readers to vote for one of this year’s Sandford St Martin awards for religious, spiritual or ethical broadcasting. Programmes making the shortlist for the Radio Times readers’ award, which will be presented at the annual ceremony in London next month, include Gareth Malone’s Easter Passion on BBC1, which featured the choirmaster teaching a group of amateur singers how to perform Bach’s St John Passion; and Better Off Dead, a documentary – also shown on BBC1 – about assisted dying and the right to life, presented by Silent Witness actor and disability rights campaigner Liz Carr.
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Remains ‘may be earliest church’
BBC News ran an online feature about some fourth-century remains in Colchester which archaeologists believe may be Britain’s earliest known church.
The article said that when the remains were unearthed in the Victorian era it had been thought that they were from a Roman temple, but the east-west alignment of the building and the surrounding graves suggest it is a Christian church instead.
Other evidence to support the claim includes the discovery of more than 500 coins dating back to AD330, by which time Christianity had become legalised in the Roman Empire.
Adam Wightman, the director of archaeology at the Colchester Archaeological Trust, said: ‘As archaeologists, we’re trying desperately as detectives to piece these things together, but there’s lots of smaller bits of evidence and it’s those weighed together that suggest it’s a Christian church.’
‘Gareth Malone’s Easter Passion’ is on the shortlist for an award
Bridget (second from right) meets Ukrainian women who, with local volunteer Peter Holmes, now help run the project
MP sees Ukrainian refugee support
The work of a Salvation Army church in Sunderland was praised by government minister Bridget Phillipson when she visited the project it runs to support Ukrainian refugees.
Sunderland Monkwearmouth Salvation Army provides refugees with concerts, coffee mornings, Sunday services, training, job assistance and safe spaces for their children. About 30 refugees met with the MP for Houghton and Sunderland South and told her about their past experiences and current problems with issues such as visa uncertainties.
When tragedy struck
In 2025, The Salvation Army celebrates its 160th anniversary. During the year, we will be looking back at some of the history of the church and charity. This time, we turn the clock back 111 years ago this month and remember a maritime disaster that impacted thousands of people
Feature by Rose Urmston
Two months before the start of the First World War and two years after the sinking of RMS Titanic, another maritime disaster struck when RMS Empress of Ireland sank on 29 May 1914.
The Empress of Ireland and her sister ship, the Empress of Britain, were important ships at that time. They had been built to accommodate the increased passenger numbers sailing between Canada and Britain. The weekly service from Liverpool offered larger, faster and more comfortable crossings than any other service. The two ships soon became the most popular on the route.
The Empress of Ireland had left Quebec the previous day and was sailing back to Liverpool in thick fog when it collided with SS Storstad, a Norwegian ship entering the St Lawrence River. Within 14 minutes of the collision, the Empress had disappeared. The rapidity of its sinking left little to no time for rescue
efforts, and resulted in a horrendous death toll.
It was the worst peacetime maritime disaster in Canadian history, with 1,012 individuals losing their lives. Of these, 840 were passengers – greater than the number of passengers who died on the Titanic. The other 172 deaths were members of the ship’s crew.
Salvation Army officers gave up their life jackets
Among the 1,057 passengers originally on board the Empress were 171 members of The Salvation Army who were making their way from Canada to an international conference due to be held in London.
According to reports of the time in the War Cry, only eight Salvationists survived.
They related how Salvation Army officers gave up life jackets and sang hymns to try to keep everyone calm.
Commissioner David Rees and his wife, Ruth, were two of the members of The Salvation Army whose lives were lost on the Empress of Ireland. Commissioner Rees held the post of territorial commander – the national leader – of the church in Canada and Newfoundland. He and his wife were on their way to represent their country at the international event in London. Ernest Ford, who survived the disaster, told the War Cry at the time about the bravery shown by Commissioner Rees.
‘Commissioner Rees … set a fine example by refusing to leave his companions,’ Ernest was reported as saying. ‘The commissioner had a lifebelt on … but he saw that he could not get his wife and children and other women of the party off deck in time, so he remained
RMS ‘Empress of Ireland’
with them.’
General Bramwell Booth, The Salvation Army’s international leader, said that in Commissioner Rees he had lost a friend, and The Salvation Army had lost a ‘true leader’.
The Reeses had been joined on board by their three eldest children, who also died in the tragedy.
Another married Salvationist couple lost on the Empress of Ireland were Colonel Sidney and Staff Captain Hettie Maidment. The couple had only recently settled in Canada after being appointed to senior roles there. They planned to visit family in England after attending the London event.
The funeral was attended by 10,000 people
The couple had worked for The Salvation Army away from Britain, and a letter from Hettie to her sister in May 1914, just two weeks before the voyage, demonstrated her excitement to ‘meet you all again after so many years’ and ‘have a grand time together’. It was not to be, and the disaster resulted in their six children being left orphans.
One of the few Salvationist survivors of the Empress of Ireland was eight-yearold Grace Hanagan. Her father, Edward Hanagan, led The Salvation Army’s national band in Canada, and Edward was one of the band members who died.
Grace later recalled her father conducting the band as the ship set sail from Quebec, the last time he would do so. When the ship sank, Grace and her parents were thrown into the water. Grace was rescued by a lifeboat but her
parents were not. When Grace died in 1995 she was the last survivor of the Empress of Ireland
A relief fund for those orphaned or widowed as a result of the sinking was quickly set up by the lord mayor of London.
Meanwhile
General Bramwell Booth was invited to Buckingham Palace, where King George V paid his respects to the dead and the ongoing work that The Salvation Army carried out around the world.
According to the War Cry, 10,000 people attended the funeral of the lost Salvationists in Toronto on 7 June 1914, while 100,000 people lined the route to the cemetery. For those who lost loved ones in the disaster who shared their Christian faith, there would have been the belief that one day they would be reunited in Heaven and that, until that time, they would receive God’s love and comfort.
on. Every year, on the anniversary of the tragedy, a service is held at the memorial in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, to remember the lives lost.
For The Salvation Army as an organisation, 111 years later, the memory of the Empress of Ireland disaster lives
l Rose Urmston is assistant archivist at The Salvation Army’s International Heritage Centre
The memorial at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto, and (below) the last photograph of the Canadian band
‘Our foster-children were part of the family’
To mark Foster Care Fortnight, which runs until 25 May, WENDY BRITTEN reflects on the joys of being a fosterparent to more than 100 children and reveals what supported her through challenging times
Interview by Claire Brine
Over a period of 30 years, Wendy Britten fostered 107 children. All of them, she loved. All of them, she prayed for. Whether the children stayed in the family home for days, weeks, months, years or even decades, Wendy was devoted to showing each one a mother’s care.
‘This love that I have for children, I know it comes from God,’ says Wendy, who lives in Rockhampton, near Bristol, with her husband, Michael. ‘My dad was a vicar, and when I was growing up, we often had people staying with us who were in need in some way.
‘Some of them were single mums, and I loved looking after their babies. When I took care of them, I was in heaven. I think that God was preparing me to become a foster-mum right from when I was little.’
After having what Wendy refers to as her ‘three home-made children’, she and Michael made the decision to become foster carers. When they welcomed their first foster-child into the family, back in 1981, their own children were aged three, five and seven.
‘The first child we took in was a baby girl, about one week old,’ Wendy
remembers. ‘We adored her – she was gorgeous. She stayed with us for a few months, before being adopted. It was so painful when she left. We felt that we’d really got to know her.
‘After that, we went on to care for a number of other children, and then we were asked to look after a boy who had a disability. I think I was a bit afraid of the idea at first, because I’d never cared for a disabled child before. But we said yes and he was such a lovely boy. We disagreed with all the official paperwork that we’d received about him, which said that he was a nuisance and badtempered. He wasn’t.
‘After that little boy left us, I felt the door was open for me to say yes to fostering any child, whatever their needs were. Whoever came to us, I never gave up on them. I never once said to social services, “Please take this child away from us”, even when things were hard.’
On rare occasions, Wendy and Michael were asked to care for children who were terminally ill. They found it to be a painful privilege.
‘I can remember caring for a severely disabled, terminally ill baby boy,’ Wendy says. ‘We all adored him.
Michael and Wendy Britten
‘He loved the garden, so the children used to take him outside to see all the flowers. When he went into hospital for the last week of his life, they drew pictures of the garden for him and hung them around his bed. The day he died was heartbreaking.
There were 11 of us living in the house
‘A
fter him, we fostered two more children who were terminally ill. You never forget them.’
As an experienced foster-parent, Wendy became used to caring for children of all ages and from a variety of backgrounds. Many of them ended up living in the family home for months at a time. Others required care that was much more short-term.
‘In emergency cases, we’d be asked to take in children for just a couple of nights,’ explains Wendy. ‘One day I received phone calls from two different social workers, and both had more than one child on their books needing an emergency placement. So they came to
stay with us. There were 11 of us living in the house at that time.’
But how did they all fit in? Thankfully, Wendy and Michael had agreed long
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before that they needed to buy a big house with plenty of rooms.
‘After we had fostered a few children in our little cottage, we knew that we needed a bigger place to live,’ says Wendy. ‘We wanted a home where teenagers could slam a door and it wouldn’t matter and where there was enough space for them to be on their own if they wanted that.
‘In the end, we found a big old rectory – and it was so right for us that I saw it as a gift from God. It was set back from the road with a long driveway, meaning the children couldn’t run very far without us noticing, and we had a two-acre garden, complete with chickens and sheep. The children always loved cuddling them.’
Although the foster-children who went to stay with Wendy and Michael knew that they were being placed in a safe and loving environment, many of them arrived on the doorstep full of fear, sadness and pain. Some of the children never knew
their birth parents. Others had been treated badly by their families and needed to be removed from their care.
‘Many children came to us because they had been physically and mentally abused,’ Wendy says. ‘They were told they were rubbish. If they hadn’t been looked after very well, they were often dirty and hungry. In some cases, the mums were addicted to drugs and alcohol and the dads were shouty and violent.
‘But whatever had happened at home, Michael and I never talked badly about the child’s parents. We didn’t attack or judge them. We kept photo albums of the child’s family around the house, so they could look at their pictures, if they wanted to. We told them that their mums and dads loved them.’
Some of the foster-children found it a struggle to process the emotional and physical trauma that they had experienced in their family homes. Wendy
did her best to offer support and show understanding, even though it could be challenging.
‘To be a foster-parent, you need to be caring and patient – especially with shouting teenagers who could become physical,’ she says. ‘I’ve been hit in the face by an angry child.
‘But I think you just have to understand where they are coming from. After the anger, a child would usually sit down and cry, then we’d have a hug, because their anger wasn’t really about me. Many of these children were grieving a loss – they felt as though they had lost everything. So they needed support and love to help them through it.
‘As well as supporting our fosterchildren, Michael and I often ended up supporting their parents. When we looked after one terminally ill child, her parents were so young and unable to cope.
‘I can remember standing in our house with them, placing my arms around their shoulders, as their daughter passed away. The loss was so painful for them.’
Everyone mucked in together
Inthe most difficult situations, Wendy clung on to her faith in God. It gave her a strength that enabled her to keep going, despite the problems in front of her.
‘I’ve always handed everything over to God,’ she says. ‘And whenever things felt really horrible, I’d have a good old cry too.
‘On one occasion, I was looking after twin girls who were up for adoption. They were delightful babies, and so I felt very sad when they left. One day, as I was making pastry in the kitchen and crying over the bowl, I felt someone giving me a hug from behind. It was so clear and real – and yet I knew that no one was physically standing there. I then realised that this was God, meeting me at my level and giving me a hug. It
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jBecoming a
Christian
There is no set formula to becoming a Christian, but many people have found saying this prayer to be a helpful first step to a relationship with God
Lord Jesus Christ, I am truly sorry for the things I have done wrong in my life. Please forgive me. I now turn from everything that I know is wrong.
Thank you that you died on the cross for me so that I could be forgiven and set free.
Thank you that you offer me forgiveness and the gift of your Holy Spirit.
Please come into my life by your Holy Spirit to be with me for ever.
Thank you, Lord Jesus.
Amen
Browsing the Bible
Job Nigel Bovey gives chapter and verse on each book of the Scriptures
The Book of Job, along with Proverbs and Ecclesiastes, is part of the Old Testament’s wisdom literature. These books are not set within historical contexts but are philosophical considerations of big topics. In Job, the big topic is suffering.
Job was a man with a reputation for being successful and God-fearing. One day Satan tells God that Job does not love him out of pure motive but for material gain. God allows Satan to test Job (1:1–12). A series of disasters befall Job, including the death of his children (1:13 to 2:10).
Three friends – Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar – attempt, not always successfully, to comfort him (2:11–13). Together, they search for the ‘why?’ After Job laments the day he was born (chapter 3), the narrative divides into a series of questions and answers, with each friend offering suggestions and Job responding (chapters 4 to 31).
In a culture where prosperity is regarded as a sign of divine favour, the friends are unanimous. Job’s loss of livelihood and family has one cause – he sinned.
Eliphaz insists that the innocent do not suffer (4:7) and that Job’s plight is God’s chastening (5:17).
Bildad argues that Job cannot be innocent, because creation itself testifies to God’s glory, against which mere mortals are worthless (chapter 25).
Zophar contends that God’s knowledge is beyond human comprehension and that God is treating Job lightly (chapter 11).
Job feels wretched and believes that God is unjustly punishing him (9:17). He argues that God is angry with him (16:9) and is refusing to answer his prayers (9:16). Throughout, Job stridently maintains his innocence, but does not curse God.
When a man named Elihu enters the discussion, he corrects Job. No one, he says, is without sin. God does answer prayer (33:8–14) and sometimes allows suffering, not as a punishment for past sin but as a corrective against greater spiritual peril (33:19–30).
Finally, God speaks to Job. He reminds him of his creative genius, justice and sovereignty (chapters 38 to 41). Faced with the glory and wonder of the Almighty, Job repents (42:6).
Consequently, God restores Job’s fortune and gives him a new family and more wealth than he had before (42:12–15). The mystery of suffering, though, goes unanswered.
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Making their minds up
Judges and the public are about to vote on Eurovision
Feature by Ewan Hall
It’s that time again when professional juries and members of the public are getting ready to give their congratulations to the winners of the Eurovision Song Contest. After this week’s semi-finals, 26 acts will be going live in Basel, Switzerland, on Saturday (17 May).
This year, female country pop trio Remember Monday are representing the UK and will be hoping to pocket enough points to win. The three school friends – Lauren Byrne, Holly-Anne Hull and Charlotte Steele – are not new to televised performance, as they took part in The Voice UK in 2019. Certainly they will be hoping to achieve something better than the UK’s 18th place last year.
What started in the late 1950s as a technical experiment in television broadcasting has led to an innovative live event with millions of viewers worldwide. This year, the contest is returning to Switzerland, which hosted the first show back in 1956.
Since then there have been many memorable performances – such as Abba launching their international career by winning for Sweden in 1974 with their song ‘Waterloo’.
Disappointingly for its entrants, however, the UK has not won since Katrina and the Waves sang ‘Love Shine a Light’ in 1997. The country’s highest-scoring contestant of recent years was Sam Ryder, who secured second place in 2022 with ‘Space Man’.
In all the glitz and glamour, the audience may sometimes forget the beacon of hope that Eurovision aims to represent. When we are bombarded by conflict, misunderstandings and negativity – whether from the wider world or in our personal lives – these contests have the potential to provide moments of joy and optimism.
However, there is a deeper cause for hope that is accessible to us yearround: God.
One early Christian wrote to his fellow believers of how ‘the God of hope’ was able to fill them ‘with all joy and peace’ as they trusted in him (Romans 15:13 New International Version).
If we too put our faith in God, he will never let us down but will guide us in the best way to live.
Isn’t that music to the ears.
Holly-Anne Hull, Charlotte Steele and Lauren Byrne –aka Remember Monday – are singing the UK’s entry
PUZZLES
ACROSS
1. Display (7)
5. Tall steel framework (5)
7. Deviate (7)
8. Fragment (5)
10. Douse (4)
11. Confuse (8)
13. Really (6)
14. Delight (6)
17. Reeling (8)
19. Tardy (4)
21. Upright (5)
22. Outstanding (7)
23. Overjoyed (5)
24. Fainted (7)
DOWN
2. Gaunt (7)
3. Make tea (4)
4. Savoured (6)
5. Capable of happening (8)
6. Sensational (5)
7. Poverty-stricken (9)
9. Persist (9)
12. Lately (8)
15. Forsake (7)
Quick CROSSWORD ANSWERS
16. Repulsive (6) 18. Sloping sharply 20. Prohibit (4)
Each solution starts on the coloured cell and reads clockwise round the number HONEYC O M B
1. Small stones used for paths
2. Artistic dance
3. US unit of currency
4. Quick to learn
5. City of Dreaming Spires
6. Financial gain
6. Profit.
QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1. Exhibit. 5. Pylon. 7. Digress. 8. Scrap. 10. Soak. 11. Bewilder. 13. Indeed. 14. Please. 17. Unsteady. 19. Late. 21. Erect. 22. Overdue. 23. Happy. 24. Swooned. DOWN: 2. Haggard. 3. Brew. 4. Tasted. 5. Possible. 6.
Fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1 to 9
Look up, down, forwards, backwards and diagonally on the grid to find these flowers
GOD SAID:
I’ve never quit loving you and never will. Expect love, love, and more love!
Jeremiah 31:3 (The Message)