The Indonesian College – $6,000
The Philippines College – $1,000
The Zambia College – $2,000

The money for Indonesia was entirely made up from FLOW/OVERFLOW revenue.
The money for the Philippines and Zambia were from other TACO (Train A Cadet Overseas) events and general fundraising.

Congratulations to Prayer Warriors, Ambassadors of Holiness and Friends of Christ for all of the work on the album and other fundraising activities. Thank you also to everyone who bought a CD or contributed to fundraising last year.

This money will make a HUGE difference to Cadet’s training overseas spent on things we take for granted here in Australia.

The money will be spent in the following ways;

Indonesia
The TC of the Indonesia Territory has reported that the College is in need of the following items;
(we were able to give them all of the money requested!)

3 Computers
50 Chairs
2 Sandwich makers
1 Rice cooker
1 microwave
5 cooking pans
2 air conditioners
A multi purpose platform

Philippines
This request came via Lt Col Robyn Clinch and again, we were able to meet the entire cost requested.
$750 for an electrician to install a generator (they have the generator but had no funds to get it installed)
The College in the Philippines suffers from DAILY power outages which last anywhere from 2 hours to 2 weeks!
$250 for books

Zambia
A TV/DVD player
Vital vehicle repairs for the Colleges only vehicle.
This vehicle initially had issues relating to a rat chewing wires but the issues grew to include the need for a major engine overhaul.
This 10 seat vehicle is used on weekends to transport Cadets for “Brigading” to remote villages and Corps who generally don’t have regular THQ or other visitors

All in all a sensational result!
Let’s keep all of this in mind as we gear up for this years fundraising activities!

(This report courtesy of Cadet Kris Halliday)

Recorded live on iSalvos.com on 23 February 2010

Performed: Cadet Catherine Mackenroth
Words: Albert Orsborn SASB 647
Music: Major Stephen Court

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Before the dawn, the alarm buzzes and I fumble out of bed, the kettle hisses and I sit quietly in the study with my strong coffee as I spend a few precious moments in the Word and devotion. I head downstairs and go for a brisk walk around the park with a friend; we share our joys and concerns, keeping each other accountable. Upon our return I go on with cleaning duties- as they say cleanliness is next to Godliness.

The morning bubbles along until we head to the basement, a sacred space of prayer and meditation as the college community gathers for a time of reflection, intercession, praise and testimony.

The day continues with classes, our minds are stretched, our attitudes are challenged and our opinions are tailored, as we dig deeper into God and His word. From time to time, true gems of truth and wisdom unfold and true beauty is revealed.

Within a week at college, there are many opportunities to share the gospel, to minister to the weak, to preach the Word and walk alongside the hurting. From our involvement in corps placement, starting new ministries through outposts and even pub ministry, we’re privileged to journey with both the pre-converted and the believer.

Here, God has time to change me into who He wants me to be. Here, He can breathe new life and vitality into my soul. Here, I’m truly blessed because I’ve obeyed the call.

If you know that you are being called to sign up for Officership, just do it! There is no reason that we can’t double the number of cadets in the world – double every college’s session. There are around a thousand cadets now. But those are not the only ones called. They are the only ones who responded to the call.

Please continue to support these Cadets while they are away from day-to-day college life.

On a related note, if you aren’t already, consider how you might support the college through being a College Friend or being a part of the Training College Book Plan.

The placements are as follows;

Sean Attard – Eastcare + Healesville
Monty Bhardwaj & Manikya Mera – Brunswick + All Nations Fellowship
Russell Butcher - Brunswick
Robert Champion – Corps 614
Erica Cossington – Cadet in Appointment Mandurah
Jonathan & Katherine Dent – Red Shield Hostel + Palmerston
Sarah Eldridge – Horsham
Matt Kean – Moreland
Darren & Sue Lamotte – Crossroads + Craigieburn
Paul & Robyn Lorimer – Morwell
Adam & Catherine Mackenroth – Preston
Simon Mapleback – Harry Hunter Centre + Gosnells
Kathleen Pearce – Moonah
Adam Peterson – Collingwood
Rachel Peterson – Launceston
Cheryl Pryor – Ingle Farm
Michael Shanks – Cadet in Appointment Noble Park
Andrew & Kirsty Stringer – Crossroads + Greensborough + Ashburton
James & Sarah Thompson – Noarlunga

Deny yourselves

I found that I often live to please myself. I can be selfish, working for my own personal achievements, pleasure and fulfilment. To deny ourselves we must live through Jesus, in Him, with Him and for Him only. We are called then to abandon all the things of this world so that we can possess God. Sacrificial living is not natural to me, but coming to college has helped me deal with my pride, selfishness and indulgence through a life of Prayer and communion with God.

Take up your cross daily

We know Jesus suffered and died. As members of Christ’s body we too are destined share this fate, it is part of our daily bread. I’ve found that the hard times- death, disease, destruction- are a necessary part of the training that we must undergo so that we might become more obedient and more willing to accept the Will of God.

By accepting my cross, I’m becoming more humble, able to be more patient, acknowledge my weaknesses and recognise the strength of God. Whatever He wills is perfect and will mould us to His liking. The cross is not a punishment; it is a gift of God to make us holy, a price for our reward and the Throne of our King.

Follow me

I know that as I follow the Lord, I must imitate his life of love and compassion, to God and our neighbour. I must be prepared to share with others my time, my love, my faith and my belongings if necessary.

In a way I’ve accepted the cross, I’m prepared to follow the Lord to Calvary, I’ve allowed my sinfulness, passions, pride, wickedness, and temptations from the world, the devil and the flesh, to be crucified. Hallelujah!

There is nothing that beats doing the thing God wants you to do. Is the Lord is calling you to deny yourself, to take up the cross and follow him? Respond today and talk to your CO about exploring your calling.

Ever have that problem where something is so often repeated that is doesn’t even sink in anymore? I had a case of it bad!

But I started thinking about vision. If vision is so important for success, what is the vision for my time here at Training College? Obviously, to be trained into a Salvation Army Officer!

But what would ‘fullness’ look like during my time here? What would it look like to suck the marrow out of training? To get the absolute most out of this time?

That question has occupied my thoughts and prayers over the past week. I want to catch the vision. I want a glimpse of what could be. What would it look like?

Here’s some things that I have come up with – they are personal to me, but I share them in the hope that you, too, might find them helpful.

Here’s the vision:

I want to go deeper with God. I want to live up to what I’ve already attained in terms of intimacy with God, spiritual disciplines, study of the Word, prayer, worship, freedom, abiding, gifting, passion, fire, holiness, encouragement, sacrifice, selflessness, humility.

I want my placements to be times of meaningful and significant advance in the Salvation war. I want to exemplify the spirit of Salvationism. I want to get people saved and into discipling relationships. I want to be a blessing to my sessionmates, to the cadets in the sessions above and below mine, and to the staff and Officers at the College. I want to encounter God in the College community.

I want to start assignments more than a week before they’re due. I want to be organized and efficient. I want to be a good, faithful and disciplined steward of my time. I want to study hard. I want to read more around my subjects – not just for assignments, but to learn how to be the best Officer I can be.

That’s my vision for fullness during training. I’m not going to lie to you, for me that’s going to take application, determination and hard work. And it relies solely on God’s grace. Apart from Him I can do nothing.

So what about you? I believe God has fullness for you, whatever season you are in. Fellow Cadets, Candidates, Officers, Soldiers and anyone else reading this: how can you maximise the impact of this part of your life for God and His Kingdom? Certainly worth spending some time in prayer over.

I’ll leave you with this video – a presentation of a poem by Peter Greig called The Vision.

(The author stands to the left in the picture above.)

Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need. Matthew 6:33 NLT

I’m learning the more I look to God’s sure and faithful provision, I don’t worry as much. Since being accepted as a Cadet, the Lord has seen to increase his blessing for my husband and me. We may not have much money or material possessions, but we’re not hungry, thirsty or naked. Praise God!

God’s provision in my life has nothing to do status, looks, ability or intellect. It’s when I seek.

It has been said, ‘The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.’ The main thing is God and His Kingdom. To seek it is to pursue it, to crave it, to go after it with all your might. When we seek, we think about it, talk about it and willing to pay the price to have it.

We must not seek in order to get. We must seek God’s face and not His hand. In must seek his “presence” not his “presents.” Seek him for who he is, not what he can do. There is nothing wrong with have nice things, but He wants first place in our lives.

When I put Him first, keep Him in top priority and set about doing things his way, I’m showing that I delight in Him. Then He will give us the desire of our heart. Ps37:4

If the Lord is calling you to Officership, do not let the pursuit of money or material possessions keep you from pursuing the treasures of God’s Kingdom, which have far greater worth and eternal value than anything on earth.

People who don’t know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works. Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don’t worry about missing out. You’ll find all your everyday human concerns will be met. Matthew 6:33 MSG

Why would anybody in their right mind give up a great job and sell nearly every earthly possession, so they can wear the same clothes everyday and have no money?

Actually I love my job as a primary school teacher, I love my church, I like my cat Hamlet (much to my husband’s horror) and until it was recently sold, I really liked my house.

These, and much more, I’m willing to forsake for Jesus.

The Founder said ‘if you are called to be an officer then an officer you must be, an officer you will be, or it will be so much the worse for you both here and hereafter’.

I’m not going to college because I’ve run out of options. I’m going because I cannot think of anything else I’d rather do. I’m going because Jesus has called me.

I am aware that the road I’m travelling is not a path of ease, and that following the Lord requires sacrifice and denial; trials and tribulations; unpopularity; simplicity of life; patience; self control; righteousness; holiness and godliness.

For me, heading to college and becoming an Officer is not a one time action, but a way of life. And this has taken a lot of faith in God!

God has allowed my husband and me, to go through a rough few years of trial to lead us to the point where we can think of no greater thing than to serve the Lord, together and forever!

I’m in love with a king who became a slave
I’m in love with a God who is humble
You gotta go down if you wanna go up
And You’ve gotta go lower if you wanna go higher and higher
Well you’ve gotta hide and do it in secret if you wanna be seen by God

Cause it’s the inside outside upside down kingdom
Where you lose to gain and you die to live

©Misty Edwards, David Brymer and Cassandra Campbell/Forerunner Music (ASCAP)

For me one of the highlights of college so far has been spending a week learning about holiness. It’s been a beautiful and powerful time.

I have often perceived holiness to be an unobtainable attribute of God, which we as Christians should be striving for. For me, holy living in the 21st Century has been about what I do and don’t do. Truly no holy Salvationist would go to a wild party or play card games or even look at a beer add.

In seeking wholeheartedly to be a holy salvo, I’ve rid my house of pagan images, substituted my coffee brand for a fair trade alternative and not conformed to the commercialism surrounding Christmas and Easter. I’ve even become a Cadet!

However, I have been reminded once again that holiness is an attitude not just behaviour- what I am, not just what I do. Our holiness is a state of being, which naturally exhibits out of our character when we allow God’s spirit to reside in every nook and cranny of our lives.

To be like Jesus
O that the world should see all that I am
See something different
See Christ in me
The holy God.

When I think over Jesus’ life- who He was and is, what He did and what He said- He ate with sinners and sat with the sick. According to the law He was unclean, and yet He was holy. Be holy as Christ is Holy. If that is the case, then for me to Christlike I should have dirty hands but a clean heart. To be holy I need to spend time with the lost, lonely and lest. Not because they need me- it’s Christ’s love and compassion they need. I’m but a willing earthly vessel going about the Father’s work.

I will never be perfect, but I’m going to try. God doesn’t ask me to be perfect; he wants my best that comes from a loving heart. How do I get a loving heart… stay close to Jesus, stay humble and stay at the foot of the cross.

The evidence of the Holy Spirit residing in me is a changed life. Purity not just power. Daily I pray that I may receive from Christ the power to be holy.