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Act, Give, Pray How will you contribute to the 2022 Partners in Mission campaign in the spirit of self-sacrifice? BY COMMISSIONER FLOYD TIDD
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n the days leading salary—two percent of up to the Olympic an annual salary—to the Games last sumPartners in Mission cammer, the International paign this coming year? Olympic Committee It’s not only the recipient (IOC) launched “Stronger who benefits from such a Together,” a global camgift; the giver also receives paign celebrating athfrom this partnership. letes by showcasing their The “partners in misjourneys to the postponed sion” approach sees every Tokyo 2020 Summer Salvationist as a sacrificial Games, and how they giver contributing to their kept moving even when territory’s campaign. We the world around them are stronger together as stopped. This month, we give sacrificially. we will watch athletes Partners in mission gather under the flag of Commissioners Floyd and Tracey Tidd, territorial leaders, visit a Salvation Army are partners in prayer. the five Olympic rings for community development project for vulnerable women in Old Dhaka, Bangladesh, How often does a review the Beijing 2022 Winter along with Lt-Col Brenda Murray, director of international development, and of my prayer life reveal Cpt Heidi Bradbury Games. my agenda? During the With each Winter Partners in Mission camGames, I remember a boy growing up just and know the love of Jesus.” Not only paign, in the spirit of setting aside our in northern Ontario whose dreams of is this true in more than 400 communities agendas, we are invited to pray for our participating in the Olympics began on across Canada and Bermuda, but that international expressions of The Salvation the “bunny hill” of a local ski club. A vision fuels our international partnerArmy, serving in 132 countries around junior high science teacher went above ships across the Salvation Army world. the world. Nothing makes us stronger and beyond to introduce a small group As individuals and as a movement, we are together than uniting in prayer. The of students to skiing on Saturdays. Not stronger together as partners in mission. Apostle Paul encouraged the church only did he give up the advanced slopes This month, we commence an annual at Ephesus to “pray in the Spirit on all to linger with the group on the beginner emphasis on the Partners in Mission camoccasions with all kinds of prayers and runs, he and his wife opened their home paign. We are challenged to consider how requests. With this in mind, be alert and to share a meal and conversation. we will contribute to this partnership, in always keep on praying for all the Lord’s I was that boy. Although I still spend the spirit of the self-sacrifice shown by people” (Ephesians 6:18). most of my time on the green runs, my science teacher, who set aside his own As we commence this year’s Partners I have enjoyed skiing with our family agenda for the day and chose to journey in Mission emphasis and commit to act, through the years. I may not be in line with a group of students. How will I set give and pray, hear the words of Mother for an Olympic event, but my life has aside my agenda to be with others on the Teresa, who well understood the power of been enriched by the skills and relationslopes of their lives and mission? What partnership: “I can do things you cannot, ships I developed through skiing, and by action does the spirit of self-sacrifice you can do things I cannot; together we my teacher’s partnership in learning and call us to embrace during these coming can do great things.” As partners in misinvestment in our lives. weeks? sion, we are stronger together. (By the way, I did make it to the We can give financially. Our goal for Olympics, attending the ski jump event the 2022 Partners in Mission campaign is at the 2006 Winter Games in Turin, Italy, $2.3 million, and in light of the ongoing but as a ministry team member, not a challenges of the global pandemic, the competitor.) international Salvation Army needs our The territorial vision statement for help more than ever. Commissioner Floyd The Salvation Army in Canada and Financial giving that reflects a spirit Tidd is the territorial Bermuda reflects an outcome of being of self-denial means considering a saccommander of the stronger together as “we are an innovative rificial commitment. What if that comCanada and Bermuda partner … building communities that are mitment was to contribute one week’s Territory. 8 February 2022
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