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WAR CRY Issue No 7520
Editor: Andrew Stone, Major Deputy Editor: Philip Halcrow Production Editor: Ivan Radford Assistant Editor: Sarah Olowofoyeku Staff Writer: Emily Bright Staff Writer: Claire Brine Editorial Assistant: Linda McTurk Graphic Designer: Rodney Kingston Graphic Designer: Mark Knight Email: warcry@salvationarmy.org.uk The Salvation Army UK Territory with the Republic of Ireland 101 Newington Causeway London SE1 6BN Tel: 0845 634 0101 Helpline: 020 7367 4888 Subscriptions: 01933 445445 (option 1, option 1) or email: subscriptions@satcol.org Founder: William Booth General: Brian Peddle Territorial Commander: Commissioner Anthony Cotterill Editor-in-Chief: Major Mal Davies Published weekly by The Salvation Army ©The Salvation Army United Kingdom Territory with the Republic of Ireland ISSN 0043-0226 The Salvation Army Trust is a registered charity. The charity number in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is 214779, in Scotland SC009359 and in the Republic of Ireland CHY6399. Printed by Walstead Roche Ltd, St Austell, on sustainably sourced paper
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INFO 2 • WAR CRY • 10 April 2021
EDITOR From the editor’s desk
THOUSANDS of people are expected to journey this year from their homes in Hong Kong to begin new lives in the United Kingdom. There will, undoubtedly, be many new things each person encounters as they start life in a different culture. Education, health and housing as well as social and community activities will not be the same as in Hong Kong. The adjustments will be huge. Hong Kong Ready Churches is an organisation that aims to support Hong Kongers having to make those adjustments. Offering their help to people of any faith or none, the organisers want to offer the hospitality they believe is at the heart of their Christian faith. Supporting their endeavours is writer and illustrator Jacinta Read. In an interview in this week’s War Cry, Jacinta explains the challenges she felt as she and her family moved to the UK from her homeland of Hong Kong in 2013. She tells us: ‘It can be hard not feeling known, and feeling the distance from parents, siblings and the friends we grew up with.’ However, Jacinta found that her Christian faith helped her cope with the challenges she faced. ‘I believe that the God I love is the same God no matter where I am,’ she says. Jacinta is right. It does not matter where our lives take us – either physically or metaphorically. Nor does it matter how tough or easy our circumstances may seem at any one moment. We can all experience God’s presence and his love. We may not have plans to move thousands of miles around the world, but we are all living at a time when we do not know exactly what the future holds. What we can know is that God is there to help us, if we’ll ask him.
CONTENTS
What is The Salvation Army?
FEATURES 3
Give it some thought
Psychiatrist has trouble in mind in TV drama
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Word-perfect
The appeal of Scrabble
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Culture shock
Finding life different in the UK
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TV times for faith
Production company brings God into the picture
REGULARS 4
War Cry World
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Team Talk
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Wisdom in the Words
14 Puzzles 15
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War Cry Kitchen
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Front-page picture: SNOWED-IN PRODUCTIONS ITV
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