The Salvation Army is a Christian church and registered charity providing services in the community, particularly to those who are vulnerable and marginalised. Motivated by our Christian faith, we offer practical support and services in more than 700 centres throughout the UK to all who need them, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender or sexual orientation. To find your nearest centre visit salvationarmy.org.uk/find-a-church
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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IN 2012, the UK hosted what was described as ‘the greatest Paralympic Games ever’. A record 2.7 million tickets were sold to packed crowds who watched 4,237 athletes compete in 503 medal events. One of the medal-winning athletes was US swimmer Mallory Weggemann. She is going for gold again in the Tokyo Paralympics, which begin on Tuesday (24 August), and in this week’s issue she talks about what motivates her in and out of the water. Concerned by the lack of representation of people with disabilities, which she discovered after she was paralysed at the age of 18, she says that as an athlete she hopes ‘to empower’ the next generation. In her own life, Mallory has been helped by her Christian faith. She confesses that she has sometimes been angry about her paralysis, but she has come to know that God ‘is not sitting there, laying out everything that will happen to us and we just have to deal with it. Instead,’ she says, ‘he gives us the strength and the resources to navigate through what happens in life.’ Such an understanding of God has helped countless people navigate life, whatever its successes and struggles. It’s one reason why The Salvation Army’s children’s comic Kids Alive! has for 140 years aimed to communicate the story of Jesus and how he has given people a picture of God. In an interview to mark the weekly’s birthday next week, its present editor Justin Reeves tells us: ‘If a child’s first encounter with Jesus is seeing a cartoon story in Kids Alive! and learning that he is someone who can be in their life in any situation, celebrating their joys as well as helping them when they’re troubled, then I think we’ve achieved something.’ Mallory talks of faith as ‘a powerful way to see the bigger picture and live life’. It’s a truth which is portrayed every week in ad the War C the pages of Kids Alive! and the War Cry – e re ry u’v and which continues to make an impact on people of all generations.
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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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