Witnessing sisters
Every Wednesday, Hannah and Sarah Isner of Grafton, West Virginia, wear their youth
councils shirts to school as a way of witnessing, and they’ve started a Bible study in the
school lunch room ...
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Considering officership
The Territorial Candidates Department surveyed young adults to learn more about their
thoughts and feelings in regard to serving as officers of The Salvation Army. The results of
the survey are in ...
Pulling together
The guys attending the North-South Carolina men’s
camp enjoyed days of fun, food and fellowship ...
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DOING
THE MOST
GOOD
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Volume 32, No. 9
Commissioning
Weekend
Friday, June 5
10 a.m.
Commencement
at Atlanta
Temple Corps
12 noon Silver Star
Luncheon
at THQ
7 p.m.
Army Bold
(Junior Soldiers)
at Atlanta
Temple
Saturday, June 6
10 a.m.
Army Bold
(Corps Cadets)
at Atlanta
Temple
11:30 a.m. Heritage
Festival
Atlanta Temple
grounds
4 p.m.
Long Service
Recognition
Dinner at CEPAC
7 p.m.
Portraits of
Grace at CEPAC
Sunday, June 7
9:30 a.m. Ordination &
Commissioning
at CEPAC
2:30 p.m. Appointment
Service at
CEPAC
Pages 4 & 5
thesouthernspirit
May 30, 2015
A publication of The Salvation Army Southern Territory
From marshes
to modern arena
By Brooke Turbyfill
Southern Spirit staff
ive miles from
Whitechapel on the
south side of the River
Thames in London July
1-5, thousands will attend
the International Congress at the
O2 arena to celebrate the 150th
anniversary of The Salvation
Army. What was once called
the Millenium Dome was built
on Greenwich Marshes and had
become by the mid-19th century a
heavily industrialized area, home
to gas works and ship-building.
From 1897, the peninsula served
as an opening of the Blackwall
Tunnel, one of the major traffic
tunnels in London that runs under
the Thames.
The large arena has a capacity
of 16,000 and is composed of
numerous restaurants, a music
hall and a movie theater; the O2
is vastly different from what the
Founder, General William Booth,
would have known.
Just a few miles away, a century
and a half ago, he met with a
group of mission workers in the
F
street outside of the Blind Beggar
public house for the first of many
times he would preach outside
the church walls. This East End
area, Whitechapel, is where the
Christian Mission, which became
The Salvation Army, began.
Delegates of “Boundless: The
Whole World Redeeming” will be
able to see sites that are significant
to the Army’s history as they tour
the much-changed Whitechapel
during their visit.
The Blind Beggar Public House
The pub is at the corner of
Whitechapel Road, left of the
Whitechapel underground station,
and Cambridge Heath Road. After
the first meeting out front, the
Founder would continue a series
of messages in a tent on a nearby
Quaker burial ground.
The Tent
On Sunday, July 2, 1865,
William Booth led meetings in
Please see ARMY, page 6
Boundless 2015
beckons visitors to
The Salvation Army’s
historic sites
The People’s Mission Hall was used in a variety of ways by
the early Salvation Army.
Hard work makes Heart Work possible
By Laura Haas
Southern Spirit staff
y the time the Territorial Youth
Department pulled into the
parking lot of the Wyndham
Orlando Resort, the hard part
of Heather Myers’ job was
done.
Myers has worked as the
department’s event coordinator since
October of 2013. Staging the conference
requires a concerted effort by Myers
and the Youth Department staff – and a
lot of careful planning.
“The stressful moments are leading
up to the event,” Myers said. “Once
you’re there, it has a mind of its
own. We have such a great staff and
everybody pulls together.”
Monday morning, before the
delegates arrived, the entire department
gathered in the main hall to pray over
the chairs that would soon be filled.
B
Johnny Aranguren
Steve Carter of Willow Creek Community Church addresses delegates to the Equip
conference for Salvation Army youth workers.
Equip 2015
Orlando, Florida
The day began with a pre-conference
for the Territorial Music Committee,
divisional youth leade rs and SAMS
which lasted most of the day until
that evening when the main event
was kicked off with session one. The
Orlando Singing Company led praise
and worship and Sabrina Borum,
Florida’s creative arts director, spoke
about the effort that goes into youth
work and summarized the event’s
theme, “Heart Work.”
“This hard work is heart work,” she
said. “It’s all about love.”
Steve Carter, teaching pastor at
Willow Creek Community Church, led
the opening session with a message that
Please see PLANNING, page 6