Breaking
the Cycle
Educating Tallahassee
The Salvation Army of Tallahassee, Fla., took the fight against
human trafficking to the streets ...
New initiatives like
Pathway of Hope
highlight the way
out of generational
poverty ...
Pages 4-5
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New and improved
Men like Ernest Jackson have found a new way to live
thanks to the Richmond Adult Rehabilitation Center ...
. .
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A publication of The
Salvation Army
Southern Territory
Volume 32, No. 5
March 30, 2015
General Burrows promoted to Glory
“T
General Eva Burrows led the worldwide
Salvation Army from 1986 to 1993.
he People’s General”
and the 13th
international leader
of The Salvation
Army, General Eva
Burrows, was promoted to Glory after
a brief illness March 20 in Melbourne,
Australia. She was 85.
“I join Salvationists around the
world giving thanks to God for the life,
inspiration and leadership of General
Eva Burrows,” wrote General André
Cox. “Her life has influenced the lives
of countless individuals and helped to
shape The Salvation Army. I salute a
true servant of God!”
A daughter of Salvation Army officer
parents, Eva Evelyn Burrows was
born on Sept. 15, 1929, in Newcastle,
Australia. She committed her life to God
for service as a Salvation Army officer
General Eva Burrows
1929-2015
while she was studying at Queensland
University in Australia, where she
earned a bachelor of arts degree in May
1950. She entered the William Booth
Memorial Training College in London
and was commissioned a Salvation
Army officer in 1951.
After an initial appointment as an
assistant corps officer in the British
Territory, she was appointed as an
officer teacher at the Howard Institute,
a large mission station in Zimbabwe,
where she served 14 years.
She later earned a master’s degree
in education at Sydney University.
Returning to Howard Institute, she
became the first woman vice-principal
and, later, principal of the Usher
Institute, a secondary boarding school
for girls.
In 1970 she was appointed to
London, where she spent five years at
the International College for Officers,
first as vice-principal and then
principal.
After an appointment as leader of
the Women’s Social Services in Great
Britain and Northern Ireland from
1975 to 1977, she served as territorial
commander for Sri Lanka and later
for Scotland. After 30 years of officer
service outside her native Australia,
she was appointed in 1982 as territorial
commander for Australia Southern
Territory. There, significant and
innovative initiatives characterized
her leadership style over the next
Please see ARMY, page 6
By General André Cox
The power of
the resurrection
W
hat a glorious celebration Easter Sunday represents for
each one of us! God in raising Christ defeated death.
God in raising Christ has freed us from sin. God in
raising Christ has established a sure eternal future for all
who know Jesus as Lord and Savior.
Life can be so full of uncertainty, danger and fears. Easter, however, serves
to remind us that the life Jesus brought and bought cannot be undermined
or extinguished.
As we celebrate the glory of the risen Christ, our hearts are filled with
praise. We rejoice in worship as we gain new insight and understanding
of God’s eternal purposes and his plan of salvation for the world! As Jesus
was raised from the dead, so will we be if we place our hope, trust and
faith in God who sent his only Son into this world – not to condemn but to
save!
Please see VICTORY, page 7
Jesus is risen ... but what does it really mean for us?
By Commissioner Debi Bell
I
t
is Easter, again. Strangely
enough, it seems to come
every year. Every year we
remember and rehearse
the events of Holy Week,
beginning with Palm Sunday. It is
important to recount the stories and
ponder the depths of their meaning. It is important to
teach the stories to our children so that they too will
come to understand Emmanuel, God With Us, Jesus,
the One Who Saves Us. We must “visit” the execution
of Jesus and ask why he had to die in such a horrible
way, or we devalue the Cross by making it a simple
decoration of our faith. Easter morning we celebrate
the ultimate victory – Jesus is risen! The stone was
rolled away to reveal an empty tomb.
All of that is wonderful, important and necessary,
but are we ever guilty of packing it all away on the
Monday morning after as if it is a holiday passed? Do
we live as though Holy Week is just an anniversary of
a great event?
Jesus: “I’ve been telling you this all along, that
everything written about me in the Hebrew Scriptures
must be fulfilled—everything from the law of Moses
to the prophets to the psalms. Then he opens their
minds so they can comprehend the meaning of
the Hebrew Scriptures.” Jesus: “This is what the
Scriptures said: that the promised Anointed One
should suffer and rise from the dead on the third
day, that in his name a radical change of thought
and life should be preached, and that in his name the
forgiveness of sins should be preached, beginning
in Jerusalem and extending to all nations. You have
witnessed the fulfillment of these things. So I send
my Father’s promise to you. Stay in the city until you
receive it—until power from heaven comes upon
Please see WHAT, page 6