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What is The Salvation Army? The Salvation Army is a Christian church and registered charity seeking to share the good news of Jesus and nurture committed followers of him. We also serve people without discrimination, care for creation and seek justice and reconciliation. We offer practical support and services in more than 700 centres throughout the UK. Go to salvationarmy.org.uk/find-a-church to find your nearest centre.
FOR 50 years it has been telling stories about a rural community. Tomorrow (Sunday 16 October) ITV’s Emmerdale is being celebrated with an hourlong episode. Week by week, the soap has followed the joys and struggles of a variety of characters – successfully, if the evidence of Tom Lister is anything to go by. In an interview in this issue of the War Cry, Tom, who played ‘loveable rogue’ Carl King in the soap, remembers: ‘People would come up to me in shops to tell me things that were going on with my character. I’d smile back and reply: “Yes, I do know what my on-screen brother Jimmy is up to. Let’s all take a breath for a minute and remember that it’s not real!” But they were only doing that because they loved the characters so much.’ After he left Emmerdale, though, Tom experienced some real-life worries. When Covid-19 restrictions led to the drying up of work for actors, he ‘really struggled’ and had ‘a crisis of confidence’. He was unhappy that he could not provide for his family. But he found reassurance in his Christian faith. ‘My relationship with God brings me peace in life’s chaos,’ he tells us. This week’s War Cry highlights other ways in which faith helps people in their struggles – whether or not they have a faith themselves. Photographer Holly-Marie Cato is staging an exhibition that portrays the life of Pentecostal City Mission Church in London. She talks of how such Caribbean churches ‘have been pillars of their communities’ and ‘have done so much outreach work – for example, for people in need’. And a news report in this issue reveals that The Salvation Army is among the organisations to have signed up to a church-based initiative to open warm spaces for people who are struggling to heat their homes as energy costs rise. Such stories highlight how week after week, ad the War C e re ry v ’ year after year, people who have put their faith u in God’s love for the world are making a very real difference to their communities.
What is the War Cry? The Salvation Army first published a newspaper called the War Cry in London in December 1879, and we have continued to appear every week since then. Our name refers to our battle for people’s hearts and souls as we promote the positive impact of the Christian faith and The Salvation Army’s fight for greater social justice.
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From riot to religion Holly-Marie on documenting moments in time
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