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‘Sharing the love of Jesus with open hearts.’part of the Southsea Citadel Mission Statement

Sunday Worship (p2)10am - Sunday Clubs for 2-7 & 7-13yrs11am - Worship for All Ages6pm - Praise & Celebration

Mondays: Bible Fellowship 11am, Albert Rd with Captain Lynne, 3rd & 24th February

Wednesdays: Home League Friendship Club 2pm (p13)

Thursdays: Angel Feet for 2-5 yrs 4-4:45pm

Tuesdays: CAMEO Club 1:30pm (p13)

Fridays: Parent & Toddler Club 9:30-11:30am

Friday Night Fun (During Term Time)1st Friday - Junior Club: sports & games 6:30-8pm2nd Friday - Messy Church: Bible teaching, craft & food - for all the family, £1 per person 4:00-5:45pm3rd Friday - All-Age Choir: 6:30-7:30pmFor details contact Amanda on 02392 821164

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February 2014

Monthly News of Southsea Citadel

Young People’sAnnual

Sun 9th Feb, 6pm

An Evening ofYouthful Praise

Sat 15th Feb, 7pm

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Diary Dates

M a r c h Sunday 2nd Self Denial Altar ServicesSunday 9th Majors Paul & Liliane Westlake (DHQ)Saturday 15th Band at St Cuthbert’s Church, CopnorSunday 23rd Café Church - Steve Shaw & Friends (Southampton Sholing)Sunday 30th Mothers’ Day

F e b r u a r y Sunday 2nd Self Denial Appeal LaunchSunday 9th Young People’s AnnualSaturday 15th An Evening of Youthful PraiseSunday 23rd Sunday Night Live (see Special Events page)

A p r i lSat & Sun 5th & 6th Band Weekend with Dr Stephen Cobb, Territorial Music Director Friday 18th Good FridaySunday 20th Easter Sunday with Darren & Captain LynneSunday 27th Café Church or Sunday Night Live (TBC)

Saturday 15th February, 7pm - An Evening of Youthful Praise

This will be an evening worthy of our support, for the Young People of Boscombe will share with our own Young People and

Jared Littlewood (Vocal) to provide a feast of music and song.

It will be a happy, bright event to clear away the winter blues and, at the same time, raise much needed funds to send our Young Peo-ple to Summer Camps, which helps them so much in their spiritual growth. An evening not to be missed!

Saturday 5th April - Band Weekend

We are privileged to have Dr. Stephen Cobb, Territorial Music Director, as our principal guest and leader for the band’s

131st Anniversary; Stephen is also Bandmaster of the International Staff Band.

Other guests will be Songster Leader Lyndon Bexon (Vocal) from Winton and Bandsman Callum White (Xylophone/Percussion) from Birmingham Citadel.

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Dear Readers,

Good News, Bad News

In our fi rst appointment out of Training College, Lynne and I were introduced to a very simple way to get children to pray.

Towards the end of JAM Club (Jesus and Me), our YPSM would sit the chil-dren down and place a chair in front of them. This was the ‘Good News, Bad News Chair’. The children were then invited to come and sit on the chair to share any of their news with the group - good or bad.

Once all the news had been shared, we would pray for all that had been spoken about, thanking God for all He had done and asking for His help in those areas which were proving diffi cult.

Not only was it an excellent way for us all to get to know each other and become more involved in each other’s lives, but it helped to teach the children to pray in all circumstances.

At this time, Gen was still a newborn, but as she grew and was joined by her brothers, we introduced a similar idea to bedtime prayers. We would all pick out something good and something not so good that stood out for us that day and then, quite simply, thank God for the day.

Prayer doesn’t have to be complicated. Even the simplest prayer can help us to fi nd the proper perspective on whatever is going on in our lives.

Philippians 4:6-7 MSG “Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the centre of your life.”D.S.

For some good news and some bad news, see page 9 under ‘Financial News’

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Sunday MeetingsFeb 2nd Annual Appeal Launch11am Captain Lynne Shaw 6pm Major Mary WolfeFeb 9th YP Annual11am YPSM Cheryl Morris-Ellis inc. Prizegiving6pm Young People’s Talent Night, Café Church StyleFeb 16th 11am Bdm Darren Shaw 6pm Captain Lynne ShawFeb 23rd 11am Major Mary Wolfe 6pm Sunday Night Live - Music and Song with Portsmouth Citadel and Southsea Bands and SongstersMar 2nd Self Denial Altar Services11am Major Mary Wolfe6pm Major Mary Wolfe

S.A. Periodicals

Distribution of The War Cry and Kids Alive in Palmerston Rd is a rewarding opportunity according to those who have faithfully

undertaken this task. Volunteers are now needed (perhaps a rota) each Thursday morning from about 10:15 to 11:45am.

Please consider if you could serve in this way... and if you help, have words with Major Mary or Captain Lynne.

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Letters

To all the Noah’s Ark Nursery Staff,

We would all like to say a huge thank you to you all for working so hard with the children to produce a truly magical and wonderful nativity for us!!

We were blown away with how good the children were and from our perspective I couldn’t have been more proud of Edward.... this time a few months ago he would never have been confi dent enough to sing like that!

We are truly blessed to have found you.

with thanks, Hannah, Tom and Edward

Hi John,please pass on my thanks to everyone at The Salvation Army for

supporting Naomi House and Jack’s Place at your Carol Concert at The Kings Theatre. On my way out I was given another £20 making the fi nal total £1893.06.

All the staff at Naomi House would like to pass on their thanks.

Steve Bailey, Naomi House

Community Request

If you are able to distribute food vouchers on a Wednesday morn-ing between 9:30am and 1pm, then please contact Darren... cover is required for a few weeks.

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Prayer BoardPrayer BoardPrayer BoardPrayer BoardPrayer BoardPrayer BoardPrayer Board NEW TIME: Prayer BreakfastWe enjoy half an hour of prayer (you don’t have to pray out loud), followed by tea and toast...followed by tea and

.... so why notcome along to the Citadel 8:30am Feb 8th, Mar 1st,Breakfast in Café

22 But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives he will

produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience,

kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-

control; and here there is no con� ict with Jewish laws.

24 � ose who belong to Christ have nailed their natural

evil desires to his cross and cruci� ed them there.

25 If we are living now by the Holy Spirit’s power, let us

follow the Holy Spirit’s leading in every part of our lives.

26 � en we won’t need to look for honours and popular-

ity, which lead to jealousy and hard feelings.

(Gal 5:22-26, Living Bible)

Please remember to pray for our leaders, those in poor

health or on our ‘continued prayerʻ list on page 6.

toast... .... so why notcome along to the Citadel

Feb 8th, Mar 1st,Breakfast in Café

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Let s̒ pray for...

Those in territories overseas who will benefi t from our Self Denial Missionary Altar Services (see printed information)

The Evening of ‘Youthful Praiseʻ (Feb 15th) - that it will be a time of inspiration, whilst raising necessary funds for our Young People to attend Summer Camps.

Majors David and Gill Coates, Spiritual Directors of SA Lifehouse Centres in the area, as they interact with the needs and concerns of residents.

The ongoing development and progress of our Nursery - that it will become a real beacon of light for Jesus in the hearts and minds of both children and parents.

The movement of the Holy Spirit in our worship, work and witness, as well as in each one of us who are part of our precious fellowship.

Our Divisional Leaders, Lt. Cols. Graham and Kirsten Owen, with their many and varied responsibilities.

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People NewsGlenda KnightGeorge MortimerDoreen ThomasEsther PittFaith LeaningSylvia TollidayHylda ParsonsVernon PhippsVera ThomasJan HarmelMajor Derek SmithStephen & Kerry Ward (former Junior Soldiers) following kidney trans-plant.

Continued Prayers : In Hospi ta l or Poor Heal thBob BishopLt Col Keith GibbonsPromoted to GloryMajor Hilda Bower, former soldier at SouthseaCongratulat ionsJemma & Dan Parsons on the birth of their son, Henry.Thanksgiv ingLily Grace and River Marie, daughters of Adam and Kerry Baldwin by Major David Coates.Welcome to Soldiers TransferredYvette Steers from Portsmouth CitadelMike Proctor from SloughStephanie Romeril from L’Islet

Band at Mill RytheSouthsea Citadel Band proclaimed the Gospel message to over 200

guests at the Mill Rythe Holiday park, Hayling Island Portsmouth with carols and Christmas music. The programme was well received with the guests joining in with enthusiastic carol singing. Contacts were made with some guests who had ‘Army’ connections. CS-M John Burton presented the Bible message. T.M.

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Carols at The Kings

The Corps 22nd Annual ‘CAROLS AT THE KING’S’ took place at the local King’s Theatre to a packed house of over 1,200 people.

Divisional Envoy Russell Rook (London South East) was the compère who gave the challenge ‘do we receive at Christmas what we want or what we need? Jesus is what we need’.

There were contributions of Torches, Torches Run With Torches and Star Light Star Bright by St. John’s College Junior School Choir (Southsea), the Nativity by Portsmouth High School Nursery, and new for this year, over 30 children from the new Corps Nursery, ‘Noah’s Ark’ who presented Little Angel. Also taking part were the Corps Children’s choir who sang When Children Rule The World and When You Don’t Know The Way. The Y.P. Band played Christmas Medley and the Corps Timbrellists played to Christmas Praise accompanied by the Senior Band who also contributed Joyful, Joyful and The Christmas Miracle. The Songsters sang Candlelight Carol and I want to go to Bethlehem.

A feature ‘Around the World’ of 3 songs included Christmas Fanfare, Come and Join The Celebration and Joy to the World with one verse sang in native tongue and in national dress by the Corps Burmese group.

In the freewill offering £1873 was raised for the Children’s Hospice, Naomi House (Winchester) for whom a monster cheque was presented by`Father Christmas’. The evening concluded with the Finale (picture) with What Child Is This, Bow the Knee and Ukrainian Bell Carol. (picture by D.S.) T.M.

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‘Euph Fellowship’

Christmas Café Church enjoyed a unique compilation of music by THE FOUR EUPHONIUMS, (left to right in picture: John Hanchett, B/M

Portsmouth Citadel; Gary Rose, Kettering; Dean Jones, Lower Early and Darren Shaw, Southsea Citadel.

The quartet commenced with Carol Of The Bells, Joy to the World (in Barbershop style) and In the Bleak Midwinter. As the quartet played, the hall was filled with beautiful and melodious harmonies which were a pleasure to every listener.

The March Christmas Joy was a distinct favourite as was God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Arr. Darren Shaw) played in 14 variations of style including Tango, Mozart, Waltz/Oompah, and Salvation Army March. The Magic Euphonium and Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree expounded the technical delights of the quartet, and everything that took place was to the Glory of God through the gifts he has bestowed.

Darren Shaw’s Bible message was centred on Isaiah’s prophesy of Immanuel (God with us) as he demonstrated using the quartet to play the carol tune of Away In A Manger. Darren reminded us that as the music moves us on through the melody, we should each move on with God in our lives. The Euphoniums played the devotional tune of O love that will not let me go, to end the reflective period, after which the evening concluded with the ‘Big Finish’ King Of Glory (Arr: Darren Shaw) T.M.

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Carolling

Financial News

Southsea Citadel Band, in it’s busy carolling programme, is pictured at the local Southsea shopping precinct on a December Saturday amongst

the Christmas shoppers. Whilst the band played, many shoppers tarried to listen and expressed pleasure to see and hear the Salvation Army Band in its traditional setting. T.M.

• Carols at the Kings, collection for Naomi House: £1873.06• Money Tree Appeal for Catherine Booth House: £192.12 • Christmas Carolling, Palmerston Rd Precinct: £4204 (one session cancelled

due to storms/rain. Not including numerous ‘one off’ invitations, when generous fi nancial support was given.)

• Donations for Christmas programme, various sources: £1260Sincere thanks to all those who participated, supported and prayed... we reached many people with the Christmas message in so many different places. We give God all the glory and thank Him for His constant presence.

Good & Bad News:Good: The Corps account has been credited with £21,379.23 by THQ which is due to the diligence and expertise of the Corps Treasurer, Richard Bishop. This money is made up of £10,613.08 Gift Aid and £10,766.23 VAT refund on the building works on the new café a few years ago. We are grateful to the efforts of Richard particularly as the Corps was getting close to not balancing the books!!Bad: As many of you are aware Richard has relinquished the position of CT which leaves a huge gap. Unless someone is found to take this position, the Corps are likely to miss out on fi nancial opportunities like this in the future. MW

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Christmas Day

Following a Christmas morning meeting, the Lord Mayor of Portsmouth, Councillor Lynne Stagg, is pictured serving lunch to guests at the Corps Christmas Day Celebrations.

Over 100 people from the local area, who would otherwise have been vulnerable or alone, attended the meals which were prepared, cooked and served by volunteers led by Major Mary Wolfe (Commanding Officer) and Captain Lynne Shaw (Associate Officer).

Special thanks are given to Bransbury Park Butch-ers, Milton, who donated the meat and to Ports-mouth Fruit and Flowers, Milton, who donated the vegetables.

Thanks are also given for the many other individ-ual donations of money and goods plus 140 home-made mince pies.

T.M.

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Kaytie’s New AlbumThe Salvation Army has over

the years developed a unique style in music which has been written by men and women who want to share their joy and spiritual experience.

Of course, as the years progressed, styles and harmonies were developed, honed and enhanced and we have a wonderful heritage of Army music that I want to help to preserve and honour

Kaytie Harding.Track ListingsBeautiful NameTrustingThe Love of my LordThe LambWonderful LoveSummer SunsIf Thou Art nearMagnificatO Love That Wilt Not Let me Go

I Bring Thee AllHallelujah CityPrecious NameBonusTo Thy Cross (1989)Precious Name (1973 - Ann Harding)I Have Not Much to Give Thee (1991)

CD £12.99fromwww.voicefromthecoalshed.co.ukor email kaytie@voicefromthecoalshed.co.uk

Christmas Kitchen Volunteers, pictured from left to right:

Sandra Phipps, Marilyn Mockett, Major Mary Wolfe, Major Sylvia Lane (Mary’s Sister) Vernon Phipps.

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Big CollectionLooking Ahead for 2014

Past achievements are always good to reiterate when there has been an increase in total. The Big Collection 2013 raised the sum of £9464.69!

A popular Christmas present would have been a diary or calendar to keep ourselves organised in 2014. There must be ‘free’ dates once birthdays and anniversaries have been noted. Now is the chance to fill in these dates with Standing Days for the Big Collection. Get your pen or pencil and start writing!

Friday 7th Feb Tesco Extra, Clement Attlee Rd, North HarbourSaturday 8th Feb Tesco Extra, Clement Attlee Rd, North HarbourFriday 21st Feb Havant Town CentreSaturday 22nd Feb Havant Town CentreSaturday 22nd Feb Emsworth Town CentreSaturday 12th Apr CitywideFriday 9th May Tesco Solent Rd, HavantFriday 20th June Havant Town CentreSaturday 21st June Havant Town CentreSaturday 21st June Emsworth Town CentreSaturday 16th Aug Citywide

There are also some ‘pending’ dates:Saturday 8th March Asda Bridge CentreSaturday 22nd March Sainsbury, Commercial RdSaturday 24th May Asda Bridge CentreSaturday 12th July Sainsbury, Commercial Rd

Other fundraising methods ‘pending’:Southwest Trains for a five day collecting period in April/MaySponsorship from WaitroseIndividuals

Another event was the Christmas Fayre which raised the sum of £1288.07 on the day. There are still some bargains to be had. These are listed opposite:

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CAMEO Club

Big Collection

We meet every Tuesday from 1:30 to 2:30pm. We have a variety of speakers, activities and

entertainments. We are a very happy club and always welcome visitors as well as members.

ComeAndMeetEachOther

Meetings as announced

We meet at 2pm each Wednesday. Why not make a date to come along?

Meetings for January:5 Feb How to Prepare for an Emergency, Sarah Kelly from Portsmouth City Council12 Feb Marilyn, Hilary and Valentine19 Feb What the Bride Wore, Dinah Warnock26Feb Major Mary

The Home League

Mark One Limousines, value £130 (valid until September 2014)Blue Reef Aquarium, value £32.50 (valid until March 2014)Footprints (Chiropody) value £22.00Solent Sky Southampton, value £16.00Tangmere Military Aviation Museum, Value £21.00 (valid until Nov 2014)

The retailers have bargain sales and so do we, but ours have no fixed price and small donation will be acceptable. Please speak to myself!

At the heart of ALL our work is the love of GOD which can transform lives. Trevor Sivyer, Coordinator.

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Sometimes when the opportunity arose in the church to give our testimony, I wanted to do it but my stomach got butterflies and I got nervous. So I thought I would take the opportunity of doing it this way.

I wasn’t brought up in a Christian home, but when I was old enough, Mum would send me and two of my sisters to church. I hated it!! It was High Church of England where they would swing the incense. I didn’t know when to stand up or sit down. A lot of the time we would stand just inside the door and take in what the minister was saying so when Mum asked we were able to tell her. As soon as the collection plate came round to us, we were long gone and would spend the collection on sweets.

Mum was the one who was the disciplinarian in our house. She had rules and, if we dared to disobey, she would say we would get a good hiding - there is no such thing as a good hiding! But if Mum said it was good, then it must have been so.

She would tell us that we had to be good and believe me I did try - mostly so I should get a present from Santa but, no matter how good I thought I was, or how many letters I wrote to him, I didn’t get a thing! Never in all my childhood did I receive a Christmas present. Oh how I longed for a little doll and, seeing as Santa always forgot, I asked my Mum to buy me one. Her reply was I could have it when Nelson got his eye back. I was so confused-dot-com - it wasn’t until I learned about the Battle of Trafalgar that I understood what she meant. Still to this day what it had to do with me not getting that doll, I will never know.

My dad was a fisherman and very often stayed out fishing for a whole week. Come the weekend when he came ashore he could never find his way past the pub and would come home three sheets to the wind. Poor Mum. Now it was her turn to get a good hiding! Dad would beat Mum something awful. We kids dreaded weekends and, on top of all the violence, the babies were coming (there were eleven of us altogether.) I was more than angry with them and they weren’t Catholic either.

One day a tourist ship brought some Nuns. There were about 30 of them. Mum said they were good people and I wanted to be one of them. They went sailing up the street. I didn’t see any feet; I thought they were on castors, bless them.

In 1957, a young minister and his wife came to the Island for the Baptist Church and he could preach fire and brimstone. Lots of people got converted, including my Mum and I. We were both baptised and that was the first time I really knew

My Testimony - Shirley Woodley

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God. Soon after, I taught Sunday School and did two youth clubs on a Tuesday and a Thursday. I did this for nine years and enjoyed it.

In 1966 I came here to England to work in domestic service. The people I worked for were lovely and treated me well. There was another lady working there and she was also a Christian. She took me to her Church which was Baptist. I felt the Lord leading me and I was in a good place where I could still worship.

In 1967 I met the man who, four years later, became my husband. Tony was di-vorced. My Mum was angry with me as she didn’t believe in divorce. I also knew it was wrong, but I did it anyway. He was such a good husband and father, but I thought God would never forgive me and so I drifted away. In 2008 I got very ill and I asked God to forgive me - and He did.

This last fi ve years I have got to know God like I have never known Him before. Believe it or not, but the truth remains the truth. I think about God last thing at night and fi rst thing when I awake. Before I get out of bed I pray to my loving Father and ask that, if the day is mine, help me to be obedient to Him. I some-times say to Satan, ‘You will have to get along without me today’. He never leaves me alone, but my God is stronger - thank you Jesus. God knows my heart. I only want to be the person He wants me to be.

Let me end with these words that I read somewhere: All of our days have been written in God’s book. When you go through disappointments, don’t stop on that page. Stay the course. Keep believing. You may be tired, discouraged and frus-trated, but don’t give up on your future.

Our God is faithful. God bless,

Shirley.

Citadel Scene ProductionAs always, donations are very welcome to help with costs. If you’d like to contribute, please send a cheque payable to ‘The Salvation Army’ to: John Burton, 13 Stanley Ave, Copnor, Portsmouth, PO3 6PL

Please also let us know if you wish to come off our mailing lists. Citadel Scene is available online at www.citadelscene.co.uk.Citadel Scene is an in-house production.Compiled, designed and published by Darren Shaw, Edited by CSM John BurtonCollated by Olga Ralph, Trevor & Anne Martin, Julie & Ian BradburyMailing by Mary Burton & Nikki Bone, Web design: Darren Shaw

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A follower must move or be left behind.

The driver in front cannot take us to an unfamiliar destination if we sit in the car with the engine switched off. We must get into gear and follow.

The shop assistant cannot lead us to those elusive Portuguese Pickled Prunes if we stand still. We must leave the relative comforts of the cereal aisle and follow.

If we do not move, we are not a follower, we are a spectator.

Matthew 4:19 is one of several places where Jesus calls His disciples to follow Him. ‘Come, follow me’, he said.

Today, as then, when Jesus calls us to follow Him, He is calling for followers, not spectators. He isn’t asking us to form a fan club or to shout our support from the sidelines. He’s asking for teammates and co-workers, for brothers and sisters to pull their weight in the family business.

Following Jesus means participating in His plans, His purposes and even His very nature - and this means we must follow Him in the everyday, up close, not letting Him out of our sight. There are no distance-learning correspondence courses for this, no part-time studies or evening classes. There is only the constant, guiding presence of Jesus. There is only following...

A follower must move or be left behind.D.S.

Pause for thought

March 23rd 6pm

Café Churchwith Steve Shaw &

friends fromSouthampton Sholing

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Special EventsFeb 15th

7pm

Youthful Praisewith Boscombe

Young People’s Band,Jared Littlewood (Vocal)

Southsea YP Band & Singing Company

Feb 9th 6pm

Café Church with

Kids AliveA fundraising talent evening

for children attending Summer Camps

Feb 23rd 6pm

Sunday Night Live

Music and Song with Portsmouth Citadel &

Southsea Citadel Bands & Songsters

March 23rd 6pm

Café Churchwith Steve Shaw &

friends fromSouthampton Sholing

April 5th-6th

Band WeekendDr. Stephen Cobb

(Territorial Music Director)

March 15th 7pm

Band & Singing Co.in concert at

St. Cuthbert’s Church,Hayling Ave

Copnor

We would like to keep you up to date with all that’s going on.To be placed on our mailing list, please call 02392 821164 or email news@citadelscene.co.uk

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