Salvationist 19 August 2023

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HOLINESS AND HARMONY TERRITORIAL MUSIC SCHOOL

I AM not too proud to confess that I enjoy the music of Barry Manilow. Ironically, however, he did not write his hit single ‘I Write the Songs’. It was a cover of a song written by Bruce Johnston – a member of the Beach Boys. Explaining his motivation for writing the song, Johnston is reported to have said: ‘I wrote it about where music comes from. For me, music only comes from God.’

Of course, to misquote a well-coined phrase, beautiful music is in the ear of the beholder – not all music is beautiful to all listeners. Thankfully, it is all beautiful to God and he can use it to speak to people in ways that mere words cannot achieve.

This week’s edition has a musical theme. We read how God has used music in the lives of individuals who tell their stories in testimony and how he used it to bring people together at Territorial Music School.

Ephesians 5:19 tells us that we should ‘sing and make music from your heart to the Lord’. Whether you sing like an angel or a cat, or play the cornet like a virtuoso or a sea lion, may we each have a song in our heart that is sweet music to God.

MAJOR JULIAN WATCHORN

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What was I made for?

Reflect and respond

Book a place on the next Design for Life course (15–17 September). Find out more at salvationist.org.uk/ events/designforlife

Consider 2 Corinthians 5:17–19 and Ephesians 2:14–21. How does God’s message of reconciliation impact how we deal with injustice or people who hurt us?

Read the Army’s positional statement on peacemaking at salvationist.org.uk/ positionalstatements and pray for peace.

reconciliation enable us to live well together.

AFTER recently confessing on Salvationist Radio’s Sunday Worship that I’m not a ‘Barbie girl’, I find myself thinking once again about the Hollywood blockbuster currently in cinemas. Since my trip to see Barbie, I have had the soundtrack on repeat. I especially love the haunting song ‘What Was I Made For?’ by Billie Eilish.

Questions about identity and purpose are central to the film. In it, Barbie learns real life isn’t about being perfect, while Ken discovers he’s more than a sidekick. Despite Barbie and Ken finding a deeper sense of identity and purpose, there are unresolved social issues at the end of the film – it leaves the audience knowing there is more work to do to achieve social equality.

Paul, in 1 Corinthians 12:12–31, has lots

to say about what living well together looks like: ‘But God has put the body together, giving greater honour to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.’ Not only do we find there is equity and equality for members of the body – listen to episode 24 of the Sunday Worship podcast for my thoughts on this – but members are reconciled together. God wants there to be ‘no division’ so he helps members find their individual and collective identity and purpose.

The body of Christ demonstrates justice and reconciliation – this is what our territorial mission priority calls us to seek. God doesn’t want us to pick and choose between the two, because they depend on each other. All too often, the world’s sense of justice means ‘justice for me at someone else’s expense’ – it divides us into being ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ with no middle ground. Its idea of reconciliation doesn’t address the pain of inequality either – it doesn’t make space for lament, repentance and healing. The body of Christ shows us a different model, one where justice and

As Christians, the question ‘what was I made for?’ becomes ‘what were we made for?’ because our loving creator God has made us one through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. The good news, as our territorial vision statement reminds us, is that fullness of life for all – fullness of life together – is possible with Jesus.

Those two words at the end make all the difference. Without Jesus, we are lost – we remain feet and hands without a body, isolated Barbies and Kens fighting for our own voice or place in the world without a God-given family to ground us. With Jesus, our needs are met as individuals and we are bound together into something greater and more beautiful. Jesus brings peace, healing, patience, forgiveness, mercy and grace that the world cannot. Jesus is bigger than any hurt or difference that would seek to divide us (see Ephesians 2:14–21).

We need to tell the world about Jesus, because we don’t have to settle for Barbieland or our imaginations – fullness of life for all is something that we can experience now in the real world. This is what we were made for.

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As we seek fullness of life for all with Jesus, Bethany Gibson reminds us that we’re not living in a Barbie world

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Songster Leader Julie Taylor Hamilton

‘God wants me as I am’

David Grinyer (Barton-on-Humber) shares how God is working in his life

IFIRST invited Jesus into my life through the Pathfinders section of the Church of England Sunday school, when I was about 10 or 11 years old. In my late teens, an old friend from school invited me to church services at Crawley Corps.

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Who are you and what do you do?

Julie Taylor – divisional envoy, songster leader, mission secretary and chaplain in HS South Lanarkshire.

Why do you do what you do?

God gives people second chances.

I am grateful for that!

Which book – apart from the Bible –would you want on a desert island?

One Tuesday Morning by Karen Kingsbury.

Out of context, what was the last text message you sent?

I’ve still got your jacket, coffee?

Which country would you like to visit and why?

Japan – it looks so clean.

If you were president of the world, what’s the first thing you would do? Remove all weapons.

What’s your favourite hymn, piece or worship song?

‘I Need Thee’, set to my husband’s music.

Give your testimony or life story using only one word. Redeemed.

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What was I looking for at this new church? Would I have the same fun I’d had on previous Christian camping holidays and gatherings? It was at The Salvation Army that I felt particularly close to my friend, Jesus. This led to participation in gatherings at Sunbury Court, and my involvement in the very first production of the musical Glory! by John Gowans and John Larsson. There I also met Kathryn, who today is my wife.

I am a man of faith. I am thankful to God for everything, particularly my own gifts and the ability to accept that there are things I cannot do. However, I have faith that God will provide people who can do the things I cannot. I see God at work in my life; he helped me find the home I now live in and I see his reflection in the people I meet and the places I go.

I am now an adherent at Barton-on-Humber, and I remain passionate about music. I am exploring ways of using my musical gifts regularly.

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God and I have been through a lot together; I have changed careers, suffered chronic mental illness and have been close to death a few times. I tried for years to be someone I wasn’t, but I know God wants me as I am; a happy grandad and great-grandad, and a joyful musician. It has taken him a long time to build me, and now it is ‘Jam’ all the way: Jesus and me!

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HISTORY

Marching as to war

George Tanton looks back at 1933’s pioneering summer of music ministry

NINETY years ago this week, the Musical Troopers Band were finishing a 10-week campaign, having marched 650 miles across Hertfordshire, Essex and Cambridgeshire proclaiming the gospel.

Leading the 37 bandsmen, all recently commissioned officers, was Captain Edward Saywell. He was supported by Captain Bernard Adams – who would go on to conduct the International Staff Band – Adjutant Simmons and the band’s executive officer, Brigadier Handel Boot, riding a white horse.

Reporting upon the return of the Musical Troopers Band to the capital on the weekend of 12–13 August 1933, the South London Observer wrote: ‘Led by an officer dressed in scarlet and mounted on a white charger, “storm troopers”, who have been marching through England carrying out one of the biggest campaigns ever attempted by The Salvation Army, returned to London … dressed in picturesque uniforms of grey and wearing tropical sun helmets.’

The troopers departed from Clapton Congress Hall on 21 May. The stop was an open-air meeting on Tottenham Green. They travelled north to St Albans, followed by Harpenden and onwards to Letchworth, where a children’s wayside meeting was reportedly held. The band was then entertained at Godmanchester by the Conservative MP, Sir William Prescott.

The company headed eastwards, conducting open-air meetings at villages and towns along the way. Their tour included Whittlesey, Peterborough, Hitchin, Cambridge, King’s Lynn, Lowestoft, Colchester, Chelmsford and Ipswich, where an estimated 4,500 people were present at an open-air meeting. At Southend, they were present at the General’s seaside meeting on the parade.

Peterborough Standard reported that, having ‘bombarded’ the city with prayers, songs and messages of salvation in Jesus, the band’s march to Parson Drove was its longest at 16 miles, which they completed in one day. Arriving in Chelmsford on 29 July, the band held several open-air meetings. Evening meetings at the city corn exchange were well attended, so much so that, according to the Chelmsford Chronicle, the building was ‘filled to overflowing’. A range of items were presented by the troopers, including solos and monologues.

‘Each was enthusiastically received, and it was evident that the musical standard of the party was a high one,’ the Chronicle reported.

Commissioner Charles Swansbury, whose family recently rediscovered an old photo album of the campaign, sheds light on the events: ‘Each day commenced with morning prayers, followed by marches from location to location. Amplification for open-air meetings comprised of using a large megaphone.

‘The weather was seasonally warm, as photographs show the band marching carrying their tunics –although still wearing their distinctive hats – along otherwise deserted roads. Meals were largely eaten out of doors, wherever it was convenient.

Accommodation was limited to sleeping on the floors of corps halls. Washing facilities were seemingly primitive and largely communal.

‘Although supported by a lorry, carrying personal belongings and essential supplies, much of the travelling was done on foot.’

While this campaign was under way, another music section was spearheading the gospel elsewhere: the Musical Miriams, an all-female officer group, embarked upon a 1,000 mile motor-coach crusade through Leicester, Nottingham and York towards Blackpool, then on to Birmingham and Cheltenham. They conducted 164 indoor meetings and numerous open-air gatherings.

Commenting upon both evangelical crusades in the 1934 year book, Commissioner Charles Jeffries hailed them as ‘an outstanding success’.

Commissioner Charles Swansbury reflects: ‘The effort and commitment of the band members seem, today, to be almost beyond comprehension.’

GEORGE TANTON Editorial Assistant Salvationist

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The benefits of wisdom

CAN you recall any family wisdom shared with you? Mine always seemed to be sight-related: ‘Don’t sit near the telly, you’ll get square eyes.’ ‘Eat your carrots, you’ll see better in the dark.’ There was more significant wisdom, of course, and in our youth we might have disregarded the wisdom of our elders, as we tested truth for ourselves.

Watching the Coronation earlier this year, I wondered what 21st-century minds were making of the old wisdom enshrined in the ancient liturgy of that sacred occasion. The Archbishop of Canterbury presented a Bible to King Charles III with the words: ‘Receive this book, the most valuable thing that this world affords. Here is wisdom. This is the royal law. These are the lively oracles of God.’

Today, when so much new thinking purports to be ‘wisdom’, one might wonder how many people would look to biblical wisdom as their inspiration.

Proverbs 2 speaks clearly into a world where ‘my truth’ or ‘follow your heart’ is seen as much a firm foundation as any other. A proverb is a statement of truth that is grounded in experience and gathered over time.

PAUSE AND REFLECT

Think back to your family proverbs.

Are there examples of authentic wisdom that still influence you?

Do you pass them on?

Are there Bible verses that still come to mind from your Sunday school days?

Proverbs 2:1–5 encourage us to look for wisdom. It’s revealing that in our world of quickly-arrived-at opinions and individualistic feelings, the ‘my son’ of this passage is called upon to make an effort to hear the wisdom of the past –to turn his ear to it, accept it and store it up.

Look at the other verbs in the passage that the older man uses. Here is a call to look positively at the accumulated wisdom of the past. It takes effort. Perhaps it might even challenge our thinking, as we are called to value this shared wisdom.

The Salvation Army Handbook of Doctrine tells us that Scripture is ‘not safely read without reference to the general understanding of the Christian community throughout history’.

I once heard that wisdom comes by revelation, not speculation. Wisdom comes as we search the teaching of the past and apply it to our daily situations.

PAUSE AND REFLECT

Finding wisdom helps us to understand the fear of the Lord and the knowledge of God (see v5). What might this mean in your experience?

To find wisdom, we must search. But we are also told that God gives us wisdom (see vv6–9). In the Gospels, Jesus commends the wise man for building his house upon a rock (see Matthew 7:24 and 25) and the wise virgin for being prepared for the bridegroom’s arrival (see Matthew 25:1–13).

Paul identifies wisdom as one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit (see 1 Corinthians 12:8). Stephen was someone who exercised the gift of wisdom. Describing the opposition Stephen faced, Luke

writes: ‘But they could not stand up against the wisdom the Spirit gave him as he spoke’ (Acts 6:10).

In his letter, James writes: ‘If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you’ (James 1:5).

In the end times, Christians will need wisdom to identify ‘the beast’ (Revelation 13:18) and to discern the signs of the time (see Revelation 17:9).

Proverbs 2:7 holds out a challenge. For the upright and blameless, wisdom is aligned with ‘success’ and the protection of ‘a shield’. Wisdom and holiness go together. Wisdom is given to enable a believer to understand and to choose what is right and just. In Christian terms, the cleansing, empowering Holy Spirit is indeed ‘the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding’ (Isaiah 11:2).

PAUSE AND REFLECT

Can you think of times in your life when God has given you muchneeded wisdom?

Understanding and following the right path is not just mental decision or intention. Verse 10 promises that wisdom will ‘enter your heart’. We don’t live cloistered lives; a 21st-century world influences and challenges the most devoted disciple of Christ. The writer dramatically speaks of ‘wicked men’ and ‘devious ways’ and the ‘wayward woman’. Jesus spoke of a ‘wicked and adulterous generation’ (Matthew 16:4). Strong words! Biblical language can often be overstatement or exaggeration for effect. We might not ascribe wickedness to people around us.

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Major Antony Mugford offers some words to the wise

God the Father’ remind us that: ‘In a world of shifting values,/ There are standards that remain,/ I believe that holy living by God’s grace we may attain’ (SASB 34).

Wisdom in the heart leads to a holiness experience that makes a better me; it keeps us within the boundaries God has set for us rather than us comparing ourselves to others. Proverbs 2 is personal advice to the one who wants to know how to live a holy life –‘my son’ (v1).

The writer of Proverbs 2 warns of external temptations, danger zones to avoid. He assures us that wisdom gained through searching the old truths received from God, and experienced in the heart, will keep us blameless. His promise encourages us: ‘Thus you will walk in the ways of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous’ (v20).

PAUSE AND REFLECT

What personal boundaries might need strengthening?

What might you do to gain more of this promised heart-wisdom?

Our Salvation Army songs are a helpful source of spiritual wisdom and strength. Meditate on song 34 alongside Proverbs 2.

Prayer Matters contains daily devotions covering specific areas in the territory, current worldwide situations and personal reflection and relationship with God. A PDF of the unedited booklet is available to download from salvationist.org.uk/resources

In August, prayers will be centred on Jesus, the restorer.

SATURDAY 19 AUGUST – ISAIAH 40:31

Lord, restore our hopes and dreams. Restore our faith in your promises. Restore our tired bodies and minds. Restore hearts of gratitude. We praise you because you are the restorer of all things. Amen.

SUNDAY 20 AUGUST

Lord, I pray for my street. As I see or visualise each house around me, I pray for the people that live there: for each family unit, couple, child or teenager, elderly person or those living alone. You know what they need right now. Give me an opportunity to share the love of Jesus with them. Amen.

MONDAY 21 AUGUST

Lord, I pray for each commercial establishment around me. As I see or visualise each shop, office, supermarket, gym, hairdresser or restaurant, I pray for the people that work there. I pray for their finances too, in these difficult times. Sustain each person, I pray. Amen.

TUESDAY 22 AUGUST

Lord, I pray for areas around me that are struggling with violence. As I see or visualise each police station or people walking by with fear in their eyes, I pray for peace. Be especially close to the families of the countless lives lost on our streets due to gun or knife violence. Fill these areas with your presence, Lord. Amen.

WEDNESDAY 23 AUGUST

Lord, I pray for places of education around me. As I see or visualise each school, nursery, college or library, I pray for the teachers and employees that work there. Give them wisdom and strength for each day. Be with the pupils too, from the youngest to the oldest. Help them in their learning and interaction with those around them. Bless them today. Amen.

THURSDAY 24 AUGUST

Lord, I pray for health facilities around me. As I see or visualise each surgery, hospital, pharmacy, dentist or clinic, I pray for all the professionals that work in them. Give them insight and stamina. Thank you for their dedication. I pray, too, for those who are sick and their relatives and friends who sustain them. Come close to them today. Amen.

FRIDAY 25 AUGUST

Lord, I pray for those around me who get people to and from appointments. As I see or visualise bus, taxi, train, tram or underground drivers and pilots or sea captains, I thank you for their service. Give them strength for the long days. I pray, too, for the passengers and all their different travel circumstances. Look after them, Lord. Amen.

PRAYER REQUESTS

Do you have something or someone you’d like us to pray for? Email salvationist@salvationarmy.org.uk with ‘prayer request’ in the subject line and the Territorial Prayer Network will uphold them in prayer.

MAJOR ANTONY MUGFORD Corps Officer Guisborough

JESUS, RESTORER FOCUS by the Prayer Network team

NEIGHBOURHOOD FOCUS by the Prayer Network team

Fire and blood

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‘HEAVY metal is very prophetic,’ insists George Papachristodoulou. ‘However, there are some people that just don’t get it. It doesn’t matter how much you explain it, they will never get it.’

A soldier at Gillingham Corps, George co-founded Fire and Blood MetalCorps, a community for like-minded people who appreciate the alternative music that Christian metal can offer.

homelessness and addiction issues, and he shared with me that he wanted to do something to support rough sleepers.’

‘Take, for instance, the song “War Pigs” by Black Sabbath,’ he enthuses. ‘It’s an anti-war song!’

Today, George points out, there are a lot of Christian metal bands that are popular among mainstream metal fans. Asked whether Jesus would approve of Christian metal music, he suggests that Jesus would empathise with the genre’s subversive nature.

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‘One of the that makes metal music so appealing,’ he elaborates, ‘is that it never sugar-coats life. Metal throws the reality of life straight at you.

‘Yes, Jesus is our hope, but all the evils of the world are still around us Metal music often confronts these evils.’

Fire and Blood MetalCorps began when George was working at the Cambridge Heath corps community centre

‘There was this guy, a well-known punk,’ he recalls. ‘As I used to play bass guitar in a group, we started chatting about the bands we liked He used to experience

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This meeting inspired George to use his passion for metal music to bring people closer to the gospel. However, as these plans were beginning to take shape, the Covid-19 pandemic struck and in-person meetings were no longer possible, so George co-founded a podcast. Today, it has about 50 regular listeners and discusses serious issues around faith and life, as well as an appreciation of heavy metal and Christian metal music.

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George argues that metal as a genre has been misunderstood within the Church, especially by those who deem it as unchristian or heretical. However, George suggests that metal music can help pose ethical questions, and ask, for some individuals might be angry at God.

‘Jesus offered a subversive spirituality,’ George elaborates. ‘Jesus challenged the status quo by questioning the religious authorities at the time and the religiosity of people. He spent most of his time among the common folk, the ones the social and religious elite were making every effort to avoid, while refusing to remain quiet about issues like redistribution of wealth, equality

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‘Metal challenges us to acknowledge human pain and the human condition within our worship,’ George adds. ‘It challenges us to think about uncomfortable topics, such as depression, suicidal thoughts, dementia or the despair of losing a loved one from an incurable disease.’

In-person Fire and Blood meetings are planned to resume in October and George envisages a steady growth in the group, but notes: ‘It depends upon how individual metalheads embrace this expression of faith.’

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GEORGE TANTON Editorial Assistant Salvationist

Papachristodoulou (Gillingham), co-founder of the MetalCorps group, tells George Tanton why he thinks heavy metal and Christianity can go together

Hooked on classics

Kenneth Downie tells Major Nigel Bovey about the orchestral manoeuvres that led to his latest album

DR KENNETH Downie is one of The Salvation Army’s most prolific and revered composers. From prestigious concert halls to Christmas street corners, musicians by the score – and by the balanced handful – play Downie.

He is also extremely versatile. Generations of singing company members have sweetly sung how ‘Jesus wants me for a sunbeam’, which he wrote when he was a teenager. He collaborates with lyricists on works for songster brigades. Contesting bands battle with the intricacies of 14-minute test pieces, such as ‘St Magnus’, his personal favourite. Top brass – the ISB, Cory and Grimethorpe bands included – perform and record his work.

In 2019, he recorded a sell-out album of his piano playing. Today, he is on a new adventure – a collection of orchestral arrangements of much-loved hymns, Classic Hymns for Orchestra

Is this the first time you have worked with an orchestra?

I did some orchestral arrangements many years ago at university, but I have never played or written for an orchestra since. As a Salvationist, I’ve always thought that writing for the Army was the most natural thing to do. Most musicians want to play or conduct; I’m one of the tormented souls who feel that they must write. Knowing that music can touch people’s hearts, I feel very much prompted by the Holy Spirit.

Where does your musical inspiration come from?

Nearly everything I write is prompted by something I hear or sing in Army meetings. I think of ways of expressing it musically and find I just have to write. When I do, I feel that I am in partnership with God in trying to express the gospel.

Where did the idea of writing for orchestra come from?

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Andrew Wainwright of BrookWright Music – the producer of the new album – asked me to write some orchestral backing tracks for a Christmas collection. I really enjoyed having access to orchestral sounds that offer more than brass. I told Andrew I’d really like to give some classic hymns a rich, orchestral treatment.

Who picked the 15 tracks and is there a collective theme?

I chose them. To avoid copyright issues, they all had to be in the public domain. It’s become a theme in all my music, but I feel protective of many older hymns. I don’t want them to be forgotten. I started thinking of personal favourites and songs that had particular connection. For example, we sang ‘Welcome Home’, the ninth track on the album, at my mother’s funeral.

How did you approach writing for orchestra?

I’m always listening to classical music, so I’m no stranger to what an orchestra does sonically. I wrote orchestral parts, sent them to Andrew Wainwright and he

applied the sounds of the likes of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. It was strange not to be in control of the whole process, but we have a really lovely sound, which I pray will bless and inspire people.

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MAJOR NIGEL BOVEY Retired Officer Exmouth

Classic Hymns for Orchestra: The Symphonic Music of Kenneth Downie is available as a CD and digital download

Holiness and harmony!

WILLIAM BOOTH COLLEGE

WILLIAM Booth College, while mostly known for training officers for the UKI Territory, has an alternative use: Territorial Music School. From 23 to 29 July, the college played host to over 80 young Salvationists for a week of music-making, spiritual development and little sleep, reports Joel Drury (Peterborough

Citadel)

The week comprised traditional brass band and vocal main studies, where young band members and singers learnt a wide repertoire, from Ray Steadman-Allen’s ‘The Holy War’ to Len Ballantines ‘Celebration Morning’. Alongside this were a contemporary worship group, A Chorus, timbrels and a musical theatre group performing a whistle-stop tour of Sister Act

Every morning saw worship in the Assembly Hall. This is symbolic to any Salvationist as, at the back of the hall, the flags of past sessions of officers – including my grandparents, LieutColonels Pat and Keith Howarth! –remind us of the Salvationists of the past 100 years and, at the front of the hall, ‘the mother of all mercy seats’ as it is affectionally known, where those same officers signed the Officer’s Covenant to dedicate their whole lives in service to God.

The week’s theme was Wholly Holy

and we delved into what it means as young Christians to be wholly available to God. In Army banding, we talk about the ‘words behind the music’, as this is what sets us apart from other bands. At the midweek festival, Paul Sharman’s band played Peter Graham’s ‘To Boldly Go’, which features the song ‘I’ll Not Turn Back’. The lyrics to this say: ‘I’ll not turn back, whatever it may cost,/ I’m called to live, to love and save the lost.’

As we found out during the week, we are called by God to serve, to be wholly holy and available for him to use. We went back to our home corps and communities with newfound knowledge and new friends – and to find more sleep.

FOR many young Salvationists, Territorial Music School is instrumental in both spiritual and musical growth, and this year was no exception, reports Hannah Carr (Norwich Citadel)

Each day was filled with worship and main study rehearsals. Students could also engage in secondary options, choosing between sport, discussion, timbrels, worship band, Sing to the Lord Choir and practice techniques, with A Chorus and A Band completing the itinerary. Evenings were filled with entertainment such as games and

quiz nights – that proved to be very competitive! – before concluding in vespers led by different delegates.

The week’s theme, Wholly Holy, encouraged everyone to submit every aspect of their lives fully to God. Each morning, Captain Callum McKenna (William Booth College) brought familiar Bible stories to life as he taught us what it means to be wholly forgiven, wholly whole and wholly loved. Later in the week he challenged us to become wholly involved and wholly available.

These topics were explored in cell groups, giving delegates a chance to discuss and unpack their thoughts with their peers. On Thursday evening, worship, music and testimonies combined with Callum’s words to challenge those of us who might feel ‘spiritually stuck’ to submit ourselves to

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God and his perfect plan.

Saturday’s final festival was a celebration of talented youth making music for the glory of God, all at an exceptional standard. After the contemporary worship team kickstarted the evening with sung worship, brass fanatics were spoilt for choice. Highlights from the vocal option included Andrew Blyth’s ‘The Stillness’ and Stephen Pelley’s new arrangement of ‘In the Secret of Thy Presence’. The A Chorus also blessed listeners with ‘In All I Do’. Throughout the evening, the musical theatre option performed extracts from Sister Act, which demonstrated talent and professionalism in all its elements.

The week was filled with laughter and encouragement, while challenging and inspiring us all.

A festival of faith and purpose

WILLIAM BOOTH COLLEGE

ARRIVING 45 minutes early, I entered the rear doors of the Assembly Hall to find a bustling crowd, reports Music Editor Alan Williams (THQ). Family and friends of delegates and other supporters of Territorial Music School were busy catching up and trying to find the best seats in readiness for the week’s final festival.

It soon became apparent that very few seats were unaccounted for. Indeed, the gathered number was so large that there soon arrived emergency chairs to make new rows to the rear.

The atmosphere was one of excited anticipation.

After a welcome from the Territorial Music School’s director, Dr Stephen Cobb – in which we learnt that delegate numbers had increased by 45 per cent from last year – the congregation joined the contemporary worship main study group in sung worship. We then experienced a brilliantly executed blended worship item, ‘Holy Spirit, You Are Welcome Here’, featuring the whole school, including contemporary worship, brass and choral elements.

What followed was an encouraging and inspiring display of worship. Twenty-six items allowed each delegate to display the time and effort they had invested during the week, guided with skill and care by their excellent leaders – each of whom, along with the pastoral and administrative staff members,

should be thanked and congratulated. The programme featured a careful balance of music – old and new, serious and light. The delegates were able to stretch themselves to play Paul Sharman’s ‘Quest’, Ray Steadman-Allen’s ‘The Holy War’ and Leslie Condon’s ‘Song of the Eternal’, along with new music from Sam Creamer and Paul Sharman, and to sing words by Albert Orsborn and Richard Slater with new music, written especially for the week, by Andrew Blyth, Andrew Wicker and Alan Williams. A recent and popular addition is the musical theatre main study, who wonderfully performed, in five parts, a reduced version of Sister Act Captain Callum McKenna – the week’s spiritual director – gave us cause to reflect, before Andrew Maycock’s beautiful and recently published song ‘In All I Do’ reminded us that we should show heart and compassion in all we do for God.

This really was a celebration, with high standards of music-making set and pursued by the delegates in an obvious expression of shared faith and purpose.

It has been impossible to mention every item, so if you would like to enjoy the final festival’s full programme and support these remarkable young musicians, I encourage you to download the live recording from sps-shop.com/tms2023-download.

The whole school

Day three – band rehearsal

Midweek festival

God’s way with me

Three delegates from the 254th session at the International College for Officers and Centre for Spiritual Life Development share their testimonies

MAJOR ANDREI INIUTOCICHIN DIVISIONAL COMMANDER, MOLDOVA Eastern Europe Territory

DO you love music? I believe that our Creator is beautiful. He created the world around us and the sounds of nature –the rustle of leaves, the murmur of rivers, the singing of birds.

My name is Andrei Iniutocichin and I was born into a family of professional musicians. Music and singing surrounded me from an early age. My father has been a singer in the professional Moldovan State Choir for more than 50 years and my mum used to be a violinist and a music editor. That is why I was sent to a music school, where I faced stage fright. Because of this, I had difficulty in passing the exams and constantly made mistakes.

One day my piano teacher said: ‘Didn’t you practise before the exam? I know a wonderful place where you can play.’ She was referring to The Salvation Army.

When I was 13, I had to play the xylophone in a large auditorium with a Salvation Army congregation of more than 300 people. Horror and fear gripped me. But after what I thought was a terrible performance, many people came

to me with encouragement. This was so unusual for me and, as a result, I attended the Army much more. I found care, encouragement and something else: I was introduced to Jesus.

During this time, I met not only with stage fright, but also with anxiety over the meaning of my life. I searched for an answer but found nothing.

One day, in a sermon during a Sunday meeting, I heard the answer. I believe it was God speaking to me: ‘I live to serve others.’ It sounded in my heart like a bolt from the blue.

On that day I stepped forward and accepted Jesus as my Saviour. Since that day there has been peace in my heart. I no longer had stage fright and I was able to finish music school with honours.

I understand now that this was God’s plan for my life. Since becoming an officer, I often have to speak from the platform. Sometimes it’s hundreds, even thousands of people, but now my heart is at peace. I know God is with me. It is true that our God is an amazing God!

‘“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future”’ (Jeremiah 29:11).

MAJOR VIOLET BULAWAYO DIVISIONAL DIRECTOR OF WOMEN’S MINISTRIES, HURUNGWE Zimbabwe and Botswana Territory

I GREW up in a loving Christian family, the fourth born in a family of six. My parents encouraged us to go to Sunday school and l became active in all church activities.

When I was young, my father asked me to pray for my mother, who was very sick. He referred to me as ‘Our Pastor’ and l felt something special in me. After some prayers that week, my mother went for treatment, after which her health improved. From that time until today, l know there is a God in Heaven who answers prayers.

Although I felt the call to officership as l was growing up, it slowly faded. l got an interesting job and l thought l had found my destiny. As time passed, my boss started calling me ‘Pastor’, which surprised me. Whenever he was in a crisis, he would ask me to pray for him and l was left with questions about my calling. I thank God for always reminding me of my calling, even when the world was promising what appeared to be greater things.

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everything had fallen in place, yet it was the beginning of many spiritual challenges. In my first year, l had difficulties with my sight, resulting in two episodes of surgery, the first being unsuccessful. I was so grateful to the college staff and cadets for joining in prayer and fasting for my surgery to be successful. God was faithful, and the prayers were answered: my sight was restored. Praise be to God!

Further challenges to my faith came when we lost our first baby during pregnancy. I was so heartbroken and had many questions. God came close, speaking to me through 2 Corinthians 12:9: ‘My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness’ (New Living Translation). This verse was and will always be my strength.

My faith was tested again in 2020 when my husband was diagnosed with Covid-19. It was a hard time, but through prayer l felt the Lord’s righteous right hand supporting me. After seven days on life support, he recovered and I can testify to the goodness of the Lord even through this.

CAPTAIN DANIELLE WAKAI-BRAGA TERRITORIAL SECRETARY FOR PROPERTY AND LEGAL AFFAIRS Brazil Territory

I WAS born in Brazil, but God’s way with me started far from my country.

My roots come from Angola and Japan. My father, Major Martinho Jorge, is Angolan. My mother, Major Noemi Wakai, is the daughter of Brigadiers Junji and Kiyoko Wakai. I am also the greatgranddaughter of a Japanese envoy, Teruji Wakai. I am therefore a fourth-generation Salvationist.

When I was six, I was talking with my aunt and thought. ‘I’ve found my destiny!’ I asked: ‘What do I need to become a judge?’ She explained about college and the exams I would have to take. So I charted a course for my life and began planning.

lawyer and studying to become a judge, I was given the opportunity to go to the International College for Officers as a volunteer worker. So I used the opportunity as a sabbatical year.

During that time, the volunteers shared in a Bible study group. One day the leader asked me: ‘Have you ever thought about officership?’ I couldn’t answer because I started crying. Over the next few weeks, we met together. We were demystifying officership and talking about my wounds.

I had decided that, when I returned to Brazil, I would stop struggling against God, but I went back to my job and my original plan. Then, during a class, a teacher said: ‘If you are waiting to become a judge in order to be happy, you are mistaken! You must follow your true vocation to be happy now!’

God never gave up on me. As part of his plan for my life, God led me to Luke, who is now my husband. He had a strong calling and together we prayed and gave our lives to serve God. Today we are both officers in Brazil.

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It continues to be my prayer that l will remain faithful to God in good or bad times. I know there are more battles ahead but l trust him who is faithful.

I was in my first year studying law at university when I attended the Latin American College for Soldiers in Brazil. Commissioner William Francis was preaching when God clearly spoke to me and told me I was going to become an officer. I cried and said, ‘No way!’ That’s when my struggle with my calling began.

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MODERN SLAVERY Army ‘disappointed and concerned’ by Illegal Migration Act

UK

THE Salvation Army is ‘extremely disappointed and concerned’ that the Illegal Migration Bill has passed through parliament and become law.

IHQ welcomes new world leaders

IHQ

OFFICERS and employees welcomed General Lyndon Buckingham and Commissioner Bronwyn Buckingham (World President of Women’s Ministries) with rapturous applause as flag-bearers escorted the new international leaders into the building, accompanied by the IHQ Staff Band playing ‘We Have a Gospel’.

The General and Commissioner Bronwyn were welcomed by Chief Secretary Colonel Peter Forrest, who also greeted delegates from the International College for Officers.

‘The 22nd General of The Salvation Army is now on duty,’ he said.

Commissioner Jane Paone brought everyone together in prayer and Colonel Peter spoke, saying: ‘We support the General as he leads The Salvation Army in accomplishing its God-given mission of preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ and meeting human needs in his name without

EVENT

discrimination. General, you can count on us. God bless you.’

Leonora Ledgister gave a welcome on behalf of IHQ employees and Commissioner Keith Conrad (International Secretary, Africa Zone) offered a prayer of dedication. Commissioner Bronwyn Buckingham responded: ‘Deep in my heart the truth of Jesus sits firmly without wavering. He began good work in me and he will continue this until completion.’

Session 254 of the International College for Officers sang ‘Bless Our Army’ and the new General thanked everyone for their support.

He said: ‘I am not naïve about the challenges and opportunities that face the Army today. I want to testify to you this morning that I give myself wholeheartedly to the mission of The Salvation Army. We give ourselves to a big God and serve him without reservation. Let’s find that sweet spot of peace, purpose and power. May it be so for the glory of God and the extension of his Kingdom. God bless you.’

The meeting concluded with a benediction and grace. – AR

Major Kathy Betteridge, director of Anti-Trafficking and Modern Slavery, said: ‘By making no concessions to recognise the vulnerability of people caught in modern slavery, this Act will prevent genuine victims from seeking the support they need and are entitled to in international law.

‘We share the Government’s view that inhumane use of small boats by criminal gangs must be urgently addressed to prevent further loss of life. However, by having provisions about modern slavery in a bill designed to tackle illegal migration, we are punishing people who have been tricked, trapped and traded into modern slavery.’

Major Kathy continued: ‘We are saddened by the passing of this law but encouraged that people from across the UK have come together to stand with survivors of modern slavery and amplify our call to protect their rights. It is vital these efforts do not end with the passing of this bill.’ – AR

OUTREACH

CHRISTCHURCH The corps retreat weekend commenced with a full hall for A Tribute to the Joystrings. Corps officer Major Teresa Everett’s father, Major Handel Everett, was a founding member of the group. The songsters learnt and sang several Joystrings songs. Video clips, photographs and memorabilia were also shared. On Sunday, corps folk met in the New Forest for an away day led by Commissioners Charles and Denise Swansbury, which encouraged unity and belonging. A good number attended, including people new to the corps. – TE

SOUTHPORT After the Covid-19 lockdowns, the band started a Brass Roots initiative to offer primary-aged children the opportunity to learn a brass instrument. The new learners are now featured once a month in morning worship, with parents and grandparents also attending and two mums also learning to play. At the end of the summer term, band members divided into small groups to visit local schools. More than 1,000 children have been introduced to the Army while enjoying a variety of music – including one Brass Roots member playing the cornet in front of her friends. All the schoolchildren have been invited to become part of Brass Roots and the band have been invited back by the schools in the autumn. – PW

WOODBRIDGE The 140th corps anniversary celebrations started with a celebration tea with members of the corps family. Number one on the roll, Chris Daldry, cut the cake. This was followed by a concert from Felixstowe Songsters, themed Looking Back, Going Forward, with members of the band offering some alternative music. It was a packed hall and a brilliant evening. – AH

MUSIC

LEEDS WEST HUNSLET The band presented a summer concert at Cross Flatts Park in Beeston. The programme included ‘What a Friend We Have in Jesus’, and ‘All You Need Is Love’. The programme featured horn solo ‘Air and Rondo’ by Jayne Griffin and trombone duet ‘Happy Warriors’ by Lyndon Moorby and Ash Griffin. Leaflets were distributed and good contacts made. – CA

ENVIRONMENT

CIRENCESTER The Gap children’s Sunday club have taken part in a number of activities, indoors and outdoors, to look at God’s creation. They thought of ways to care for God’s world and went on a litter pick, accompanied by their parents, in the area around the hall. – MG

Farewell to international leaders

OFFICERS and employees said thank you and farewell to General Brian Peddle and Commissioner Rosalie Peddle as they departed for Canada to begin their retirement.

General-elect Lyndon Buckingham opened the meeting and gave thanks for their 46 shared years of ‘faithful dedicated, covenanted service’.

Commissioner Bronwyn Buckingham led in prayer, recognising both the significance and the emotion of the day.

Musical contributions came from the IHQ Staff Band and IHQ Community Gospel Choir.

Commissioner Eva Kleman (Zonal Secretary for Women’s Ministries) addressed the congregation and the departing leaders with an amusing yet thoughtful address, highlighting the meaning of retirement and focusing on the new pleasures to come.

Director of International Emergency Services Damaris Frick focused on the serious work that the General and Commissioner Rosalie had completed during the Covid-19 pandemic, highlighting their leadership under especially trying circumstances.

Commissioner Rosalie said: ‘It has been a wonderful, incredible journey walking with you all. Your faith and joy in the Lord has been so impactful for us.’

Chief Secretary Colonel Peter Forrest presented gifts to the departing leaders and incoming General Lyndon Buckingham presented them with retirement certificates.

Retiring General Peddle said: ‘Give of your all; do not hold back. God is always there. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and he will not fail you. Do not be afraid, the Lord is with you. May the Lord bless The Salvation Army.’

Following a rousing rendition of ‘Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah’, the departing General unveiled his portrait, which will be displayed at IHQ with other past leaders. General Peddle and Commissioner Rosalie were applauded in the traditional way as they left the building for one final time. – AR

OUTREACH

FELIXSTOWE On a beautiful, summer Saturday afternoon the Household Troops Band marched through the town centre to an interested crowd and presented a mini-concert in the town centre. An evening concert, compèred and conducted by Carl Saunders, attracted a good congregation. The band presented a variety of music, with a cornet solo from Daniel Robson and euphonium solo from Anthony Smith. The concert raised £551 for a local scout group attending the World Scout Jamboree in South Korea, led by corps member and Assistant County Commissioner for Cubs Jo Cracknell. – DA

CHILDREN AND YOUTH

CARDIFF CANTON The YP anniversary took the theme of Inclusivity, focusing on total acceptance of all. The meeting included Bible talks and quizzes, testimonies in word and song, timbrels and singing, as well as the ‘all new’ YP band learners. – HH

FUNDRAISING

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TIVERTON Young people from the children and youth club took a 7-mile sponsored walk along the Grand Western Canal, raising £911 towards 12 of them attending the divisional junior camp and summer school. Corps folk encouraged them along the way. – TH

CORPS

WELLING The corps was delighted to put up a new noticeboard outside the hall, which was kindly donated by a member of Sutton Corps. Corps folk are excited to further spread the word of their activities and events. – KS

MUSIC

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Summer Evening of Music, organised by Songster Leader Rowena Northwood, saw the new corps ukulele group perform for the first time. Marion Hext started the group in February, which included the then corps officer Major Angela Bailey and younger and older members of the corps. The evening included gospel tunes and other well-known songs as well as contributions from the songsters and worship group. – MH

Band Reservist Dorrie (North Walsham) admires her ‘lookalike’ alongside Territorial Envoy Ruth Morey at Furze Hill House scarecrow festival

SARAH Biggs was welcomed as an adherent by the then corps officer Major Sharen Furlong. Sarah’s connection with the Army goes back to her childhood and she was keen to affirm once again her membership and her commitment to God and the corps. Sarah recently invited her mum to the over-55 Connect group and the corps was thrilled to see her mum attend worship to support Sarah as she made her commitment. – SF

MICHAEL Richards Gera was enrolled as a soldier by corps officer Major Liz Hancock. Michael, a fourth-generation Salvationist from India, came to the UK in January 2020 and linked up with the corps. Michael was made welcome, gradually became more involved and is continuing his spiritual development by taking this next step, to the delight of the corps fellowship. Major Liz and Michael are pictured with Recruiting Sergeant Heather Stubbs and Colour Sergeant Adrian Sutton. – BI

SOUTHSEA

SUE Sotiriou and Dorothy Dower were welcomed as adherents by the then corps officers Majors Glenn and Sharen Furlong. Sue and Dorothy have had links with the Army in the past and both reconnected with the corps through the Connect group. Dorothy moved to the area about 20 months ago and was invited along by a herald selling the War Cry. She accepted the invitation and soon started to attend Sunday worship regularly. Sue grew up in the Army in Bolton and saw the corps band carolling in December 2021. She was invited to Connect and Sunday worship. Sue accepted and quickly settled into Army life again. She now helps make refreshments for the Connect group, attends worship and is always willing to lend a hand in the kitchen. Sue decided the time was right to reaffirm her commitment to God and the Army. – SF

LIUDMYLA Fomina and Kathleen Czóka were welcomed as adherents by corps officers Majors Alan and Carol Young. Liudmyla connected with the Army when she moved from Ukraine with her three sons and her Salvationist next-door neighbours invited them to the corps. Liudmyla testified to having accepted Jesus as her personal Saviour and loves the opportunity to worship God in peace and freedom. Kathleen moved from the Isle of Man and was invited by friends to attend Cameo club. This led her to become a regular Sunday worshipper and make the Army her spiritual home. Also pictured is Adherents Secretary Major Joyce Dixon. – AY/CY

NEWTON ABBOT

RICHARD and Barbara Hood were welcomed as adherents by corps officer Major Nigel Byrne. Both have been Christians a long time but testified to how the Lord had led them to worship at the Army. – NB

ARMY PEOPLE ENGAGEMENTS

Wedding anniversaries

Diamond (60 years)

JEAN AND RICK WRAY, Boston, on 31 August

Golden (50 years)

MARION AND STEVE REDSHAW, Boston, on 1 September

Retired officers’ birthdays

MAJOR KEITH SHARP, 85 on 31 August

MAJOR YVONNE DARE , 80 on 31 August

COLONEL JEAN BENNETT, 90 on 1 September

MAJOR HELEN ADAMS, 85 on 1 September

Promoted to Glory

JOY COOPER , Stowmarket

MEG STANDLEY, Ramsgate

RTD RS WESLEY TUCKER , Wellingborough

Bereaved

MALCOLM COOPER of his wife Joy Cooper, Yvonne Ford, Stowmarket, of her sister, Stuart Cooper and Gary Cooper of their mother

CAPTAIN IAN STANDLEY, William Booth College, and Joy Watson of their mother Meg Standley

MAUREEN TUCKER , Wellingborough, of her husband Rtd RS Wesley Tucker, Mark Tucker and Caron Cox of their father

MAJOR ALTHEA BAWDEN, William Booth College, and Janet Stainer, Staines, of their mother Elaine Griffiths

General Lyndon Buckingham and Commissioner Bronwyn Buckingham

Sun 3 Sep Regent Hall (Welcome to General Lyndon Buckingham and Commissioner Bronwyn Buckingham)

Chief of the Staff Commissioner Edward Hill and Commissioner Shelley Hill

Sun 3 Sep Regent Hall (Welcome to General Lyndon Buckingham and Commissioner Bronwyn Buckingham)

Territorial Commander Commissioner Anthony Cotterill and Commissioner Gill Cotterill

Sat 19 Aug Inauguration of the Central and Southern Scotland Division and installation of divisional commander and assistant divisional commander

Sun 20 Aug Kirkcaldy

Sat 2 Sep Strawberry Field (dedication of bandstand)

Sun 3 Sep Regent Hall (Welcome to General Lyndon Buckingham and Commissioner Bronwyn Buckingham)

Chief Secretary Colonel Paul Main and Colonel Jenine Main

Sat 19 Aug Inauguration of the Central and Southern Scotland Division and installation of the divisional commander and assistant divisional commander

Sun 20 Aug Govan

Sun 3 Sep Regent Hall (Welcome to General Lyndon Buckingham and Commissioner Bronwyn Buckingham)

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