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JUNE 2014 Volume 32, Number 6
Retreat planned for West’s former officers
INSIDE this issue: Fighting poverty
For 28 years, Donald Czaplicki has worked in Salvation Army social services in Detroit, what he calls the ground zero of poverty. DETROIT PAGE 6
Children of integrity
Event aims to reconnect
Exploring The Salvation Army’s International School Strategy that is employed in nearly 3,000 schools around the world.
BY CHRISTIN DAVIS
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Harvest Initiative
Territorial caucus initiates work to expand housing and employment opportunities for ARC alumni. ARC PAGE 15
Serving veterans
The Salvation Army serves the greatest number of veterans outside of Veterans Affairs, but this challenge is for all corps to join in the effort. VETERANS PAGE 18
Actor Mark Christopher Lawrence from TV shows—“Chuck,” “Glee,” and “Seinfeld”—led this year’s Heroes Program and Scholarship Campaign. |Photo by Angel Roy
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In its sixth year, San Diego Kroc’s campaign nets over $100,000. As budget cuts threaten arts and physical education programming in many public schools, The Salvation Army is offering dance classes, guitar lessons, soccer clubs, theater—programs children may not find elsewhere. The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center in San Diego recently held its sixth annual Heroes Program and Scholarship Campaign to ensure longevity in these programs. The goal: engage 100 volunteers over six weeks to raise $90,000 and award over 2,000 scholarships
to people in the community. “A donation to the Heroes Program and Scholarship Campaign goes beyond supporting the Kroc Center’s scholarship fund,” said actor-comedian Mark Christopher Lawrence, who led the campaign. “It’s an investment in helping children, teens, adults and seniors get healthy, discover new talents and reach their potential.” The campaign raised $109,689 in total using a peer-to-peer fundPEER-TO-PEER PAGE 10
n officer’s covenant is a sacred bond between God and The Salvation Army, and while it is intended to be lifelong, that is not always the case. Acknowledging the former officers in its ranks, the Western Territory will hold its first Former Officers Retreat Oct. 3-5 at Redwood Glen Camp and Conference Center in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. Tony Hussey, a former officer who remains active at the Las Vegas Citadel Corps, is part of the committee organizing the event—a group of four former and three active officers. “I resigned in 1979, at a time that when former officers left The Salvation Army there was a gulf between the two—there wasn’t much contact one way or the other, and I think that was hurtful to both sides,” Hussey said. “I’m in contact with a group of former officers from all over the world, and have heard many stories where there seemed to be a need to get both sides together.” Hussey resigned to recover from an addiction after spending 10 years as an officer. Now an attorney, he works as a personal financial manager. At his corps, he directs the songsters and plays in the band, and also leads a Bible study at the nearby Adult Rehabilitation Center. FORMER OFFICERS PAGE 10
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hen an estimated 276 high school girls went missing from a Nigerian boarding school in the middle of the night, the world issued a call to #BringBackOurGirls. Since their disappearance April 15, an extremist group— Boko Haram, whose name in Hausa means “Western education is a sin”—claimed responsibility and released a video claiming a command from Allah to sell the girls. According to Nicholas Kristof in a column for The New York Times, the school was closed in March due to terrorist threats but reopened so the girls could take their final exams. Now, these future lawyers, doctors and educators are held captive.
The Salvation Army has worked in Nigeria since 1920, but it became a separate region of ministry work in 2011 with 162 corps (churches), 32 schools, 8 clinics and other institutions and outposts. Over 300 Salvation Army officers are currently appointed in the Nigeria Territory, with nearly 17,000 senior soldiers in its ranks. Nigeria Territory Public Relations Coordinator Ntiense Williams offered this response to New Frontier Chronicle on behalf of Territorial Commander Commissioner Mfon Akpan: It has been over three weeks now since the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, in Borno State NIGERIAN GIRLS PAGE 15
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ON THE CORNER BY BOB DOCTER
Finding jobs for Phoenix The Salvation Army joins forces with Goodwill to aid job seekers
A eulogy to Harry Sparks My memories of Harry Sparks are all happy ones. He leaves us with an after-glow of smiles, and memories of experiences shared, of games won and lost while growing the camaraderie of Army musicians. When 13, his mother died. He “finished junior high school and never went back.” Harry carved his own destiny. He was always his own man. With self-taught brilliance, and hard knocks he learned what he needed to know. His life was wrapped up in banding. The band seemed to supersede everything else. It brought a measure of order to his life. He learned that pleasure demands commitment, and that success requires hard work. He was a worker. Harry was one-of-a-kind, unique, and yet totally involved in an activity that stresses an orderly discipline, fitting in, following the rules, skill—the product of dedication and steadfastness. He was an excellent musician. Harry lived on the poles of life’s continua. He rarely played in the middle. He never did anything slowly and always showed up with humor, on time, non-critical of others, and an ethic of hard work, finish the job, do it right, never slack-off. He seemed an open book, but at the same time very private. He never shared his inner thoughts or pressing needs. Nor did he discuss personal issues. His form of personal privacy disallowed communal talk yet demanded total involvement. And so, for me, he is not dead; the memories live on as the soaring sounds of a euphonium hover in our hearts and trigger strong feelings of friendships that live deeply within our souls, and float in bold, delicate beauty, above the band. He lives on as the yellow, red and blue catches the wind of an afternoon breeze and an Army band takes the roll-off. “The Red Shield” echoes around the boulevard proclaiming the meeting soon begins. Come and learn about grace. Harry heard the story of the man of Galilee and marched and played and lived the love of service to others throughout his life. He believed in the scriptures and felt the harmony of grace God delivered to man through his son, Christ. He lives on whenever Tabernacle musicians gather and speak with great affection using words of friendly ridicule about Slippery, or Clyde, or Oz and find Harry locked into the back of their minds. Harry had his own roster of names for Tab bandsmen. He called me Oz for reasons I never discovered, possibly a bumbling television character on “Our Miss Brooks,” but I choose to believe it referred to Alice’s Wizard. The last time I saw him, he seemed non-communicative. I wondered, even, if he knew my name and said: “Hey, Harry, it’s me, Bob.” He looked up and said: “Oh, Oz” in the same head-shaking manner he always used. He loved the Army and he loved collecting its memorabilia. It reveals the depth of his Salvationism and motivated him to meet and speak to some of the Army’s great composers while seeking autographed copies of original compositions. With great skill, he wrote a book: With a Thousand Bands. The title comes from a line in the second verse of the song “Joy, Joy, Joy, there is joy in The Salvation Army.” He dedicated the book to his “First Love, The Salvation Army.” Toward the end of the book, he wrote: “I’m looking at my euphonium in its case; we have a great romance. There’s nothing like being a Salvation Army bandsman. Do you suppose they will have euphoniums in Heaven? Solid gold, no doubt. What a sound that will be. “I’ll be there!”|NFC
BY MELANY STROUPE With an unemployment rate of 6.9 percent, Arizona ranks higher than most states, leaving many families and individuals facing dire straits with the loss of a job; some even face homelessness. The Salvation Army has always provided hope in those circumstances, and thanks to a new partnership with Goodwill, a new avenue of hope is available for job seekers. For the first time ever, The Salvation Army and Goodwill are partnering to offer employment services. On May 13, Goodwill opened a Career Center inside The Salvation Army Herberger Campus in Phoenix. The new Career Center, open from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, is equipped with an on-site career advisor, computers, printers, Internet access and telephones. The advisor provides assistance with resume writing, interviewing skills and job search strategies, as well as hosting hiring events. “The Salvation Army has always provided for basic needs such as shelter, food, rental assistant and utility assistance” said Major John Brackenbury, Valley of the Sun program coordinator. “This new Career Center is located just steps away from our family shelter and our social services office. We hope our clients take advantage of this valuable resource that can assist in finding long term employment.” The Career Center is located in one of the poorest
Major John Brackenbury (l) and Lt. Col. Joe Posillico at the grand opening of the Career Center inside The Salvation Army Herberger Campus in Phoenix.
zip codes in Phoenix. It not only serves Salvation Army clients, but neighbors and other shelters in the surrounding area. As the word spreads, the Career Center will extend its hours. “We are really excited to work with The Salvation Army because of their mission of helping those in need,” said Kimberly Hall, director of career services for Goodwill. “With our two organizations collaborating together, we can reach more people and help more people.”|NFC
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR EAST END OF LONDON I am now receiving copies of New Frontier Chronicle and must congratulate you on the splendid article you did following your visit to the East End of London. This deserves a wider readership as you have captured the essence and spirit of the Christian Mission and early day Salvation Army placing it all in the context of the times in which they lived and operated. Greetings and best wishes. Lt. Colonel Alex Morrice London
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BIBLE CORRESPONDENCE COURSE We appreciate the article by Carl Alzen that appeared in the May issue of New Frontier Chronicle. Carl described very well some of the problems and issues present in the corrections system of the United States. People need to be informed about these problems. We also want folks to know that The Salvation Army is taking active steps to be part of the solution to these problems. We do so by sending inmates a Bible correspondence course (free of charge) which is then graded by volunteer graders. The Bible course is transforming the lives of inmates through the power of God’s Word. We have seen people come to Christ through these courses, make rededications to Christ and be transformed in many ways through these courses. We also help inmates find housing, employment and places (e.g. Salvation Army ARCs) where they can get help with their substance abuse issues. We invite those who are interested in making a difference in the area of corrections to join us in be-
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TENNESSEE LEGISLATION WILL IMPACT MOTHERS, ARMY
The law, effective July 1, states that a woman can be prosecuted for assault if she takes a narcotic drug while pregnant and the baby is born addicted, is harmed, or dies as a result. The woman can, however, avoid criminal charges if she completes one of the state’s approved treatment programs. The Tennessee State Department of Health recorded 921 cases of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS), or “drug withdrawal” in infants in 2013. This reflects a near 10-fold rise in the incidence of babies born with NAS since 1999. Memphis is home to Tennessee’s only Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center (ARC) since the Nashville facility closed after the record-breaking flood of BY ERIN WIKLE 2010. Currently the Memphis ARC offers drug and alcohol treatment and recovery programs for men only, but it is expanding to include women this autumn. In addition, with a new Intensive Outpatient Program slated to open in June the Army will be able to serve more than 100 women and children each day. “We believe that we are particularly and increasingly well positioned to serve addicted women along with their children here in Memphis,” said Captain Jonathan Rich, Memphis area commander. “With the current changes in Tennessee we will have expanded our capacity to be the leading provider of rehabilitation services for women, and their children, in the western part of the state.” The Salvation Army’s Renewal Place in Memphis is a transitional housing program for chemically addicted women and their children. The program is unique in that it allows mother and child to stay together during the recovery process, which can be up to two years. With intensive case management and training partnerships for both mothers and children the program helps to stabilize two generations of both addicted and drug exposed individuals. While some see this new legislation as a step in the right direction for addressing the issue of wide-spread and illicit drug use in Tennessee, others pose concern as to whether the law will only cause more questions and criticism to arise while creating further financial strain on the state and its subsidiaries. “Drug Dependence, a Chronic Medical Illness,” published by the Journal of American Medical Association, reports that drug dependence costs the U.S. approximately $67 billion annually in crime, lost work productivity, foster care, and other social problems. Sergeant Ernie Simms, corps officer at the Berry Street Corps in a run-down neighborhood in East Nashville, posed questions that remain, for the time being, unanswered: What will happen to the existing children of single, drug-addicted mothers who are given the option of either rehab or jail? Is the foster care system prepared for the influx of children who could potentially wind up in custody of the state? What is the response to the generational problem arising when a child is taken from his mother—even his opiate-addicted mother—and no bonding takes place? And even if mothJONATHAN RICH er and child are reunited, who has taught this new mother how to raise her child and parent effectively? Is the state prepared for the influx of women who will be incarcerated for illegal activity and will require prenatal care until her child is delivered? No doubt The Salvation Army will continue to offer relevant programming, recovery, and holistic rehabilitative services to those in greatest need. With the restoration of the drug-addicted individual its priority, The Salvation Army must consider all implications of drug use both short and long term, including health, housing, employment and the ability to cope with day-to-day scenarios. It is critical that those in the field serving as corps officers and lay leaders be prepared to help throughout the entire recovery and assimilation process. As a movement so involved and entrenched in its communities locally and internationally, the Army’s response must be that of urgency—to comfort the broken mother, to help the suffering child, to bring hope to hurting families.|NFC
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ennessee State Governor Bill Haslam signed into effect State Bill 1391 on April 29, affecting women who use narcotic drugs while pregnant and likely impacting organizations, including The Salvation Army, that serve people struggling with addictions.
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The Salvation Army A partnership between two powerful brands benefits thousands of children in the U.S.
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partnership between The Salvation Army and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) thrives in the Southern Territory, where Major Pete Costas once served as the Army’s national liaison to that organization. “It’s all about the kids and meeting them just where they are,” said Costas, area commander for Wake and Lee Counties in North Carolina. “Or as former Salvation Army General John Gowans said, ‘fish where the fish are.’” BGCA is a national organization of local chapters that provide after-school programs. It is tax-exempt and partially funded by the federal government, with headquarters in Atlanta and regional offices in Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, New York City and Los Angeles. The clubs serve millions of children at thousands of clubs, including locations in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, on U.S. military installations and on Native American lands. Costas remains passionate about the partnership, as is Mark Jeffrey, current national liaison and Southern territorial Salvation Army Boys & Girls Clubs program director. “The pond to go fishing in is quite large,” Jeffrey said. “This is the main benefit of the partnership from a missional standpoint. The opportunity is there for kids to cross over into the corps.” The Southern Territory has 76 Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club units, the Eastern Territory has two (Lexington, Ky. and Newark, N.J.), and the West has one (Yuma, Ariz.). Outside the South, Salvationists often don’t know these clubs exist. According to Jeffrey, in 2013 the 76 units in the South served a total of 60,545 children throughout the year. Of those, 24,623 were regular members and 35,922 were community outreach kids who participated but didn’t become members. “The national Boys & Girls Clubs of America is the fastest growing youth serving agency in America,” Jeffrey said. The Salvation Army Boys & Girls Clubs are also growing, in recent years adding about one to two clubs annually. The secret to the success in the South is simple but potent: leadership. Years ago the Army’s leaders there caught the vision of what this partnership could accomplish and worked
T HE S ALVAT ION ARM Y BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS Scope of youth membership Boys & Girls Clubs of America serve some 4 million youth through club membership and community outreach. The 4,074 chartered club facilities include approximately 1,400 in schools, 400 BGCA-affiliated youth centers on U.S. military installations, 300 in public housing and 200 on Native American lands.
SOURCE: Boys & Girls Clubs of America, 2012
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to develop it. Successive leadership kept the momentum going. While traditional Salvation Army after-school and homework clubs attract community children—some of whom are then linked with other Army youth programs—it’s hard to compete with the appeal of a Boys & Girls Club that is available several days a week. Jeffrey said he is asked why The Salvation Army can’t run these clubs on its own. His response: Why would we? According to Jeffrey, a major benefit of the partnership is the use of the BGCA programming—it’s cutting-edge, research-based and outcome-driven. “It’s nothing we can produce at that level,” he said. While The Salvation Army runs many different programs for people of all ages and varying needs, the BGCA directs all resources to youth programming. The Salvation Army Boys & Girls Clubs are similar in most ways to the regular BGCA, which charters them under the terms of a national agreement signed in 1960. According to Lorraine Orr, senior vice president of field operations for the national organization, this agreement is updated every couple of years to make sure it meets current needs. In addition, audits are regularly performed and an annual partnership meeting takes place. The regular Boys & Girls Clubs operate under five core program areas: Education and Career Development, Character and Leadership Development, Health and Life Skills, The Arts, and Sports, Fitness and Recreation. The mission statement is “to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.” The Salvation Army adds a sixth tier to its clubs: Spiritual Development. “From a missional standpoint, we are meeting both the goal of the Boys & Girls Clubs and that of The Salvation Army, to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in his name without discrimination,” Jeffrey said. “The clubs give us the opportunity to spread the gospel to kids and their families.” From a business perspective, the partnership is also advantageous. Participants pay a yearly membership fee, sometimes as low as $20. According to Jeffrey, the club raises the money it needs, and is managed by a volunteer advisory board with a professional staff of trained personnel. National data from 2013 shows $130,883 in membership dues from all The Salvation Army Boys & Girls Clubs collectively. Money from the national organization to The Salvation Army Boys & Girls Clubs totalled $1.76 million. According to Orr, the national BGCA receives an allocation from the Office of Justice of up to $23 million annually. Individual clubs apply for funding for specific programs, and the volunteer advisory councils work to raise awareness and resources. In some locations, the Army’s thrift stores provide an annual allocation to the clubs. This doesn’t include the professional services the BGCA provides in strategic planning, resource develop-
ment, daily operations, staff breakdown, and even appropriate pay rates depending on the area. When a Salvation Army club wants support from the national organization, it can contact the club liaison specialist or the director of organizational development, who visits clubs four times a year or more to provide mentoring services, board and council member training, and strategic planning. “The Boys & Girls Club partnership is a no-brainer,” Costas said. “Salvation Army officers and employees receive management and fundraising training on a different level.” Costas believes a main benefit of the partnership is the standards it provides—professional standards for leadership and hiring. Once those are established, the program has longevity and sustainability. “It forces us at the local level to maintain standards of operation with oversight by a national organization whose only business is the running of these clubs,” Costas said. Adding to the the clubs’ success is the leadership structure. Each club has an executive director or chief professional officer who has no other duties than those pertaining to the club. “The negative—if there is one—is when [Salvation Army] leadership doesn’t see the benefit of the partnership or doesn’t understand how the organization works,” Jeffrey said. Costas noted that sometimes Army officers are afraid that the Boys & Girls Clubs of America are running their programs, instead of recognizing the benefit of teaming up with another national youth agency. “The Salvation Army and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America—these are two of the most powerful brands in the country,” Orr said. “This can be a really unique partnership. The key to its success is the vision of the leaders.” Local Salvation Army leadership can contact Mark Jeffrey (mark.jeffrey@uss.salvationarmy.org), Boys & Girls Club of America national liaison, for more information on forming a club.|NFC
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YUMA—THE ONLY CLUB IN THE WEST BY RANDY HARTT, CAPTAIN Each weekday, The Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club of Yuma welcomes about 90 kids, ages 5-12, to the after-school program. Another 10 teens are Leaders in Training as part of the Junior Staff program for teen club members of good standing. Some club members are linked to the corps through Guards, Sunbeams, Adventure Corps and Moonbeams; others through vacation Bible school and our Sunday programs. Approximately 25 to 40 children attend corps activities each week. Our eight-week summer program goes from 7:30 a.m. to 5:45 p.m., Monday through Friday. Last year, we averaged 130 kids per day, and we anticipate more than 150 children each day this summer. In addition to the homework and tutoring program, we have held nine anti-bullying events since April 2013. The last one was in March, and guest speakers included the Mayor of Yuma, a judo instructor, a mixed martial artist who is an anti-bullying partner with us, and Miss Yuma County. Since January, we have hosted 24 career day events, with guest presenters from local government, local corporations, law enforcement, military, the local university, exterminators, mechanics, and more. Their presentations were designed to excite the kids for the future, and to motivate them to stay off of drugs, to stay away from gangs and gang activity, and to stay in school. Currently, we are in the pre-stages for a capital campaign for our club and corps, and we netted over $25,000 from our annual spring auction. Keep up with the club on Facebook at The Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club of Yuma.|NFC
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THE FACE OF THE SALVATION ARMY’S FIGHT ON POVERTY Social services director works for social and spiritual redemption in Detroit. BY KEVIN JACKSON, MAJOR
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etroit is a city of vibrant cultural diversity, the automobile capital of the world. Yet, when people think of this city, they generally see crime, urban decay and blight.
In recent years its population plummeted from 1.85 million people in 1950 to 713,777 in 2010, according U.S. Census Bureau Data. In its 15th year of economic recession, it faces challenges from failing municipal infrastructure to city-wide bankruptcy. It is reasonable to consider Detroit the poster-child of North American poverty. And in the face of it all, Donald Czaplicki, divisional social services director for The Salvation Army Eastern Michigan Division, said, “The world has gotten better.” A lifelong Detroiter, Czaplicki has worked in social services in the city for the past 28 years, including 15 years as its director. “We [Detroit] are the epicenter or ground zero of poverty. Children born into poverty have a better than 40 percent chance of remaining in poverty throughout their lives,” Czaplicki said. “But 60 percent don’t. We have to figure out how to lower that 40 percent rate by breaking that cycle of generational poverty. The Salvation Army can move people up and out of poverty.” Czaplicki’s approach evidences zeal, professionalism, progressive theory and most importantly hope. Yet, he finds a delicate balance between dreaming about a better future for his city and actually making it happen. “Detroit is a very complex place, and when dealing with social issues it can be a difficult place as well,” he said. In a practical way, social ministries in Detroit are carried out under a two-fold format—emergency services and Pathway of Hope. Czaplicki said he sees many similarities in today’s Pathway of Hope approach to the early Salvation Army social work implemented by the “Slum Sisters,” who worked closely and in a handson manner with the urban poor over 100 years ago to figure out a way out of poverty. Pathway of Hope is a 21st century model to accomplish similar results. “The Pathway of Hope initiative seeks to approach poverty from a strengths-based position, to help the client see their lack of vision and demonstrate what their life can potentially be,” he said. Czaplicki is the personification of what is known in The Salvation Army as the “Dual Mandate.” He sees the social and spiritual redemp-
TOP: Abandoned buildings are a common sight throughout the city of Detroit. BOTTOM: Donald Czaplicki shows his map of the city.
Detroit is a very complex place, and when dealing with social issues it can be a difficult place as well. —DONALD CZAPLICKI tion of a community as two sides of the same coin. The local corps in and around the city of Detroit are critical to changing people’s lives. “It’s all hands on deck,” according to Czaplicki. Although a Roman Catholic in faith, Czaplicki understands Salvation Army theology well. He sees the benefit of The Salvation Army as a part of the Holiness Movement. “We need to equip [Salvation Army] congregations to be the professionals,” he said. “Acts of charity are part and parcel of the Christian experience, and a path to holiness for Salvationists at the corps level.” By actively involving Salvation Army laity in social services they are improving the community and their own spiritual conditions simultaneously. He is supremely hopeful about the future of
the work of The Salvation Army in Detroit. The Salvation Army’s dedication to the city is apparent. With five corps remaining in Detroit proper, additional facilities delivering direct social services, a mobile food delivery program and several other corps in the outlying metropolitan area provide a strong commitment and presence despite the dramatic decrease in the city population. Czaplicki perpetually looks for workable models and approaches in response to poverty in Detroit. He sees trends in micro-loans, entrepreneurial programming and the new agricultural/ urban farming scene as options as he continues to create ways to help people move up and out of poverty in Detroit.|NFC
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Walked through trials Salvation Army legal clinic joins local circuit court to advocate for struggling Detroiters.
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etween hiring lawyers, sifting through court jargon and understanding your rights, the legal system can be tricky to navigate— not to mention costly. In Detroit, where nearly two in five people live in poverty, many find answers at The Salvation Army’s William Booth Legal Aid Clinic (WBLAC). Launched in 1994, WBLAC provides free legal counsel to participants of The Salvation Army Detroit Harbor Light Center, as well any residents in the community living at or below national poverty guidelines. The clinic, which celebrated its 20th anniversary last month, has helped resolve over 20,000 cases. Amy Roemer, who stepped in as clinic director early in 2013, recently initiated a partnership with the Family Division of the Wayne County Circuit Court, the latest in a series of projects designed to advocate on behalf of the low-income public. Twice a month, WBLAC sets up a service area at the Wayne County Courthouse to help anyone with family-related legal needs. Whether regarding child support, custody or visitation issues, clients can have motions, petitions or orders drafted and filed on the spot. Richard Halprin, WBLAC staff attorney, said the service is useful for those facing legal troubles who may be uncomfortable expressing themselves in a court of law. “The worst thing that happens in the courts is when you’ve got two parties and no lawyers, and people that aren’t necessarily able to articulate or advocate sufficiently or don’t know how to explain themselves or follow through with the paperwork, so you’ve got a judge that wants to push them to the back of the line,” Halprin said. “The clinic will clarify, and help get their [needs] resolved on the spot.” Prior to 2000, WBLAC functioned primarily as a service to residents of the Harbor Light
SINCE OPENING, WBLAC has helped resolve over 20,000 cases and mentored 168 law students, who have volunteered nearly 19,000 hours.
Center. The courthouse partnership, Halprin noted, has helped raise WBLAC’s profile and status in the community. According to Roemer, when a lawyer or law clinic has reached a certain stature, cases tend to move more smoothly, which allows WBLAC to serve as many eligible clients as possible. “The partnership helped us establish a measure of credibility with the court staff and judges that has allowed us to operate in a more efficient manner, cut through procedural red tape more quickly and obtain optimal results where trust and reputation may be the tiebreaker in areas of discretion for
court staff or judges,” Roemer said. WBLAC’s legal staff consists of licensed practicing lawyers as well as senior law students who are able to represent clients in court proceedings. While staff members do not advocate for clients in the courtroom for these types of cases, simply walking them through the process can help ensure equal access to justice, Halprin said. “It’s gratifying to help someone with something they otherwise would not know what to do about,” Halprin said. “We’re moving impediments to people’s progress and the gratitude that they show...it really is surprising how much the clients appreciate us.”|NFC
Modesto Citadel receives county funding Money will benefit homeless and youth outreach BY DIANA SANGLAB The Salvation Army Modesto Citadel Corps received three grants from the Stanislaus County Development Department, including a $17,000 Emergency Solutions Grant to the homeless shelter program, a $14,000 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) for the child development program and a $12,805 grant for the homeless meals program. Totaling over $43,000, the funds will help with staffing and operations. Although the corps receives funding from multiple sources, Debra Qualls, grant writer and social programs administrator for The Salvation Army in Modesto, said that this is the first time the corps requested funding from the county for the child development program and homeless meals program, both of which were previously funded through other foundations. “We provide a public service to low-income and working parents who have a need for childcare. The county is partnering with us to help us in that area as well as helping us feed the homeless,” Qualls said. “That’s an expense that we take on and it provides food for those who have no other places to get food.” As for the shelter funding, this is a recurring grant distributed by the county. However, since the county’s funding from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development decreased, the grant reward was also lower than usual. Modesto has a poverty rate of 15.3 percent with almost 39,000 people and 7,700 families living in poverty. According to the U.S. Census, 19.5 percent of Modesto residents are below the poverty line. The
The county is partnering with us to help us in that area as well as helping us feed the homeless.’ —DEBRA QUALLS median household income of the city has grown in the past decade, but is still lower than both the state and national average. The median household income is $49,205, compared to the state median of $61,400, based on 2008-2012 data. The Salvation Army Modesto Corps helps serve over 30,000 meals each year to the homeless, low-income families, and seniors. The Child Development Center can serve up to 60 children per day. The Berberian Homeless and Transitional Shelter can help up to 100 guests depending on the time of year. The recurring grants for this upcoming year’s budget are set for the Modesto Corps, but the corps is awaiting word on pending foundational grants. “It’s the same type of CDBG funding as the county, except it’s through the city, since the county doesn’t cover Modesto city limits, per se,” Qualls said. “I continually look and will apply for any kind of money from foundations or any other avenues that will onset our services.”|NFC
Carol Jaudes performs “The Three Bonnets” at the SAW-ROA retreat.
SAW-ROA holds 10th retreat Members of The Salvation Army West-Retired Officers’ Association (SAW-ROA) met in May at Camp Mt. Crags in the Malibu mountains of Southern California for the annual retreat. Current president Major Ron Bawden chose the theme “Not Weary Yet” to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the SAW-ROA retreat. Western Territory leaders Commissioner James and Carolyn Knaggs led the sessions during the weekend, with music by the SAWROA band, led by Major Fred Seiler, and chorus, led by Major Carol Pontsler. Musical guest Carol Jaudes and accompanist Karen Krinjak from the Eastern Territory offered an evening of “Broadway Dreams” and a drama, “The Three Bonnets,” that recounted the lives of Catherine Booth, Evangeline Booth, and Eva Burrows. The 2015 SAW-ROA retreat—“Joy for the Journey”—is slated for April 30 - May 3, 2015. Under the leadership of future 2014 SAW-ROA president Major Donna Jackson, special guests will be Lt. Colonels Harry and Barbara Brocksieck, Central Territory retired officers who also served in Russia.|NFC
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The Salvation Army in Canada aims to improve nutrition.
BY VIVIAN GATICA Proper nutrition is vital to human life, but some people are unable to meet this need because of financial obstacles—even in developed nations like Canada. According to the 2013 Food Banks Canada HungerCount report, 43 percent of single-person households, 25 percent of single-parent family households, and 22 percent of two-parent family households rely on food banks as their source of nutrition. The Salvation Army in Canada recognized the issue, and established programs other than food banks to help community members get the food and information they need to adopt a healthier lifestyle. These are a few of its efforts to combat hunger and malnutrition for a healthier nation. Haven of Hope Ministries school lunch When The Salvation Army Haven of Hope Ministries received a donation targeted toward child hunger, it contacted local schools and in March 2012 began the Haven of Hope school lunch program to feed 55 children at Coronation Park Community School in Regina, Saskatchewan. The school pitched in for 15 meals, allowing the program to offer 70 lunches. “Parents want the best for their kids, and in an attempt to give them something to eat they would sometimes not send the right type of food...but that might be all they had,” said Val Wiks, Haven of Hope community ministries coordinator. Haven of Hope implemented the same program at Thomson Community School, serving lunch to students five days a week. “Student hunger is related to a student’s ability to maximize their own learning potential throughout the day,” said Ken Meredith, Thomson Community School principal. “Students who are not hungry can learn more than those students who are hungry. The lunch program offered by The Salvation Army positively affects our students’ ability to
learn throughout the school day.” Three times a month, The Salvation Army program serves the children hot meals, like stews or casseroles, and also helps the schools with food for end-ofthe-year picnics. “This is just a little bit we can do to help them out,” Wiks said. “If we can give a person’s child a lunch at school, and it gives the parents dignity at home so they don’t have to worry...then I think that’s a success.” According to Wiks, teachers even saw a positive change in behavior in the classroom. “One of the teachers said it was much easier to teach, and she could tell the kids who received the lunch from those who didn’t because they were more attentive,” Wiks said. “[Another] teacher has seen a very dramatic attitude change in one of the children...because of being fed.” The program continues to provide lunches at community areas, like pools and youth programs, during the summer. Wiks said, “Here at Haven of Hope one of our goals is to change a generation, and if we can do that through lunches, if that keeps a child in school and they get an education and then they get a job, then that’s one less person who is going to need help in the future.” Healthy Families breakfast and exercise To improve nutrition for children outside of school environments, The Salvation Army in Shawinigan, Quebec, created the Healthy Families program in February. Two Saturdays a month it provides children—ages 5 to 12—a nutritious breakfast and promotes exercise. “Low-income families with financial problems have difficulty in affording nutritious food,” said Captain Mélisa Tardif, who oversees the program. “We want to provide kids with a healthy breakfast and encourage them to exercise.” Aside from breakfast, Healthy Families also hosts nutrition workshops for the children, teaching them good eating habits and healthy recipes to try at home. Sometimes they even cook the food themselves. “On Mother’s Day, the kids cooked fruit pies that they gave to their mothers,” Tardif said. “In another class, they also cooked muffins and learned how to read recipes and how to use measuring cups and spoons.”
Another important part of the program is exercise. The Salvation Army organizes games to play at the church or at a park nearby. “We do team sports and all kinds of games,” Tardif said. “ We also have two huge bouncing castles that the kids really like.” The new program is still small, but Tardif is hopeful that it will continue to attract children in the surrounding community. Sally Ann’s Healthy Eating Kitchen The Salvation Army in Vancouver is taking a different approach to promoting nutrition, targeting low-income individuals—primarily single mothers—with Sally Ann’s Healthy Eating Kitchen. Established in October 2013, the program includes cooking and educational components that give participants knowledge and experience in nutrition, budgeting, food safety and meal planning. “We see a lot of people coming to our office who are eating food from our food banks containing a lot of sodium and fat,” said Jessica Chow, community kitchen coordinator. “We wanted to educate them and give them the opportunity to learn.” A community kitchen instructor teaches cooking lessons, giving participants nutrition and food safety tips, while they learn how to cook a variety of new healthy meals. After this, student volunteers for the Hunger Actions program at Simon Fraser University conduct informational workshops on pantry essentials, nutrition, budgeting, meal planning and goal setting. “I think a program like this is really helpful for just introducing people to...different food they may not have known about,” Chow said. “This kind of program is going to be long-term help for a lot of families.” Sally Ann’s Healthy Eating Kitchen is arranged in cycles of new participants with four sessions in each cycle. Now with a waiting list, Chow interviews applicants, prioritizing individuals with children and those who would most benefit. Due to the positive response and participants wanting to extend their involvement, the Army created Friends of Sally Ann’s Kitchen for graduates with workshops, recipes and food swaps. Chow said the Army also acquired a plot at a community garden for participants to grow their own food for use at home. Dinner Bell The Salvation Army Ocean Crest Ministries in Campbell River, B.C., joined forces with the Health Authority and Campbell River Mental Health and Addictions Services to create the Dinner Bell program in 2013. Led by Chef Connie Preston, Dinner Bell program coordinator, the program provides vocational training and rehabilitation as well as low-cost nutritional meals to people with mental health or addictions. “Many folks in this population do not have the skills or knowledge to provide for their own needs nutritionally,” Preston said. “This can lead to health problems in addition to issues they may already be dealing with.” According to Preston, the Dinner Bell program’s services are “directed specifically to individuals registering through Mental Health and Addiction Services and the program is supported by the presence of a mental health professional who is on site during the days of instruction both to deal with any issues that may arise on the part of clients and to engage in hands-on assistance with food preparation.” The 26-week vocational course takes place twice a week with instruction and training where students prepare entrees for meal distribution days. “Some of the graduates from the Vocational and Rehabilitation Training program have begun to compile resumés and are motivated to look for jobs in the food industry,” Preston said. “Others have developed the confidence to create nutritional, interesting food in their own home kitchens.” Preston said they follow the Canadian Food Guide. “Clients...show amazing results within the first few weeks not only in terms of skill levels but also in their sense of self-confidence,” Preston said. “To observe the rise in self esteems, the development of team spirit and the support and encouragement they offer one another is remarkable.” |NFC
Parents want the best for their kids, and in an attempt to give them something to eat they would sometimes not send the right type of food...but that might be all they had.’ —VAL WIKS
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Haven ATL fights trafficking in Atlanta The Salvation Army works to undercut the country’s largest commercial sex industry. BY TAMARA STINSON
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tlanta is one of only eight U.S. cities classified as an “alpha-world city” by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network and ranks fourth in the number of Fortune 500 companies headquartered within city boundaries, yet it’s another economy in Atlanta that’s stealing the attention. According to a 2014 study from the Urban Institute (UI), Atlanta ranks first among U.S. cities for commercial sexual exploitation. In 2007 alone, its underground sex economy netted an estimated $290 million. It’s numbers like this that keep Hillary DeJarnett up at night. As co-founder and program director of Haven ATL, DeJarnett and her team, including Co-Founder Captain Sandra Pawar, work to help women transition from victims of sex trafficking to leaders in their communities. “These girls are powerful,” DeJarnett said. “They’re smart. They’re intelligent. They just really need support and they need to be held accountable and have a place to grow, so that’s what we try to do.” The idea for Haven ATL came to DeJarnett while working on her master’s thesis in nonprofit management at the University of Georgia. The assignment turned into a full-time job after DeJarnett presented the idea to Pawar. The pair then established Haven ATL as a Salvation Army program. “We are located in a neighborhood in Atlanta where commercial sexual exploitation is very prevalent and visible,” Pawar explained. “Before Hillary presented the idea of Haven ATL, I spent a lot of time praying in front of strips clubs and brothels. I even began building relationships with women in that lifestyle and inviting them to the corps. I asked God to guide me on this mission and he sent Hillary and Haven ATL my way.” The UI report states that the underground commercial sex economy in the Atlanta area is mainly comprised of three sex trafficking venues: street and online prostitution, Latino brothels, and massage parlors. There is also a significant amount of pimp-controlled prostitution on the street and online via websites such as Craigslist and Backpage. Haven ATL works to reverse this damage out of The Salvation Army’s 53,000-square-foot Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center in the Pittsburgh neighborhood. Later this year, Haven ATL will move into its own drop-in center and offices. The donated house, also in the Pittsburgh community, will provide a more intimate setting for the 20 women involved to access counseling, mentorship, job training, cooking classes, yoga and Bible study. In the backyard, there’s a community garden to teach the women about farming and landscaping. “I think the house is truly going to be that haven for the women,” DeJarnett said. “A place they can come and know that they are safe and know that they are loved.” Pam, a former madam who turned to the sex trade after her
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I think the house is truly going to be that haven for the women. A place they can come and know that they are safe and know that they are loved.’
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family was displaced by Hurricane Katrina, sought help at Haven ATL after being arrested. She is now one of the organization’s community leaders and helps get women, girls and transgendered individuals out of the industry rather than into it. “I kept trying to do it by myself and I kept falling back into it,” Pam said. “If you’re already thinking about changing, Haven ATL is the place to actually make it happen.”|NFC
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raising model, which taps into an organization’s existing base of supporters by equipping them to champion a cause on the organization’s behalf—thereby building a bigger army of supporters and donors organically. During the recruitment phase, leaders are chosen to represent program areas, including fitness, arts and education, ice skating, day camp and church. Those leaders then recruit people actively engaged in their respective programs, to volunteer. Once all 100 volunteers are recruited, they are trained with the information and skills needed to solicit financial support from family and friends. Each volunteer also has an individual fundraising goal ranging from $500 to $1,000. The campaign started in 2009 with a $60,000 fundraising goal, and has since been raised incrementally to $90,000. Nearly $520,000 has been raised in the campaign’s
six-year history to provide more than 13,200 scholarships to people in the community who can’t afford programs at the Kroc Center. One recipient joined the Kroc Center after a Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis to start walking again. The scholarship fund also afforded Ricky, a 7-year-old foster child who came from an abusive home, the opportunity to make friends, express and grow his faith, learn to read and discover that he’s good at math and loves skateboarding. Ricky’s foster mother, Heather, said giving to the scholarship fund is like giving life to children like Ricky, who wouldn’t have opportunities otherwise. “It’s such a wonderful place and it’s a place that people can feel confident giving money to because it’s being used in the right way,” she said. “I’m evidence that it’s being used in the right way.”
Maria, a working, single mother, said the scholarship program helped especially during school breaks. “If my daughter didn’t have this Summer Day Camp scholarship, I wouldn’t be able to go to work, and we couldn’t survive,” she said. Kroc Centers across the country have expressed interest in adopting this fundraising model. The Hawaii Kroc Center already jumped aboard to raise $20,000 in its inaugural year using a peer-to-peer model. “The heroes campaign means sustainability for the Kroc Center’s fundraising efforts over a long period of time,” said Maria Todaro, director of communications and community development at the San Diego Kroc Center. “It’s an effort that gets the community invested in the success of the center, and creates a pipeline for identifying and cultivating potential major donors.”|NFC
FORMER OFFICERS
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“Some former officers really want to be reconnected,” Hussey said. “If you’ve gone to the degree of becoming an officer, The Salvation Army is part of you. This group is also an advantage to the Army—it’s a huge resource of people and skill that could benefit The Salvation Army in some way.” The territory agreed and is sponsoring the cost of the retreat, which is themed “Reconnecting.” General sessions will focus on facets of this idea, along with workshops on topics such as forgiveness and individual stories of the journey since leaving officership. “It’s an opportunity for dialogue and healing of relationships,” said Major Harry Lacey, pastoral care officer, whose responsibilities since June 2012 include making contact with former officers on behalf of the Army as part of the territory’s Officer Care and Development department. “The Salvation Army wants to reassure former officers that they are still a part of us, and we want to be a support. They’re still people that need pastoral care; I need that, too. We all do.” According to territorial data, the Western Territory’s ranks included 699 active officers in 2004. Since then, 272 cadets were commissioned as officers, 70 former officers were re-accepted, 214 officers retired, 41 A/Captains were brought to full status, 14 active officers were promoted to Glory, and 145 officers resigned or were terminated. Territorial Personnel Secretary Lt. Colonel Doug O’Brien is slated to speak at the event. “There are layers of relationships in The Salvation Army, and positions and dynamics change,” O’Brien said. “We have former officers who feel hurt, misunderstood, wronged, and we’d like to take the opportunity for restoration and to explain how things have changed.” In recent years, alterations to international and local policies provided the option of a “year of reflection” in the midst of individual or family issues. Dependent on specific needs, one person might remain active in officership while a spouse takes time away and receives counseling or health care as needed. After five years of service, a person leaving officership is eligible for a transition grant in lieu of retirement. Officer discipline falls under three levels of the Officers Experiencing Difficulty plan, which was established roughly 10 years ago. In this process, first the divisional commander will discuss the issue with the individual and the pair agrees on a growth plan. At level two, an accountability plan is still created but it’s also sent to the territorial personnel department. Finally, the plan is reviewed by an officer review board and agreed to by the territorial commander. The officer is involved in this process, aware he or she is being considered for termination, and allowed to make a personal case of the situation. “This event is a chance to provide answers to people for what’s happened, why it’s happened and the avenues by which resolution can be brought,” O’Brien said. “If we can move people closer to a place where God is going to use them productively in The Salvation Army, we’d like to do that.” If you are a former officer or know someone who is, send contact information to thussey3167@gmail.com to assist the committee in building its list of invitees. Follow New Frontier Chronicle for upcoming information on registering for the event.|NFC
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LIFE A BRO AD
BY VIVIAN GATICA
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rowing up in Africa, Jessica Horwood felt she had a privileged life as a citizen of the United States and she wanted to help others who were not as lucky. “I had so much just because of the circumstances of where I was born, where I happened to be from, and who I happened to be born from,” said Horwood, who is the daughter of Salvation Army Tanzania Territorial Leaders Colonels Edward and Deborah Horwood. “Since I am so privileged, why would I not then give back to those less [fortunate]?” After graduating from the University of Sussex in Brighton, England, in 2011 with a degree in international development, Horwood became a lay missionary in the Army’s Democratic Republic of Congo Territory in 2012 as assistant project officer. “I needed to get some practical experience in the field that I was studying, and
I wanted to go overseas to get that,” she said. “I always knew I would end up [back] in Africa.” Horwood found the experience challenging at first, but kept moving forward. “I struggled to know what I was supposed to be doing and how I could be involved,” she said. “I realized [work] wasn’t going to be handed to me; I’d have to figure it out on my own and see what needed to be done and then do it.” She oversaw various projects in the territory, which included a microcredit program for widows and a beekeeping training project. The most memorable programs for Horwood, however, were two that reached out to formerly prostituted women, giving them skills in hairdressing, cosmetics and sewing. At the end of these one-year programs, each participant received a sewing or beauty kit to start her own business.
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Jessica Horwood at work in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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“There was so much more that they learned during that year than just skills training; they learned self-esteem and they learned they were loved,” Horwood said. “It was almost like they had this vision of what life could be like after being pulled out of this dark place.” Horwood visited women who had been in the program three years prior to see if it had long term benefits. “None of them had gone back to prostitution,” she said. “They all said, ‘We would never do that anymore; we’ve changed, we’re better than that, and we’d rather make less money.’” In 2013, Horwood accepted a new assignment with The Salvation Army in Haiti where she served as project manager. She looked after microcredit projects, school programs for the youth, and community AIDS programs. “I had a lot more work to do there,” Horwood said. “I was overseeing many projects and each of the projects had a competent team.” This year, Horwood returned to the U.S. However, she is heading to Amsterdam this summer to work at a Christian backpackers’ hostel. When she returns, she will go to graduate school at the University of Florida, Gainesville, to study international development. Horwood said she would like to work in the non-profit sector after completing her degree, but does not have a clear idea of what she wants to pursue. “I do have a heart for places like Africa and Haiti, and I do feel very comfortable there and I miss it when I’m not there,” Horwood said. “I don’t know if I’ll be here or if I’ll be overseas or both; I’m exploring my options.”|NFC
returns to the U.S., after two years of missionary work.
BOOK REVIEW
COST: Personal Sacrifice and the Choice to Follow BY KEVIN JACKSON, MAJOR You’ll find a different sort of book review here. Two books: one a classic of the Christian faith and the other a new work yet to be released. As an avid reader, I scour the bookshelves of bookstores, browse through Amazon and receive recommendations from friends and colleagues on current works worth my time to read. My “to-read” list includes no less than 100 books. Yet, some classics simply deserve placement on every person of faith’s reading list. The Cost of Discipleship (Touchstone, 1995) by Dietrich Bonhoeffer is one of those reads. In a day when Christianity in North America is often about praise and worship, individualistic introspection, and a “what’s in it for me type of faith,” a book like Bonhoeffer’s can be a demanding, challenging and uncomfortable thesis. It was first published in 1937 during the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany. Against this background, Bonhoeffer’s theology of costly discipleship developed, which ultimate-
ly led to his death. He posits the challenge for the modern day believer in the relationship between us and the teachings of Jesus. For Bonhoeffer, personal sacrifice is the central tenant, if not the crux to Christian faith. In plain language, he states that there is cost to following in the footsteps of Jesus. Bonhoeffer never sugarcoats any aspect of the life of the believer. So what is its merit in a culture that focuses on lighting and sound systems in our chapels, coffee shop bible studies and where the cost of discipleship correlates to the price of trendy Christian T-shirts. This isn’t meant as a value judgment, rather as an observation on our contemporary culture of faith. I frequent coffee shops with fellow believers, enjoy good acoustics at church and even have a few of those T-shirts in my dresser drawer. Yet, how do we reconcile the current life of faith experienced in North America and the call to personal sacrifice and costly grace of which Bonhoeffer writes. He warns of the tendency of the individual to lean toward “cheap grace”—a form of faith that demands little or nothing from the
individual. He affirms that Christ calls us to give our all for him and his cause. Bonhoeffer’s words ring true as he was a martyr for the cause of Christ during World War II. Countless readers profited from reading and applying The Cost of Discipleship in their lives. This book isn’t for the timid or weak-hearted individual looking for 21st century spiritual therapy and self-affirming Pablum. Yet, if you truly seek to follow in the challenging footsteps of Jesus, Bonhoeffer gives the reader a no-holds-barred guide to what his understanding of being a Christ-follower looks like. While standing in a parking lot several months ago, Commissioner James Knaggs approached me and said he wanted to see a book written on the cost of discipleship as it relates to The Salvation Army in recent years. The result of that short dialogue began the development and writing of a book which considers if there is a cost to discipleship in the present age. Cost: Personal Sacrifice and the Choice to Follow (Frontier Press, 2014), written by me, approaches this topic with real life application. It includes
extensive and detailed interviews with individuals who experienced true cost in their lives as they endeavored to serve the cause of Christ. Most importantly, the work documents conversations regarding those who paid the ultimate cost in their discipleship with the giving of their lives. The story of the aid provided to victims and first responders on 9/11 and the days that followed ranks among our finest hours. Yet, who were those faithful Salvationists who responded to the call to serve during 9/11 and what cost was involved in their discipleship? Cost: Personal Sacrifice and the Choice to Follow also shares the stories of Salvationists who gave their lives in service to God’s Kingdom: a young officer who worked himself to death during the relief effort during Hurricane Katrina or an officer brutally murdered as he went about the work of The Salvation Army on Christmas Eve. Cost: Personal Sacrifice and the Choice to Follow demonstrates Bonhoeffer’s assertion that there still is a cost to discipleship and will seek to share what that cost looks like today.|NFC
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APOSTOLIC TEACHING & WORSHIP They devoted themselves to the teachings to fellowship and prayer (Acts 2:42). To be an apostle is to be a believer and follower of Christ. Teaching is the sharing of the faith. Sharing this way can occur with staff and with clients. Staff times of prayer, devotion or worship should be welcome and not attended out of duty. Clients need times of clear worship and teaching, times of chapel and time with the chaplain.
ASSOCIATION Continued to meet together, they broke bread and ate with glad and sincere hearts (Acts 2:46). Together with glad and sincere hearts—consider staff to staff and staff to clients. Has the chaplain had the opportunity to develop a full spiritual care program that is woven through all activities in the ministry unit?
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PATIENT-ENDURANCE You have suffered without quitting … you have remained loyal … you persevere (Rev. 2:2,3,12; 3:10) Consider here your interactions with clients; sometimes they are painful emotionally and physically and you wonder when you will see change. Do you remain loyal to God and the mission?
POWER Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles (Acts 2:43). This builds on your trust in God and being faithful knowing the power of God is with your ministry you will see the wondrous signs of God at work. “Everyone with awe” requires sharing with others wondrous signs you have seen; think again of association.
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GRACE Complete the task of testifying to the Grace of God— share the grace (Acts 20:24). The task is your mission: continue sharing the grace of God and testifying to others.
GENEROSITY The believers… gave to anyone in need (Acts 2:45). Giving is what we do, we need to consider how we give. We need to give of ourselves in a professional way that maintains boundaries. We need to give of ourselves knowing our heart connects to God and demonstrate that in actions to clients and staff. We need to give generously in prayer for the ministry unit.
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ACTIVE SERVICE I have seen your hard work … I know all the things you do—your love, your faith, your service (Rev. 2:2, 19). Is your work visible or “of notice” for quality in love, faith and service? Think of all the things you do in ministry—are you coasting? Are you mediocre? Are you dedicated to excellence because of mission?
ACCREDITATION Do your best before God—as a worker who never needs to be ashamed (2 Tim. 2:15). The prescribed standard is your guide to ministry practice. Are you below the standard, mostly at the standard or consistently meeting the standard? Are you striving to do your best?
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REPRODUCTION The Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved (Acts 4:7). Reproduction is accomplishing mission. If you are not…
REPENTANCE Look how far you have fallen from your first love! Turn back to me again and work as you did at first … Go back to what you heard and believed at first; hold firmly and turn to me again … Be diligent and turn from your indifference (Rev. 2:5, 3:3,19). Repent and return to your first love, first vision and goal.
How does your ministry unit score?
An APGAR for spiritual care BY GLORIA J. WOODLAND, DR.
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believe—having worked with Salvation Army chaplains and those responsible for spiritual care in social service ministry units across the Canada and Bermuda Territory as a social services consultant for spiritual and religious care—that chaplains are the carriers of mission. The ministry of spiritual care within Salvation Army social services is what differentiates us from other non-profit social agencies, and so I am stirred to ask deep questions about mission effectiveness. Primarily, how can we as The Salvation Army be more intentional about spiritual care in our ministry units? The answer to that of course lies within our own awareness of how we are doing now and an acceptance that we can intentionally do better. When I came across an article about the APGAR scoring for newborn infants, and saw the value of such scoring recently applied to the births of my grandchildren, I pondered the value of such a score for our ministry units. In Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance, Dr. Atul Gawande explores the challenge to newborns in the 1950s U.S. to survive. He writes that one in 30 babies were then dying at birth, which was scarcely better than it had been a century before, and “it wasn’t clear how that could be changed.” Then in 1952, Virginia Apgar—a pioneering woman in healthcare and a practicing anesthesiologist—declared her revolt of the situation and that these infants could be saved. She set about to make a difference, despite having no authority to challenge the conventions, as Gawande writes. She took a less direct yet powerful approach: she devised a score. The scoring system gave nurses a way of rating the health of a baby at delivery. Ten points meant a healthy baby and less than four points meant a baby in crisis. Through this simple scoring—Activity, Pulse, Grimace, Appearance, Respiration—Apgar changed the condition of newborns into numbers that were standardized and could be collected and compared. It seemed to trigger competitiveness as doctors began working to boost scores for the newborns they delivered, using oxygen and warming babies at birth, and more closely monitoring and treating pregnant and delivering moms. Today, instead of one in every 30 babies dying at birth it is one in every 500. The APGAR system was simple and clear and truly was life giving. The Salvation Army is in the business of spiritual life giving, and
that is why we are in the business of social services. We meet practical needs so that we can share the love of Jesus and be a transforming influence today and for eternity. So I keep asking, how are we doing with spiritual care? The question must always remain as it is central to our mission, but measuring spiritual care is hard. My experience is that when we ask how a ministry unit is doing, we get all the data—the numbers relating to beds, per diem rates, meals served, staffing quotas, size of budgets. We can easily present all the prevailing statistics about the measurable. Our ministry units are impacted and developed on the numbers, but what do the numbers say about a ministry unit’s ability to be missional? We are doing good measuring number of beds and numbers of clients, but how are we doing with measuring the spiritual care delivery. How do we know if we have moved our clients along the continuum of faith, from interest in spiritual things to salvation decisions and changed or transformed lives? Management consultant Peter Drucker pointed out that “All nonprofits have on essential product: a changed human being.” The Salvation Army is not just any nonprofit or helping agency that meets practical need to change living circumstances—we are faith based. To move beyond measuring the countable, we need an Apgar Score for ministry so that we can be aware and be intentional. To capture the varied ministry work being done, two components of measure are presented with each letter. While a unit may choose to measure only one area, it is encouraged to score ministry in each area. Using the APGAR acronym we can measure spiritual care based on the considerations at left. Virginia Apgar’s scoring system was intentional and lifesaving showing us that awareness, intentionality and effort can change outcomes. When you assess the score of spiritual care in your ministry unit and intentionally support mission, I believe lives will be transformed for eternity.|NFC
To discover your ministry unit APGAR, score it based on the measures below, giving thought to the considerations as presented at left for each point. APGAR Scoring
ZERO (0)
APOSTOLIC TEACHING Little or no devotion to these practices
A P G A R
ASSOCIATION
ONE (1)
TWO (2)
Moderate devotion
Strong devotion
Little or no sharing Occasional sharing together beyond the together “have to”
YOUR SCORE
Frequent and regular sharing together
Under pressure— PATIENT-ENDURANCE Under pressure— give up on faith faith wavers; off and on
Under pressure— strongly persevere in faith in God
POWER
Few or no miracles or Wondrous signs of God at work
Occasional signs of God at work
Many signs of God at work
GRACE
Little or no attention to the task of sharing the grace of God
Moderate attention to the task of sharing the grace of God
Constant attention to the task of sharing the grace of God
GENEROSITY
Giving with little sacrifice involved
Giving with some willingness to sacrifice
Sacrificial generosity is frequent and characteristic
ACTIVE SERVICE
Weak in work and service to others
Moderate in work and service to others
Strong in work and service to others
ACCREDITATION
Non-compliant
Some-what compliant
Consistently compliant
REPRODUCTION
Rare or no addition of those Occasional addition of those Regular addition of those who are being saved who are being saved who are being saved
REPENTANCE Resistant to admit and repent Occasionally ready to admit Eager and willing to and repent recognize failings and to repent
Compare your total score with the definitions given in the scoring key and reflect on what your APGAR for spiritual care reveals about your ministry unit.
TOTAL Spiritual Care APGAR
Scoring key for reflective action
0 to 3
Severely depressed spiritual care or lack of mission. In need of immediate attention.
4 to 6 Moderate efforts at spiritual care and mission. Needs some attention. 7 to 10 Excellent and effective spiritual care. Missionally minded
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CHILDREN OF INTEGRITY Implementing an International School Strategy BY CHRISTIN DAVIS
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cross the world, more than 600,000 children attend and 20,000 teachers teach in one of The Salvation Army’s nearly 3,000 schools. From International Headquarters in London, Howard Daziel overseas this educational arm of the organization as the international schools coordinator, helping to implement the International Schools Strategy. In each school, the Army seeks to develop compassionate children of integrity and character. In an interview with New Frontier Chronicle, Daziel explains. NFC: Why is education important to The Salvation Army? Daziel: Education is a fundamental right that those who are most marginalized do not always have access to. We believe that where we have the opportunity to offer education to marginalized groups we should provide education that will enable them to achieve their God-given potential in a caring supportive and nurturing environment. What is your role as the International Schools Coordinator at International Headquarters, International Schools Strategy focus areas and what led you to this role? My role is to raise awareness of the support that we can of- Providing quality education, which leads to high achievement for all fer strategically through the international schools strategy Relationships and partnerships so that schools coordinators, Army leaders, and those work- Improving infrastructure and maxiing in schools are aware of our mizing resources vision and guiding principles. It is also important that educa- Developing a plan for sustainability tion best practice is shared, and Continually improving the quality that those who wish to support of teaching staff and management schools projects are linked to systems the appropriate donor offices or practitioners. We at IHQ work Developing minimum standards with those who support schools and guidelines on child safety and programs through technical or protection financial support. I came to the role as a school See more at salvationarmy.org/ihq/ schoolsstrategy teacher who had worked both in the UK and internationally and passionately believed in the power of schools to transform lives of pupils, their families and their communities. What is your personal philosophy regarding education, and how does that impact your work? My personal philosophy revolves around achieving God-given potential and ensuring that schools provide a nurturing framework that enables students to learn, play and grow spiritually in an environment where all children feel safe and protected and are able to develop character that will enable them to be compassionate individuals of integrity
As pioneer officers of The Salvation Army in Moldova—a landlocked country in Eastern Europe located between Romania to its west and Ukraine to its north, east and south—Majors Wes and Ruth Sundin opened four corps there in their tenure. This May, they returned to participate in the country’s 20th anniversary celebration of the opening of the Army. Today, Moldova has 21 corps, runs eight village clinics, a women’s prison project and more as a division of the Eastern Europe Territory. “In one village we visited the local medical center, which is open only one day a week by Salvation Army licensed doctors,” Wes Sundin said. “It is the only medical facility in the village where people line up early and wait patiently for treatment. Everything from dentistry to glasses to arthritis aches and pains, flu, obstetrics and minor surgery are performed here.” Sundin said one village school, Kindergarten to 12th grade, is largely supported by The Salvation Army, which buys books and school supplies, and helped repair aging school facilities. “Two school classes sang for us,” Sundin said. “What beautiful happy faces!” During the anniversary celebration, the Army held an open air in the Central Park of Kishinev, the capital city of Moldova. “Soldiers from all over the country joined in
What is The Salvation Army’s International Schools Strategy? It is a framework that explains our vision, our guiding principles, and outlines the six focus areas that we believe are essential for the delivery of high quality education. Why was it developed, and what outcomes have you seen from it? It was developed to support those working with schools. There is such a wide variety of types of school in so many cultural contexts that it is important that the identity of a Salvation Army school is clarified. It is important that those working in schools recognize that they are supported and appreciated. In visiting Salvation Army schools around the world, can you talk about a visit that stands out to you? I have been impressed in so many situations, and each visit I make shows me the level of dedication from teachers, officers, parents, and friends of Salvation Army schools. My most recent visit was Guatemala where the school is literally a safe haven. Children are able to learn and play in safety. They are part of a community that cares for them, and builds their character. The teachers work incredibly hard in the face of adversity and Salvation Army officers dedicate their lives to improving the educational experience and spiritual support for children from vulnerable, broken communities.
Speaking broadly, what are Salvation Army schools’ strengths, and where is there room for improvement? Our strength is in our people, their dedication, their vision, their ability to develop relationships with community leaders, with parents, their ability to use such an extensive footprint to educate marginalized children. We want to continue to ensure that we improve our infrastructure. We need to continue to access funds locally where possible, and continue to support these efforts through international funds where this is appropriate. We need to ensure that we focus on quality teaching and that we give teachers the opportunity to develop their teaching skills further. This is a continual process.|NFC
Moldova Salvation Army celebrates 20 years praise to God for his blessings,” Sundin said. “Local residents of Kishinev stopped to hear a very capable orchestra beautifully play Salvation Army music. Testimonies were given and soldiers went out to the people talking to them about God.” At a final praise meeting, over 500 people attended, along with four of the previous divisional commanders and the current office staff, and Sundin said many renewed their commitment to Christ and the Army.|NFC
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A look at the Baltic region ministry
T HE ARM Y IN L AT V I A BY CHRISTINE BAILEY, MAJOR Local residents worship at the Avotu Street Social Centre.|Photo courtsey of the Latvia Region
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pring comes late to Latvia, but when it does come it literally bursts into life and brings with it not only color and warmth, but a renewed sense of life and hope after the long dark winter. In some ways the Latvian Spring is a metaphor for the Army here. It came late to Latvia, even the first time around, when the Army “opened fire” in 1923. After the Soviet era, the work re-commenced in 1991 and the light of the Gospel was able to challenge the darkness that was the legacy of communism. You can go to any corps or center in Latvia, and even if the surrounding environment is grey and depressing, the door opens on to a place of color and warmth. Take the Russian-speaking corps of Daugavpils in the south-east of the country, for example. The ministry there involves serving soup every day of the week to around 100 people, and also involves the officers, Marina and Jānis, sharing the Gospel with a conviction that comes from their own experience of being transformed by Jesus. Going north, traveling the last mile or two on a dusty road, Sarkaņi comes into view. You could be forgiven for thinking that these former Soviet military barracks are derelict, until you see washing hanging on the line, or a rather forlorn-looking curtain at the window. Dmitrijs and Ilona, the officers, will be waiting to greet you to show you around. The beauty and cleanliness of the little house is in sharp contrast to the rest of the village. Their aim is, God helping them, to “change a village” starting with the children. Ilona puts it this way: “In these surroundings, the center is like a bright island. We are happy that we can show a different way of life.” Less than a mile up the road and in complete contrast is Skangaļi, an imposing manor house set in its own grounds. The story of how The Sal-
vation Army acquired the house has a romance all of its own. It was gifted to the Army by the family of the murdered Prime Minister of Sweden, Olof Palme, as the result of a chance meeting with a Salvationist on a flight from Riga to Stockholm. Today this manor house, where the wealthy Palme family once spent their summer holidays, is home to over 20 children and young people, most of whom have difficult family backgrounds, and also offers crisis shelter to young mothersto-be. The manor house itself provides accommodation for guests, where they are served tasty Latvian food, with locally-sourced potatoes, pickles and honey. It is not easy work for Modris and Normunds and their team, but it is all made worthwhile when someone like David says, “Living in Skangaļi Home, I feel safe and confident about myself.” Travel to the capital, Riga, and the theme of color and hope continues. Before you even see them, you will hear the voices of children rising from the basement of the headquarters in Riga. They are children who are cared for in the Children’s Day Centre appropriately called “Patverums” (“Refuge”). Here is a place for “at-risk” children to come to have a shower, wash their clothes, do their homework, have a meal and
‘One Army’ resources now available International Headquarters recently released a multi-format teaching resource for The Salvation Army’s International Vision of “One Army, One Mission, One Message,” which launched in October 2011, with a goal of bringing Salvationists into a closer understanding of what it means to be part of “One Army.” “For those who want to know more about The Salvation Army, this is the most up-todate, informative and concise guide available,” writes General André Cox on the One Army website (salvationarmy.org/onearmy). “For Salvationists who want to confirm their own faith and mission, this is as reliable and authentic guide you will find anywhere. For those who want to broaden their horizons, support and encourage others around the world and learn about other cultures, this will achieve all those aims.” Assigned the task of producing the teaching resource, Commissioner Robert Street, chair-
play. These simple basement rooms, with little natural light, are full of warmth and love, and all the simple touches that go to make a place look like a home. The Queen of Sweden recently came to visit them, showing interest in all that was going on. A short walk away in a rather run-down neighborhood, a graffiti-covered building has the tell-tale Army shield above the door. This is the Avotu Street Social Centre. Go inside on any Wednesday or Thursday at lunchtime and you will see the place packed with people eating a nourishing lunch. Most of them are elderly or disabled and each person has their own story. Aldona, the officer in charge, and her assistant Anita, visit people in their homes to find out first hand their problems and concerns. One such person is Dzintra, who says, “Thanks to the assistance of The Salvation Army—food parcels once a month, warm meals, clothes, showers and fellowship—I can survive.” The metaphor of the Latvian Spring runs deep. What motivates the officers is the prospect of seeing hopeless lives bursting with new life and hope. Dzidra’s story says it all: “ I went to The Salvation Army’s worship service and at the end of it I knelt and prayed. My life has been changed completely.”|NFC person of the International Doctrine Council, told All the World that a shared understanding is vital in an ever-expanding Army that ministers in 126 countries. “It is crucial that it stays united, grows authentically and continues to be what it was always meant to be...an expression of the one Church Universal, showing the heart and love of God,” he said. The resource is provided across a variety of formats, through booklets, videos and other online material. The initial batch covers four teaching units: The Introduction: One Army – One Life; One Army – in Calling; One Army – in Covenant; and One Army – in Christ. Each booklet has a corresponding film, which is available on the website or on DVD. “We are currently working toward 20 subtitle languages on the web,” Street said. “It is inspiring to be aware of the energy and expertise being applied to this.” Participants can contribute to the discussions on the website, using Twitter, Facebook or email accounts to join in. For updates, follow @ TSAOneArmy on Twitter. The next three units of the program will be available in mid-2014.|NFC
Knaggs: Jobs ‘the missing part’ for ARC alumni West moves forward Harvest Initiative with plans for job creation program. BY JARED McKIERNAN Corps officers and Adult Rehabilitation Center (ARC) administrators from throughout the Western Territory began working with territorial leadership to expand housing and employment opportunities for ARC alumni following a May Harvest Initiative Caucus. The Harvest Initiative launched in late 2011 in partnership with Apricot Consulting to help diminish the organizational rift between ARCs and corps in the territory and ultimately, extend the Army’s relationship with ARC alumni beyond completion of the program. The Salvation Army distributes over $150 million into the 23 ARCs across the Western Territory and roughly one-third of the 7,500 enrollees graduate at the end of the six-month program each year. Only 10 percent of graduates not placed into housing upon completion of the program maintain their sobriety, according to data collected by the territory. Those that are placed into housing, however, see an 85 percent success rate. Now the Harvest Initiative is shifting its focus toward securing employment for alumni, to help
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We do the food, clothing and shelter quite regularly, but the part about jobs is the part that
them maintain sobriety and increase the efficiency of the territory’s investment. “The missing part in The Salvation Army is the part about jobs,” said Territorial Commander Commissioner James Knaggs. “We do the food, clothing and shelter quite regularly, but the part about jobs is the part that finally gives [ARC alumni] dignity and maybe keeps them out of poverty. They can prove that they’re changed people.” According to Major John Chamness, Hawaiian and Pacific Islands divisional commander, some of the biggest hindrances for alumni seeking employment are: body art, limited resumes, criminal background, lack of positive references, lack of education, immigration issues, basic job readiness, childcare and transportation. Beyond preparing beneficiaries for employment and helping them find jobs externally, The Salvation Army will work to create and designate jobs specifically for alumni. “Why couldn’t we have coffee carts, and subway shops, and cafés, and printing businesses, and bakeries, and landscaping, and farming, incubator opportunities where we create job opportunities for the people in our programs?” Chamness said at last month’s caucus.
finally gives them dignity and maybe keeps them out of poverty.’ —COMMISSIONER JAMES KNAGGS The territory plans to develop the framework for a job creation program by November. “If we’re not giving them housing and jobs, we’re losing them,” Chamness said. “We know that if we connect them to the corps, give them housing and give them jobs, we can get 2,000 converts plus families a year into western corps. We want to see the graduates from each of our centers find full salvation—not just the connection to the corps, but full salvation.” Local and territorial “guiding coalitions” made up of divisional secretaries, corps officers, ARC administrators, and other key members will work to ensure the initiative’s objectives are being met. The next step, according to Apricot Consulting CEO Derek Linsell, is a soldier’s caucus to be held in August, which will invite soldiers to actively join in the initiative.|NFC
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A DREAM AND CRY IN THE DARK The history of Booth Supportive Services is long vested in The Salvation Army’s work supporting adults with a concurrent disorder. Starting in 1977 within two buildings, the program morphed to provide “wrap-around support” to adults dealing with serious mental health issues, addictions and sporadic homelessness in homes of people’s choice. By doing so, Booth Supportive Services in Ontario, Canada, has changed the way the Army supports people by removing the need for a building. In two years, the program has decreased hospital visits, partnered with other agencies, and is being recognized. “Our successes are based on our belief in service coordination, ensuring clients’ health care needs are met even if that means bringing the support to them, and bridging the gaps
to access support and services for our clients,” said Allison McDonald, executive director of the Booth Supportive Services. “We believe that our wrap-around service as a community-based agency of The Salvation Army ensures that the Army’s great work is seen not only in buildings but in communitie.” The staff acts as a bridge that connects the client to community resources needed to begin that long road to sobriety and healthy, happy and independent living. Services are built on the principle that change is possible, and the desire for change must come from the individual. The frequency, nature and intensity of Booth Supportive Services involvement, as well as the place where the service will be provided, are up to the client. Services are fluid, intensive, flexible, holistic, both in the
community and place-based, working from a trauma-informed framework and harm reduction approach with a staff to client ratio of 1:15 and accessibility to staff on call at all times. Each client is assigned a staff member to work alongside him or her to establish personal goals and practice basic life skills. A community-based chaplain provides Bible study and devotions at congregate settings where clients live, along with individual spiritual counseling and support. “The message of The Salvation Army is we are here to serve, to support and to be a transforming influence in the communities of our world,” McDonald said. “We at Booth Supportive Services are ensuring we do that one person at a time.”|NFC
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he biggest concern of most 8-year-old girls is how they might fashion their dolls, what to bring to the next sleepover or how to catch the attention of the cute boy in class. When Clara Kleinman was that age, she was warding off gangsters. She was being teased for her religion, tormented for the way she spoke. And talking back never did her much good, because no one understood a word she said. Kleinman now lives at The Salvation Army’s Silvercrest Residence in Santa Monica, Calif. She’s 87, and sharp. She’s not five-feet tall, but her posture grabs your attention. Her voice sparse, but when she speaks, you listen. “There weren’t many Jews in our neighborhood; it was mostly black,” she said of the St. Louis slum she grew up in. “We were taunted because we were Jewish. The prejudice was unbelievable.” Kleinman was born in 1926 the eighth of nine children on Biddle Street, a high-crime, desolate section of downtown St. Louis. Even a simple walk home from school could mean risking your life. “I saw the worst of life,” she said. ”I saw knifings on the way home from school. I knew how to hide in the alleys.” Kleinman’s father had a paralytic stroke when she was 5 years old. This left her mother, Yetta, as the household’s primary caretaker. While ruthless, as described by Kleinman, Yetta was always hospitable. “She always told us never to feel sorry for ourselves because there was always someone worse off, and she was right,” she said. “I remember all of the people my mother took in when we barely had enough to eat, but she would never let anyone sleep in the streets or go hungry.” Kleinman’s older siblings and eventually she herself, began working to contribute to the household income. It was either that, or go hungry. To make matters worse, Kleinman was born with an abnormally small throat passage, which caused a severe speech impairment. Bullies had their way. “Not only did I live in the toughest area,” she said, “but talk about being teased. You could not understand one word I said. It was not that my speech was unclear. I could not get the words out...I fought every gang member. My brothers taught me how to hit the areas that hurt the most.” Her brother Lou, especially, was like a guardian, quick to defend his younger sister to anyone. Lou once even slapped a schoolteacher in the face as payback for hitting his sister. When Kleinman was 11, she got a measure of relief from the heckling. Her school sponsored speech therapy for her at Central Institute for the Deaf. Every day that year, she rode the bus from one end of St. Louis to the other to practice her speech. “The classes were difficult,” she said, “but they gave me the chance to have a normal life.” Over the next few years, she worked a combination of office jobs, later relocating to Michigan, then California. She married and had two children, though still maintaining two part-time
In those years, to take charity or welfare you really had to be ashamed. You tried not to talk about it. But when we went to these [Salvation Army] parties, it always impressed me how nice they were and how they always smiled. And it made you feel good. — CLARA KLEINMAN Clara Kleinman helps run The Salvation Army’s annual Christmas Spree in Santa Monica. |Photo by Stephanie Kleinman
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positions. She became a proficient typist, clocking 225 words per minute, which helped her secure several jobs. While unglamorous, things were headed in a positive direction—until one day when she got a call about her brother Lou. He was shot and killed by a group of gang members. “I couldn’t eat,” she said. “I could not eat. We were very close.” She wasn’t exaggerating. Disturbed by Lou’s death, she neglected her health and dropped all the way down to around 85 pounds. “I looked in the mirror one day and said, ‘This is not what my brother would want.’ So I pulled myself together and accepted it for what it was.” Though much of her childhood was marked by trial and injustice, Kleinman recalls each holiday season as the pinnacle. Every year, The Salvation Army rented out an auditorium to throw a Christmas party for all of the kids in the community. She and her siblings would go get their clothes and shoes for the school year. “I remember how important the shoes were,” she said. “Shoes were one of the most important things because we had to walk quite a distance to go to school. And you had to remember to always get them big because you had to stuff them with newspaper so they would last all year.” Her memory of The Salvation Army was simple—they served. For one day each year, her religion, her handicap, her family’s circum-
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from The Salvation Army in the 1930s fuels Clara Kleinman’s passion to give back today.
stances—none of it mattered. “They never cared about your religion, or color of your skin. The way they gave, when they were handing out things, it was such a warm, personal feeling,” she said. “In those years, to take charity or welfare you really had to be ashamed. You tried not to talk about it. But when we went to these parties, it always impressed me how nice they were and how they always smiled. And it made you feel good.” Kleinman worked well into her 80s, retiring just three years ago. After that, she finally settled down in her Silvercrest apartment—or so she thought. “I heard them talking about The Salvation Army Christmas Spree. I said, ‘Oh my gosh. I’m going over there to see if I can volunteer,”’ she said. “All my life I had this dream. I always said if things ever changed, I would give back to The Salvation Army, because when my family needed them, they were there for us. Now, I’m giving back not just for myself, but for my whole family.” Kleinman has served as treasurer for the Santa Monica Women’s Auxiliary for the past three years, planning fashion shows and Christmas Sprees like the ones she attended as a child. Now widowed, Kleinman said she is grateful for the opportunity to give back, even at this stage in life. And while grinding is all she knows, she wouldn’t have it any other way. “I really feel and I still feel that it’s up to us what we get out of life,” she said. “Not everyone has the same chances, but the minute you start feeling sorry for yourself, it’s over. I really think that you have to go through some suffering in life to appreciate the good things. I really am a very lucky person.”|NFC
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You can live yourself into right thinking, but you cannot think yourself into right living.
OBEDIENCE: —CHUCK C.
BY GLEN DOSS, MAJOR
“To hold to a doctrine or an opinion with the intellect alone is not to believe it. A man’s real belief is that which he lives by.” This observation by 19th century Scottish preacher George MacDonald reflects not only a powerful spiritual principle, but also common sense. Obedience—the mind directing action—shows responsiveness, but there is also feedback. The behavior operates forcefully upon the psyche. For obedience not only defines our faith; it precedes it. The whole secret of spiritual progress is doing the will of God as we know it and going on from there. This includes the starting point of our spiritual life. Jesus replied, “If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him” (John 14:23 NIV). If we do what Jesus tells us, his light will dawn in our hearts. As we follow his directions, he will be there to guide and empower us. There is no other way of progress in the spiritual life. This is the path of recovery for all of us upon the face of the earth, for spiritual growth is synonymous with recovery. We all, if we’re honest with ourselves, will admit that at one time or another some kind of unwholesome lifestyle invaded the recesses of our being. All of us who are growing spiritually today are on this path of recovery. A working definition I have heard from organizations such as the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Association goes something like this: Recovery is a process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, lead a self-directed life and strive to reach their full potential. As a minister, in fact as a Christian, this meaning has long rang hollow with me. For it is the God-directed life, not the self-directed one, that we need. Our lifelong habitual response to circumstances has always been to seize control over our own lives, and it is this that has been our downfall. In recovery, we seek to give that control over to God. I
the key to spiritual growth
have coined a definition of my own which I teach today: Recovery is the process of learning, through practical experience, to rely in this present moment upon God rather than ourselves, progressing from unhealthy to healthier thinking. Unless we rely on God we don’t belong to him and remain subject to the whims and beckoning of our own selfish desires. Obedience comes when, as a conscious act, we lay aside the appetite and inclinations of our self and instead rely on God to help us subdue our own will. We have a notion that God has some grand plan for us months or even years down the line. Oswald Chambers reminds us that God’s ultimate purpose for us will always be the same: to rely on him in this present moment. If we do this, then everything else will fall into place. He will empower us as we trust our whole self to him the way a lame man leans on a cane or an immobile man relies on a wheel chair. Jesus put it this way: If anyone chooses to do God’s will, he will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own (John 7:17). To do the will of the master is the one object for which the Gospel was preached. Only in doing what I know to be true, will love grow, will truth grow. Only by actually relying on God—obeying him again and again—can we ever come to know him. It was Chuck C. of Alcoholics Anonymous who observed in his remarkable book A New Pair of Glasses: “You can live yourself into right thinking, but you cannot think yourself into right living.” As we obey, the scales fall from our eyes and we see the truth. Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free” (John 8:31-32). There is but one plan of salvation: believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. And that belief is no mere mental acknowledgement about him, but involves nothing more, nothing less than to take him for what he is—our master—and to take his words as if he meant them.|NFC
OPINION
SERVING ALL VETERANS
The corps, not just stand-alone programs, should provide information and services. BY GAIL CRANDALL Every day veterans return home with medical and psychological problems that make reintegration difficult. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and mental health issues lead other veterans to a path of homelessness, despair, and addiction that can last for decades, with female veterans currently the fastest growing segment among the homeless. As director of social services for the Long Beach (Calif.) Citadel Corps, it is always a source of pride to share that The Salvation Army serves the greatest number of veterans outside of Veterans Affairs (VA); in Los Angeles County, that’s about a third of all veterans. Most of the Army’s work takes place through specialized programming at places like The Haven or other “stand alone” programs throughout the Western Territory and across the country. Our corps has an established Community Care Ministries relationship with the Long Beach VA, doing visitations and veteran events. Over the last few years we have become intentional and focused on veterans, working more closely on the social services side to assist reintegrating veterans with furniture vouchers that last year led to starting our Welcome Kit program. We realized that we were likely serving many veterans and veteran families through our food pantry and missing opportunities to connect them with veteran services as well as corps events and programming. In order to confirm this, we began asking if the individual is a veteran during intake. Not surprisingly we found that we are serving easily up to 500 veterans and veteran families each year. We have increased our outreach and now work with the United States Veterans Initiative in Long Beach to house chronically homeless veterans and reintegrate female veterans
in U.S. Vets ADVANCE Women’s Program in Long Beach. As we become even more intentional in our work with veterans and I look to connect veterans to corps services outside our area, I wonder where the corps outreach to veterans is and why we aren’t doing more. In our Bridges & Others Social Service program we don’t track veterans served by corps. Why not? We track homeless, families, seniors and children, but not veterans. That information goes in the notes section. As I look around the websites of various divisions, the only mention of veterans services I find is for stand-alone programs or Community Care Ministries (CCM). I don’t see corps putting the emphasis on serving veterans and veteran families that The Salvation Army does at the program level. It seems like at the corps level we have “buttonholed” veterans into the CCM category, and we are not recognizing the number of veterans served at the “street level,” only those who are in programs. I hear about the efforts of the Army to secure more funding for veterans services, which is great for veterans and veteran families in programs, but what about those who aren’t in programs? All of our corps should be a conduit for information and services for veterans. How can we improve? I don’t have all the answers but like two of my role models, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lennon, I imagine and I dream. I dream of an Army where every veteran and every veteran family served is counted from the program to the corps. I imagine an Army where every corps acknowledges veteran clients and is intentional in its outreach, committed to being a conduit of information and service. I dream of an Army where every corps intake form inquires about veteran status and the first response is “thank you for your service.” I imagine an Army where every corps has a Veterans Corner on their bulletin board and knows what resources for veterans are available within The Salvation Army and within their community.|NFC
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The reality and joy is that prayer is always a focus and foundation of our ministry.’
Covering the territory in prayer A year of non-stop prayer across the West BY MERVYN MORELOCK, LT. COL. Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done. Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts. Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice (Ps. 105:1-3 NIV) The Western Territory launched a “Celebrate Jesus 24-7 Prayer” initiative in February, involving every corps in praying non-stop through Jan. 1, 2015, as part of the Centre for Spiritual Life Development’s global call to prayer leading to the “Boundless” international congress. Since the launch, four of the 12 assigned months have been covered and eight are preparing their turn. Here are a few of the victory reports to date: “The Celebrate 24/7 was refreshing and so good for my heart and mind. I spent a significant amount of time praying for my dad this year. Since this initiative I’ve been able to see the seed of prayer for him beginning to blossom. I know this is God working in his life and I praise God for answering my prayer!” “I had not really thought that I could do much praying with my daughter, who is 3 years old. I didn’t think that I could focus on my own prayers if she was with me. I signed up to pray very early in the morning and my daughter never gets up early. That morning she woke up five minutes before my alarm clock. She was wide awake; there was no way I could get her back to sleep, so I took her with me. I didn’t think that I would be able to really focus, but the Lord spoke to my heart. That prayer time was one of the
Sharon Lander (center) accepts the Andrew S. Miller Award.
Western Territory recognized at NCRD conference Planned giving director given first sweetest times I have had with the Lord and also one of the sweetest times I’ve had with my daughter. Sometimes we need to be with others, including children, who can sweetly remind you what it means to focus on Jesus.” “I wrote a prayer card and spent an hour in prayer over them for my corps officer, divisional commander, territorial commander and the General. Not thinking I would hear anything back, I was told that the General received my letter and was sending me a letter in return. In the letter, he thanked me and gave me encouragement and some advice.” “When my turn came around to pray it was 2-4 a.m. I was energized. I needed this time to be alone with God. During my prayer time, I moved from the upper room to the hallways of divisional headquarters where artist renderings of all of the corps buildings are displayed. I had the privilege of lifting every corps and corps officer in prayer to the Lord using these pictures as a guide.” “The reality and joy is that prayer is always a focus and foundation of our ministry.” If you have a prayer request, send it to saprayerline@aol.com.|NFC
Andrew S. Miller Award of Excellence National Headquarters awarded the first Andrew S. Miller Award of Excellence to a Western Territory representative at the 2014 National Community Relations and Development Conference—“Resonate.” Sharon Lander, Western Territorial planned giving director, received the award, named for former National Commander Andrew S. Miller. It honors development professionals who demonstrate excellence and embody the Army’s holistic approach to service—what Miller described as a melding together of the social and spiritual ministry into a single and seamless entity. “Sharon lives out the kind of balanced lifestyle that Commissioner Andy Miller would talk about, combining professional acumen with genuine concern for those she interacts with,” said Chaz Watson, executive director of development in the
West. “Her integrity and care for people shine through, even in the most technical discussions. We are very pleased and so proud of this recognition of Sharon’s excellence in life and work.” Since 1996, Lander has provided leadership and technical expertise to the territory’s planned giving program. In 2013, the 25 directors under her leadership generated roughly $63 million in planned gifts to The Salvation Army. “I was surprised and humbled to be the first recipient of the Andrew S. Miller Award for Excellence in fundraising. An award of this nature is a great honor and, I believe, is far from a reflection of my work alone,” Lander said. “It also acknowledges the extraordinary commitment and results achieved by all the gift planning professionals of the Western Territory I have had the privilege to lead over the past 18 years.”|NFC
Ragland receives the 2014 National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster Award.
Jenni Ragland honored by VOAD The National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD) organization annually presents an award to an individual who exhibited outstanding and unique service within the movement. This year, VOAD recognized Jenni Ragland, emergency disaster services director for The Salvation Army’s Alaska Division for her leadership in response to a crisis in Galena, Alaska, when a flood along the Yukon River caused severe damage to 75 percent of the town. Her action directly benefitted hundreds of survivors and dozens of mass care co-workers. “Challenged by logistical and cultural details unknown in the lower 48 states, Jenni’s efforts were a stellar success, worthy of recognition by the National VOAD community,” said James McGowan, senior director of strategic initiatives for National VOAD. Galena is a Native village, located in central Alaska just south of the Arctic Circle with a population of 470 people. Residents rely on subsistence hunting and fishing as their primary food source, and all supplies must be flown or barged in via the Yukon River. The flooding impacted 90 percent of homes, causing many residents to lose all, or most, of their stored subsistence resources. The federal government declared the flood a disaster and local, state, tribal, non-governmental and federal mass care partners collaborated to provide life-saving and life-sustaining services. During the initial response, the state, The Salvation Army, the American Red Cross and the Tanana Chiefs Conference evacuated, sheltered and fed all disaster-impacted residents. Then in early August 2013, after the activation and arrival of the Federal Emergency Management Agen-
cy (FEMA) Mass Care team, multi-agency task forces developed plans for congregate sheltering, feeding, pets, and access and functional needs support. Teams included representatives from the state, The Salvation Army, Alaska SPCA, American Red Cross, AmeriCorps, Bureau of Land Management, FEMA Corps and FEMA. Finally, The Salvation Army prepared frozen meals for long-term shelter residents and tailored feeding plans for families with food needs who were sheltering in-place—Ragland’s initiative. “Jenni’s leadership and positive influence was instrumental in the success of all three of these phases,” McGowan said. “As a member of the mass care disaster assessment team in June and July, she deployed to Fairbanks, Galena and other villages...leveraging strong relationships previously developed with local, state, tribal and federal partners to determine the true extent of need and the best options available.” While The Salvation Army has a strong presence in Alaska, it has not historically been involved in disaster response there, a fact that did not faze Ragland. “The Salvation Army’s relationship to Alaska response may be forever changed as a result of the extraordinary work Jenni accomplished fostering partnerships, building community, and finding creative ways to get the job done regardless of the circumstances,” McGowan said. “She jumped in with both feet and did not take a break until November, sitting side-by-side with state and FEMA staff at the joint field office, and traveling to Galena every two weeks to provide direct service to survivors and respite for her Salvation Army compatriots on the ground.” Ragland’s plan to provide culturally appropriate frozen meal entrees for residents also included ongoing ac-
Jenni Ragland |Photo by Ken Cavallero
cess to Salvation Army referral resources for those needing support. In addition, when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families representative returned from meetings with specific items needed, Ragland always offered to help obtain them. In most cases, she secured the requested items. McGowan noted that she also improved the morale of the team with her “positive and persevering spirit, abundant warmth, and tasty baked treats...this well-honed attention to details and profound ability to know exactly when to say or do just the right thing makes Jenni the most rare of gems, and the person you most want by your side as a working partner or as a friend.”|NFC
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USA WEST NEWS BRIEFS Kickoff event this November.” The donuts were purchased from local bakeries with funds raised by the corps’ 13 board members. On June 7 the Army held an open house as part of its 125th anniversary celebration.
ALASKA
NORTHWEST
Transformed Treasures
For The Salvation Army’s seventh annual “Transformed Treasures” fundraising event in Anchorage, 81 Alaskan artists renewed and repurposed thrift store finds for an auction. The event, with 350 attendees, raised over $35,000 to support Army programs. “Just as the treasures undergo the process of transformation, The Salvation Army is at work daily in Alaska communities offering help, encouragement and support to men, women and children as they begin the process of personal transformation,” said Major Jeanne Baker, Alaska divisional director of women’s ministries. Lainie Dreas and Deanna Teders chaired the event, with sponsors including BP Alaska, Color Art Printing and Udelhoven Oilfield System Services, Inc. CASCADE
New service extension office in Dallas
The Salvation Army of Salem, Ore., opened a service extension office in nearby Dallas to serve residents with financial assistance for urgent needs. “We are excited to open a satellite office in Polk County and make our services more accessible to its residents,” said Major John Stennett, Salem Kroc Center corps officer. The Salvation Army joins other agencies and programs in Dallas’s Academy Building as part of the county’s effort to co-locate services and improve the coordination and accessibility of services for residents, including help with rent, utilities, medicine and other basic needs.
Gresham breaks ground
The Salvation Army Gresham Corps in Portland, Ore., broke ground in May on an additional 13,165 square feet, increasing the space for social services by 240 percent—potentially resulting in over 400 more families being helped each month. “We are beyond excited to see this expansion happen,” said Major James Sullivan, Gresham corps officer. “We will be able to do so much more in the community itself, provide more activities for youth, and feed more people, God-willing.”
Lighthouse Shelter orders new beds
With help from donors—including The Salem Foundation, Salem Alliance Church and Connie Hindsdale—The Salvation Army’s Lighthouse Shelter in Salem, Ore., ordered 41 bunk beds. The steel construction and encased mattresses provide a bed bug proof environment, and will allow the shelter to operate at full capacity of 82 people. DEL ORO
Bayside Serve Day
Thirty volunteers from Bayside Church came to The Salvation Army Roseville
Corps to help paint, assemble picnic tables and do landscaping as part of Bayside’s Serve Day in May.
bation Department of Los Angeles County. Envoys Manuel and Belsy Martinez shared information about the programs and social services offered by The Salvation Army Santa Fe Springs and met with many members from the community along with individuals from other local agencies to promote how The Salvation Army is “Doing the Most Good” in the community.
GOLDEN STATE
Students donate
Fresno Citadel benefits from golf tournament
The third annual Invitational Golf Classic took place in Fresno, Calif., at the Fig Garden Golf Club. Proceeds from event registration and sponsors benefitted The Salvation Army Fresno Citadel Corps and sending children in the community to camp this summer. Captains Dwaine and Deborah Breazeale are the corps officers.
A classroom of second-graders at Seattle Country Day School in Bellevue, Wash., collected $545 in its donation drive for The Salvation Army’s Warm Home Fund, which provides short-term emergency bill payment assistance to Puget Sound Energy (PSE) customers. Students used The Salvation Army’s well-known red kettle to collect the money, and PSE added a $50,000 corporate contribution to the students’ efforts.
Expanding services
A new Salvation Army Community Services Center is currently under construction on a 3.8-acre site in San Bernardino, Calif. The project is expected to be completed in July for its Aug. 9 grand opening, which means the Army will be able to move from its 100-year-old building on Fifth Street and expand services, including after-school programs and a new chapel.
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HAWAIIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDS
Revolution Hawaii kicks off summer missions
Revolution Hawaii concluded its inaugural three-month “Essentials” program and now begins its summer missions in the Philippines, Marshall Islands, South Korea, Washington, California and the program’s base, Camp Homelani. INTERMOUNTAIN
Donuts for friends
This Donut Day, June 6, The Salvation Army in Cheyenne stood on the corner in five locations—the local junior college, the Air Force base checkpost, a Veterans Affairs hospital, in a retirement community, and at the corps downtown—distributing 4,000 donuts to the community. Each individually bagged donut had a sticker detailing the Army’s history making donuts during World War I and II. “We see this as a ‘friend-raiser’ in this military town,” said Lt. Doug Hanson, corps officer, who also appeared on local TV and radio that day. “We’re out at every deployment of our military here and we want grow our friend base even further leading to our Kettle
Cal Poly Pomona’s Greek Council held a food drive during Hunger Awareness Week and collected over 7,000 non-perishable items for The Salvation Army Pomona Corps food pantry.
SIERRA DEL MAR
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Teams of first responders from the San Francisco Fire and Police Department and the Oakland Fire Department competed against each other in the T.O.P (Taste of Preparedness) Chefs competition at the San Francisco Civic Center. Each team had to create two dishes using food items—such as non-perishables, dried food and bottled water—necessary in emergency situations, in hopes of raising awareness of disaster preparedness in local communities. The Oakland Fire Department took home the top prize.
Stocking the pantry
Meeting the community
The Salvation Army Santa Fe Springs participated in the Community Business and Resources Fair organized by the Pro-
Camp wiffle ball
Camp Mt. Crags, Gilmore and Wilderness has a new wiffle ball stadium, pictured here during its opening day ceremony. SOUTHWEST
The Salvation Army escalates fire relief efforts
The Salvation Army in Phoenix increased disaster services as the Slide Fire burned 4,500 acres, providing meals and clothing for evacuees at Sinagua Middle School in Flagstaff, and hydration to fire crews. “The Salvation Army has been told by community leaders that the fire could spread to densely populated areas,” said Lt. Ryan Miller, Flagstaff corps officer. “If needed, an additional Salvation Army disaster team is on alert that can provide added resources including a mobile kitchen.”
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PROMOTED TO GLORY CAPTAIN LEONARD WILLIAM JOHNSON, 87, of John Day, Ore., was promoted to Glory March 31 from Blue Mountain Care Center in Prairie City, Ore. Johnson was born Jan. 16, 1927, in Bismarck, N.D. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy as a radio operator aboard the USS Nashville in the South China Sea. He met his future wife, Naomi Watkins, at the Asotin (Wash.) County Fair. They wed in 1944 and raised three children, Margaret, Sharon and Bill. For 15 years, Johnson worked as an ac-
countant for the Camas Prairie Railroad in Lewiston, Idaho. The Johnsons, who were soldiers of The Salvation Army Lewiston Corps, entered the School for Officer Training in San Francisco and were commissioned with the Soldiers of Christ Session in 1962. They were first appointed as corps officers in Nampa, Idaho, where they served until 1967. They next served as corps officers in Medford, Ore., staying until 1974 when they were assigned to lead the Salem, Ore., corps. Retirement came early for the Johnsons in 1976 due to health issues. The Johnson settled in Central Point, Ore. Leonard was a gifted woodworker whose creations included a replica of the Camas Prairie Railroad and a collection of vintage cars. He
and his wife also enjoyed gardening. In 2003, the Johnsons moved to John Day to be close to their son and daughter-in-law. Survivors include his children, Margaret (Mike) Sovel, Sharon (Bob) Alverts, and Bill
(Sandy) Johnson; and grandchildren. His wife, Naomi, predeceased him. Services were held April 4 at Merchant Funeral Home in Clarkston, Wash., with burial at the Asotin City Cemetery.|NFC
GOLDEN STATE DHQ • SAN FRANCISCO, CA
YOUTH PROGRAM SPECIALIST The Youth Program Specialist is to assist in the spiritual and program development of the Golden State Division’s youth outreach ministries at divisional and corps level. Youth Program Specialist will work closely with divisional staff to provide ministerial support at the divisional and corps level. QUALIFICATIONS Active Salvationist. Christian in profession, confession and demonstration. BA is required. At least 2-3 years working with young people in a leadership role.Strict confidentiality is required. Must have the ability to work well independently and in a detailed, professional, and courteous manner. Knowledge of leading music programs. Ability to play a musical instrument is desired. Working knowledge of Microsoft Windows environment. General knowledge of software applications: Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Media Shout). Must be a self-starter, able to prioritize multiple tasks and coordinate work between three department heads with minimal supervision. Must be a fast learner, able to keep pace with multiple priorities. Possess excellent communication skills in written and verbal forms; good grasp of written English and spelling. Professional and courteous telephone manners and skills. Ability to maintain good rapport and communication with other staff members, corps personnel, and the public. Knowledge of Salvation Army practices and organization is desirable. Knowledge of Spanish as a second language is helpful. The YPS will interact with church youth groups, Christian leaders, and will be required to help develop program and leadership materials. it is essential that the applicant believe in and live their life in accordance with the Christian principles set forth by The Salvation Army. Send resume to: Captain Dave Shull The Salvation Army Golden State Division, San Francisco, CA Fax: (415)553-3537 • Email: jobs@tsagoldenstate.org Please indicate what job you are applying for in the subject line Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
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