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All the World
Issue Date 1 April 2003
April - June 2003Vol 41 No 2
Thoughts from the General, Afghanistan, Funding Projects, Germany, Paraguay, Kenya, India, Liberia
In this issue:
Editorial: Under the InfluenceGOOD teachers can have a lasting effect on their pupils. I remember a favourite teacher of mine from when I was about eight or nine. Her name was Miss Law – her Christian name was Valerie, but I would never have thought of using it when speaking to her. She had big, wild, curly hair and when – in assembly – we sang a song with the line, ‘If I was a fuzzy-wuzzy bear, I’d thank you Lord for my fuzzy-wuzzy hair,’ every eye would turn to Miss Law and her hair.more
From the top: Thoughts from the GeneralSermons without Words
MY wife, Freda, and I are still living in the afterglow of the reception we received when we visited the village of Kanejpur in Bangladesh. The villagers had turned out in force and, as we made our way around the village on the narrow mud pathways, the happy crowd of well-wishers – adults and children – surged all around us. They left us in no doubt that we were most welcome. The genial presence of a police sergeant in full dress uniform, by courtesy of the Jessore authorities, added to the pomp of the scene....more
Afghanistan: Giving girls an educationA Lasting Lesson
I was shopping for something with which to cover my head. A woman watching me said, ‘That’s a good idea; I think I’ll get one too. I need something to keep the wind out.’ It seemed too dramatic to say I was buying a head covering because I was going to Afghanistan. In the blustery English town of Northampton, Afghanistan seemed far away and unreal...more
Enterprise: Finding ways to fund projectsThe Mission: Sell Fish
We are probably all familiar with the phrase: ‘Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.’ We in The Salvation Army’s International Enterprise section would like to add to the phrase and say, ‘Teach him how to sell fish and you help feed an entire village.’more
Germany: Chemnitz’s circus specialCrown Him with many Clowns
ON an average Sunday, about 120 people gather for worship at The Salvation Army in Chemnitz (formerly Karl Marx City), Germany. In February this year, however, more than 900 people filled one of Germany’s most renowned circus tents (Busch-Roland) for a special Salvation Army worship service, including modern dance, a band, interviews, music and an acrobatic number by the circus performers, as well as powerful preaching by corps officer Captain Frank Heinrich.more
Paraguay: Bringing health care to the slumsA Place of Well Being
The majority of the 350,000 people who live in the Villa Laurelty area of Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, have nothing at all. Their simple, self-built houses could not be called a property. Sometimes they have only a piece of plastic draped over a rope.more
Kenya: Using market-trading skills to escape povertyRaising Incomes, Lifting Lives
SALVATION Army community development staff from across Africa met recently in Nairobi, Kenya. At the end of the two weeks’ workshop the participants all returned to their homes with new skills for managing and implementing community development projects. Special thanks goes to the United States Eastern Territory for supporting this programme through its Mission Support funds.more
India: Celebrating a century of careA Hundred Years and Counting
THE centenary of The Salvation Army’s Emery Hospital in Anand, Gujarat, India, was celebrated by the dedication of a newly-reconstructed facility within the Army’s comprehensive medical services compound. The old and venerable hospital had been damaged in the powerful Gujarat earthquake in January 2001 and had been subsequently torn down.more
Liberia: Helping a country to recover from conflictOrder Out of Chaos
WITH the word ‘warning’ from the Lonely Planets web site in mind, we travelled through Abidjan by the Ivory Coast to Monrovia, the capital of Liberia. The trip was long and complicated until we got a glimpse of the Salvation Army uniform. In a few minutes, everything had been taken care of. We discovered that the organisation is well known and well respected in Liberia.more
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