International Heritage Centre
Friday, June 24, 2005
I found an amazing Army resource on the web today: International Heritage Centre. On it you can find such interesting Army tangents such as our involvement with the Titanic, The Salvation Navy, Doughnut Girls and an interactive Timeline.
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Comments Updated
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Thanks to Jon B. it is now even easier to comment on the Metro Youth Network (without having to have a Blogger account). So, post a comment once in a while. Peace!
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New Infyuz Website
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Hey, check out the new Infyuz Website. It's really cool. That is all.
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Band of Survivors Team Announced
Monday, June 20, 2005
Alfonso Azuaje - Temple Laramie
Astrid Carrion - Rockford Temple
Anna Christensen - Blue Island
Mary Clayborne - Chicago Temple
Melissa Clayborne - Chicago Temple
Darius Ferguson - Chicago Temple
Latarius Ferguson - Chicago Temple
Erick Fernandez - Temple Laramie
Miguel Garcia - Temple Laramie
Kirsten Gorton - Norridge
Nate Hood - Tri-City
Nate Irvine - Oakbrook Terrace
Erica Johnson - The Bridge-Hanover Park
Spenser Jones - Chicago Temple
Kyle Madison - Oakbrook Terrace
Alejandro Monterroso - Oakbrook Terrace
David Moran - Oakbrook Terrace
Stephen Rivero - Oakbrook Terrace
Steve Rivero - Oakbrook Terrace
Luis Salinas - Temple Laramie
Ade Villatoro - Rockford Temple
Melody Waldner - Rockford Temple
Possibly coming to a Corps near you! We will minister at the Blue Island Outpost, Mount Greenwood Corps, The Bridge Corps Plant, Elgin Corps, Rockford Temple and Temple Laramie.
We are also partnering with Souled Out Ministries to cover the city of Chicago in prayer 24/7! If you have any prayer requests don’t hesitate to post them on the prayer wall (found in the upper left hand corner of this site).
Please pray that we would challenge spiritual complacency, sharpen peer leadership skills, motivate youth for kingdom work, expose ourselves to the needs within our Division and inspire revolutionary visions!
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NEWS ANNOUNCEMENT
Aftershock from YouthQuake 6.05
from Salvation Army Territorial Headquarters
Hello. This is Commissioner Baillie writing to older teens and twenty-somethings after the YouthQuake weekend. I want to challenge you with a new ministry opportunity. I intended to announce this at the end of Sunday morning's service but there were so many seekers at the altar it just didn't seem right to intrude. So, I'm sending the announcement now.
Would you be willing to give a year to ministry? That's right -- a year. Maybe you signed the sheets on Saturday night for praying the Bible, or raising $4,000 for a children's home, or one of the other ideas. Great ideas they were, too. And I believe you are already acting to fulfill your commitments. But all of the commitments on the sheets can be accomplished right where you live now. By contrast, maybe you responded to the officership call on Saturday morning. If so, you face a lifetime commitment. But maybe, just maybe, you are in between: you don't have a clear call to a lifetime but neither do you want to settle for what you can do at home. You sense God challenging you to take on something more than the same old same old. Well, I've got an idea for you. A year-long ministry in an innovative setting.
Here's the idea. I see us forming small teams to live and work in poor neighborhoods for a year. Not less than three in a team, to provide you with mutual support, fellowship and accountability. Live in a rented apartment or other cheap accommodation in the neighborhood where you minister. Not employees of the Army but tent-makers. You know the term, right? In the New Testament Paul supported himself by sewing tents, ministering in the evenings and on the Sabbath. You could do the same. Other Christian groups have experimented with this, quite successfully. Team members would support themselves by getting a job, any job, even sales clerk or hamburger flipper. The point is not to make money, just earn enough to get by. Team members would pool their money for rent and food, living in a tight-knit, self-run, small believers' community.
In the off hours the team would minister creatively in the neighborhood. Prayer walk through the apartment building and nearby streets. Hang out at the park to shoot hoops with the kids, befriending and witnessing. Spot some women with babies in strollers, inviting young mothers to a mother's 'Morning Break' bible study (with some team members watching the babies). Invite all the neighbors along the apartment floor hallway to a bible study in your apartment. Walk the neighborhood at night to see what's going down, and what you could do about it: the teens sniffing inhalers, the girls prostituting, the winos on park benches, the...whatever. Shovel the snow from sidewalks of the three elderly ladies who live alone and don't get out all winter. Invite a couple of teens to the Saturday night youth group at the nearby corps, and go with them. Advocate with the city alderman to get all your neighbors' trash collection back on regular schedule. Befriend. Talk. Help. Share your faith. Be Christ in person for someone. You get the idea. Invent ministry. Pray for Spirit-inspired creativity.
I mentioned a corps. Ideally the team's apartment would be not too far from a corps. We would choose corps where the corps officer likes this kind of unstructured, innovative ministry. And he/she has the personality and spiritual gifts to be a supporter of your team, mentoring, encouraging, helping. But not controlling! The team would be largely self-accountable. Still, the corps relationship would provide continuing spiritual connection for people after the year is up.
All the divisional commanders have expressed keen interest in this. They stand ready to help select the best locations and opportunities. Here at THQ our young adult ministries specialist, Mrs. Linda Himes, will work with all the young adults to put teams together and place them in appropriate cities/neighborhoods, partnering with the DCs and corps.
Do you want more specific details? Sorry, but I don't have them. Because I don't want to decide everything. I want you and your team members to pray and dream and risk and innovate. You should decide many of the specific details! No, better than that, you and the Spirit of God.
Are you at least 18 years old and out of high school, the minimum requirement? Are you still under 30, the upper age limit? Would you be willing to take a year off from college? Would you delay the start of college for a year? Or, if you just finished college, delay the start of your career for a year? Can you get free to commit for a year? Even as you read this do you feel a call by the Spirit to do and to dare? If so, pray about it and then contact Linda. Email her at linda_himes@usc.salvationarmy.org or call her at 1-847-294-2115.
If you know of someone who ought to receive this announcement feel free to forward it. If you have a friend who might be interested, talk to him/her; maybe you can help recruit!
I believe we need some outside-the-box ministry innovations in our Army. I believe in you, that you have a heart for God. I know God's heart is broken for the poor, the troubled, the victimized. Oh, that the song's words might be more realized: Let the streets resound with singing, dancers who dance upon injustice!
Ken Baillie
Commissioner
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Publishing His Mercy To The World
'Not called!' did you say? Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in the face—whose mercy you have professed to obey—and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish His mercy to the world.
William Booth
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