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June 19th, 2007 - The Salvation Army Canada and Bermuda Launches On-line Store
It’s taken them a while, but The Salvation Army Supplies and Purchasing in Canada has finally moved into the 21 century. On Friday, The Salvation Army in the Canada and Bermuda Territory officially launched an on-line store.
Bible studies, books, CD, clothing are among the products being offered for sale. You can pay on-line using a secure credit card transaction or by mailing a cheque or money order.
September 6th, 2006 - New Book: William Booth in Canada
Between 1886 and 1907 William Booth, General of The Salvation Army, made six visits to Canada. He did so for various reasons: to boost the morale of the new Territory, to promote his ‘Darkest England’ scheme, and to convince Canadian politicians of the value of his emigration plans. For Canadian Salvationists, however, these visits were opportunities to see and hear their leader, who had become one of the world’s leading evangelists. They were not disappointed. His magnetic personality, platform oratory and great sense of humour enthralled Canadians — Salvationists and non-Salvationists alike. In this book R.G. Moyles not only sets the stage for the visits themselves —describing the hectic pace and variety of activities engaged in from St. John’s to Victoria— but attempts to reveal something of the personality of this great man by capturing the essence of his sermons, sharing some of his stories, revealing his personal (often eccentric) habits and showing, through newspaper reports, what the Canadian public thought of Booth and his Salvation Army. It is a fascinating and illuminating journey.
William Booth in Canada is available by writing to R.G. Moyles, 10852-11 Ave. NW, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6J 6H9 or by emailing the author at agmoyles@shaw.ca The cost is $15.00 per copy, with a $2.00 shipping charge.
June 6th, 2006 - Your Source for FREE Ministry Resources and Ideas
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May 18th, 2006 - The Salvation Army Applauds New Measures Assisting Trafficked Persons
News Release
Friday May 12, 2006 – The Salvation Army welcomes the May 11th announcement by the Honourable Monte Solberg, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration advising that the federal government has adopted new measures effective immediately that will help people who have been victimized by human trafficking.
This action by government represents an important step in the provision for trafficked persons and addresses many concerns. The temporary resident permits (TRP), exemption from TRP fees, and access to health care and counselling are important changes to the immigration policy and the treatment of trafficked victims.
The Salvation Army operates in 111 countries worldwide, many of which are either a country of origin or destination for the trafficked person.
The Salvation Army’s anti trafficking network, along with many other organizations, had called on the federal government for initiatives to support trafficked persons. “This announcement is an excellent advancement towards ensuring that trafficked persons who have arrived in Canada are given the care and assistance they require to put their lives back together”, states Colonel Glen Shepherd, Chief Secretary for The Salvation Army in Canada and Bermuda. Further necessities for trafficked persons who will now receive the Temporary Resident Permits are safe shelter, medical and legal services, along with other programs specific to trafficked persons.
The Salvation Army looks forward to continuing to work with government and other agencies to ensure that trafficked persons are not further victimized but receive care and treatment with all the grace and dignity of which they were robbed.
“The seemingly weak and apparently powerless victims of the most horrific oppression and torment, at times achieve a royal splendor of character that is well beyond the imaginations and reach of their oppressors.” – Dr. Cornelius Buller on Human Dignity is Opposed to Human Trafficking
As the largest non-governmental provider of social services in Canada, The Salvation Army continues to provide professional services that are relevant to the diverse needs of vulnerable people and their communities.
May 17th, 2006 - Russia: step forward for Salvation Army
By Geraldine Fagan, Forum 18 News Service
Special to ASSIST News ServiceMOSCOW, RUSSIA (ANS) — – While the Salvation Army has had the registration documentation for its Russia-wide organization restored, the legal position of its Moscow branch remains unresolved, Forum 18 has learnt. “After a long-term process, our central religious organization had its charter accepted about a month ago,” Territorial Commander Colonel Barry Pobjie told Forum 18 on 16 May.
He added that the Moscow branch’s situation is “as it was - we’re waiting on [the European Court of Human Rights in] Strasbourg.” On 17 May a Moscow city official told Forum 18 that he did not know why the local Salvation Army branch is still without re-registration.
The uncertainty over the status of the Salvation Army’s central religious organization arose a little over a year ago. In late April 2005 Colonel Pobjie told Forum 18 that he had recently been informed by the Federal Registration Service that the organization’s entire registration documentation would have to be redone due to an apparently minor discrepancy between terms on its registration certificate and in its charter (see F18News 18 July 2005 — www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=609.
The Moscow branch of the Salvation Army submitted its re-registration application in line with the 1997 Religion Law in November 1998, but this was rejected in August 1999 on the grounds that parts of the organization’s charter and other documentation did not conform to federal legislation and that the Salvation Army’s headquarters are situated outside the Russian Federation. Involved in subsequent legal challenges against this ruling - during which the Salvation Army was accused by one district court of being a “militarized organization” with “barrack-room discipline” - the Moscow branch was unable to file another re-registration application before the 1997 law’s re-registration deadline expired at the end of 2000. In February 2002, however, the Constitutional Court ruled that a religious organization could not be liquidated simply for failing to re-register, but only if “properly proven to have ceased its activities” or to be in violation of its constitutional obligations as a legal personality.
On 1 July 2004 the European Court of Human Rights declared admissible a case filed by the Moscow branch against Russia in 2001. Despite being in legal limbo, the Salvation Army has not reported any obstruction to its day-to-day activities in Moscow (see F18News 22 June 2005 www.forum18.org/Archive.php?article_id=591.
Konstantin Blazhenov of Moscow city’s Committee for Relations with Religious Organizations told Forum 18 on 17 May that he was unaware of the Moscow branch’s current legal status. “They haven’t come to us about anything for a long time,” he said.
Confirming that the expiry of the 1997 Religion Law’s end-of-2000 deadline was a possible reason why the Moscow branch had not been re-registered, he said that the matter was for the courts to resolve. Blazhenov also pointed out, however, that to his knowledge the Salvation Army is operating unimpeded in the Russian capital. Forum 18 also has no knowledge of any day-to-day obstruction of the Salvation Army’s work.
Russia’s deputy foreign minister Grigory Karasin, speaking live on a BBC panel discussion on 30 March, described as “interesting logic” the inaccurate claim made by an audience member that the Salvation Army had been deprived of its registration in Moscow under a 1999 NGO law, due to the word “army” in is title.
However, in the city of Rostov-on-Don 1,129 kilometers [700 miles] south of Moscow, Captain Vladimir Tatiosov of the Salvation Army’s local branch told Forum 18 on 9 April that he has not encountered any of the registration difficulties experienced in Moscow, “that didn’t affect us at all.” The only difficulties they have experienced is the September 2000 bar from Russia of his Canadian colleague Geoff Ryan, which has to this day prevented him from returning to Russia The Rostov-on-Don branch is one of three local religious organizations making up the Salvation Army’s central religious organization, all of which were registered with charters identical to that deemed unacceptable in Moscow.
In contrast to some other local religious communities (see forthcoming F18 article), the Salvation Army’s property position in Rostov-on-Don also appears to be relatively strong. Captain Tatiosov told Forum 18 that the organization owns its “huge” premises - a four-storey building on a central street provided by a US donor some eight years ago - and that the rent for the land beneath the property is not expensive, at about 40,000 roubles [8,997 Norwegian Kroner, 1,153 Euros, or 1,485 US Dollars] a year.
Not having enough funds to pay its various employees, however, Tatiosov said that the Rostov-on-Don branch has decided to allow its premises to be used each week for worship by 12 local Protestant churches, who are otherwise unable to acquire worship premises in the city, in return for a donation to the Salvation Army’s charitable activities.
Captain Tatiosov also told Forum 18 that the local authorities are supportive of the Salvation Army’s various social projects for the homeless, the elderly, alcoholics, drug addicts and those suffering from HIV/AIDS. The only Christian pastor invited to a regional forum on the issue of HIV/AIDS in December 2005, he maintained that it was “very rare for the [state] health sector to recognize a social organization in that way,” and suggested that this might be because the Salvation Army’s “Bridge” project for AIDS sufferers in Rostov-on-Don is run by fully qualified doctors.
Pastor Viktor Shvedov, of Rostov-on-Don’s 600-strong Christ the Saviour Pentecostal Church, told Forum 18 on 10 April that church members are able to provide social assistance to prison inmates, but they were in 2005 unofficially barred from local children’s homes. Before the bar, they had been providing clothes, toys and building materials to the homes. Pastor Shvedov likened the situation to a Soviet joke that a citizen has the constitutional right to do an activity, but is not allowed to do it.
Shvedov also told Forum 18 that, since the late 1990s, his church has been unable to conduct a March for Jesus through Rostov-on-Don city centre, again unofficially: “We were told we could do it in principle but that we would need to agree it with the police, fire and ambulance services – one official said that we could try but it would be a waste of time, we would be endlessly directed from one office to another.”
There was no response from either Rostov-on-Don’s city or regional Religious Affairs Offices to Forum 18’s calls on 17 May.
Russia: step forward for Salvation Army
May 15th, 2006 - U.S. Salvation Army to install first black leader - Race in America - MSNBC.com
NEW YORK - The Salvation Army is poised to install a black leader for its U.S. operations Friday, the first time a black church official has led the predominantly white, evangelical denomination in this country.
Commissioner Israel L. Gaither will become the commander of the army in the United States at a ceremony featuring brass band and choral flourishes.
U.S. Salvation Army to install first black leader - Race in America - MSNBC.com.
May 10th, 2006 - 20 ways to touch lives with the Gospel
20 ways to touch lives with the Gospel – using SA publications
1. Place Faith & Friends or Edge for Kids in mailboxes in your neighbourhood or introduce the magazines personally door-to-door. Include an invitation to a corps event.
2. With permission, place magazine copies in public waiting areas of medical, government and business buildings. Ask motels in the area to place in rooms.
3. Take Faith & Friends to work; leave copies in the lunch or break room.
4. Hold a literature Sunday in the corps to promote Army publications and our website http://www.salvationist.ca. Challenge corps members to take out subscriptions of Faith & Friends for family members.
5. Give copies of Salvationist to non-Army clergy in your community. Let them know what the Army is doing!
6. Take copies along when visiting people in hospitals and nursing homes. Edge for Kids will brighten the day for any child, especially when confined to a hospital room!
7. Start a community business route or prison visitation ministry using Faith & Friends as a tool to spark conversations and open doors of witness.
8. Give subscriptions to Army publications as birthday, anniversary or Christmas gifts. A gift card can be sent in your name. Contact the editorial department (416-422-6112) for details.
9. Give a copy of Salvationist to your local member of parliament, house of assembly member or city councillor. Send a copy to the mayor’s office.
10. Hold a backyard or parking lot barbecue with a stall promoting corps programs; hand out free copies of Faith & Friends.
11. Distribute copies at local fairs, exhibitions and outdoor festivals.
12. Include Salvationist with thank-you letters for financial donations to your corps.
13. Make copies of Salvationist available to the up-and-coming leaders of your corps.
14. Using a portable billboard or lawn sign, invite passers-by inside the hall to receive a free copy of Faith & Friends. Engage them in conversation and use opportunities for witness that may develop.
15. Encourage your Sunday school children to give Edge for Kids to school friends.
16. Place copies of Faith & Friends in shopping bags at thrift stores and in food hampers at family services offices.
17. Make Edge for Kids available in waiting areas of family services offices.
18. Encourage corps members to purchase subscriptions of Army magazines for your local library.
19. Include article highlights, from the monthly electronic update, Keep Connected, in the corps bulletin or weekly announcements.
20. Include a copy of Salvationist in every corps bulletin. Better still, have greeters hand them out as they welcome each person to the worship service.
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May 8th, 2006 - Get ready with St. John Ambulance-The Salvation Army Emergency Preparedness Kits at Canadian Retailers
Press Release
OTTAWA, May 8 /CNW/ - St. John Ambulance (SJA) and The Salvation Army are
pleased to announce the launch of a national Emergency Preparedness "Kit
Campaign" with major retailers across Canada.
Partner retailers across Canada will carry co-branded St. John Ambulance
and The Salvation Army Emergency Preparedness Ready Kits and Ready Meal Plus
Kits, as part of a national public awareness campaign. This year-long campaign
is intended to prepare Canadians in the event of an emergency. Kit contents,
including water packets, food rations, first aid supplies and a waterproof
radio, will allow a family to survive for 72 hour, prior to help arriving.
"Canadian shoppers will have ready access to important supplies that
could help save a life in case of an emergency," says SJA Director of Business
Development, Rob Fraser. "Working together with national retailers will now
make it easier for families to get prepared for an emergency."
St. John Ambulance-The Salvation Army Emergency Preparedness Kits will be
available beginning as early as May 7 - May 13 (Emergency Preparedness Week)
at the following retail locations:
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Zellers IGA and MarketPlace IGA
Home Outfitters Thrifty Foods
Pharma Plus Buy-Low Foods
Canadian Tire Nesters Market
London Drugs G&H Shop 'N Save
True Value Hardware Value Drug Mart
V&S Apple Drugs
Country Depot Rxellence Professional Dispensary
Overwaitea Foods Quality Foods
Save-On-Foods TSC Stores
>>
A common list of kit components was developed in collaboration with the
Government of Canada and is an important part of the Government of Canada's
new Emergency Preparedness Guide. The guide recommends three simple steps to
emergency preparedness: 1) know the risks in your area; 2) make an emergency
plan; and 3) prepare a kit.
For further information: on St. John Ambulance, The Salvation Army and the Emergency Preparedness public awareness initiative, please contact: Jennifer Lavoie, St. John Ambulance, Phone: (613) 859-9000, Jennifer.lavoie@nhq.sja.ca, www.sja.ca; Jim Ferguson, Salvation Army, Phone: (613) 299-1761, jim_ferguson@can.salvationarmy.org, www.salvationarmy.org
April 9th, 2006 - Welcome and Dedication Meeting for new international leaders
Webcast of the Welcome and Dedication Meeting for The Salvation Army’s new international leaders – General Shaw Clifton, Commissioner Helen Clifton and Commissioner Robin Dunster – held at 4 pm on Saturday 8 April 2006 in Kensington Town Hall, London.
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 Part 1 Commissioner Israel L. Gaither (USA National Commander designate) welcomes the congregation to this dedication meeting commencing with the song ‘I would be thy holy temple’. Words of greeting from Commissioners Gaither then lead into rousing congregational song ‘Yet once again by Gods abundant mercy’, then a worship band lead the devotional song ‘The Potter’s hand’. This was followed by a prayer time led by Commissioner Eva D. Gaither with chorus ‘To be like Jesus’. Lt Colonel Victor Poke brings greetings from Salvationists of the UK Territory with the Republic of Ireland. Portsmouth Citadel Songsters sang ‘God of my praise’ and ‘With wings as eagles’. The congregation then sang ‘Of all in earth or Heaven (the Christ of Calvary)’ and with the help of the worship band sang ‘Great is the darkness’ and ‘Send the fire!’ |
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Part 2 This segment begins with Commissioner Makoto Yoshida bringing welcome greetings to Chief of Staff Commissioner Robin Dunster. Commissioner Rosemary Makina then brings the scripture reading followed by ‘Silent Vigil’ played by the International Staff Band. The Retired Generals then brought greetings before a presentation by children representing the world. |
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Part 3 Commissioner Berit Odegaard brings welcome to the new world leaders, followed by a response from Commissioner Helen Clifton. The dedication begins with the congregational song ‘I have not much to give thee, Lord’ then Commissioner Israel L. Gaither leads the prayer of dedication. General Shaw Clifton speaks and encourages a time of rededication and response by all. |
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Part 4 The time of rededication then leads to the final song ‘O boundless salvation!’ and is followed by the closing prayer and benedication lead by Commissioner Lalkiamlova. |
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Full meeting in one webcast This will open a new window (popup) showing a view panel in which you can watch all four segments in one session. |
Music provided by International Staff Band (Bandmaster Stephen Cobb), Portsmouth Citadel Songsters (Songster Leader Julie Wheeler) and Alvin Allison.
N.B. You will need a current version of Real Player, a free download from www.Real.com, to view this webcast.
Welcome and Dedication Meeting for new international leaders
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March 29th, 2006 - Crossing the Rubicon
A new on-line journal is set to launch. Edited by Geoff Ryan and John McAlister,
theRubicon is an independent, volunteer-driven online magazine. We are Christians with our roots in The Salvation Army. We are doers who have learned that we need to think deeply, rigorously and critically about what we do, why we do it and why there are things we don’t do. “Contemplative activists,” is one way of putting it, or “Field Theologians.” Deeply grateful for and mindful of our heritage, we are also aware that the world has changed and that these changes require a rethinking of that faith tradition that has been our legacy: “Tradition is not wholly static, because it has to be reinvented by each new generation as it takes over its cultural inheritance from those preceding it,” points out Anthony Giddens.
The editorial calendar for April looks promising. Be sure to check back regularly or add the RSS feed to your reader.
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