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Transforming dreams into reality
Published: 12th Jun 2013
WE HAVE become accustomed to bad news: faltering banks, a double-dip recession, once-firmly established businesses folding up, large scale redundancies in the public sector and the resultant increase in unemployment, house repossessions, homelessness and child poverty. And that doesn’t include the unrecorded psychological damage inflicted by the loss of jobs and the uncertainty, even...
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An ordinary hero
Published: 5th Jun 2013
ALONSO RODRIGUEZ [1532-1617] is a shining example of ‘blooming where you’re planted’. He didn’t found churches, win crowds to Jesus or conquer heresy. He was one of God’s ‘unknowns’, who won hidden victories: over failure, sickness, loss and heartbreak.
Rodriguez was a wool merchant with a wife and three children, but by the time he was 40, they...
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Love found me
Published: 8th May 2013
TERRY THOMPSETT has a friendly smile and a laugh that somehow speaks of a life of wide experience. His is quite a story.
At the age of eight, with the divorce of his parents, Terry had to make a choice between his mum and dad. He chose along with his two sisters to go and live with his mum, and they moved to Cuxton in Kent, which meant attending a new school. In Terry’s words,...
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Compassion speaks louder than words
Published: 18th Apr 2013
How did you come to be in The Salvation Army?
I’m a lifelong member of The Salvation Army: I went to my first Salvation Army service in the womb! I became a “soldier”, an adult member, at 17. My parents were Salvation Army officers so The Salvation Army had a huge shaping influence on my upbringing.
How many members do you have in the UK...
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Oh My Dog!
Published: 10th Apr 2013
“UP UNTIL May 2011 I had no belief in God at all. I only went to church for occasional weddings, funerals and midnight mass to sing Christmas carols.
But everything changed in May, when I took my dog, Gemma, out on our usual walk. We were crossing a wooden bridge which had happened every day for 18 months, Gemma was pottering along behind me as she always did. I distinctly heard a...
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