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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.
SOON after the announcement was made that the Queen had died peacefully at Balmoral, people began sharing their memories of encounters with her. News outlets were filled with their stories. Grown-ups remembered childhood meetings when the Queen visited the hospital where they were being treated. Community champions reminisced about the time they had received an award from her. One contributor said that, while they had not seen her in person, nor been a ‘huge royalist’, they had been touched by her ‘ability to convey warmth, wisdom and encouragement each Christmas’. This week’s War Cry too contains memories of the Queen. We report that, in a statement issued after her death, the leader of The Salvation Army in the UK and Ireland, Commissioner Anthony Cotterill, said: ‘We especially remember with gratitude and affection the occasions when she demonstrated her support for the frontline work of The Salvation Army.’ He notes that the Queen visited Salvation Army centres, and he recalls a personal encounter when she welcomed Salvationists to Windsor Castle for an event thanking faith groups and charities for their work during the Covid-19 pandemic. Elsewhere in this issue, Austin Burn shares his memories of the Queen. He has much to remember, having worked for the royal family for almost two decades. He recalls the Queen’s interest in his membership of The Salvation Army. He also remembers how ‘the Queen was always open about her own Christianity’. It was a personal faith that she would mention in her Christmas broadcasts. Last December, after the loss of her ‘beloved Philip’, she acknowledged that ‘life consists of final partings as well as first meetings’. She spoke of joy and sorrow, of reminiscing and looking forward. And she spoke of Jesus, ‘a man whose teachings have been handed down from generation to generation’ and whose birth – she said, quoting the carol – addressed the ‘hopes and fears of all the years’. ‘His birth,’ she concluded, ‘marked a new ad the War C beginning.’ e re ry v ’ u Which is a truth that – in difficult and more joyful times – is always worth remembering.
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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