'War Cry' 25 April 2020

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COFFEE ROASTERS HAVE BEAN MAKING AN IMPACT

PICTURES OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS

Still all about Eve for Villanelle JODIE COMER RETURNS IN BBC’S SUSPENSE-FUELLED DRAMA

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PEOPLE’S resourcefulness and creativity have come to the fore in various ways while countries have been in lockdown.

New methods have been found of keeping in touch with family and friends while adhering to social-distancing regulations, and new hobbies and pastimes have been taken on, some learnt via online tutorials. Jobs around the home that have needed doing for ages have finally been completed.

A proverb says that necessity is the mother of invention. However, some people didn’t need the restrictions of lockdown to find new ways of improving a situation that’s less than perfect.

In this week’s War Cry, we discover how Nikki Dravers, co-founder of social enterprise Refuse, found creative and resourceful ways to utilise perfectly good food that would otherwise have been thrown away by restaurants and food retailers.

In the interview Nikki also describes how Refuse is supporting people who are self-isolating by sending grocery boxes to their homes, with much of the content still being obtained from food surpluses in the commercial sector.

Nikki was inspired to act by her Christian faith, her concern about the amount of food that goes to waste in the UK and her desire to help vulnerable people.

‘I feel strongly that Christians are called to be stewards and look after our world,’ she says.

But it is not only Christians who can help others. At a time when life is so different for so many of us, let’s hope we can all find creative and resourceful ways to use our time for the benefit of others.

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Good enough to eat

Social enterprise has recipe to stop food waste

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How roasters are helping former prisoners

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Drawing on experience

Wallace and Gromit artist pictures Bible scenes

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Browsing the Bible

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NTOUCHABLE. That’s how Villanelle feels after an assassination. But MI6 are back on her case in Killing Eve, which continues on BBC One tomorrow (Sunday 26 April).

In last Sunday’s series opener, Villanelle (Jodie Comer) was doing her best to live a quiet life. Six months had passed since she shot Eve (Sandra Oh), an agent hot on her trail. But when old foe ingredients in a restaurant kitchen. But Dasha (Harriet Walker) turned up and then former colleague Kenny (Sean suggested that Villanelle get back Delaney) got in touch, wanting Eve’s in the assassination business, she help with tracing a group of the world’s didn’t take much persuading. Once most dangerous assassins, known as her first assignment was successfully the Twelve. Eve was not interested in behind her, Villanelle set up home returning to a job that had almost in Barcelona, with her sights on killed her. promotion.

‘I’m not going down that road again,’ Meanwhile, in she said. End of conversation.

New Malden, But then Kenny was shot dead. Eve Eve was lying was horrified. low. No longer In tomorrow’s episode, Kenny’s working for mother and Eve’s former MI6, she boss Carolyn (Fiona Shaw) passed her tells Eve that Villanelle is days prepping back on the assassination scene. But Eve wants only to focus on what happened to Kenny.

Unaware that Eve is alive and kicking, Villanelle is preparing for her next assignment. Dasha tells her that if she wants to be promoted, she needs to prove she is capable of handling more responsibility by training a junior assassin.

Villanelle isn’t keen on working with someone else. ‘If you make me look bad, I will kill you,’ she promises her student.

They both know she means it. In the eyes of Villanelle, a stab in the heart is just part and parcel of the job. Remorse is for losers.

She learnt that from Dasha, who has done her own fair Villanelle adopts share of killing. a disguise for an assassination job

Villanelle is going for the kill, writes Claire Brine ‘We are different from these people,’ Dasha reflects. ‘Package holidays, car on the drive – we can’t have those things. You can’t go down that path.’

Many people would agree with her – and they wouldn’t just apply that to serial killers. They think that when someone has behaved a certain way all their life, it is impossible for them to become something different. A leopard can’t change its spots.

But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Everyone can become a new version of themselves. Complete character transformation is always possible, says Bible writer Paul.

He should know.

Paul spent his earlier days targeting people who followed Jesus.

His actions would lead him to later describe himself as the worst sinner of all. But when he encountered the love of Jesus, his heart was changed. He went from persecuting Christians to preaching about the good news of God’s love, which was allencompassingly ‘wide and long and high and deep’ (Ephesians 3:18 New International Version).

Whatever harmful or hurtful things we may have done, it’s never too late for us to change to choose a better path. God is willing to forgive our worst mistakes. When we give him our heart, we can be filled with his all-powerful love. There’s no better way to live.

In her eyes, remorse is for losers

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Friends refuse to give up on rejected food Ahead of Stop Food Waste Day, NIKKI DRAVERS, co-founder of social enterprise Refuse, tells Emily Bright why we should bin our habit of wasting food

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ILLIONS of shoppers around the UK and the Republic of Ireland scrambled for supermarket food as a response to the coronavirus, taking more off the shelves than they needed – or, in some cases, even used. There has perhaps never been such a pertinent time to discuss the subject.

The annual Stop Food Waste Day will be marked on Wednesday (29 April). It was set up by food service provider Compass UK in 2017 to raise awareness of the issue and encourage people to come up with creative ideas for recycling items that would otherwise go straight to landfill.

County Durham-based social enterprise Refuse, which was founded by friends Mim Skinner and Nikki Dravers, has risen to that challenge. It seeks to reduce

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Mim Skinner and Nikki established Refuse in 2015 food waste through collecting and redistributing items.

Nikki explains: ‘We’re campaigning to end food waste in the northeast of England, and we collect food from retailers and supermarkets that would have otherwise been thrown away. The food is always in date.

Items are often discarded due to labelling problems, logistical errors or changes to packaging.’

The scale of the problem is huge, she says.

‘A third of all food produced in the world is thrown away. If food waste was a country, it would be one of the highest carbon emitters after the US and China. We use a huge amount of land, energy and water to grow food that is never eaten by humans.’

Nikki read extensively about such waste while studying environmental science at Durham University. But when she started

working breakfast shifts at a nearby hotel after graduation, she was shocked to discover that excessive food waste was taking place on her doorstep and in a year when the number of food banks in the area tripled.

‘At the end of our shifts, we’d be made to throw away buckets full of bread, mushrooms and bacon, and gallons of fresh orange juice,’ she remembers.

‘I’d then walk about a hundred metres up the road to volunteer at the Salvation Army café. And I was serving people a bowl of soup and a toastie as their only hot meal of the day. I just couldn’t live with that extravagant waste right next door to real poverty.’

As a result of her experiences, Nikki teamed up with Mim to find out about the extent of the problem in her community.

‘Mim and I were inspecting the bins

A third of all food produced is thrown away

behind supermarkets and finding horrific amounts of good-quality food. We thought that we needed to be making a bit more of a song and dance about it.’

In June 2015, the duo decided to launch food waste social enterprise Refuse. They began filling their living room and Nikki’s car with food, and recruited volunteers to serve 100 people at a meal they hosted once a month. By the end of 2016, the Refuse team had launched a crowdfunding campaign to purchase a van and set up a community café, which opened in April 2018. It has closed temporarily during the coronavirus lockdown, but the team aim to reopen it afterwards.

‘We run our community café in Chesterle-Street and shop on a pay-as-you-feel basis, which means that people can pay using their time, money and skills. The concept is about giving value to people,

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‘We ask people as they eat our food to revalue or rethink it according to the resources, time and energy that have gone into making it. People can pay for their lunches by cleaning the tables, washing up or making chutneys with the food, for instance.

‘The café has also been used as a space that lots of people in the community can use in whatever way they need.’

Refuse typically collects 1.5 tonnes of food a week, transports it to a warehouse for sorting, and then redistributes it to the organisation’s various ventures. Among them are a community shop, a pop-up restaurant and a catering service for events including weddings.

While almost all these services have been paused during the coronavirus outbreak, Refuse is continuing to run a grocery delivery service.

‘We deliver crates of food once a week from a selection of the food that we’ve collected,’ Nikki says. ‘There will be items such as bread, fruit, vegetables and sauces.

‘Our customers then channel Ready Steady Cook at home, working out what they can do with the random assortment of vegetables. They pay a weekly subscription. So it’s like a veg box delivery scheme, but it’s ethical, it’s raising money for us, and it’s saving food from going in the bin.’

As demand for food delivery grows while people are self-isolating or social distancing, Refuse will focus its efforts on sending grocery boxes to those who need them most.

Refuse has set up a crowdfunding campaign with other organisations to finance its planned provision of food parcels during the outbreak. It is also continuing to collect food surplus from food retailers and the hospitality industry.

‘We’re trying to focus on the people who are vulnerable, on their own or who are struggling financially. We’re distributing up to 120 boxes a week, working with other organisations such as

churches, community centres or support services who do their own deliveries.

‘We’re starting to get referrals from council and NHS projects, social workers and mental health support workers.’

Refuse is also keeping in regular contact with all its vulnerable volunteers and customers to ensure their well-being during this time.

Nikki’s passion to serve the most vulnerable people in such a way derives from her belief in God. She explains: ‘My Christian faith has made a massive difference to me, and most of my life decisions have come from that. I fell in love with a God who cares about social justice and the people who are overlooked and lost in our society.

So I wanted to commit

myself wholeheartedly to joining God in that mission.

‘I feel strongly that Christians are called to be stewards and look after our world.

I’ve been reading about Jesus’ love for the poor and most vulnerable in our world, and how he taught us to love the marginalised.

‘Jesus did loads of his ministry stuff with food and free meals. He was a big inspiration to how I wanted to build community and demonstrate his love. He gave value and worth to people.’ l For more information visit refusedurham.org.uk

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Volunteers work at Refuse’s pop-up restaurant

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T’S time to wake up and smell the coffee. Globally, we guzzle an estimated two billion cups of the caffeinated beverage a day, according to the British Coffee Association. And through his work as a barista the drink was strong enough to offer Darren Howie a lifeline.

Darren spent time in prison as a result of a drug addiction. After his release, he went through a long-term rehabilitation programme before securing his first job working as a barista in a coffee shop. From there, he went on to study to be a minister at a theological college.

‘I had a passion for addiction recovery assistance and I also loved coffee, so I wanted to marry those two passions together,’ he says. That desire led Darren and his wife, Jo, to set up Sacred Bean, a coffee-based social enterprise.

‘Sacred Bean started in my kitchen, where I would roast coffee. I thought that I could teach people coming out of the criminal justice system to roast coffee too, because there are not enough opportunities for them to do something purposeful.’

Darren and Jo, who are full-time missionaries employed by the Derby Methodist Circuit, teach ex-offenders and recovering addicts how to source,

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From page 7 roast and brew coffee. Sacred Bean, which now operates from a church community centre, was incorporated as a company in June last year.

Since then, it has started offering qualifications and certified courses in coffee roasting and barista work, enabling trainees to progress in a career.

‘We’re helping people get back on the economic ladder,’ he says. ‘We’re enabling people, who in some cases have been living off the system for 25 years and have had addictions, to contribute. Every penny we make at Sacred Bean is reinvested into our training programme.’

Darren sees clear parallels between the art of making coffee and helping people grow.

‘The coffee bean is a seed,’ he explains. ‘You need to bring the potential of that seed to the surface. It’s dependent on culture, geography, and how the seed is planted.

That’s the same as people. If you give them the right context to flourish, you can bring out their potential.

‘One girl who came to Sacred Bean had lived a horrible life. She hadn’t worked in a number of years and had no confidence whatsoever. Then she took a liking to roasting coffee, and she started believing that she could do something and be quite good at it.’

Through Sacred Bean, Darren hopes to combat some of the root causes of people being unable to fulfil their potential.

He says that ‘our society is broken, socially, economically, spiritually and ecologically. Sacred Bean seeks to

alleviate some of that brokenness.’

He adds that tackling brokenness starts with bringing people of differing backgrounds together.

‘Coffee is a medium for helping people to connect and to belong. When we produce our coffee, we’re inviting people to be part of our story, which is a story of lives being transformed.

‘Every Friday before the coronavirus outbreak, we had a coffee bean Eucharist for our roasting team, but it was also opened to the community.

We sat around the table and had Communion with coffee.

‘We make lots of coffee on our training days, so we say to the community, “We’re giving away free coffee, come in.” The last time we did it, we had roughly a hundred people, including our neighbours.’

Sacred Bean also seeks to ensure that every stage from bean to brew reflects its ethics. ‘We’re passionate about helping ecological brokenness through ethically sourced coffee. We tend to work with singleorigin coffees because they’re more easily traceable. We want to see the farmer and the carbon footprint behind our beans.

‘For instance, at the moment we’re roasting a Brazilian coffee called Bom Jesus. It’s organic and Rainforest Alliance-certified, and it tastes phenomenal.

‘It is made by a family farm which runs massive summer camps for disadvantaged kids and invest a lot of its profits in helping other farmers develop their business.’

This coffee and others are available

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Darren demonstrates the coffee roasting process

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We’re all broken in some way, shape or form

Darren with the coffee roaster to order via an online subscription service on Sacred Bean’s Facebook page. The beans ground or whole, are delivered to people’s doors.

Darren believes that his past before Sacred Bean, including a drug addiction and a decade spent in and out of prison, puts him in the position of being able to understand ex-offenders and drug addicts and help them with their rehabilitation.

‘As an ex-heroin addict, I come from a similar background,’ he explains. ‘But I’ve found myself in another world. I live between the two worlds and can act

as a bridge between them.’

Darren recalls his time growing up on a poor housing estate in the west of Scotland as a time when he ‘ran about on street corners, took drugs and slept around with women’.

He says that an absence of fathers on his estate made it challenging for young men like him, who grew up without positive and loving male role models.

‘We wandered about like vagabonds, just trying to find ourselves, because nobody had shown us what it was like to be a man. Drugs were a natural progression for us. Everybody had been doing it. Then heroin came on the scene, and that was the end of the beginning.

‘I felt like I was wrapped up in cotton wool, and it took away all the shame and rejection. It made me feel complete. But over the course of a very short time, it sucked the life from me and ruined all my relationships.’

Darren’s life unravelled, and he was sent to

prison several times. However, he reached rock bottom when he was sentenced, for a crime that he says he did not commit, in 2004.

‘I thought all the purpose of life had gone,’ he remembers. ‘It was my darkest point.

‘The prison chaplain came into my cell on his morning rounds, like he did every morning. One day, he walked in and I could see he was shocked at the state I was in.

‘He said to me: “If you don’t get your life sorted out, you’re probably going to die when you leave here. So I’ve come to offer you some hope.”

He told me about a God who thought I was amazing, who looked at me and saw this child who was beautiful. And I believed him.

‘He got me into a Christian rehabilitation programme, where I found hope and healing and totally rebuilt my life.’

Now Darren is seeking to help rebuild the lives of others. He explains that everything he does is based on his foundation of faith and God’s grace.

‘We’re all broken in some way, shape or form,’ he says. ‘My vocation is to help God mend his broken world. It’s not that I’m fixed and am fixing other people, it’s that we’re being fixed together.

‘At Sacred Bean, we help people to flourish and connect to something bigger than themselves, and coffee’s a platform to do that.’

Darren combines coffee roasting with his Christian faith

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Illustrator MIKE KAZYBRID tells Claire Brine about creating a Bible comic

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OR more than 44 years, comic book illustrator Mike Kazybrid has been drawing some of the UK’s best-loved cartoon characters.

‘I’ve done Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra, Count Duckula, Danger Mouse and lots of others. The list is quite long,’ says Mike, whose most recent illustrations appear in The Lion Kids Bible Comic.

When he was six years old, Mike’s family took in a lodger who happened to be a talented artist. The young man introduced Mike to drawing.

‘It was the first time I’d seen anyone produce such amazing pencilled pictures,’ he remembers. ‘Watching Robert spend most evenings drawing encouraged me to pick up a pencil and have a go myself.’

A fan of The Topper, Beano and Marvel comics, Mike became interested in comic art, spending hours drawing his favourite characters.

‘I recall mentioning to my father that when I grew up, I wanted to become a comic book artist,’ Mike says. ‘But my father responded with a firm “no”, saying that I should get a proper job. He added that if I wanted to draw, I could draw a bowl of fruit! But I knew that drawing

an apple didn’t really match up to drawing Spider-Man.’ After leaving school, Mike took a two-year course in advertising and graphic design. Then he left the family home in Bradford to attend theological college in Birmingham.

‘But the change in direction didn’t last long, because I found myself producing some children’s cartoon stories entitled Wishy, Washy and Wig,’ he says. ‘When I returned home to Bradford a few years later, I approached the local paper and pitched Wishy, Washy and Wig as a daily cartoon strip.

The features editor rejected it – but he noticed a small rough drawing I’d done of a character called Matt. Taking to it at once, he said that if I could develop the idea into a daily strip, he’d accept it. So for the next six years, I produced the Matt cartoon strip for the Bradford Telegraph and Argus, and then the Manchester Evening News also picked it up.’

Over the years, Mike’s illustrative career went

I was delighted to draw Wallace and Gromit

Examples of Mike’s work, including ‘The Bash Street Kids’ (right), ‘Matt and the Cat’ (bottom) and ‘Shaun the Sheep’

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from strength to strength. He opened a studio and began working with other publications.

‘In 1984, the Matt strip was accepted

by Marvel UK to be placed in their Transformers comic book,’ he says. ‘But the characters and storyline were changed. It became Matt and the Cat.’ When, in the 1990s, a loveable duo by the names of Wallace and Gromit were proving a massive hit with all ages of the public, Mike received an email.

‘I was asked if I would be interested in producing the Wallace and Gromit daily cartoon strip for The Sun,’ he says. ‘Having always loved the characters, I was delighted to say yes. The fun bits were always when the attention was on Gromit. The challenging

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Mike Kazybrid bits were when Wallace’s inventions became more and more complex – because while a script might describe something in a single line, it may take the poor artist hours to produce it.’

For three and a half years, Mike enjoyed ‘digging deeply into the world’ of Wallace and Gromit. Then, many years (and countless illustrations) later, he was asked to work on with another project – a Bible comic book.

‘My friend Ed Chatelier shared with me his wonderfully interesting concept for what would become a children’s Beanotype annual,’ Mike explains. ‘He wanted Lion Kids Bible Comic’ Mike’s illustrations appear in ‘The

to create some strips that would be based on well-known, and some perhaps not too wellknown, Bible stories and characters. I was pleased to take on the scripts as well as doing detailed pencil pictures. The work took two years to produce and was picked up

by Lion Hudson publishers.’

Mike relished the challenge of getting stuck into the Bible stories and finding ways to illustrate them creatively. In particular, he enjoyed drawing

huge numbers of sheep wearing hard hats to help build temples.

He also gave a great deal of thought to the kind of Jesus he wanted to draw.

‘I wanted Jesus to be viewed not just as a major part of the New Testament, but as a man who had fun and close human connection with those following him,’ he says.

‘I took on The Lion Kids Bible Comic because I wanted readers to enjoy the stories and laugh at the pictures, and if the comic provokes them to open the door a bit more to the background of the Bible, then that’s great too.’

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Prayerlink THE War Cry invites readers to send in requests for prayer, including the first names of individuals and details of their ­circumstances.

Send your Prayerlink requests to warcry@salvationarmy.org.uk.

Mark your correspondence ‘Confidential’.

Becoming 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 Extract from Why Jesus? by Nicky Gumbel published by Alpha International, 2011. Used by kind permission of Alpha International

Nigel Bovey gives chapter and verse on each book in the Scriptures

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N his first letter to Christians in what is now Turkey, Peter concentrated on the subject of suffering. Now close to death (1:13 and 14) and possibly imprisoned in Rome, he writes another letter, focusing on how to endure opposition and suffering.

The spiritual resources are twofold: God’s power and God’s promises.

Using the same Greek word that throughout the Acts of the Apostles describes the life-changing power of the Holy Spirit (dunamis – as in the word ‘dynamite’), Peter reminds his readers: ‘His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life’ (1:3).

He also tells them that God has given ‘very great and precious promises’ (1:4).

By relying on God’s power and knowing God’s word, believers will grow in Christlike virtue and, confident in their relationship with him, will stay faithful in times of trial to receive a ‘rich welcome into the eternal Kingdom’ (1:11).

God’s promises are not human inventions. Peter himself saw and heard God

Key verse ‘The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise’ (2 Peter 3:9 New International Version)

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confirm Jesus as his Son at the Transfiguration (1:16–18 and see Mark 9:2–8). Similarly, Old Testament prophecies were not manmade but inspired by God (1:19–21).

Peter turns to the nature of the opposition: false prophets and teachers with

God’s promises are not human inventions ‘destructive heresies’ that deny the divinity of Jesus (2:1). Arrogant and greedy, hedonistic and adulterous, they seek to lead new Christians away from the faith with their ‘empty, boastful words’ (2:18). They are hypocrites, offering freedom while they themselves are ‘slaves of depravity’ (2:19).

God’s word says that in the last days before Jesus’ second coming, ‘scoffers’ will appear denying that he will return (3:2–4).

The answer to such accusations is to know God’s word (3:5–7).

God promises that the ‘day of the Lord’ will come ‘like a thief’ (3:10) and that, at that time, God will dispense judgment and destroy those who oppose him (3:7).

God promises that a new Heaven and Earth – ‘where righteousness dwells’ (3:13) – awaits those who, through relying on God’s power and trusting in his promises, endure suffering in this present life.

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Alan Wilmott from Paignton on mental health, brass bands and children’s picture books

What’s your typical day?

I work full-time as a specialist practitioner in perinatal and parent and infant mental health. Sometimes parents come to me because they are anxious about their relationship with their baby. In a nutshell, my work is about strengthening that relationship through therapeutic exercises and helping to repair ruptures when they have occurred.

When I’m able, a few nights a week I go out to a brass band practice. I conduct a couple of bands in Torbay, and I also play the cornet.

What did you want to be when you grew up?

There were two ideas I played around with. One was to be a film-maker. The other was to be forensic pathologist, because of the TV series Quincy, ME. But I ended up going to college to do electronic engineering, which I hated.

What was the last book you read?

At lunchtime I read a picture book to my baby grandson.

It was called Miaow! and told the story of a cat who wanted to play with some toys before going to bed.

What advice would you give your teenage self?

Be yourself. I look back on my life and can see times when I became frustrated because I was trying to be what other people wanted me to be.

qa quick QUIZ

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The TV show Call the Midwife is based on the memoirs written by who?

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Which Australian swimmer won three gold and two silver medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics?

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An axon is a part of what type of cell?

The term ‘avant-garde’ comes from which language?

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Who played the Hulk in the superhero film Avengers: Endgame?

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What band had a No 1 hit in 2013 with the song ‘Counting Stars’?

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How did you become a Christian?

As a kid I loved brass bands, so I used to go to Sunday school at The Salvation Army. There were some lovely people there who allowed me to be curious. They didn’t focus on teaching me to be something. They let me be a kid and guided me down a path that was more right than wrong. As I’ve got older, I’ve become more confident in my faith. And, through the years, that sense of curiosity has kept me going.

Who is your favourite Bible character?

Esther, because she took chances. She was a strong woman who acted bravely but was probably also terrified. In difficult situations, she never lost sight of her faith.

What one question would you ask God? Why me? I often wonder why I have stuck with faith. There have been plenty of times when it would have been easier not to.

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CROSSWORD QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS 1. Defect (4) 3. Raised edge (3) 5. Appear (4) 7. Lasting (9) 9. Role (4) 10. Lofty (4) 11. Seashore (5) 14. Thigh bone (5) 15. Eject from school (5) 17. Fill with a quality (5) 18. Immerse in water (5) 19. Hillock (5) 20. Pointed missiles (5) 23. Stopper (4)

25. Moderately warm (4) 27. Amuse (9) 28. Sketch (4) 29. Knight’s prefix (3) 30. Jealousy (4) DOWN 1. Failure (4) 2. Sharpen (4) 3. Shakespearean character (5) 4. Less (5) 5. Dispatched (4) 6. Repast (4) 7. Too early (9)

8. Waterproof cover (9) 11. Sobbed (5) 12. Yellowish resin (5) 13. Pours (5) 14. Falsehood (3) 16. Cover (3) 21. Assists in crime (5) 22. Teacher (5) 23. Rope (4) 24. Understand (4) 25. Convey by gesture (4) 26. Refuse (4)

SUDOKU

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

HONEYCOMB

HONEYCOMB

3 8 2 1 7 6 4 4 9 8 1 2 5 8 7 1 3 6 9 8 7 8 4 1 7 5 3 1 2 8 7

Each solution starts on the coloured cell and reads clockwise round the number

Answers

Wordsearch Wordsearch Wordsearch Wordsearch Wordsearch Wordsearch

1. Coconut chocolate bar 2. Scandinavian country 3. Day after Saturday 4. Used with a needle 5. Dairy product 6. Digit

Wordsearch ALADDIN BAMBI

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST BROTHER BEAR CINDERELLA FANTASIA

HERCULES

LILO AND STITCH

QUICK CROSSWORD ACROSS: 1. Flaw. 3. Rim. 5. Seem.

7. Permanent. 9. Part. 10. Tall. 11. Coast.

14. Femur. 15. Expel. 17. Imbue. 18. Bathe.

19. Mound. 20. Darts. 23. Cork. 25. Mild.

27. Entertain. 28. Draw. 29. Sir. 30. Envy.

DOWN: 1. Flop. 2. Whet. 3. Romeo. 4. Minus.

5. Sent. 6. Meal. 7. Premature. 8. Tarpaulin.

11. Cried. 12. Amber. 13. Teems. 14. Fib. 16. Lid. 21. Abets. 22. Tutor. 23. Cord.

24. Know. 25. Mime. 26. Deny.

HONEYCOMB 1. Bounty. 2. Norway. 3. Sunday.

4. Thread. 5. Cheese. 6. Finger.

MEET THE ROBINSONS

5 3 1 9 8 4 6 7 2

6 2 4 3 7 5 8 9 1

9 8 7 1 2 6 4 5 3

4 1 5 7 6 9 2 3 8

3 9 6 2 1 8 5 4 7

8 7 2 5 4 3 9 1 6

1 6 9 8 5 7 3 2 4

7 5 8 4 3 2 1 6 9

2 4 3 6 9 1 7 8 5

SUDOKU SOLUTION

7 2

6 9 8 7 8 4 1 5 3 1 8 7

14 • War Cry • 25 April 2020

MULAN

PETER PAN

PINOCCHIO

POCAHONTAS TARZAN

THE ARISTOCATS

THE JUNGLE BOOK THE LION KING

THE LITTLE MERMAID

Look up, down, forwards, backwards and diagonally on the grid to find these 6 9Disney 4 films 3 8 1 7 2

5 3 2 8 1 9 7 6 5 4 P J E X K H O I S V B Z T T B S R N 1 4 7 5 6 2 9 8 3 C T Z X T L W T N A P R E T E P A Q F D H X H W 9 M F A N T A S 3 1 7 2 5 I 8 A L E A 4 6 E X V E E G E M M R S N K C U A B A 8 7 2 6 1 4O M T E R G 5 3 9 M V K C L L E Q X F T W V Z Y O I 4 I 5 T A C V Y D B H Y V E A 6 9 8 3 7 2 1 H J N I O S T A C O T S I R A E H T 6 8 4 2 5 9 3 1 7 Z C Z H N B H T C D C Z P Z N C T D C R C C K J E M L 7 9 5 3I Z N S 4 1 I 2 D U O M 6 8 Q W Q C I N R L U E N B D T T P R P 2 1 3 8 7 6 F H K B C 4 9 5 S W Y O N D O L G Z M D A

J L R N G K B R V N A E E M E E T E Q U R I L N I O F L U D R R B M W R J R I P D A N M A G G J Y M E I G O K K Z Y E Z S E L U C R E H A L K R Z Q K E G R O F V T V B X H S I L K Z L I L O A N D S T I T C H T O D A T Q Y W G T S E E G M U T X U T D G

Leek and cheese crumble Ingredients

Method

500g leeks, sliced into 2cm-thick circles

Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas Mark 6.

Place the leeks in a large saucepan with the stock, cream and mustard. Cook gently for 15 minutes until starting to soften.

400ml reduced-salt stock 100ml single cream 1tbsp wholegrain mustard 100g breadcrumbs SERVES

4

Mulligatawny soup Ingredients 1tbsp vegetable oil 1 onion, chopped 1 carrot, peeled and chopped

20g coconut cream

4 celery sticks, chopped

Method

150g lentils 1 litre stock

125g vegetarian cheese, finely grated

Place the breadcrumbs, nuts and parsley in a blender and process until finely chopped. Scatter the crumble and the cheese over the leeks and drizzle the reserved stock mixture over the top. Bake for 15 minutes until starting to turn crisp and golden.

Finish under a preheated grill, if needed.

5ml soya cream 1tbsp coriander leaves, chopped

4tsp curry paste

2tbsp fresh parsley, roughly chopped

Transfer to a ceramic baking dish. Save 3tbsp stock mixture in a bowl for later.

Salt and pepper

2 small potatoes, peeled and chopped

1 small apple, chopped

30g blanched hazelnuts

SERVES

4

Heat the oil in a large pan and sauté the onion for 5 minutes until starting to soften. Add the vegetables, apple and curry paste. Gently cook for 5 minutes. Add the lentils, stock and coconut cream.

Bring to the boil and simmer for 20 minutes.

Using a hand blender, blend the soup and season to taste.

Add the soya cream and garnish with the coriander leaves.

Serve with bread slices.

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

25 April 2020 • War Cry • 15

Joyce Meyer